I'll take, Things you should not see on the side of the Interstate for a hundred, Alex

Just drove back from Orlando this evening and had rain just about the entire way home. We came up on some flashing lights as we approached Daytona. In the distance the lights looked more white than blue, and fortunately the activity was on the other side of the median.

Construction on a Saturday evening? In the rain? No, it was a crane picking up a giant yacht--like smaller than a battleship but bigger than Crocket's boat. I'm guessing that someone had an exciting evening.

By the way, traffic westbound on I-4 approaching US-92 looked horrible.

I lived at the shore for a long time.. I have seen more than a few boats off of their trailors..

my favourite was a guy who pulled away from a light.. his truck and the trailor went.. the boat stayed

I saw a similar trick to that with a motorcycle once. Wheelied it right out from under the rider and passenger.

i once came around a bend in a fairly well traveled rural country road and almost ran into a nice looking 2 car garage that was sitting in the middle of the road.. it was being moved and it fell off the dolly they were using.. i detoured around it on a gravel road, and when i drove past there a couple of hours later on my way home a front end loader was scooping up the pieces and loading them into a dump truck..

I was driving home from Wisconsin one time and the road I was on had a banked curve in it. There was another road that ended at the middle of the curve. A semi truck was trying to pull off that road onto the banked curve and high-centered his trailer on the trailer stands.

Don't want to know how he had to explain that one.

My dad sold his Wellcraft Nova to a guy on a Sunday and noticed the transom strap was missing. Dad offered to buy one but couldn't get it till the next day, the guy said nahh, it'll be OK'.

My oldest brother was coming home ~1 1/2 hours later, there was the Nova on the side of an Interstate on ramp with the truck and trailer still connected by the winch cable. The guy had gone around the exit, the boat shifted, slid right over the top of the fender and landed on the curb, it ground a ~6 foot long hole in the hull.

Oooops!

After driving on the I-4 from Orlando to Daytona for 5 years and seeing the random stuff in the middle or the side of the road, things on southern CA roads doesn't even phase me. Florida is a strange place outside the cities, which is also why I'd like to move back.

I live in NE PA so seeing deer splattered all over the interstate and/or broken cars and trucks due to them is pretty common.

Last summer I saw what hitting a horse will do to a Malibu. It was a pretty gruesome sight.

probably wasn't a great day for the horse either

Wilburrrrrr! Why did you buy such a pos? Wait, what are you doing Wilbrrrrrrr? Youre going too fast towards me, Im sorry I made fun of your pos, oops, nice car, I promise %&%%&%%$^&^& splat!

A friend of mine used to be a cop. One day he got a call that a large boat was ripping down power lines as it headed down the road. He was rushing to stop the boat when someone broadsided him as he went thru an intersection. After the lawsuit was settled with the boat moving company, he went out and bought himself a new Jag and his wife a new Range Rover.

Heh, Dad's '69 Bonneville wagon, about 20 sheets of plywood in the back, tailgate down, long wait in a toll booth line, 428 cubic inches, heavy foot... Do I need to go on?

Datsun1500 wrote:

tr8todd wrote: A friend of mine used to be a cop. One day he got a call that a large boat was ripping down power lines as it headed down the road. He was rushing to stop the boat when someone broadsided him as he went thru an intersection. After the lawsuit was settled with the boat moving company, he went out and bought himself a new Jag and his wife a new Range Rover.

Wow, how does that work? Isn't risk of injury or death an assumed risk of the job?

i'm thinking the boat downing the power lines knocked out the traffic lights, a lot of people will blow through a blank light unless they see it red.

Strizzo wrote:

Datsun1500 wrote:

tr8todd wrote: A friend of mine used to be a cop. One day he got a call that a large boat was ripping down power lines as it headed down the road. He was rushing to stop the boat when someone broadsided him as he went thru an intersection. After the lawsuit was settled with the boat moving company, he went out and bought himself a new Jag and his wife a new Range Rover.

Wow, how does that work? Isn't risk of injury or death an assumed risk of the job?

i'm thinking the boat downing the power lines knocked out the traffic lights, a lot of people will blow through a blank light unless they see it red.

Yeah, that's gotten so bad in Atlanta Metro that the radio DJs actually try to remind folks that a dead traffic light is a 4-way stop. If I had a dollar for every time I was almost rear-ended at one, I could buy another car.

Datsun1500 wrote:

tr8todd wrote: A friend of mine used to be a cop. One day he got a call that a large boat was ripping down power lines as it headed down the road. He was rushing to stop the boat when someone broadsided him as he went thru an intersection. After the lawsuit was settled with the boat moving company, he went out and bought himself a new Jag and his wife a new Range Rover.

Wow, how does that work? Isn't risk of injury or death an assumed risk of the job?

Probably has something to with his accident while responding to a call being due to negligence on the boat movers incompetence.

Sort of the same as if a fire fighter is killed while fighting an arson fire, the arsonist can be held accountable for his death.