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[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Usual one first: back in 2010 a friend and I rented a car from NC to NJ last minute to catch another buddy’s wedding. Rental agency gave me an odd look when I declined the insurance and I got one of those chilling epiphanies where something seemed wrong. Anyway, we’re coming back from NJ going 80 on the freeway in middle of nowhere Virginia and my friend was driving, me in the passenger seat. Guardrails on both sides of the road in a forest. 5 pointer comes casually walking into our lane from the one on the right. My friend saw it too late. Honestly a good thing, he only had enough reaction time to jostle the steering wheel slightly to the left, not even brake. We dodged that bucker by inches. Car insurance be damned, it would have probably ended me.

More bizarre ones:

  • The handlebar on my motorcycle broke off, and I went down quick on a freshly plowed road, 18 wheeler behind me was barely able to stop in time. He helped me up and then chucked my bike into a snowbank like it was nothing.
  • Saw a semi get blown over by a gust of wind on 81 in western VA
  • about 2 months ago I saw an entire desk fly off of the back of a junkers trailer on I-40 just west of Asheville. I thought for sure it was gonna hit the car in front of me but the desk did this brilliant upright spin off into the shoulder. The lady driving the junker was none the wiser. Secure your loads y’all.
  • not a freeway, but I was turning left from this mountain backroad as a semi turned right onto the road I was on. The shoulder on that side had a drop off and the guy misjudged the turn. I got to see the whole cab lift into the air right beside me in my peripheral, freaked me the fuck out and I barreled to the right shoulder quick. When all was done and it seemed safe enough, I got out and checked on the guys then called highway patrol. The driver and his buddy were a bit in shock from the whole situation but otherwise OK.
[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The handlebar on my motorcycle broke off, [...]

...How? Those should be far, far stronger than is necessary, unless it's been crashed, or is the cheapest garbage you can find on Temu.

[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 4 points 4 months ago

Buddy lightly backed into my Suzuki a month or two prior, slightly bent it. I was warned by my bike guy that one day it’d likely just give, it’s apparently a thing.

Now you’re warned too.