Thread: It Wouldn't Happen to Me

If it were me I'd drive up and down the road to see if he dropped any others.

Pete

It was a few years back while driving a small sedan on a busy outer suburban road about 40 kms from my place I saw bits of broken 150 mm DWV pipe scattered along the road. Traffic was slowing and trying to drive around the broken bits of pipe, and it looked like a couple of drivers had stopped and waiting to take the bits off the road. 50 m further on there was a mostly undamaged length of pipe this time on the side of the road and then a few more. This went on for about a km or so. Was thinking about stopping but I wasn't going to be able to carry any of it home in the vehicle I was driving. Further on there was a bit of a traffic bottle neck where a truck had pulled over with pipes dangling off the back and the driver on the tray restrapping the remaining pipes. Now if I had been driving my van . . .

Hi,
The best I ever came across was a pallet sized crate of cabbages undamaged in the middle of the road in the middle of the night.
Regards

I’m Beijing I saw a small 2-stroke trike towing a 4 wheeled trailer piled high with watermelons. It was about 11pm but still slow , dense traffic around. The trike driver swerved to avoid a pedestrian and he lost about 20 melons off his load. All bar a few of the fallen melons turned to pulp due to the fall or being run over by following vehicles but the few that did not were picked up by pedestrians who carried them to the driver who had managed to pull over not that far away.

I used to work in an office block that overlooked a freeway interchange, and a beer truck lost its load in the bend right across from us. We were watching the ensuing chaos as everyone tried to find unbroken cases (the load was all tins, no bottles) and load them up. The traffic police arrived, siren and lights going and cleared away most of the scavengers, only to stop and fill their boot with beer before even trying to sort out the problem.

I was a member of an emergency service and we attended a multiple fatality involving a semi trailer carrying a stock order for a supermarket. The trailer had gone off the road and and emptied a large part of its load into the scrub during the accident. A company employee assured us that they would have some people clean up the next morning but within a few hours the job was done for them no charge.