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The craziest thing you've seen lying on the road?

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What's the craziest thing you've ever seen lying on the road while driving?

Get this: I was driving home last week on the N1. Then, approaching me at approximately 120KM/H, was a frikken BATH TUB. There was a BATH TUB lying in the middle of the road. How random is that? Hahaha!

So, what's yours?
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DAE_JA_VOO wrote:What's the craziest thing you've ever seen lying on the road while driving?

Get this: I was driving home last week on the N1. Then, approaching me at approximately 120KM/H, was a frikken BATH TUB. There was a BATH TUB lying in the middle of the road. How random is that? Hahaha!

So, what's yours?
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We once had half a Jungle Gym, or whatever you call it, heading our way, we swung out, and an Audi got pwned..
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Ouch, poor Audi. I haven't seen anything strange... yet. But I have hit a bird while driving and when I looked in the rearview mirror all I saw was feathers floating down slowly.. it just went *poof*
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it just went *poof*
ROFL.

I was driving with mates to the Vaal when we saw a Taxi stopped in the left hand lane of the highway. It had just been in an accident and someone had gone through the front windscreen head first and skidded on the tar scraping her entire body. She was convulsing and pretty screwed.

I saw a dude who had died after falling off the back of a bakkie.

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a couple of ppl sitting in the middle of the road with what i think was a hubly
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When I was working in Botswana and Namibia we used to see a lot of goats, sheep and cows in the road, that's quite hectic at night when you're doing 120km/h and you see horns :shock:

Last week I saw a pedestrian knocked over on the N3...was pretty graphic so I won't describe it.

Saw a bakkie with 5 people on the back roll...also not very pleasant.

Oh and I saw an adder crossing the road, then playing dead...I helped it across the road.

Ummm...that's about it.
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Abatis wrote:a couple of ppl sitting in the middle of the road with what i think was a hubly
Probably Klerksdorp people.
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Saw a man fall off a garbage truck onto his head and split it open.

Saw a giant lizard (Can't spell lekkovan) cross the road while I was on foot - had to stand very still as they are rather vicious.
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wow. i haven't seen anything like that. best i seen was a road kill Dog. :?
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A couch an a cow
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Oh yes - saw the Cow on the way to Botswana, the guy that killed it was in lots of trouble.
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Sab truck dropped all its beer on a turn..

Turned into a full scale riot . Taxies full of Amstle.
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Acidkidsa wrote:Sab truck dropped all its beer on a turn..

Turned into a full scale riot . Taxies full of Amstle.
I heard about that - was in PTA at the time. Always had bad timing :P
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Scavenger wrote:A tree
I once thought the same thing, but in a residential area. Went closer to inspect. Vodacom/MTN/Whoever (see what I did there, hah!) was installing one of those tree like antennas.
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muffinman wrote:
Abatis wrote:a couple of ppl sitting in the middle of the road with what i think was a hubly
Probably Klerksdorp people.
Probably - but from Boksburg :twisted:
Tribble wrote:Saw a man fall off a garbage truck onto his head and split it open.

Saw a giant lizard (Can't spell lekkovan) cross the road while I was on foot - had to stand very still as they are rather vicious.
Yuck for the first -

Likkewaan. and they ARE quite vicious...

Koko_Lion wrote:A couch an a cow
I'm going to fetch two beers and then you explain that. PLEASE!!! :shock:
Acidkidsa wrote:Sab truck dropped all its beer on a turn..

Turned into a full scale riot . Taxies full of Amstle.


If you mean Amstel - send me the memo next time! :mrgreen: Know of at least one incident where the local SAB guy told the SAPS to help themselves - Black Label, but they weren't complanining - insurance was going to pay for it all anyway...

Was kinda fun watching the whole thing...
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doo_much wrote:
Koko_Lion wrote:A couch an a cow
I'm going to fetch two beers and then you explain that. PLEASE!!! :shock:
LOL! No its not what your thinking :lol:

It was two separate sightings :D
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Saw a bakkie parked on a guy's foot in the middle of the N1 just past Canal Walk.
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1 - I've driven through a herd of Elephants at night time in Botswana. 120km/h straight through the herd which was milling around on the main road. Didn't even see them until we were amongst them. Still can't believe we didn't hit one.

2 - In Zimbabwe once we came across hundreds of chameleons crossing the road, there was a stretch of about 100m of just a sea of chameleons. Took us ages to get through.

3 - a red and silver 15 inch rim once overtook me on the freeway, and I was like, 'haha check it out, someone's wheel has come off.......hmm it looks exactly like mine....CRASH'
It was my wheel :shock: Didn't cause a big crash though, I just skidded to a halt in the emergency lane with my left rear wheel missing.
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Screeper, oh wow - shame.
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