What with all the joys of moving and unpacking, I moved my little S10 forward
about 50 or 70 feet the other day to slip something else over towards the
house. When I backed it back into the drive, I noticed that my large sheet of 3
mil black plastic was following.
Upshot: I just now finished pulling the driver's side front wheel and peeling
the remainder of that stuff off the brake rotor and caliper and front
suspension assembly. Third attempt (the other 2 with the wheel on). It worked.
Moral: do NOT drive over sheet plastic. I haven't got a clue as to what that
stuff would do to steering and braking at road speeds, but I'm just as happy to
not find out.
Charlie Self
"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave
it to." Dorothy Parker
Umm couldn't straddle the last one I hit as I was on my motorcycle. Anyone
know how to get the smell out of a leather jacket?
D. Mo
"George" <george@least> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I took a skunk one night with the differential on an ambulance. Tried to
> center him up and straddle.
>
> Pregnant lady with tightly crossed legs, OB nurse and my partner all told
> me that it was the worst thirty minutes they'd spent in a long time.
>
> Parked it outside, hosed with detergent daily for over a week, and it
> finally cleared up.
>
> "Kevin Singleton" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > That stuff can be pretty nasty when all it does is stick to the hot
> exhaust
> > pipes. It's a smell that never goes away. Ugh.
> >
> > Kevin
>
>
[email protected] (Charlie Self) wrote:
>What with all the joys of moving and unpacking, I moved my little S10 forward
>about 50 or 70 feet the other day to slip something else over towards the
>house. When I backed it back into the drive, I noticed that my large sheet of 3
>mil black plastic was following.
>
>Upshot: I just now finished pulling the driver's side front wheel and peeling
>the remainder of that stuff off the brake rotor and caliper and front
>suspension assembly. Third attempt (the other 2 with the wheel on). It worked.
>
>Moral: do NOT drive over sheet plastic. I haven't got a clue as to what that
>stuff would do to steering and braking at road speeds, but I'm just as happy to
>not find out.
>
That stuff sounds nasty. A lot like driving over kite string.
Wes
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"George" <george@least> wrote:
>I took a skunk one night with the differential on an ambulance. Tried to
>center him up and straddle.
I took a skunk one night with my right foot/foot peg while riding my
motorcycle. Didn't notice anything other than some pain in my foot
until and stopped and got off. I was sent home from work. My
cow-orkers could not stand the smell.
W
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Sounds like many an evening I spent driving at University of MD at College
Park. Where was your friend at school?
Steven P.
"Chip Olson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 15:36:42 -0400, George wrote:
>
> Friend of mine in college who drove a bus for the campus transit system
> had a weekend night route that was notorious for drunk frat boys. One
> night, one of said frat boys tossed his cookies in the back of the bus.
>
> Later on the same run, he ran over a skunk, which got caught between the
> rear duals and went flop flop flop all the way to the garage.
>
> I don't remember if he tried to clean it up or just walked away. Probably
> the latter.
>
> --
> -Chip Olson. | ceo2 at thsi dot org | remove the 2 to reply
>
Charlie Self wrote:
>
> What with all the joys of moving and unpacking, I moved my little S10 forward
> about 50 or 70 feet the other day to slip something else over towards the
> house. When I backed it back into the drive, I noticed that my large sheet of 3
> mil black plastic was following.
>
> Upshot: I just now finished pulling the driver's side front wheel and peeling
> the remainder of that stuff off the brake rotor and caliper and front
> suspension assembly. Third attempt (the other 2 with the wheel on). It worked.
>
> Moral: do NOT drive over sheet plastic. I haven't got a clue as to what that
> stuff would do to steering and braking at road speeds, but I'm just as happy to
> not find out.
>
> Charlie Self
> "If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave
> it to." Dorothy Parker
the best thing i ever drove over was a flap from the back of an 18
wheeler... the flap that goes behind the rear wheels of the tractor... i
had a metal bar attached to the top and it was bendt down on the end to
a 90 degree angle.. it was at night on a dimly luminated road... well
the 90 deg. angle piece went under the 83 mustang i was driving and
caught itself under some body parts that had a channel about the size of
the metal angle... the flap just stayed under one of the rear wheels and
the car could not move... i finally limped it to the side of the road by
a large industial building with a lighted parking area... got under car
and figured i had to back up to get the flap from under the rear wheel..
the could not figure out how the thing got stuck to the underbody of the
car.. used a tire took and kept prying on it until the metal bar came
out... threw it to the side of the road and on my way.. now when i pass
that area i always look out for lost flaps that are always on the road..
its a trucking area with alot of 18 wheeleres going up and down all day
and night.....
I'll add that to my list. Baling wire, poly twine, and poly sheeting.
"Charlie Self" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> Moral: do NOT drive over sheet plastic. I haven't got a clue as to what
that
> stuff would do to steering and braking at road speeds, but I'm just as
happy to
> not find out.
>
I took a skunk one night with the differential on an ambulance. Tried to
center him up and straddle.
Pregnant lady with tightly crossed legs, OB nurse and my partner all told
me that it was the worst thirty minutes they'd spent in a long time.
Parked it outside, hosed with detergent daily for over a week, and it
finally cleared up.
"Kevin Singleton" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> That stuff can be pretty nasty when all it does is stick to the hot
exhaust
> pipes. It's a smell that never goes away. Ugh.
>
> Kevin
My best was about 5 years ago, having forgotten that I left my gas
grill outside the garage door the previous evening, revv'ed up the
Jimmy, hit the garage door opener and backed out - and "mounted" my
gas grill. After the shock wore off in a minute or two, the concern
of having a possibly leaking LP tank under my gas tank struck me and
my sphincter muscles really tightened up. I had to jack up the rear
end of the truck to gingerly remove the remains. Both tanks were
intact, truck ok, and the grill was toast. I needed a new grill
anyways......
BTW, my bride was none too happy and I have to hear about this every 3
months........
In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>Charlie Self wrote:
>>
>> What with all the joys of moving and unpacking, I moved my little S10 forward
>> about 50 or 70 feet the other day to slip something else over towards the
>> house. When I backed it back into the drive, I noticed that my large
>sheet of 3
>> mil black plastic was following.
>>
>> Upshot: I just now finished pulling the driver's side front wheel and peeling
>> the remainder of that stuff off the brake rotor and caliper and front
>> suspension assembly. Third attempt (the other 2 with the wheel on). It worked.
>>
>> Moral: do NOT drive over sheet plastic. I haven't got a clue as to what that
>> stuff would do to steering and braking at road speeds, but I'm just as
>happy to
>> not find out.
>>
>> Charlie Self
>> "If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave
>> it to." Dorothy Parker
>the best thing i ever drove over was a flap from the back of an 18
>wheeler... the flap that goes behind the rear wheels of the tractor... i
>had a metal bar attached to the top and it was bendt down on the end to
>a 90 degree angle.. it was at night on a dimly luminated road... well
>the 90 deg. angle piece went under the 83 mustang i was driving and
>caught itself under some body parts that had a channel about the size of
>the metal angle... the flap just stayed under one of the rear wheels and
>the car could not move... i finally limped it to the side of the road by
>a large industial building with a lighted parking area... got under car
>and figured i had to back up to get the flap from under the rear wheel..
>the could not figure out how the thing got stuck to the underbody of the
>car.. used a tire took and kept prying on it until the metal bar came
>out... threw it to the side of the road and on my way.. now when i pass
>that area i always look out for lost flaps that are always on the road..
>its a trucking area with alot of 18 wheeleres going up and down all day
>and night.....
Well, if we're getting into _those_ kind of stories ----
The biggest thing _I_ ever drove over was my right rear tire.
Including the wheel, and brake drum.
Travelling down the highway, at about 50 MPH.
Events were "dramatic", to say the least.
There was this incredibly loud 'BAM!', and the back end of my Sedan deVille
goes flying up in the air, _several_feet_ vertically, (the axle had snapped
at the wheel-bearing, and the car 'rolled over ' the tire. I had a _nice_
imprint of the tire tread in the R. rear quarter-panel. <wry grin>) and
comes back down with an awful thump/scrape/grind.
NOTE: I was *really* glad I had seat-belt on, as it kept me behind the wheel
and I retained control of the vehicle.
Insult to injury: As the car is _sliding_ down the pavement -- 'grinding
off' the remains of the right-rear brake assembly, and grinding holes in
the gas tank -- that tire/wheel 'got impatient' and swung out and _passed_
me on the left! Apparently, gyroscopic action had brought it back onto
the treads, and it was just 'rolling along'. I eventually collected it,
about half a mile further down the highway from where the car stopped.
Oh yeah, it's about 5:45PM on Friday Nite, in the middle of nowhere,
Northern Arizona (en route from Monument Valley to Phoenix).
I did have one thing go more-or-less right, although I can't take any credit
for it -- things happened about 15 miles away from the place with the *ONLY*
tow-truck within 100-plus miles.
In article <[email protected]>, George <george@least> wrote:
>Some of my troops came in late and laughing hysterically from lunch one day.
>Seems they had been decelerating from moderate base speed levels when they
>were overtaken by a wheel/tire assembly from their own vehicle. The rust
>bucket settled slowly to the pavement while Don, the jokester of the bunch,
>and not the owner of the vehicle, preformed his rendition of "you picked a
>fine time to leave me loose wheel."
Ouch! Owwww. Damn, that's *funny*. In the 15 years ( *exactly* 15 years,
last Friday!) since it happened to me, that _particular_ commentary had *never*
occurred to me. Not 'my kind of music', is all I can say. Regardless, I'm
_gonna_ steal that line!
>"Charlie Self" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> Bob Bonomi relates:
>>
>> >Insult to injury: As the car is _sliding_ down the pavement -- 'grinding
>> >off' the remains of the right-rear brake assembly, and grinding holes in
>> >the gas tank -- that tire/wheel 'got impatient' and swung out and
>_passed_
>> >me on the left! Apparently, gyroscopic action had brought it back onto
>> >the treads, and it was just 'rolling along'. I eventually collected it,
>> >about half a mile further down the highway from where the car stopped.
>>
>> Reminds of many years ago, a friend's parents who owned a small ad agency
>in
>> NYC, starting their daily 60+ mile commute (1 way) driving an old Citroen
>> (DS19? The one with the hydraulic system that let you raise the body to
>change
>> a tire, do whatever). Now, we're looking at mid-50s, maybe '57 here, but
>no
>> later, because I left for Parris Island in January of '58. Anyway, they
>were
>> passed by a wheel and tire as they drove down the road. Didn't realize it
>was
>> the passenger side rear tire from their own car until it was yards in
>front of
>> them and the car tipped badly and started skidding. The guy who mounted
>their
>> snow tires got one helluva bill!
>>
>
>
Bob Bonomi relates:
>Insult to injury: As the car is _sliding_ down the pavement -- 'grinding
>off' the remains of the right-rear brake assembly, and grinding holes in
>the gas tank -- that tire/wheel 'got impatient' and swung out and _passed_
>me on the left! Apparently, gyroscopic action had brought it back onto
>the treads, and it was just 'rolling along'. I eventually collected it,
>about half a mile further down the highway from where the car stopped.
Reminds of many years ago, a friend's parents who owned a small ad agency in
NYC, starting their daily 60+ mile commute (1 way) driving an old Citroen
(DS19? The one with the hydraulic system that let you raise the body to change
a tire, do whatever). Now, we're looking at mid-50s, maybe '57 here, but no
later, because I left for Parris Island in January of '58. Anyway, they were
passed by a wheel and tire as they drove down the road. Didn't realize it was
the passenger side rear tire from their own car until it was yards in front of
them and the car tipped badly and started skidding. The guy who mounted their
snow tires got one helluva bill!
Charlie Self
"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave
it to." Dorothy Parker
Some of my troops came in late and laughing hysterically from lunch one day.
Seems they had been decelerating from moderate base speed levels when they
were overtaken by a wheel/tire assembly from their own vehicle. The rust
bucket settled slowly to the pavement while Don, the jokester of the bunch,
and not the owner of the vehicle, preformed his rendition of "you picked a
fine time to leave me loose wheel."
"Charlie Self" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Bob Bonomi relates:
>
> >Insult to injury: As the car is _sliding_ down the pavement -- 'grinding
> >off' the remains of the right-rear brake assembly, and grinding holes in
> >the gas tank -- that tire/wheel 'got impatient' and swung out and
_passed_
> >me on the left! Apparently, gyroscopic action had brought it back onto
> >the treads, and it was just 'rolling along'. I eventually collected it,
> >about half a mile further down the highway from where the car stopped.
>
> Reminds of many years ago, a friend's parents who owned a small ad agency
in
> NYC, starting their daily 60+ mile commute (1 way) driving an old Citroen
> (DS19? The one with the hydraulic system that let you raise the body to
change
> a tire, do whatever). Now, we're looking at mid-50s, maybe '57 here, but
no
> later, because I left for Parris Island in January of '58. Anyway, they
were
> passed by a wheel and tire as they drove down the road. Didn't realize it
was
> the passenger side rear tire from their own car until it was yards in
front of
> them and the car tipped badly and started skidding. The guy who mounted
their
> snow tires got one helluva bill!
>
Sometimes I wonder a little about off topic stuff.
(Woodworking?) That loose wheel line completely redeemed this thread.
bob G.
Robert Bonomi wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, George <george@least> wrote:
>
>>Some of my troops came in late and laughing hysterically from lunch one day.
>>Seems they had been decelerating from moderate base speed levels when they
>>were overtaken by a wheel/tire assembly from their own vehicle. The rust
>>bucket settled slowly to the pavement while Don, the jokester of the bunch,
>>and not the owner of the vehicle, preformed his rendition of "you picked a
>>fine time to leave me loose wheel."
>
>
> Ouch! Owwww. Damn, that's *funny*. In the 15 years ( *exactly* 15 years,
> last Friday!) since it happened to me, that _particular_ commentary had *never*
> occurred to me. Not 'my kind of music', is all I can say. Regardless, I'm
> _gonna_ steal that line!
>
>
>>"Charlie Self" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>news:[email protected]...
>>
>>>Bob Bonomi relates:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Insult to injury: As the car is _sliding_ down the pavement -- 'grinding
>>>>off' the remains of the right-rear brake assembly, and grinding holes in
>>>>the gas tank -- that tire/wheel 'got impatient' and swung out and
>>
>>_passed_
>>
>>>>me on the left! Apparently, gyroscopic action had brought it back onto
>>>>the treads, and it was just 'rolling along'. I eventually collected it,
>>>>about half a mile further down the highway from where the car stopped.
>>>
>>>Reminds of many years ago, a friend's parents who owned a small ad agency
>>
>>in
>>
>>>NYC, starting their daily 60+ mile commute (1 way) driving an old Citroen
>>>(DS19? The one with the hydraulic system that let you raise the body to
>>
>>change
>>
>>>a tire, do whatever). Now, we're looking at mid-50s, maybe '57 here, but
>>
>>no
>>
>>>later, because I left for Parris Island in January of '58. Anyway, they
>>
>>were
>>
>>>passed by a wheel and tire as they drove down the road. Didn't realize it
>>
>>was
>>
>>>the passenger side rear tire from their own car until it was yards in
>>
>>front of
>>
>>>them and the car tipped badly and started skidding. The guy who mounted
>>
>>their
>>
>>>snow tires got one helluva bill!
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
and watch out for plastic grocery bags. do NOT pretend you are playing a
video game and swerve to hit them as they blow by. ive seen more than one
of them get melted to mufflers and brakes before. stinks for a week too.
randy
"Charlie Self" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> What with all the joys of moving and unpacking, I moved my little S10
forward
> about 50 or 70 feet the other day to slip something else over towards the
> house. When I backed it back into the drive, I noticed that my large sheet
of 3
> mil black plastic was following.
>
> Upshot: I just now finished pulling the driver's side front wheel and
peeling
> the remainder of that stuff off the brake rotor and caliper and front
> suspension assembly. Third attempt (the other 2 with the wheel on). It
worked.
>
> Moral: do NOT drive over sheet plastic. I haven't got a clue as to what
that
> stuff would do to steering and braking at road speeds, but I'm just as
happy to
> not find out.
>
> Charlie Self
> "If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he
gave
> it to." Dorothy Parker
>
>
>
Funny things happen with loose wheels...
I don't know which was scarier, the time after "grad night" at a
remote ranch, with an overloaded 62 Falcon 2 door on winding, barely
marked dark roads, where a front wheel NEARLY fell off, or the time at
3AM on the way back from a concert, again overloaded in the same car,
when the tie rod broke on the freeway. This was the late '60s, you can
imagine our mental state at the time. The car only vibrated until it
got down under 30MPH, at which point it started doing a lateral
cha-cha. That was the last time I saw that car.
Funniest one was someone else loosing a wheel on the coast highway in
"downtown" Laguna Beach. Saw the wheel go sailing through an
intersection, bounce up upon hitting a parked car, and land on the
flat ROOF of a 2 story business. I laughed all the way home imagining
that poor guy asking that business owner for permission to access his
roof to retrieve a tire and wheel!
In all seriousness, though, that wheel COULD have taken out a large
plate glass window, injuring several people. I've always been extra
careful about lug nuts since then!
Reminds me of the fun we used to have with one of those big tie wraps that
heat and air guys use these days. We tied one loosely around a guys
driveshaft where it would slip a little. When it heated up from friction a
few miles down the road, it made one heck of a racket. <grin> We casually
drove by on our way to lunch behind him and offered to help. (trying VERY
hard not to laugh) This guy was a checkbook contractor and rarely broke a
sweat for anything... After all kinds of theories about what was wrong with
his truck, he decided to "limp" up to the gas stationm on the corner to have
them check it out....
We called them before he got there and told them what we had done and to
play along.... From our vantage point next door at the Wendy's restaurant,
we called him on the cellphone and told him what it was.... We still get a
chuckle out of him to this day....
"Charlie Self" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> What with all the joys of moving and unpacking, I moved my little S10
forward
> about 50 or 70 feet the other day to slip something else over towards the
> house. When I backed it back into the drive, I noticed that my large sheet
of 3
> mil black plastic was following.
>
> Upshot: I just now finished pulling the driver's side front wheel and
peeling
> the remainder of that stuff off the brake rotor and caliper and front
> suspension assembly. Third attempt (the other 2 with the wheel on). It
worked.
>
> Moral: do NOT drive over sheet plastic. I haven't got a clue as to what
that
> stuff would do to steering and braking at road speeds, but I'm just as
happy to
> not find out.
>
> Charlie Self
> "If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he
gave
> it to." Dorothy Parker
>
>
>
[email protected] (Charlie Self) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> What with all the joys of moving and unpacking, I moved my little S10 forward
> about 50 or 70 feet the other day to slip something else over towards the
> house. When I backed it back into the drive, I noticed that my large sheet of 3
> mil black plastic was following.
>
> Upshot: I just now finished pulling the driver's side front wheel and peeling
> the remainder of that stuff off the brake rotor and caliper and front
> suspension assembly. Third attempt (the other 2 with the wheel on). It worked.
>
> Moral: do NOT drive over sheet plastic. I haven't got a clue as to what that
> stuff would do to steering and braking at road speeds, but I'm just as happy to
> not find out.
>
> Charlie Self
> "If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave
> it to." Dorothy Parker
Wait until you run over a mattress at 60 mph on a dark night. What a
thrill that was. Also leave the front fender on your trail motorcycle
if you are going to encounter fresh cow plop on the trail. Even had to
clean my goggles on that one. Warren
RE: Subject
Absolutely the worst smell on the planet will come from human fecal matter
being cooked on the exhaust manifold of your favorite vehicle.
The only cure is to replace the manifold, trust me.
--
Lew
S/A: Challenge, The Bullet Proof Boat, (Under Construction in the Southland)
Visit: <http://home.earthlink.net/~lewhodgett> for Pictures
I've done that. It's funny, and relatively harmless, but, boy, does it make
a racket! Not for the faint of heart!
Kevin
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"Mark Hopkins" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Reminds me of the fun we used to have with one of those big tie wraps that
> heat and air guys use these days. We tied one loosely around a guys
> driveshaft where it would slip a little. When it heated up from friction a
> few miles down the road, it made one heck of a racket. <grin> We casually
> drove by on our way to lunch behind him and offered to help. (trying VERY
> hard not to laugh) This guy was a checkbook contractor and rarely broke a
> sweat for anything... After all kinds of theories about what was wrong
with
> his truck, he decided to "limp" up to the gas stationm on the corner to
have
> them check it out....
>
Apparently the game is now "stuff you have stupidly run over." For my entry
I submit backing my van over my miter saw. Fortunately it was only a
non-sliding, non-compound Black & Decker. And I can still get it to work if
I prop up the side where the foot used to be.
Lee
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To e-mail, replace "bucketofspam" with "dleegordon"
Well my best was getting a little too close to the ski rope on my jetski.
Sucked it right up and wrapped it VERY tightly around the impeller shaft. Was
bad enough to take the thing apart to cut the rope out, but this was after
swimming it in from the middle of the Ohio river and walking it upriver a mile
or 2 to a ramp, walking several miles home, wet shirtless and barefoot, to
get the truck and trailer so I could pull the thing home to work on it. I have
a waterproof and somewhat shock absorbing container to carry my cellphone on
the jetski now ;)
Dave Hall
<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> "George" <george@least> wrote:
>
> >I took a skunk one night with the differential on an ambulance. Tried to
> >center him up and straddle.
>
> I took a skunk one night with my right foot/foot peg while riding my
> motorcycle. Didn't notice anything other than some pain in my foot
> until and stopped and got off. I was sent home from work. My
> cow-orkers could not stand the smell.
>
> W
>
> --
> Reply to:
> Whiskey Echo Sierra Sierra AT Gee Tee EYE EYE dot COM
> Lycos address is a spam trap.
My wife and I almost hit one test-driving our current car. The Saturn
dealership here will let you take it out without a salesperson in the car.
My wife and I joked that if we had hit it, we would have taken it back and
told them we liked the model, but we'd like a different car.
todd
"Lew Hodgett" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> RE: Subject
>
> Absolutely the worst smell on the planet will come from human fecal
> matter being cooked on the exhaust manifold of your favorite vehicle.
>
> The only cure is to replace the manifold, trust me.
>
>
Lew, I don't think I'd want to know the details of that story, your
friends, or your enemies....
Patriarch
"Charlie Self" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> What with all the joys of moving and unpacking, I moved my little
> Moral: do NOT drive over sheet plastic. I haven't got a clue as to what
that
> stuff would do to steering and braking at road speeds, but I'm just as
happy to
> not find out.
.;.even with your lawn tractor
I tied down my lawn tractor to my golf cart trailer( late last summer)
with two of those plastic belt contraptions with the ratcheting tensioner
and metal hooks on each end. Anyhows, I removed the straps holding the
tractor down and pulled the lawn tractor off the golf cart trailer and
started up the blades.....whooopaaah!!!!!! the blades had snagged one of
those plastic hold downs and quickly(lotsa banging too) brought the blades
to a halt....the plastic belt was in pieces and one of the metal hooks went
flying.... took about 10 minutes to unwind the remaining belt from the hubs
under the mower deck.... I glanced around to see if anyone had noticed my
DOH!!!!.. nope, no one lookin but, more fortunately, the mower(a John Deere
BTW) wasn't damaged...
Larry
George wrote:
> I took a skunk one night with the differential on an ambulance. Tried to
> center him up and straddle.
>
> Pregnant lady with tightly crossed legs, OB nurse and my partner all told
> me that it was the worst thirty minutes they'd spent in a long time.
>
> Parked it outside, hosed with detergent daily for over a week, and it
> finally cleared up.
My favorite, even though it didn't do much damage, was the stop sign on the
Cross Bronx Expressway. Just lying flat in the middle of the road, no post
or anything. Took out $500 worth of tires--real PITA--ever try to find a
couple of Gatorbacks on a Sunday night?
> "Kevin Singleton" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> That stuff can be pretty nasty when all it does is stick to the hot
> exhaust
>> pipes. It's a smell that never goes away. Ugh.
>>
>> Kevin
--
--John
Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)
"B a r r y" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> I've also T-boned deer while night riding a trail on a mountain bike.
Damn! Had almost forgotten that one! T-boned a good sized doe @ night riding
my KZ1300 full dresser. Was almost stopped by time I hit, still threw her
about 20yd. down the road, deader'n a doornail, and looked like an explosion
in a mattress factory! Mid May, they were still shedding winter coat. Minor
scrape on one sidebag and engine case guard, picked it up & rode it home(I
only flew about 6ft. when I unloaded). Of course, the next day I couldn't
hardly move from adrenalin shock. When I sold the bike to my SIL, he
repainted it and named the "Deerslayer".
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On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:27:14 -0400, clutch wrote:
> I took a skunk one night with my right foot/foot peg while riding my
> motorcycle. Didn't notice anything other than some pain in my foot until
> and stopped and got off. I was sent home from work. My cow-orkers could
> not stand the smell.
Cow orking is illegal in some states...
-Doug
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On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 19:19:07 -0600, "xrongor" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>and watch out for plastic grocery bags. do NOT pretend you are playing a
>video game and swerve to hit them as they blow by. ive seen more than one
>of them get melted to mufflers and brakes before. stinks for a week too.
>
>randy
had one get sucked into the intake once. instant power loss as the
RPMs top out....
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 15:36:42 -0400, George wrote:
> I took a skunk one night with the differential on an ambulance. Tried to
> center him up and straddle.
>
> Pregnant lady with tightly crossed legs, OB nurse and my partner all told
> me that it was the worst thirty minutes they'd spent in a long time.
>
> Parked it outside, hosed with detergent daily for over a week, and it
> finally cleared up.
Friend of mine in college who drove a bus for the campus transit system
had a weekend night route that was notorious for drunk frat boys. One
night, one of said frat boys tossed his cookies in the back of the bus.
Later on the same run, he ran over a skunk, which got caught between the
rear duals and went flop flop flop all the way to the garage.
I don't remember if he tried to clean it up or just walked away. Probably
the latter.
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On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 19:23:17 -0400, "D. Mo" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>Umm couldn't straddle the last one I hit as I was on my motorcycle. Anyone
>know how to get the smell out of a leather jacket?
Try hitting one on a 40 MPH bicycle. =8^0
I've also T-boned deer while night riding a trail on a mountain bike.
Barry
Charlie Self wrote:
> Moral: do NOT drive over sheet plastic.
25+ years ago I was working for my uncle on his ranch in western South
Dakota. (6 miles to the nearest neighbor, 30 miles from the nearest store,
100 miles from the nearest fast-food joint. If you want to be away from
masses of people for awhile, it's a great place to go. <g>)
I drove a pickup truck over a windrow of hay and it wrapped enough stems
around the driveshaft to halt the vehicle. From my point of view it was a
most unpleasant hour my uncle and I spent under the pickup, his commenting
loudly and repeatedly on my lack of judgment etc....
-- Mark
That stuff can be pretty nasty when all it does is stick to the hot exhaust
pipes. It's a smell that never goes away. Ugh.
Kevin
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> Moral: do NOT drive over sheet plastic. I haven't got a clue as to what
that
> stuff would do to steering and braking at road speeds, but I'm just as
happy to
> not find out.