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My daughter and I were just pulling into a McDonald's parking lot last night and my daughter says, "Hey dad, look at those two guys in their underwear going into McDonalds!"
I look over and sure enough, a van dropped off two guys in 15 degree weather with nothing on but their boxers. The van then sped around the back side of the restaurant and i could see his sliding door open.....apparently for the streakers to dive into on their exit from the building....we missed the getaway....except to see the van peel out of the driveway and around the corner....
I don't know if they ripped their skivies down or not while making their dash through the restaurant....
When the drive through voice asked what I wanted i asked for a fish sandwich, no tarter sauce, hold the chest hairs from the streakers...
She had no idea what I was talking about...nor did the lady taking the money at the next window....must be just a few cashiers and a few customers got to witness the deed. Hehehe.
So...what oddities/funnies have you seen in your travels?
-------------------- Todd Gill Outside The Lines Potterville, MI Posts: 7792 | From: Potterville, MI | Registered: Dec 2001
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LOL Todd . . .I hope the money did indeed exchange hands after the dare or bet was complete...
Some of the craziness I've stood by and watched is not acceptable material for a family oriented forum . . .
But there are so many other off the wall things . . .I'm sure I'll think of them after this post has rolled off the board . . .
The one thing that came to mind was my own dog, Buster, an old black lab I had years ago, who rode the tool box and would jump on top of the cab, bouncing around with each 'WOOF', at every red light.
We gotta lotta strange looks and laughs over him. I never fig'ered out if he was wanting the traffic to move, trying to make the light change, enjoying looking down into people's cars, or WHAT it was . . .
I have a story by my buddy Jerry:
Years ago, in the 50's he had a paper route. The Selma Times Journal is still today located right on the Alabama River, on the corner of Water avenue and Broad Street, which crosses the Edmund Pettus Bridge, The bridge almost butts against their building.
The paper boys, all in their mid teens, dressed a store mannaquin(sp) and during 'rush hour' as traffic came over the bridge at dusk, the went to the top of the bridge and pretended to 'beat' her up and threw 'her' over. They took off running and made a good get-away.
This was in the hay-day of Craig Air Force Base, located out side of town, so traffic was probably considerable at that hour. It was reported that 'many people witnessed' this event.
There was an old man who was a permanent 'fixture' in town and always sat on the corner of Water & Broad, across the street from the bridge, selling his papers. He had no idea what had really transpired. He reported to the police that he "saw every bit of it and it was the 'worsest' killin' he'd ever seen . . ."
Of course when the police arrived and saw the broken peices of the 'woman' floating below they knew it was a prank.
The culprits were never found.
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I used to have to make the commute home for an hour on little country roads. In the distance one night I saw brake lights come on and disappear into a ditch. I stopped to find a ghost white guy running up the hill from the car and a deer running up the other side.
He'd spooked some deer on the side of the road, one of them panicked and ran into the side of the car...and I mean into. The deer had gone directly in the rear window into the seat.
-------------------- Pat Whatley Montgomery, AL (334) 262-7446 office (334) 324-8465 cell Posts: 1306 | From: Wetumpka, AL USA | Registered: Mar 2001
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To add to Todd's theme, Barstow, Ca.'s McDonald's has the longest drive-thru of all of them. On a weekend(busy), four of us in a motorhome going to a bluegrass festival in Yosemite,stopped off there for drive-thru burgers, unknown to me, I was in shower at rear of coach.I stepped out just as they entered this lane, two of them grabbed my towel, opened rear door, shoved $40 into my hand and pushed me out of m/h, naked, and drove off all the way thru, leaving me to run after them, waving the money. As I was already there, and enough time had elasped from order to delivery, our order was sitting on tray in front of window as I approached, chasing the m/h. Without a flinch, I stopped, paid, took sack, continued chase. As we were just passing thru and this event had hastened our exit from Barstow, we don't know if cops were ever called, but will assume w/o reservation, that some inside will never forget it.
-------------------- Frank Magoo, Magoo's-Las Vegas; fmagoo@netzero.com "the only easy day was yesterday" Posts: 2365 | From: Las Vegas, Nv. | Registered: Jun 2003
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I was recently at the Borders bookstore in Richfield, MN browsing thru the magazines, and a midget/dwarf/little person asked me if I could hand him the new Playboy from the top shelf. Did my good deed for the day!
Here's mine. About fifteen years ago I was driving home to see the folks on the weekend, and had decided to take a new road that had been recently cut through the woods near our house to save time and miles between my hometown of Clinton, and a local resort community, Fairfield Bay. The road was unfinished, having not yet been paved. It was just this wide expanse of gravel through the woods for a few miles, and I thought it might be cool to take that route just to see what I could see.
Lemme preface the rest of this by saying that even in my college days I never was a drinker, or into drugs, so we can notch hallucinations off the list of possibilities right away (and besides this one wasn't pink! )
Anywhoo, I had gone about halfway down the stretch, and off in the distance I see something....Is that? Nah it can't be! But it was! A full grown Big-eared African elephant strolling down the side of the road in the lower Ozarks of Arkansas, without a Human Bean in sight. He paid me no mind as I rubber-necked past, and continued on his afternoon walk. Had to be somebody that owned him, and corralled him up quietly, 'cause I never heard anything else about it.
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The streaking stories reminded me of an event that my fraternity had the pledges do one year.
One of the brothers dropped off the pledges at the entrance to a lecture hall stark naked. There was another brother at the back door to pick them up. There was about 20 guys in the 'parade' and the classroom had about 250 students. It was a humanities class called "Study of Religion: Chrisianity, Judaism and Islam" or something like that. Some of the brothers and a few of the little sisters sat in on the class to watch the events unfold.
Well, these guys come racing down the isle and bolt out the back door. The whole hall was in quiet shock.
Without missing a beat, the professor says "Well, I guess you tell which ones were Jewish".
Needless to say the whole room burst into laughter.
-------------------- Pat Neve, Jr. Sign Man, Inc. 4580 N. US 1 Melbourne, FL 32935 321-537-8675 Capt. Sign
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Pat...that's got to be one of the greatest recoveries I've heard...lol.
Good stories guys...keep em coming...
Barry, you sure you didn't have a co2 leak in your car??? Hahahha...that was a great story...I rode an elephant at the circus once...I felt like a fly on his back. Those things are incredibly powerful.
I saw one go wild on video at a circus once....he trashed the circus and then ran outside and trashed a bunch of cars and whipped the crap out of one of his trainers (aka torturers)...the cops came and had to shoot him down the street as he was charging people and trashing parked cars along the street.
That was something to watch, even if on tv.
-------------------- Todd Gill Outside The Lines Potterville, MI Posts: 7792 | From: Potterville, MI | Registered: Dec 2001
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One night, I was in our truck, coming home on a back road, & just before I was about to go over a big hill, something black came running up over the crest of the hill straight at me-it was a black horse! I slammed on the brakes, ducked, thinking it was gonna go through my windshield, & when it didn't, I peeked up in time to see it run right around the front of the truck, alongside my window. Scared the ba-jee-beez out'a me!
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Coming back from a day trip to Mt. Rainier, through a little town called Ashford. Dark, foggy, rainy, slightly tired from a day of fun, all in all not a great time to be on the road.
Noticed that some of the oncoming traffic was slowing/swerving about 200 yards ahead of me on a 50 mph road. Then I see something go past one of the oncoming headlights. Start to slow a bit. Slow a bit faster when I finally recognize the rest of the herd of elk trotting down the road in my direction. Get stopped just in time to be face to face out the front of our Westfalia with a bull elk, and he didn't look happy. Driver behind me honked, thinking I was just crazy till he saw the elk as well.
Exciting enough to keep me awake the rest of the way home!
Mark
-------------------- Mark Sheflo Renton, Washington A-Squared Signs, LLC Posts: 145 | From: Renton, Washington | Registered: Feb 2003
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Not technically on the road, but with all the streaking stories I have to tell this one.
Mid-seventies at a post-wedding rehearsal meal at a local pizza place. Streaker came in the front door, through the inner doorway to the bar, then out the back door. Not all that unusual for the day.
The fun started after he left, barkeep came over the bar, inturupted the pool game to push the pool table against the back door. Made a comment to the effect that they always come through twice. Sure enough, streaker came back through the front, hit the second doorway and came to a dead stop looking a bit confused for about five seconds, then he was gone back the way he came. Funniest streak I have ever seen.
Mark
P.S. I was all of 12 years old at the time!
-------------------- Mark Sheflo Renton, Washington A-Squared Signs, LLC Posts: 145 | From: Renton, Washington | Registered: Feb 2003
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Back when I was younger, I use to squirrel hunt. Yep, them little critter is a delicacy to our older folks here, and some of the younger ones too. I always use to get up about 4am and go off into the mountains so I could be at my hunting place when the squirrels came out around daybreak. I went to this one place all the time where I had to go through this fellas property that owned a large amount of animals. Dogs, cats, rabbits, turkeys, horses, etc. I was making my way up a steep hill on a small path, and was almost to the top of the ridge, when I came up on a tree trunk laying across the path. It was pretty dark and I didnt have a light. As I stepped across the tree, it rose up and knocked me over on my butt. Scared the crap outa me! It was on e of the horses the man owned laying asleep on the path. I couldnt tell cause it was so dark. From then on, I took a flashlight with me. Left some bodily fluids on that mountain that day too.
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Back when I was going to Tech. school we had a pretty bad ice storm one morning. We drove 30 miles on the interstate which was glare ice and thought of turning back several times. When we came off the last exit there was a city dump truck which was carrying a huge load of salt tipped over in the ditch.
That's when you know you shouldn't be on the roads!
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Back a few years ago I was working in St Nazaire France on new cruise ships installing theatre scenery. We got up one chilly morning, 20ish outside, and headed off to the docks. Round-a-bouts are pevelant in Europe and this town is no different. Well, we hit the major round-a-bout on the way andwhat we say kept us laughing for days, still gives a chuckle now. A flatbed truck piled high with sand was slowly, very slowly, making it's way around the round-a-bout with 3 guys shoveling sand of onto the snowy/icey roadway. No using mechanical sand spreaders here! Human power all the way!
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One of my funny things seen on the road involved me I'm afraid. I guess I was about 18, me and two of my buddies were going to the stock car races one night. We got about a third of the way there and my car started to run like crap. ( Turns out a large piece of trash got into one of the carburetors and it was loading up something awful. Foot to the floor, roaring like hell and going all of fifteen miles an hour ) We turned around and headed home. I took two lanes most of the way. About four miles from the house we come across a black guy BACKING down the road. He's heading in the same direction we were, just pointed the wrong way. I rode behind him for awhile, then when the road was clear I pulled out and passed him, at all of about twenty miles an hour, in a 45 mph zone We rode along a little while and my car got worse....much worse. Here comes this poor guy in this 52 Ford that's obviously only got reverse. He rides behind me for awhile , then gets brave and passes me ..........backwards.!!!!!!! Needless to say the three of us in my car are ready to die from laughter. He starts to pull away from me , then, what's this, my car starts running better. " Man, we're gonna catch him" went out the cries. I catch him, follow awhile,then pull out and pass the guy, who, by this time has gotten really good at driving fast backwards. We get a little lead on him and then my car starts loading up really bad again. The seafoam green Ford catches us once again, follows then passes....the driver grinnin' his a$$ off Mine never got running better and we watched him slowly pull away. I made it home just fine, we took one of the other guys cars to the races and I fixed mine the next day. I often wonder how that poor other guy made out. How far did he have to drive like that, did he run accross any cops?
Ya had to be there.
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back in 1973, i was in the air force stationed at loring maine. had just gotten divorced and was seein a married woman that lived 20 miles from the base. i was living in the barracks at this time. i didnt like to go thur town to get to the girlfriends house or same for going back to the base. this one evening i went to her house it was clear when i went. when i decided to head back to the base this fog rolled in ....if you every lived in maine, they call it "pea soup"!! was so thick you had to have the wipers goin all the time. anyhow iam drivin back bout 1 am on this back road that has no traffic and its a dirt road so it has pot holes top speed without fog is 25-30, with the fog....iam barly doin 15...i got the headlight on low beam, and can barly see ahead of me.....all of a sudden i see a dark shadow in the headlights like iam driving between 2 trees! i slammed on the brakes of my 72 pontiac lemans(sort like a chevelle)and stopped. now i dont see anything..that was there.....and all of a sudden...i see this big black thing swoop across my windshield, then the windshild get fogged on the outside real quick, then the wiper cleans it...AND IAM STARING DIRECTLY INTO THE EYES OF A 2000 POUND BULL MOOSE!!!!!!!!!!!and hes snortin all over my winshield!!!!!! now what do you do??? i know enough about moose that they aint to smart, and when they dont like something...it gets THE HORN!!!this boy was hugh...i had driven the car right in between his front and back legs...and the hood of the car is under his belly!!!!!! when he turned to look at what i was, his rack just missed my windshield!!!! i put the car in reverse....and ever so slowly i let it creep backward....to get away from this moose!!! as i backed up...i saw him slowly move off in the headlights... NOW I GOT TO CLEAN MY SHORTS!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.... i seen one on base about this size take a dodge 4x4 air police truck and flip it over on its side..glad he didnt feel like doin any damage that nite.
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The ladies will probably hate this one, the guys will be envious.
About 15 years ago, my wife and I were taking a Sunday ride on the Gold Wing, down on SR28 near Woodstock. Yeah, THAT Woodstock. Anyhow, it's a 2 lane not very straight stretch down that way, so we're just sorta tooling along at a not very high rate of speed.
When what to my wondering eyes should appear---over on the right shoulder----but a fire pond just about level to the road. By itself, no big thing.
Howsomever, on the berm of said firepond, is lying this sweet young thing, obviously as naked as the well known jaybird. The icing on the cake though, was the second equally naked sweet young thing standing in the pond and headed for the embankment, probably to soak up some rays.
Came real close to getting real well acquainted with the ditch next to the road.
Ahhhhhh, the memories.
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-------------------- Bill Preston Fly Creek, N.Y. USA Posts: 943 | From: Fly Creek, N.Y. USA | Registered: Jan 2000
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I know this post is old, but I couldn't resist a follow-up with my 2¢. . . Seems I was screening some banners on a weekend, at my old location behind the Ward Farmer's Market in Honolulu, when I heard a lot of commotion across my back fence. Lots of cop cars and people running, saying something about an elephant on the loose! I never saw what was happening, but later that night, it was on the news! The elephant's name was "Tyke". . .
-------------------- Warren F. Ad Signs Honolulu Posts: 38 | From: Honolulu, HI, USA | Registered: Feb 2000
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Arriving home one night I confronted a very large Kangaroo standing in my driveway!
Rushed in to tell the wife. Think she thought I'd had a "couple" or two on the way home!
We were living in New Zealand at the time!!!!!
Turned out it had escaped from circus in town.
Plenty of Roos here in Oz tho. One letterhead turned up to a meet in his old VW Combie van. You know with the spare tire mounted on the front. Guess what was sticking out of it after his trip across the Nullibor Plain? A pair of Roo's hind legs!
But probably the funniest thing I've seen was Rod Tickles pic of a couple of natives in Fiji on a long stretch of road with a bucket of paint and a brush painting the centre line!!!!!!
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I was sitting in a Taco Bell, and got to watching these 3 teenage boys out by the road. They were riding skateboards, doing skater tricks, etc. The manager had already got onto them once because they were doing this in his parking lot- so after they copped an attitude with him, they attempted to cross the busy road and go skate somewhere else. The kid in back must have hit something with his wheel- he went flying forward and his skateboard went backwards... right into the drainage grate on the curb. It just disappered- the whole was just large enough for the baord to go thru and those things drop about 4 feet down.
So here I am sitting in Taco Bell, laughing my butt of, watching these smart aleked punks trying to stop traffic while one them is laying in the road, bent over the curb trying to find his skateboard! They finally left- with one of them walking!
I guess I was the only one in the place that saw what happened...
Now if I changed the story to read "the kid lost his ELEPHANT..." NAAA- already done.
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Jess and I spotted Neil Butler's twin out walking his iguana in St Johns. Jess grabbed the camera and I slowed down and we did a drive by shooting....
I guess this guy is spotted quite regularily.
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That looks like my Lizard! He is our house pet & has the run of the house til Summer, when I put him on the garage roof next to the entrance to my shop. He loves sunning himself up there.
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