Unusual Road Hazard

A friend at work experienced a sudden loud thumping noise from his Mustang. He found this in his tire:

Yep. This somehow hit the rear tire just right ...

Maybe it was kicked up by the front tire. I doubt Mythbusters could recreate it.

I have found a key and a wrench in a tire at work. Not the same tire of course.

I picked up a pair of scissors that way with my mustang.

No kidding!? A buddy, many moons ago found a Craftsman 1/2" wrench in his tire, just like that. I guess that's one way for Sears to get their shoddy tools in the hands of techs

I have a huge drill bit that I picked up on the highway.

Some people have all the luck. All I ever pick up is screws.

Buddy had a tire go down quick, we found a small block Chevy pushrod stuck through the sidewall.

I've seen long debris rammed through the rim.

I pulled a bicycle kickstand out of a truck tire once; I joked with the customer that he should check his truck and trailer for the rest of the bike and its rider.

I saw a guy put a rib bone from a racoon through a tire.... That was interesting.

I usually just get bolts and soy bean stubble.

Weirdest I ever found was a high heel from a doll.

How about a spark plug, with the threaded end sticking out.

Wow I have picked up a end cut off of a 6" c channel before that looked like just a roofing nail sticking out but that is impressive

Plus 1 on this.

Curmudgeon wrote: Buddy had a tire go down quick, we found a small block Chevy pushrod stuck through the sidewall.

Best one I found was a screwdriver (complete) with the TIP sticking out and the handle on the inside ??

1988RedT2 wrote: Some people have all the luck. All I ever pick up is screws.

me too, I must be doing something wrong.

DoctorBlade wrote:

1988RedT2 wrote: Some people have all the luck. All I ever pick up is screws.

me too, I must be doing something wrong.

You both need to use your brakes more. The heat cycling makes the rotors magnetic, lets you pick up bigger things.

Had a guy from DNR (Dept of Natural Resources, basically hunting cops) bring in a tire with a twig through the sidewall. The twig wasn't any more than 1/4" diameter and once pulled out I could snap it with my fingers. Just one of those things where it caught the sidewall at just the perfect angle.

FWIW: I learned the HARD way to put short valve stems on any rim being used off road. A vine can wrap around a valve stem and yank it out in an eyeblink.

I found an entire screwdriver completely inside a tire once.

The question is, does it still work?

vwcorvette wrote: The question is, does it still work?

Yes, it does!

Curmudgeon wrote: Had a guy from DNR (Dept of Natural Resources, basically hunting cops) bring in a tire with a twig through the sidewall. The twig wasn't any more than 1/4" diameter and once pulled out I could snap it with my fingers. Just one of those things where it caught the sidewall at just the perfect angle.

Yep. Driving through a grass hay field I got a stalk of grass just right, and it punched through the tread (between blocks) flattening the tire. Grass.

FranktheTank wrote: I saw a guy put a rib bone from a racoon through a tire.... That was interesting. I usually just get bolts and soy bean stubble.

Last fall at harvest time, my dad managed to put a set of deer antlers into the facing sidewalls of both dually combine tires...after a few phone calls, a special delivery and a mere $5200 later they were back in business.

2.0dohc wrote:

FranktheTank wrote: I saw a guy put a rib bone from a racoon through a tire.... That was interesting. I usually just get bolts and soy bean stubble.

Last fall at harvest time, my dad managed to put a set of deer antlers into the facing sidewalls of both dually combine tires...after a few phone calls, a special delivery and a mere $5200 later they were back in business.

D'oh!. A neighbor drove a apir of pliers through the rear tire on the tractor in the field. Hard to imagine how they went into the tire instead of just pushing into the soil.

They regroove our rear bus tires until they are paper thin. One day coming off the Whitestone Bridge I ran over a bud light bottle cap and it cut a nice round hole into the tread. By the time I made it down the bridge on to the service road the tire was almost completely off the rim.

In reply to foxtrapper:

I would have lit the field on fire......