Weirdest thing you've ever seen at the side of the road?
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Dr Jezz said:
Oh, actually ... how could I forget this one?
A cat with a tin can on its head sitting in the middle of the autobahn on the way to a the 'ring (2 lanes - could have been France actually). Two azure blue Lotus Elises drifted by either side of it with puzzled looks on the drivers' faces (me and Johnny Heyward) and we finally pulled up the convoy further down the motorway. I ran back and headed into the motorway while a trucker pulled across the middle of the two lanes and slowed traffic just enough for me to run out and grab the cat which then mauled me unmercifully as I sprinted back to the side of the motorway. It had been sitting stock still by instinct as traffic weaved around it, but the second it felt my hand on the scruff of its neck it turned into a spiteful frenzied ball of teeth and claws. So I chucked it down the embankment. I then had to go and join it for round two, and mercifully the can came away quite easily after his enforced freestyle down the hill into the nettles. He blinked at me, hissed and pelted away. People at work gave me puzzled looks wen they saw the state of my hands Tuesday morning. "There was this cat you see..."
A cat with a tin can on its head sitting in the middle of the autobahn on the way to a the 'ring (2 lanes - could have been France actually). Two azure blue Lotus Elises drifted by either side of it with puzzled looks on the drivers' faces (me and Johnny Heyward) and we finally pulled up the convoy further down the motorway. I ran back and headed into the motorway while a trucker pulled across the middle of the two lanes and slowed traffic just enough for me to run out and grab the cat which then mauled me unmercifully as I sprinted back to the side of the motorway. It had been sitting stock still by instinct as traffic weaved around it, but the second it felt my hand on the scruff of its neck it turned into a spiteful frenzied ball of teeth and claws. So I chucked it down the embankment. I then had to go and join it for round two, and mercifully the can came away quite easily after his enforced freestyle down the hill into the nettles. He blinked at me, hissed and pelted away. People at work gave me puzzled looks wen they saw the state of my hands Tuesday morning. "There was this cat you see..."
Southern spain on the way to murcia or alacante airport, (can't recall exactly) every roundabout we came to had a gaggle of prostitutes situated on it, not too unusual but they'd all brought along plastic garden chairs and we're all decked out in hi vis waistcoats to stop them being run over
stanton_a said:
Southern spain on the way to murcia or alacante airport, (can't recall exactly) every roundabout we came to had a gaggle of prostitutes situated on it, not too unusual but they'd all brought along plastic garden chairs and we're all decked out in hi vis waistcoats to stop them being run over
Hahah I remember driving from Valencia to Alicante off the motorways, you would get long stretches of A roads, with a Shed every so often , with a lady sat in a plastic chair next to it!!! Entertaining way to break up a long journey I guess!!Driving along a straight piece of road in central Scotland (Stirling to Drymen road) I saw a caravan heavily on fire in a layby that is separated from the road by some bushes. Pulled in to the layby and saw a second caravan infront of it, maybe only less than 5 meters forward, with two folks just sitting in it watching tv. Laid on the horn and the guy opens the window and I inform him of the issue. He sprints into action, dives out of his caravan and runs up to the 5/6ft gas cylinder attached to the blazing caravan, screws it shut, disconnects the cable and runs off into the bushes leaving the gas cylinder about 20 yards away. Runs back and moves his own caravan 30 yds down the layby... then just stands there and watches the remainder of the blazing caravan melt away.
They were totally oblivious to the fact the caravan right next to them was a raging inferno. Good deed done.
:-)
RW
They were totally oblivious to the fact the caravan right next to them was a raging inferno. Good deed done.
:-)
RW
In the years BC (before Children) driving near Washington - the one in America. I'd driven 400 miles, it was dark, I was almost home & fighting sleep in the middle lane of a three lane highway.
I noticed the car in front of the car in front swerve into the right lane, the car in front swerved into the left lane & there in the centre of the road was a very large leather wing-back armchair chair, stood up on it's feet & getting closer VERY quickly.
I didn't feel at all sleepy for the last 10 miles.
I noticed the car in front of the car in front swerve into the right lane, the car in front swerved into the left lane & there in the centre of the road was a very large leather wing-back armchair chair, stood up on it's feet & getting closer VERY quickly.
I didn't feel at all sleepy for the last 10 miles.
I work on the motorways, the most common thing we used to find was big piles of grot, now in the days of pornhub you don't seem to see it any more...
last year however we found this
it was a bit disturbing the way it was cable tied to the broom handle, maybe they were trying to use it at range?
last year however we found this
it was a bit disturbing the way it was cable tied to the broom handle, maybe they were trying to use it at range?
I leave early for work, around 6AM, and live in a small village so I very rarely see anything at all, apart from a few weeks back.
There was a car 'parked' up on the side of a small lane in a field entrance, I say 'parked' as it wasn't parked very well at all. I drove past it, having to move out and round, and continued. For some reason it must have been around half a mile later I suddenly thought to myself I swear there there was someone in the car, I needed to get to work so carried on, another half mile or so any my curiosity got the better of me and I turned back.
I get back to the car, pull over with hazards on; there was a woman in the car, face down in the steering wheel. I should also add at this point it was -4c, I was bloody freezing and I had only been out the car a moment.
I bang on the window and there was no reaction, so I do this harder, really punching the glass but still nothing. So I walk back to my car grab my phone and dial 999, just as I was looking down at my phone I hear a voice... "Did you hear all that banging?" There she was out the car, wearing what looked like pj's covered by a coat.
She seemed fine and told me to leave her to it, got in the car and drove off. I called 101 anyway with the reg and explained but never heard anything (do they do that?). The only explanation I could think of was drunk and decided to pull over, but she did not seem drunk at all, and pj’s? Very odd.
There was a car 'parked' up on the side of a small lane in a field entrance, I say 'parked' as it wasn't parked very well at all. I drove past it, having to move out and round, and continued. For some reason it must have been around half a mile later I suddenly thought to myself I swear there there was someone in the car, I needed to get to work so carried on, another half mile or so any my curiosity got the better of me and I turned back.
I get back to the car, pull over with hazards on; there was a woman in the car, face down in the steering wheel. I should also add at this point it was -4c, I was bloody freezing and I had only been out the car a moment.
I bang on the window and there was no reaction, so I do this harder, really punching the glass but still nothing. So I walk back to my car grab my phone and dial 999, just as I was looking down at my phone I hear a voice... "Did you hear all that banging?" There she was out the car, wearing what looked like pj's covered by a coat.
She seemed fine and told me to leave her to it, got in the car and drove off. I called 101 anyway with the reg and explained but never heard anything (do they do that?). The only explanation I could think of was drunk and decided to pull over, but she did not seem drunk at all, and pj’s? Very odd.
Only just found this - what a funny thread!
Coming back from a football match late at night once I took a shortcut along a country lane to be confronted by two people chasing a huge pig down the middle of the road - presumably a fugitive from one of the farms nearby.
There has been a TV set next to one of the sliproads on the Donington Park junction off the A42 for some time now.
And the yellow duck sculpture reminds me of when I recently encountered the Dogs Trust mascot bombing along the A38 (not my video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbdSRin8yMU
SturdyHSV said:
Whilst driving down the A41 towards Bicester (single carriageway at this point) an Q7 towing a full trailer was coming the other way.
The large BBQ propped on top of the trailer took that opportunity to make a bid for freedom with a fairly significant bang and slid along the road fortunately veering towards the verge and not into oncoming traffic.
The Q7 didn't stop, I don't even think they noticed as there were no brake lights as it fell off and slid off the road.
I'd have liked to witness the conversation at their destination
Reminds me of when I was driving through a village near Northampton a few years ago, a car pulls out in front of me towing a trailer carrying a children's plastic garden playset, something like a small climbing frame. It didn't seem to be tied down in any way so I hung back, and just as I was thinking "I don't think that's going to stay on there" it flew off the trailer and landed in the road. A quick blast of my horn and the (rather embarrassed) bloke got out to retrieve it.The large BBQ propped on top of the trailer took that opportunity to make a bid for freedom with a fairly significant bang and slid along the road fortunately veering towards the verge and not into oncoming traffic.
The Q7 didn't stop, I don't even think they noticed as there were no brake lights as it fell off and slid off the road.
I'd have liked to witness the conversation at their destination
Coming back from a football match late at night once I took a shortcut along a country lane to be confronted by two people chasing a huge pig down the middle of the road - presumably a fugitive from one of the farms nearby.
There has been a TV set next to one of the sliproads on the Donington Park junction off the A42 for some time now.
And the yellow duck sculpture reminds me of when I recently encountered the Dogs Trust mascot bombing along the A38 (not my video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbdSRin8yMU
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