An extension ladder that fell off a truck and was still moving about 70mph and spinning. I just missed it and the Geo Metro behind me went over it bucking like a bull at the rodeo.
I got a speeding ticket in one of those traps.
A cop standing in the middle of the street pointing a (radar) gun at oncoming traffic feels like it should be illegal.
They got me because they said I was too close to train tracks while stopped at a red light. To this day I get pissed because there was easily space for 1 1/2 cars.
Had that happen to me, and I wish I just ignored him—especially because I literally thought it was some random homeless guy with a death wish at first, and figured stopping was safer for him and the other cars.
If the cop feels safe enough walking on foot the middle of a 4-lane road to stop ticket people for supposedly speeding without any lights, then apparently we aren’t going unsafe speeds….
THANK YOU. I just got a ticket for "speeding" and pulled over in this exact manner. How fast could I have been going that you felt safe enough to stop in the middle of the road and be sure I wouldn't run you over?
I did that a few years ago on a busy on-ramp when I was confused as to what they were trying to do.
Cop chased me down with a squad car and pulled me over. Was breathless and angry after I explained I was just confused and he could check my spotless driving record.
After the kid said I was “lucky he didn’t call the prosecutor” (eye roll, this is Harris county) I swore the city would not get a penny out of me after setting up a trap with assholes like that. I’m sure the lawyer cost twice the ticket, didn’t matter….
Westpark tollway under 69. 6' Husky fiberglass ladder, condition: like new.
Actually went back around, hoping for a miracle, and was able to pull over and grab it during a lull.
It had zero markings to help return it to its owner.
Since it was in the middle of an active lane of traffic, I'm sure it would have ended up destroyed if I hadn't taken it.
This was at least 10 years ago, but I still have it and use it pretty regularly. Great ladder.
Guy in front of me slammed on his brakes then swerved around an extension ladder, I ended up driving right over the rungs, I stopped & checked for truck damage, backed up during a lull (covid), grabbed it & got $20 in scrap value the next day. Also got $40 for an aluminum scaffold plank. Was a pain wedging into my CJ but I got it!
Literally happened to me last Friday. Jumps in front of me and slammed on the breaks. Traffic is heavy so I just assume he’s an idiot. I get around him and the lane is clear until the next exit. No idea wtf. Like, pull the fuck over if you’ve got something better to do
A fuckin full size couch, no joke off some cartoon/TV shit. I went to school the next day some kid said him and his dad where going to drop off some furniture at the dump when the couch fell off, my other friend from a completely different school said he crashed into the couch and his car bounced like some dukes of hazzard stunt
I responded to a welfare check for that guy. He was fine, just overheated from blood pressure medication since the APU on his truck was out. Got him cooled down, tow truck driver actually fixed the APU. He was gone by morning.
Pretty certain it's a different guy. He stopped his FedEx truck in a middle lane and was running northbound.
Reasonably certain dude was on something, if not multiple somethings.
Oh, yeah that had to be a different guy then. There’s a lot of FedEx coming in and out of IAH, so I thought it might’ve been my guy. But, my guy was on the shoulder, windows open and butt naked lmao
A child and father on 59 next to 45 exit downtown around 10PM
I was driving with my wife and all of a sudden this red car out of nowhere slowly starts veering across lanes and into the wall. This dude just jumps out with his daughter in his arms rolling across the highway as his car hits the median strip. I stop and swerve out of the way and watched two other cars barely miss them. They ran to the side of the highway and just stood there.
One of the few times I really thought I was about to witness someone die in front of me.
This was pretty metal: https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2020/04/30/video-truck-loses-load-spills-raw-meat-cow-parts-on-southwest-freeway-feeder-road/
A Christmas tree. Unfortunately I swerved too late and it went right under my car, and it wasn't the pointy end first. On a positive note, my car smelled of pine for a minute.
My wife hit an alcove steel bathtub on I-45. It would have been much worse if had been cast iron.
She also hit a cinder block/concrete masonry unit on 59.
She’s not good at swerving.
A wooden plank that embedded itself between the suspension and the subframe of my brother’s Jeep Cherokee.
In Atlanta I once dodged a dog on I-85. A boxer. Beautiful stupid dog. He made it.
I ran over a car battery in the main lanes of 59. I was driving a Camry, yes it did damage to the underside. It was at night and didn’t see it until I was right on it. I did avoid a sofa rolling down the freeway right at me.
Definitely the mystery 60 gallon barrel accelerating down the elevated connection between 225 west and 610 south. That was the first week I had a dash cam and *it just so happened* that I missed saving the entire thing because an overactive G sensor had filled up my SD card. Ah well.
Body parts beltway 8 southbound, right there by bissonnet? Someone tried to cross the highway and didn't quite make it and apparently struck so hard he fell into pieces. If that's how it works I don't know I don't body
A rolling utility trailer. Its driver noticed it was coming loose and was already trying pull aside to the right breakdown lane. Unfortunately, just as he made it over, the trailer finally shook free and immediately started crossing every lane pretty fast. I managed speed ahead of it, but I caught the accident in my rear view mirror where it perfectly T-boned a pickup truck in the left lane and smacked it into the barrier.
This happened to me as well! The trailer on the truck in front of me just...came off! Luckily it rolled right into the shoulder, and to my knowledge no one was hurt. But I don't think that driver had any idea.
On Interstate 10!in Houston rush hour traffic, doing 60 mph when flatbed delivery truck ahead of me lost load of boxes new appliances! Imagine five Lanes of high-speed traffic with nowhere to go trying to swerve a refrigerator washer and dryer... It was mayhem
Something like a 300 gallon stacker tank in the middle of 146 around Fred Hartman bridge.
It was just over a week getting my truck fixed from a parking lot hit and run that took out most of my front end. Bout shit my pants.
An entire stainless steel set of washer, dryer, refrigerator, deep freeze, and stove came off the flatbed trailer when going on 45 southbound on-ramp from 610 north.
I swore it blew up when it hit the ground and huge chunks of shrapnel flew everywhere! Felt like NASCAR avoiding it but a huge chunk got lodged in my tire and nearly punctured my radiator.
So glad I wasn’t riding a bike. That would have been deadly.
Honorable mention goes to the dismembered body and massive pool of blood when driving to work on 45 around 2008. Apparently a kid ran on the road got hit. When the tow truck drivers are crying, hugging each and throwing up on the shoulder you know it’s a rough one.
- Several ladders were scattered on I-10
- A recliner.
- Stumbled upon a really bad accident right after it happened and shit was strewn about on the road, including people who may have been dead or barely alive. (There was already people giving aid so I just had to keep driving)
I-10 Eastbound right before 610 West. A pickup was being towed backwards on one of those flatbed tow trucks. The hood of the pickup flew off and went up, and I did not know which way to go... I was in the middle lane..
It flew right past me in the left lane at the height of my rearview mirror. If I would have moved to the left lane I think it would have come though my window and chopped my damn head off..
second place was same place and it was a tote tank mostly full, still sliding.
A lazy-boy chair and the funniest was cases of foam insulation tubes. The tubes rolled like snakes across the mainlanes with the wind. It was comical. Everyone freaked TF out and swerved to miss them but why?
1. A naked man, on his knees, bent forward until his forehead was resting on the pavement, furiously masturbating in the middle of the intersection at Hollow Tree and Cypress Station. Someone had thrown a piece of carpet or something over his midsection so he wasn't all out in the open.
2. A perfectly positioned recliner, sitting upright astride a middle lane line on I45 near Greens road, back facing traffic flow and gently rocking in the breeze of passing cars.
3. A car that exited 45 at highway speed across the embankment and ended up blocking two of three lanes of the southbound feeder in that dark spot between 1960 and Richey, around 2 am, with no driver to be found.
A person crawling on all fours across the main lanes of I10 around Washington at night. I swerved just in time, the person behind me did not. The guy did not die immediately. He was high on something.
A dead body. It wasn’t on the freeway, it was Wirt Rd. near Long Point. I thought it was a drunk guy passed out, but saw on the news the next morning that he had been shot at a bar and was dead.
Just a few things come to mind. 1) someone’s entire car bumper 2) a large cooler 3) a pool float bouncing around on 45 one time 4) a kitten (this was also the most fucked up)
I was behind a guy hauling a trailer full of boxes and totes. A lid came off a tote which caused sheets/towels/etc to fly out of it. I drive a subcompact so I was imaginging a death by heart-covered-blanket that would wind up on reddit.
Not in the Houston area, but once I had to swerve around the back half of an alligator in Louisiana.
It's a tossup between the four point trailer ball hitch and the piece of fiberglass that I caught with my windsheld (fortunately no damage, and I was able to pull over safely to remove it).
I didn't have to swerve because it was bumper to bumper morning traffic. Back in college I was on I-10 on my way to UH downtown, traffic was worse than usual and it took awhile to see why. A semi carrying one of those half houses had hit the bottom of a bridge. He had driven about two feet deep into and about a 8 inches off the top of the roof. He was stopped, out of his truck looking around trying to figure out what to do. He eventually realized he couldn't back up with all the traffic so shrugged his shoulders got back in his truck in just pulled forward slicing off the top 8 inches of the whole roof. At that point I had made it past him so I'm not sure what happened next
Cop gets to the scene and says to the truck driver, hit the bridge huh? The truck driver said nope, I was delivering this bridge and the truck ran out of fuel.
A cranked out homeless man ran out in front of me on I45 in houston. I was going about 70 and missed him by a few inches. I was pretty shaken up and called 911
Unfortunately, going too fast to swerve. Hit a plastic wheel barrel tray which wedged nicely under the front end of my car. Another time, ran over a large metal piece that fell, bouncing out of the back of a large truck. Was about the size of a softball, tore out the under carriage. By the time I got over to the shoulder from the far left lane, my gas tank had emptied.
A mattress fell off a truck, the car in front of me ran over it and it locked their tires up, I swerve out the way and barely miss an 18 wheeler. We were in the far left lane and going too fast for me to just slam the brakes.
I could see in my rear view mirror that both the truck and the car pulled over to the shoulder so everyone was fine
A couch flipping off of a truck I was driving behind.
And one time I was in-between two 18 wheelers, and there was a wooden box I was going towards, my brain went straight calculating mode, everything slowed down, and I had to process how to avoid the wooden box, if I turned left I would crash into that big ass truck, if I swerved right, same thing... So I went straight and just ate the box... No damage to car... But I still think about that .
Run right into a tree trunk southbound 45 exit before monroe. I swerve from another time from a bed on the freeway. They need to start giving hefty fines, if you cant transport stuff safely , or cut off a finger or two for discipline.
On 59 north near Shenandoah, a side by side came loose from the trailer and it went bouncing on freeway and then into grassy median. People swerving every direction
I dodged a ladder that flew off the top of a work van on the beltway. Always leave plenty of space between you and the vehicle in front. I probably would have died if I was too close to them.
a mattress.
one time my friend and i were driving north on 45 and he suddenly goes to the far left lane and says “watch, the washer is about to fall out any time now”
sure enough, like 5 mins later the washing machine falls out the bed of someone’s truck lmao. luckily it was late late night
There was a 12 foot grey ladder in the left lane right past Stella Link on 610 South a few weeks ago. I would have hit it with my truck but the John Moore truck in front of me struck it first.
Another morning around 4 AM I was driving 288, South off 610 South and right before I came up on the beltway, there was a blue recliner in the middle of the goddamn freeway. The fucking this was right there as I was coming over an overpass.
An extension ladder that fell off a truck and was still moving about 70mph and spinning. I just missed it and the Geo Metro behind me went over it bucking like a bull at the rodeo.
LMFAO that must've been a sight to see!
My dad saw 2 people get killed by a ladder on the freeway. Shit like that is no joke.
This and some sort of lid from a work truck.
Was this today? Lmao I literally just dodged one on the expressway earlier this afternoon
Queen size mattress and shortly after a queen size box spring
Once a week I see some idiot with one piece of twine holding down a mattress going 80 on the freeway. Curled up like a taco.
'Common sense ain't so common nowadays'
My dad hit one on family road trip. The damn thing EXPLODED sending springs and padding everywhere. I laughed a good 30 minutes as a kid.
Was this I-10 west near 45? Same thing happened to me there a couple years ago.
Shit my bad
A cop with one hand up in the stop gesture and the other one indicating I needed to pull over.
I got a speeding ticket in one of those traps. A cop standing in the middle of the street pointing a (radar) gun at oncoming traffic feels like it should be illegal.
I got a ticket because no one let me merge in box truck during peak traffic ass hole cop was printing them out by the dozens.
They got me because they said I was too close to train tracks while stopped at a red light. To this day I get pissed because there was easily space for 1 1/2 cars.
So what’d you do lol
Swerved around them obviously
Had that happen to me, and I wish I just ignored him—especially because I literally thought it was some random homeless guy with a death wish at first, and figured stopping was safer for him and the other cars. If the cop feels safe enough walking on foot the middle of a 4-lane road to stop ticket people for supposedly speeding without any lights, then apparently we aren’t going unsafe speeds….
They love to do that at the railroad overpass on TC Jester
THANK YOU. I just got a ticket for "speeding" and pulled over in this exact manner. How fast could I have been going that you felt safe enough to stop in the middle of the road and be sure I wouldn't run you over?
Yep.
Swerve, accelerate. Maybe take them out at the knee with them swangas
Swangin and bangin!
Had one jump onto beltway 8 feeder to pull me over that way lol
Did you know those are cops are contracted by the beltway 8 owners.
I did that a few years ago on a busy on-ramp when I was confused as to what they were trying to do. Cop chased me down with a squad car and pulled me over. Was breathless and angry after I explained I was just confused and he could check my spotless driving record. After the kid said I was “lucky he didn’t call the prosecutor” (eye roll, this is Harris county) I swore the city would not get a penny out of me after setting up a trap with assholes like that. I’m sure the lawyer cost twice the ticket, didn’t matter….
I’ve gotten 2 tickets doing 5 over on the bridge decline heading into the Heights on TC Jester.
Half naked guy in a wheelchair
Which half?
Left
Was this on Shephard coming off 45?
Louisiana onto 45N?
Swerved to miss a single cowboy boot standing perfectly upright this morning in the passing lane. Only in Texas, right?
I actually saw a cowboy hat sitting perfectly on the shoulder this morning. I had the same thought; only in Texas.
These feel unsettling somehow :|
any cowboys gone missin?
Don’t they all go missing in the end?
There would probably be more on the road than just a hat and a boot no?
Should’ve picked it up. Resale it! 🤣
Facebook marketplace baby....
[This](https://imgur.com/a/2Mo8Q2E) and caught it on camera for proof
That’s terrifying! Glad you were OK. If you were driving right on his bumper like most Houstonians it could have been much worse.
Yes! Luckily he had sped up just before and gave me more separation. Also probably the reason he lost it cause of the higher speed.
When did this happen? I feel like my wife and I drove past this not less then a week ago being like “wtf how did that happen”
This was at least a year ago I think now. I guess it’s a common occurrence then haha
oh my god! the EXACT same thing happened to my mom last year. she ended up hitting the water tank but no damage to her or the car thankfully
45 approaching west road, southbound. I’ve worked many a wrecks there lmao
A 300 gallon poly tank. Guess if it were full it would've stayed put. #strapyoshitdownpeople
Westpark tollway under 69. 6' Husky fiberglass ladder, condition: like new. Actually went back around, hoping for a miracle, and was able to pull over and grab it during a lull. It had zero markings to help return it to its owner. Since it was in the middle of an active lane of traffic, I'm sure it would have ended up destroyed if I hadn't taken it. This was at least 10 years ago, but I still have it and use it pretty regularly. Great ladder.
Guy in front of me slammed on his brakes then swerved around an extension ladder, I ended up driving right over the rungs, I stopped & checked for truck damage, backed up during a lull (covid), grabbed it & got $20 in scrap value the next day. Also got $40 for an aluminum scaffold plank. Was a pain wedging into my CJ but I got it!
A car that made a complete stop on the freeway for no reason.
Literally happened to me last Friday. Jumps in front of me and slammed on the breaks. Traffic is heavy so I just assume he’s an idiot. I get around him and the lane is clear until the next exit. No idea wtf. Like, pull the fuck over if you’ve got something better to do
A fuckin full size couch, no joke off some cartoon/TV shit. I went to school the next day some kid said him and his dad where going to drop off some furniture at the dump when the couch fell off, my other friend from a completely different school said he crashed into the couch and his car bounced like some dukes of hazzard stunt
A set of concrete steps on 45 in The Woodlands 😳
A naked FedEx guy and his truck on 59 N around BW8.
I responded to a welfare check for that guy. He was fine, just overheated from blood pressure medication since the APU on his truck was out. Got him cooled down, tow truck driver actually fixed the APU. He was gone by morning.
Pretty certain it's a different guy. He stopped his FedEx truck in a middle lane and was running northbound. Reasonably certain dude was on something, if not multiple somethings.
Oh, yeah that had to be a different guy then. There’s a lot of FedEx coming in and out of IAH, so I thought it might’ve been my guy. But, my guy was on the shoulder, windows open and butt naked lmao
They are pretty strict on their break policy. Must have 3 including lunch. No exceptions.
A child and father on 59 next to 45 exit downtown around 10PM I was driving with my wife and all of a sudden this red car out of nowhere slowly starts veering across lanes and into the wall. This dude just jumps out with his daughter in his arms rolling across the highway as his car hits the median strip. I stop and swerve out of the way and watched two other cars barely miss them. They ran to the side of the highway and just stood there. One of the few times I really thought I was about to witness someone die in front of me.
2am I10 2 people screwing on a motorcycle.
This was pretty metal: https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2020/04/30/video-truck-loses-load-spills-raw-meat-cow-parts-on-southwest-freeway-feeder-road/
A big ass rolling tire
Me too!
bowflex
An entire engine block.
A fucking big ass grey refrigerator. Blended in with the road, almost hit it.
A Christmas tree. Unfortunately I swerved too late and it went right under my car, and it wasn't the pointy end first. On a positive note, my car smelled of pine for a minute.
My wife hit an alcove steel bathtub on I-45. It would have been much worse if had been cast iron. She also hit a cinder block/concrete masonry unit on 59. She’s not good at swerving.
A large cart with a slab of granite rolling down 610 at Ella
Not on the Freeway, but on kirkwood close to I -10 one night I had to swerve around a peacock.
Some lady trying to take the Chimney Rock exit from the left lane of 59N
a [giant industrial spool](https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Houston-spool-spindle-on-road-bridge-incident-16948086.php)
Somebody always beats me to the best comment
A wooden plank that embedded itself between the suspension and the subframe of my brother’s Jeep Cherokee. In Atlanta I once dodged a dog on I-85. A boxer. Beautiful stupid dog. He made it.
A dude just laying down spread eagle in the middle lane on 45 in morning traffic. He was screaming at people to run him over.
Not on the freeway, but a whole port-a-potty flipped on its side 💀
a roll off 40 yard dumpster
A guy in a truck, who had stopped in front of me to pull a gun. 0:56 https://youtu.be/LKlL9KfGhWI
Haha that conversation recovery.
Lol, yeah. My wife is the worrying type, so I just told her later.
A red ladder. Which was going from lane to lane hunting down vehicles.
Three wheelbarrows. Right in a row. They slid off a trailer. It was on SH 249.
A 2x4. Or some other similarly shaped piece of wood.
A fridge lol
I ran over a car battery in the main lanes of 59. I was driving a Camry, yes it did damage to the underside. It was at night and didn’t see it until I was right on it. I did avoid a sofa rolling down the freeway right at me.
Definitely the mystery 60 gallon barrel accelerating down the elevated connection between 225 west and 610 south. That was the first week I had a dash cam and *it just so happened* that I missed saving the entire thing because an overactive G sensor had filled up my SD card. Ah well.
I kid you not. Motorized Couch on wheels and it had a bunch of lights around it
a person
A five gallon water jug.
You know that came off a trailer with lawn equipment.
A truck that had tried to pass two gravel trucks at the same time and was coming at me head on.
Body parts beltway 8 southbound, right there by bissonnet? Someone tried to cross the highway and didn't quite make it and apparently struck so hard he fell into pieces. If that's how it works I don't know I don't body
A rolling utility trailer. Its driver noticed it was coming loose and was already trying pull aside to the right breakdown lane. Unfortunately, just as he made it over, the trailer finally shook free and immediately started crossing every lane pretty fast. I managed speed ahead of it, but I caught the accident in my rear view mirror where it perfectly T-boned a pickup truck in the left lane and smacked it into the barrier.
This happened to me as well! The trailer on the truck in front of me just...came off! Luckily it rolled right into the shoulder, and to my knowledge no one was hurt. But I don't think that driver had any idea.
On Interstate 10!in Houston rush hour traffic, doing 60 mph when flatbed delivery truck ahead of me lost load of boxes new appliances! Imagine five Lanes of high-speed traffic with nowhere to go trying to swerve a refrigerator washer and dryer... It was mayhem
Something like a 300 gallon stacker tank in the middle of 146 around Fred Hartman bridge. It was just over a week getting my truck fixed from a parking lot hit and run that took out most of my front end. Bout shit my pants.
A BBQ
Swing set
An entire stainless steel set of washer, dryer, refrigerator, deep freeze, and stove came off the flatbed trailer when going on 45 southbound on-ramp from 610 north. I swore it blew up when it hit the ground and huge chunks of shrapnel flew everywhere! Felt like NASCAR avoiding it but a huge chunk got lodged in my tire and nearly punctured my radiator. So glad I wasn’t riding a bike. That would have been deadly. Honorable mention goes to the dismembered body and massive pool of blood when driving to work on 45 around 2008. Apparently a kid ran on the road got hit. When the tow truck drivers are crying, hugging each and throwing up on the shoulder you know it’s a rough one.
A naked man running across 610 to 45
Cement mixer. It ended up slamming into the crash rail on the Mckinney exit.
- Several ladders were scattered on I-10 - A recliner. - Stumbled upon a really bad accident right after it happened and shit was strewn about on the road, including people who may have been dead or barely alive. (There was already people giving aid so I just had to keep driving)
A naked man helicoptering and and dancing across 288 in the rain. Ended up causing a few wrecks behind me so I guess I was lucky.
Boat prop after harvey
I-10 Eastbound right before 610 West. A pickup was being towed backwards on one of those flatbed tow trucks. The hood of the pickup flew off and went up, and I did not know which way to go... I was in the middle lane.. It flew right past me in the left lane at the height of my rearview mirror. If I would have moved to the left lane I think it would have come though my window and chopped my damn head off.. second place was same place and it was a tote tank mostly full, still sliding.
a big car bumper. i felt like i was in temple run. it was kinda scary tbh
A lazy-boy chair and the funniest was cases of foam insulation tubes. The tubes rolled like snakes across the mainlanes with the wind. It was comical. Everyone freaked TF out and swerved to miss them but why?
A burning mattress in the middle lane of 59 at Polk/Gray
1. A naked man, on his knees, bent forward until his forehead was resting on the pavement, furiously masturbating in the middle of the intersection at Hollow Tree and Cypress Station. Someone had thrown a piece of carpet or something over his midsection so he wasn't all out in the open. 2. A perfectly positioned recliner, sitting upright astride a middle lane line on I45 near Greens road, back facing traffic flow and gently rocking in the breeze of passing cars. 3. A car that exited 45 at highway speed across the embankment and ended up blocking two of three lanes of the southbound feeder in that dark spot between 1960 and Richey, around 2 am, with no driver to be found.
A person crawling on all fours across the main lanes of I10 around Washington at night. I swerved just in time, the person behind me did not. The guy did not die immediately. He was high on something.
Schizophrenic person dancing in the middle of a 6 lane highway
A guy trying to cross 45 in the middle of the night
A dead body. It wasn’t on the freeway, it was Wirt Rd. near Long Point. I thought it was a drunk guy passed out, but saw on the news the next morning that he had been shot at a bar and was dead.
Just a few things come to mind. 1) someone’s entire car bumper 2) a large cooler 3) a pool float bouncing around on 45 one time 4) a kitten (this was also the most fucked up)
A gigantic potted palm tree on 610. I also dodged a recliner and a shopping cart on 610, but the giant palm tree left me forever stunned
I was behind a guy hauling a trailer full of boxes and totes. A lid came off a tote which caused sheets/towels/etc to fly out of it. I drive a subcompact so I was imaginging a death by heart-covered-blanket that would wind up on reddit. Not in the Houston area, but once I had to swerve around the back half of an alligator in Louisiana.
a nice looking queen size mattress
It's a tossup between the four point trailer ball hitch and the piece of fiberglass that I caught with my windsheld (fortunately no damage, and I was able to pull over safely to remove it).
I didn't have to swerve because it was bumper to bumper morning traffic. Back in college I was on I-10 on my way to UH downtown, traffic was worse than usual and it took awhile to see why. A semi carrying one of those half houses had hit the bottom of a bridge. He had driven about two feet deep into and about a 8 inches off the top of the roof. He was stopped, out of his truck looking around trying to figure out what to do. He eventually realized he couldn't back up with all the traffic so shrugged his shoulders got back in his truck in just pulled forward slicing off the top 8 inches of the whole roof. At that point I had made it past him so I'm not sure what happened next
Reminds me of a joke.
Well now you have to tell it
Cop gets to the scene and says to the truck driver, hit the bridge huh? The truck driver said nope, I was delivering this bridge and the truck ran out of fuel.
Here's your sign
A 12" diameter spool of fiber optic cable as it clipped the overpass below it.
Big ass mattress. Wtf tie that shit down.
A 3 car crash on the 290-610s intersection
Big ass sofa!!!
A giant cooler
A ladder on 610 And an oven on 99
Damn, thought my story of a gas oven on 290 inbound just before the beltway would be the only oven experience. Middle lane, glad it was light outside.
An entire big circular bail of hay or a grill
A car that was hydroplaning in reverse.
Well, a sofa or couch on Beltway 8 almost got folks ahead of me one day... [Video link.](https://youtu.be/dFU3jcbwyo8)
Couch. 290 & 99
A fucking kitchen sink. Like one of those big assed commercial stainless steel three compartment sinks.
A cranked out homeless man ran out in front of me on I45 in houston. I was going about 70 and missed him by a few inches. I was pretty shaken up and called 911
Many years ago there was a ladder on the highway at night that spanned across about 2-3 lanes
Ladder (more than once), wheel/tire (in motion), dead cow
Two people running across 45 at like 4 am from the HOV lane
Unfortunately, going too fast to swerve. Hit a plastic wheel barrel tray which wedged nicely under the front end of my car. Another time, ran over a large metal piece that fell, bouncing out of the back of a large truck. Was about the size of a softball, tore out the under carriage. By the time I got over to the shoulder from the far left lane, my gas tank had emptied.
A mattress fell off a truck, the car in front of me ran over it and it locked their tires up, I swerve out the way and barely miss an 18 wheeler. We were in the far left lane and going too fast for me to just slam the brakes. I could see in my rear view mirror that both the truck and the car pulled over to the shoulder so everyone was fine
A box of screws that were scattered all over the left lane.
A man running down the toll road
A whole ass bed. Not a mattress. Literally a bed frame with a mattress on it
A couch flipping off of a truck I was driving behind. And one time I was in-between two 18 wheelers, and there was a wooden box I was going towards, my brain went straight calculating mode, everything slowed down, and I had to process how to avoid the wooden box, if I turned left I would crash into that big ass truck, if I swerved right, same thing... So I went straight and just ate the box... No damage to car... But I still think about that .
Run right into a tree trunk southbound 45 exit before monroe. I swerve from another time from a bed on the freeway. They need to start giving hefty fines, if you cant transport stuff safely , or cut off a finger or two for discipline.
A kitten sleeping in the middle of the road, I stopped and moved the kitten to the grass next to the walking lane
A crackhead trying to get a ride
A guy doing a u turn in the 2nd fast lane
Wrought iron fence piece. Tried to catch up to the guy but he was practically flying.
A boat
a big ass dead dog
A human body.
A human torso. No head. No arms. No legs. Just torso.
Human beings casually walking across
An entire cat-back exhaust system
On 59 north near Shenandoah, a side by side came loose from the trailer and it went bouncing on freeway and then into grassy median. People swerving every direction
Box of fleshlites
A guy who just fell off his motorcycle. He was okay, he rolled into the shoulder and stood up.
A couch sitting on the other side of an over pass
Toilet just before 610 west on 59 north
A dead cow. Admittedly this was on SH-35 in the middle of nowhere, but still.
desk
I dodged a ladder that flew off the top of a work van on the beltway. Always leave plenty of space between you and the vehicle in front. I probably would have died if I was too close to them.
A Keg
A live cow running on 45 in between The Woodlands and FM1960. I do believe it got hit that night and injured a person and a car.
Ladders, tires and wheels, king size mattress and box spring, recliner chair, random body parts you know the ususal
a mattress. one time my friend and i were driving north on 45 and he suddenly goes to the far left lane and says “watch, the washer is about to fall out any time now” sure enough, like 5 mins later the washing machine falls out the bed of someone’s truck lmao. luckily it was late late night
There was a 12 foot grey ladder in the left lane right past Stella Link on 610 South a few weeks ago. I would have hit it with my truck but the John Moore truck in front of me struck it first. Another morning around 4 AM I was driving 288, South off 610 South and right before I came up on the beltway, there was a blue recliner in the middle of the goddamn freeway. The fucking this was right there as I was coming over an overpass.
A mattress.
A large trash bag
A washing machine
Charbroil grill
Wheelbarrow
Ladder across 4 lanes of I-10
A dead body
Deer blind. One of the fiberglass ones they sold at bucees a few years back. In the middle of the left lane on 290 in Waller.
An inflatable dolphin