Things which fall off lorries
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About 8 years ago, was in the car with my mum going through our village behind a tractor towing one of those big steel rollers, making a huge amount of racket as you can imagine.
That became detached when the tractor had to make a stop and rolled back down the hill directly towards us, caused a bit of damage to my mum's car but thankfully only at maybe 4-5mph as we had already stopped as well.
That became detached when the tractor had to make a stop and rolled back down the hill directly towards us, caused a bit of damage to my mum's car but thankfully only at maybe 4-5mph as we had already stopped as well.
A stack of large pieces of ply or mdf from the top of a van. One hit my car edge on and somehow rolled up and over it without doing any damage apart from a small paint chip on the bonnet, i thought it was going to come through the windscreen.
A number of sit-on lawnmovers from one of those pick-up style transit vans with the cage on the back (left open).
A f
king huge christmas tree from the roof of a 4x4, car following him drove over it, made a bit of a mess.
A load of rubble from a tipper (didn't have the curtain thingy pulled over the top).
Also not strictly on topic, a transit tipper stopped in the middle of the road and dumped a full trailer full of wood chippings on the road and fked off. Got it on CCTV but their numberplate was completely unreadable from diesel soot.
A number of sit-on lawnmovers from one of those pick-up style transit vans with the cage on the back (left open).
A f
king huge christmas tree from the roof of a 4x4, car following him drove over it, made a bit of a mess. A load of rubble from a tipper (didn't have the curtain thingy pulled over the top).
Also not strictly on topic, a transit tipper stopped in the middle of the road and dumped a full trailer full of wood chippings on the road and f
ked off. Got it on CCTV but their numberplate was completely unreadable from diesel soot.DRFC1879 said:
I once heard of someone's wife ordering a new digital camera about seven years ago. Heading home following a courier van with its back door open, a package fell into the road and when she tried to alert the driver she got the two fingered salute so she got out and picked up the package which as luck would have it was her camera.
Of course, it was marked as lost by the courier so a replacement was sent but somebody evidently cocked up when sorting it out as they accidentally sent two of 'em. I believe the original one was kept and the other two flogged on eBay.
What's that thing where you hold up a tin of custard, or something?Of course, it was marked as lost by the courier so a replacement was sent but somebody evidently cocked up when sorting it out as they accidentally sent two of 'em. I believe the original one was kept and the other two flogged on eBay.
How does that go?
The Mad Monk said:
DRFC1879 said:
I once heard of someone's wife ordering a new digital camera about seven years ago. Heading home following a courier van with its back door open, a package fell into the road and when she tried to alert the driver she got the two fingered salute so she got out and picked up the package which as luck would have it was her camera.
Of course, it was marked as lost by the courier so a replacement was sent but somebody evidently cocked up when sorting it out as they accidentally sent two of 'em. I believe the original one was kept and the other two flogged on eBay.
What's that thing where you hold up a tin of custard, or something?Of course, it was marked as lost by the courier so a replacement was sent but somebody evidently cocked up when sorting it out as they accidentally sent two of 'em. I believe the original one was kept and the other two flogged on eBay.
How does that go?
Just to add to the Jimmy Hill nature of this tale, another package was found in a similar place around the same time. This one contained an iPod touch (when they were fairly new) which was sold to the lady's dad.
Said dad, again around that time was driving down Sheffield Parkway one evening behind some scally on a trail bike who was losing a load of paper out of his pocket. The dad pulled over and picked up c. £200 in twenties.
I'm not prone to making stuff up to impress strangers on the internet, honest!
DRFC1879 said:
The Mad Monk said:
DRFC1879 said:
I once heard of someone's wife ordering a new digital camera about seven years ago. Heading home following a courier van with its back door open, a package fell into the road and when she tried to alert the driver she got the two fingered salute so she got out and picked up the package which as luck would have it was her camera.
Of course, it was marked as lost by the courier so a replacement was sent but somebody evidently cocked up when sorting it out as they accidentally sent two of 'em. I believe the original one was kept and the other two flogged on eBay.
What's that thing where you hold up a tin of custard, or something?Of course, it was marked as lost by the courier so a replacement was sent but somebody evidently cocked up when sorting it out as they accidentally sent two of 'em. I believe the original one was kept and the other two flogged on eBay.
How does that go?
Just to add to the Jimmy Hill nature of this tale, another package was found in a similar place around the same time. This one contained an iPod touch (when they were fairly new) which was sold to the lady's dad.
Said dad, again around that time was driving down Sheffield Parkway one evening behind some scally on a trail bike who was losing a load of paper out of his pocket. The dad pulled over and picked up c. £200 in twenties.
I'm not prone to making stuff up to impress strangers on the internet, honest!
Somewhere just outside Newcastle on a wet A1(M) I spotted something weird in lane 3 up ahead that my brain was struggling to process....looks a bit like standing water... no, can't be that.... bloody hell! It's a huge roll of carpet in a shiny plastic bag at 45 degrees across the lane!
Just had time to check and swerve into lane 2 to avoid it - looking back in my mirrors I'm pretty sure I saw the car behind me panic brake instead and drive straight into it.
Just had time to check and swerve into lane 2 to avoid it - looking back in my mirrors I'm pretty sure I saw the car behind me panic brake instead and drive straight into it.
I saw a toddler fall off of a flatbed lorry in Thailand. It was going quite slowly thankfully.
One of the other ~15 people sat on the bed banged onto the cab roof. Lorry stops. Someone hops off, picks up the kid, pops him back onto the bed and off they go again.
This was while waiting for a taxi at the airport, on my first trip outside of a western country - A bit of an eye opener
One of the other ~15 people sat on the bed banged onto the cab roof. Lorry stops. Someone hops off, picks up the kid, pops him back onto the bed and off they go again.
This was while waiting for a taxi at the airport, on my first trip outside of a western country - A bit of an eye opener
That one reminds me of when I was a kid.
My dad was taking a friend up the A1 to pick up a new car. He returned on a breakdown truck. Saw what he thought was a piece of rope in Lane 2 and lined up to pass over it, when he discovered it was actually a Lorry Prop shaft. Had no space to go to avoid it so went over it...
Ripped the radiator, bottom of the sump and gearbox out of my mothers new Renault 11 (told you it was going back).
My mother got her revenge the next day when she managed to reverse his 728i into a lamp-post. Top half of the post fell off....
My dad was taking a friend up the A1 to pick up a new car. He returned on a breakdown truck. Saw what he thought was a piece of rope in Lane 2 and lined up to pass over it, when he discovered it was actually a Lorry Prop shaft. Had no space to go to avoid it so went over it...
Ripped the radiator, bottom of the sump and gearbox out of my mothers new Renault 11 (told you it was going back).
My mother got her revenge the next day when she managed to reverse his 728i into a lamp-post. Top half of the post fell off....
A large roll-on roll-off skip.
A local firm ran lorries like this pulling drawbar trailers with another large skip aboard. The (full) skip fell from the drawbar trailer on a right-hand bend and landed across a pavement/on top of someone's garden wall, strewing its contents all over the garden.
If anyone had been walking on the pavement they would have been killed instantly.
A local firm ran lorries like this pulling drawbar trailers with another large skip aboard. The (full) skip fell from the drawbar trailer on a right-hand bend and landed across a pavement/on top of someone's garden wall, strewing its contents all over the garden.
If anyone had been walking on the pavement they would have been killed instantly.
The Mad Monk said:
Frank7 said:
I was driving what is known as an 8 wheeler,
Why are they known as 8 wheelers, when they have more than 8 wheels?I was going up the entry ramp to a flyover in Jo'burg behind a flatbed truck, when I saw its load start to shift. The load was sheets of plate glass. I managed to squeeze into the next lane, just before several sheets slid off the back. I had that scene from the dig in the Omen in my mind, but fortunately nobody was hurt.
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