weird happenings on the roads

[kaishen]

anyone has any weird stories to tell during their drive that would be interesting to share?

[sr20s14zenki]

This is Calgary.....youre going to hear a bunch.

posted speed limit - 100km/hr

i do 110 usually, i get passed by ppl doing 140+ regularly.


nobody pays attention to construction zones, ive actually had people come up beside me and give me the look, after just passing BIG FUCKING SIGNS WITH YELLOW FLAGS THAT SAY 80KM/HR, and a sign that says SPEED FINES DOUBLE

morons

[spikerS]

i see this thread getting closed fairly quick.....

[danny.ta]

I was driving behind a semi-truck a few years ago and it's wheel got loose. The wheel flew off and rolled with traffic for a good block and then went over a ramp and hit a billboard.

Weirdest thing.

[Ekliptix]

I saw a rake fly out of a landscape truck yesterday, on 22X. I wrote about it in my diary later.

[Oldskool]

Once, getting onto glenmore east from deerfoot south, a big truck infront of my ran over a shovel on the road, the shovel flew into the air spinning, I thought it was cool untill the shovel almost harpooned my car

[hampstor]

- Deerfoot is not deerfoot unless someone loses a major appliance in the middle of the road once a week. How many of you have driven down deerfoot and had to swerve around a stove or a fridge before too?
- You're not a true Calgarian until you've dragged a 25-50ft extension cord behind your car in the winter.

[Brutucus]

I saw a girl with a broken arm driving while doing her make-up and talking on her cell....

[rmk]

Everyday I get stuck behind jackasses in the lefthand lane.

[sr20s14zenki]

Originally posted by Brutucus
I saw a girl with a broken arm driving while doing her make-up and talking on her cell....

Thats crazy man i saw the same one i think, silver compact car? cant remember what brand.....i think she was trying to light a smoke while talking with her cell wedged between her shoulder and ear.....idiot

[403Gemini]

Originally posted by hampstor
- Deerfoot is not deerfoot unless someone loses 1 major appliance in the middle of the road once a week. How many of you have driven down deerfoot and had to swerve around a stove or a fridge before too?
- You're not a true Calgarian until you've dragged a 25-50ft extension cord behind your car in the winter.

ahahaha

+1 and +1

I've had to avoid a queen sized matress that fell of the truck 2 vehicles ahead of me... that was fun.

And yeah, i dragged the cord behind my saturn a number of times, look in the rear view mirror before i get off my block "what is that orange cord looking thi... oh shit"

[Hakkola]

Back in October I was driving southbound on Crowchild in the far left lane, there was a Semi in front of me and it kicked up a rock, it was probably a good 6X4 inches, it was huge! I saw it coming for what seemed liked longer than a second, but I had nowhere to go. It hit my windshield near the bottom passenger side corner while I was moving at 80km/h, and it didn't even leave a scratch!

[gretz]

I saw a guy and his girlfriend, i guess, cuddling while driving @130 - head on eachothers shoulders - give me a f'n break. I pulled up beside them with my buddies head on my shoulder pretending to do the same thing. Embarassed the couple stopped. At least road head - save the cuddling for the couch

[hampstor]

Originally posted by gretz
I pulled up beside them with my buddies head on my shoulder pretending to do the same thing.

That sounds a bit floofy... are you sure they just weren't freaked out by 2 guys cuddling going 130?

[gretz]

ive also seen a truck towing a trailer, towing a boat - are you following? He changed his mind on taking the Okotoks exit off deerfoot - I went by probably 10 minutes after it happened, truck was jack-knifed and the boat was facing the opposite direction on the other side of the road - this was last summer - someone had to see it

[403Gemini]

Originally posted by gretz
I saw a guy and his girlfriend, i guess, cuddling while driving @130 - head on eachothers shoulders - give me a f'n break. I pulled up beside them with my buddies head on my shoulder pretending to do the same thing. Embarassed the couple stopped. At least road head - save the cuddling for the couch

You and your "buddy" are homos arent you?

[Jay911]

- In the early 90s it was very common to encounter some tool driving the wrong way down 22X in the divided portion between Macleod and the Turner Valley turnoff. I think my father had that happen to him 3 times. Cresting a hill in the left lane of a divided highway and seeing headlights coming at you is NOT fun.

- Even truckers apparently can't figure out something as complicated as a freeway off-ramp. There is at least one semi a month flipped over at the Hwy 1 x Hwy 22 intersection on either the EB->SB or EB->NB ramps. In fact there's one there right now. (The fire department I work for is out there cleaning up the mess.)

- People do not know how to use a roundabout/traffic circle. Period.

[gretz]

Originally posted by hampstor


That sounds a bit floofy... are you sure they just weren't freaked out by 2 guys cuddling going 130?

i knew someone would post this - nice

[rmk]

Haha... The one about the girlfriend/boyfriend got me thinking. Around 2 years ago I was with my brother going northbound on Macleod Tr. by Toms House of Pizza. There was a car next to us with two chicks staring into eachothers eyes and the driver playing with the passengers hair. The driver was going to go in for a kiss, but the passenger noticed me and my bro looking over and smiling. They were pretty fucking embarassed and wouldn't do anything even with us egging them on... LOL

[403Gemini]

Originally posted by rmk
Haha... The one about the girlfriend/boyfriend got me thinking. Around 2 years ago I was with my brother going northbound on Macleod Tr. by Toms House of Pizza. There was a car next to us with two chicks staring into eachothers eyes and the driver playing with the passengers hair. The driver was going to go in for a kiss, but the passenger noticed me and my bro looking over and smiling. They were pretty fucking embarassed and wouldn't do anything even with us egging them on... LOL

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