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Title: Another for my list of things trying to kill me
Post by: chuck peterson on May 12, 2023, 02:55:01 PM
Billboard vinyl!

Car in front brakes hard right…I notice I’m glad to have space and time behind it

20 ft is on the ground in my lane. The other 20 ft are in the air in my lane


😳


Textbook hard right, straighten, hard left…..
UNDERNEATH the airborne section of vinyl billboard


Be careful out there my friends! Grateful for a 3 sec count behind vehicles…
🥶
Title: Re: Another for my list of things trying to kill me
Post by: chuck peterson on May 12, 2023, 03:04:43 PM
Previous entries include:

Deer
Bear
Dog
Overhead branch/log from above
Bird in helmet
Radiator fluid
Puppy
Hubris
Flat
Ego
Unknown riders on group rides
High tides
Love lust
Pictures of road racing from early 70’s

You?
Title: Re: Another for my list of things trying to kill me
Post by: fotoguzzi on May 12, 2023, 03:32:24 PM
Diesel on road from logging semi’s no rain for 30 days.
Turkey
Snapping turtle
Lightening.
Title: Re: Another for my list of things trying to kill me
Post by: StuCorpe on May 12, 2023, 03:37:37 PM
My cousin was killed in California when a pick up topper blew off the truck in front of him and he couldn't avoid it.  Topper had been held on with vise grips.  Driver was ticketed and tried for vehicular manslaughter.
Title: Re: Another for my list of things trying to kill me
Post by: Ryan on May 12, 2023, 09:25:17 PM
My own stupidity.
Title: Re: Another for my list of things trying to kill me
Post by: 2Nr on May 13, 2023, 12:27:04 AM
My favorites were Seniors on the way to get their blood test at 7 am(lab opens at 7:30) left right take a breath!, a breath taking view that took my attention too long into a corner that ended with me sitting on the pavement, and last but not least a California Vulture leaving its lunch in the ditch with a full belly and almost got me before it got altitude!

 They are all out there just waiting to kill someone, especially me!
 Thanks for the Thread!

 Stephen (2Nr)
Title: Re: Another for my list of things trying to kill me
Post by: John A on May 13, 2023, 12:36:09 AM
Frogs, brazlllions of frogs. Tar snakes and real snakes. Skunks cuz they distract concentration. Big buzzard dropping dead things whilst crapping. It’s all part of the fun!
Title: Re: Another for my list of things trying to kill me
Post by: s1120 on May 13, 2023, 03:03:23 AM
Two fun ones... toilet falling out of a truck in front of me.. and another time coming around a corner, and finding a refridgerator in the road..
Title: Re: Another for my list of things trying to kill me
Post by: larrys on May 13, 2023, 06:23:53 AM
Things typically not found here in the US. When living in GB, herd of sheep crossing the road, the the road covered in sheep poop. A fox hunt, beagle dogs and people in suits on horseback in the middle of the road, then horse poop on the road...
Larry
Title: Re: Another for my list of things trying to kill me
Post by: mechanicsavant on May 13, 2023, 06:33:02 AM
If you’re on the road & a child’s head sticks out of the window in front of you look out ! He’s about to eject a “happy meal” .
Title: Re: Another for my list of things trying to kill me
Post by: Dukedesmo on May 13, 2023, 07:49:40 AM
Many years ago, mid bend I ran over a snake which nearly had me off as the wheel slipped.


The oddest though was just last year, came over the brow of a hill to find a full-sized wooden 5-bar farm gate lying flat in the middle of the road, luckily I managed to avoid it so I stopped and dragged it onto the verge.


A few hours later I passed the same spot and it had gone, presumably whoever 'lost' it had come back to reclaim it, either that or it was stolen...
Title: Re: Another for my list of things trying to kill me
Post by: SIR REAL ED on May 13, 2023, 07:58:04 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGPrHj1nPt0

Title: Re: Another for my list of things trying to kill me
Post by: John A on May 13, 2023, 11:46:26 AM
I came over the top of a hill to find moma skunk leading about five little skunks crossing the road. Quickly calculating my braking distance I realized I could stop about where they were so decided that wouldn’t work out for me. Moma was about in the middle of the oncoming lane traveling to the left with the little ones across my lane. I nailed the gas and went around in front of moma skunk. She raised her tail but didn’t spray. All the little skunks raised their tails but didn’t spray either. A lot of possible outcomes had went through my mind in short order. Another time it was dark when my wife and I left a fishing hole on an Ambassador. When I turned on the road I realized I had gone the wrong way so I made a u turn. That’s when I noticed the skunk and rode around it, hoping I wouldn’t fall over with my wife and all the gear loaded on the bike. I just putted around it and my wife never saw the skunk. Armadillos, raccoons and ground hogs are good to miss when they try to commit suicide by getting run over, they could weigh thirty pounds or better.
Title: Re: Another for my list of things trying to kill me
Post by: Bulldog9 on May 13, 2023, 12:58:41 PM
Last night it was all the young female officers and NCO's dressed to the 9's at a military ball.

We gave everyone the opportunity to chose between formal wear or uniform. 90% chose formal wear and they cleaned up VERY well as compared to normal duty uniform. After the 10th group of young ladies wanted me to take pictures with them in the selfie thing I almost died.... Not from them or my heart of course, but from SWMBO........... "I didn't know you were so popular' was her exact words........... I'm still afraid to sleep or turn my back. :thewife:
Title: Re: Another for my list of things trying to kill me
Post by: John A on May 13, 2023, 09:22:23 PM
She sees that you have ‘options’ so if she doesn’t do you in, maybe she’ll improve her disposition to please you for a little while :grin:
Title: Re: Another for my list of things trying to kill me
Post by: Scout63 on May 15, 2023, 06:43:23 AM
Extension ladder on the Expressway out of Boston. Luckily it was laying the long way with traffic.  I was puckered for about an hour.  Outside of Roswell an almost dead monster rattler.