Strangest thing you've seen while driving?

oh, totally forgot about this one:

was doing a banger rally across Europe, driving through Italy we passed a small minibus with a car wedged into the back of it. It was half hanging out and was tied in with a load of rope - sufficed to say we didn't hang around behind that!

there's also a local window cleaner whose converted his mk1 mx-5 to hold a ladder, that made me double take first time i saw it! (i think theres a photo in the encounters thread somewhere)
 
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This is a horrendous picture but I saw a live cow cramped in the back of a 4x4 while I was driving down the A1. I followed it off so I could get this picture.

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Heading down the A30 and seeing a heavily laden motorbike zoom past with it's panniers fully ablaze and the rider utterly oblivious to the flames he was trailing down the road. Caught up with the rider about 2 miles later, pulled over at the side of the road, bike now fully ablaze. Exhaust obviously set alight to whatever he had stored on his bike!
 
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I saw a car with a submarine style turret (sail) top, probably fashioned in fibre glass, i did a double take. Think it was a vw golf old ish

If anyone was on the a14 yesterday it was heading east towards bury St Edmunds, black car. Think it mayhave been to some event.
 
al4x said:
I saw a car with a submarine style turret (sail) top, probably fashioned in fibre glass, i did a double take. Think it was a vw golf old ish

If anyone was on the a14 yesterday it was heading east towards bury St Edmunds, black car. Think it mayhave been to some event.
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Probably the latest God awful idea the vw scene has had.
 
Not terribly exciting, but driving down a back road near home a young deer just wandered across the road in front of me. The road is surrounded by fields, but there are no deer that populate them....kinda weird.

Another one, i didn't see this but would have liked to; my step son see http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=21996214&posted=1#post21996214, well his best mate who was riding with him when the crash happened the other day. Well i gave him a 1u 3/4 depth server, he strapped it to his back and rode it home on his motorbike!!! And he's the sensible one?
Teenagers eh?!
 
mattyprice4004 said:
Hopefully the story I told a few years ago on here should turn a few heads.

Heading to work down a local bypass as usual, a guy covered in blood runs into the road, nearly gets hit by the car in front of me, dives over their bonnet and runs around to my passenger side. He jumped in my car, and started screaming DRIVE! DRIVE!

I did, with gusto, as I was scared ****less. It turns out he was totally batty, he'd jumped through his front window as he claimed his dead wife was trying to kill him. He told me I was going to die too, and that she'd kill everyone.

Most scary episode of driving, ever. I took him to the nearest police station, when I got there he dived out and ran across the road to the bank. The officer who came outside with me to look for him got a call from the station as we were figuring out where he'd gone, the bank had dialled 999 as he was banging on the counter and threatening everyone.

They detained him, I was sat outside while they were talking to him. He was yelling about her coming to kill them all, and all sorts.

I got quite a cool hand-written note from the police to show why I was late to work, stating 'I'd helped a member of the public with mental health issues'.

Never forget that... :o
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Lol! Was this on the Colne-Padiham bypass?
 
Mucky_Pup said:
Seen a car fashioned out of a dodgem car flying up the A1 before.
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I think that might be one of Ed China's creations.

The strangest thing I've seen was a hatchback standing almost vertically with the front bumper on the ground and the boot hatch in the air. I have no idea what sort of accident you'd need in order to do that but I can't explain it.
 
Just a car driving the wrong way down a dual carriageway or a lorry turning off at a motorway junction and one of it's wheels staying on the motorway.
 
Not strictly while I was driving but on a school trip to France many years ago we got stuck in a traffic jam on the ring road Paris. At one point we were next to a shiny Ferrari 308 and the guy driving it had his hand up the short skirt of his female passenger - until someone banged on the coach window and they realised there was a coach full of 13 year olds watching them :)

His passenger looked like she wanted the road to open up and swallow her!
 
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Followed some huge, tattooed biker on a trike going home the other night. Really looked like something out of a movie. We pull up at the lights and a tiny little dog appears from his lap area and looks around. Said pooch had a little pink helmet and goggles (Doggles I believe they're called) and a rather fetching little scarf. He pulls away and the dog nestles back down. Next set of lights same thing - the little guy comes out for a gander at the cars around him. Was hilarious :D
 
This morning a driver in a Golf GTI was drinking something out of a china cup behind me; worst part of this was I realised I had forgotten to pick up my cup for work :rolleyes:
 
I once seen an elderly foreign couple come round the corner to a 3 lane roundabout, cross over the double white lines at the triangle green, drove the wrong way round the outside lane and down the first exit the wrong way which is basically a blind right hand curve down hill. I passed them on the inside lane turning into the road they came out of in amazement.

also the other day I turned into mcdonalds in St.Austell to see some young driver in a 4x4 jigging up and down quite rapidly looking around like some mental @ the junction, but then he can be excused because its st.austell I guess :p
 
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