Weird stuff you see while driving... - Page 2

mustang70 · 04-10-2009, 01:10 AM

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Originally Posted by kircher

Several years ago, just after I had finished my HSC, a whole lot of the people in year 12 in my town went out to the lake just out of town to have BBQs and celebrate. I went for a drive in my 180b around the lake on a rangers track or walking track, whatever it was. I got it stuck in mud, and a heap of the guys I was with had to help push it out. Since it was a fair way away from the bbq area, we decided to fit everyone who helped on and in the car. We managed to get 14 in and on it. 5 in the car, 2 sitting on the rear window sills with their legs in the car, 3 sitting in the boot with legs dangling out the back, 2 on the bonnet and 1 on the roof. It was a first gear walking pace crawl all the way, but the car didn't complain.

nice work, i got 7 adults into a suzuki hatch (the 2 cylinder version) was a little cramped,not to mention a little sluggish on the performance stakes

XR6-VCT-2000 · 04-10-2009, 03:28 AM

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Originally Posted by CHEETR

i saw a lady escaping from hospital in dandenong, running down teh road in her blue hospital nightie and a walker with the drip behind her on a stand on wheels and all the tubes still in her arms.. with bare feet

she was running down the middle of the road

LOL , I have seen the same thing on the new bypass over the princess hwy on heatherton road in Dandenong, some old guy in a blue gown / bare *** hanging out walking down the middle of the road over bridge / in a daze like he was loaded on morphine or something? , we nearly ran him over. We stopped and I led him back to the hospital, they were unaware he had gone walk about !

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Bushbasher · 04-10-2009, 10:05 AM

Heading towards Lithgow on the Castlereigh Highway and there's the highway patrol sitting at roadworks pinging speeders through the work site when they pulled over the VERY low sitting old Volvo wagon in front of me at the mobile traffic lights that were set up. Imagine my surprise and mirth as asian student types began piling out of it and kept piling out. Final count was 9 I think, not bad considering the back of the wagon was chockas with luggage.

Another time back when I was younger and sillier, was out bushbashing with some mates at about 3am one morning and came round a bend in the track just in time to see the dust settling around a horrible yellow Sigma parked on top of a tree it had knocked out of the ground. It was beached on the trunk, engine-gearbox-diff, all 4 wheels off the ground. We pulled up and fell about laughing as 7 bodies climbed out with the young owner of the said smegma getting out of the BACK SEAT saying "my mum is going to kill me" hahahaha.

After watching and laughing at them for 5 minutes trying to get the car off the tree we offered to help and the young owner made the mistake of giving the keys to my mate while I directed them to rock the car on the passenger side to get traction. My mate proceeds row the auto shifter back and forth through the gears and park for maybe 10-15 seconds with his foot flat to the floor ( I've never before or since heard an auto box clang and grind gears like that one did on did that night), before finding reverse and getting off the tree. He then, with it still flat to the floor goes from reverse to first and dissapears up the track sideway in a cloud of dust and for the next 4-5 minutes all we can hear is this poor smegma screaming it's t!ts off and headights flashing the tops of the trees as he's doing doughnuts and the like up the track. He finally comes back round the bend, still flat strap, and in one motion puts it in park-pulls on the hand brake-switches off the car-pulls the keys and opens the door to step out, all before the car has slowed down let alone stopped, and as soon as it slid to a stop and ceased motion right in front of me and the poor kid who own it, my mate hopped out and handed him the keys saying " thanks for the drive" and we piled back into my car and were gone all before the dust settled leaving the young'uns' standing there gob smacked and scratching their heads. I laughed so hard that night my ribs hurt for 2 days.

Bushbasher

bcr2734 · 04-10-2009, 02:06 PM

i have seen heaps and the best was a women giving herself one alone the ringroad in melbourne and when she finished i gave the air horn a toot and she went red. laughed all day about it.

Pinch · 04-10-2009, 02:53 PM

Many moons ago on one nice spring Sunday arvo was travelling back up the F6 from the 'gong. Mates and I admiring a nice VK that we were overtaking. The lone guy was looking dead straight, looked to be really concentrating. Checked out the car as we passed and thought nothing of it until he flew past us a few k's later. Female passenger now clearly visible, he gave us the thumbs up.

Dauphin · 05-10-2009, 01:34 PM

Very late one night recently I saw a little Honda Prelude tootling by underneath the shadow of a very thick king-size mattress. It was hilarious.

XR6_661 · 05-10-2009, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by BPXR6T

An ex used to do that all the time. We'd be going to the pub and she'd say she wanted to wear a dress instead of jeans so without a second thought would get her gear off right there in the middle of traffic. She certainly wasn't the shy type.

Haha gotta love the 'not so shy ex' that every bloke has had. I had an ex a few years back...and god, some of the stuff she did would be worthy of this thread, but they definatly aren't for a public forum.

Mmm, what stuff have I seen in the north...Oh there is this bloke who rides around on some old pushy, 3 jesus statues cable tied to the handlebars, an old FM radio strapped to the top tube, and he rides around everywhere on the back wheel...Just wheelies everywhere.
Seeing people singing while driving is always funny!!

reds89 · 05-10-2009, 05:31 PM

big roundabout in jesmond[newcastle]i was in the left lane to go thru and an elderly lady is in the right lane,she proceeds to the right[with indicator on] to go head on with the traffic going thru on the other side.
everybody stops,lucky without incident,for a moment its like a mexican standoff,she then does a u turn in the roundabout and heads of in the direction that the traffic was going on the other side.

mrbaxr6t · 05-10-2009, 06:37 PM

4 lane rural highway 2lanes either direction with grass in the middle - car going the WRONG direction and speeding heading toward oncoming traffic at night, the carnage that resulted from this was quite insane!

car sideways in a ditch resting on its side doors with only wheels visible of the car (deep ditch) with some occupants not fully dressed in the area.....

Matt47569 · 05-10-2009, 09:33 PM

lol reminds me something i saw.. Was waiting at a meet point for a cruise up at eagle on the hill (mountain pass kinda road) early in the morning with no traffic and saw a minivan coming up the hill completely oblivious that it was on the wrong side of the road, the lanes were seperated by a decent median strip and the car made no attempt to get into the left lane when going past u-turn spots

burnz · 06-10-2009, 09:36 AM

while getting fuel:
for some reason i looked up as an L plate driver going threw the maccas drive threw.
after which she reversed but mounted the island between kfc drive thew. (beeched)

30 seconds later a kia driver wants to go threw the maccas drive threw and proceeded to lean on his horn,
because he could't get past the L plater...unbeleiveable..

deanp100 · 06-10-2009, 04:32 PM

While driving in Ghana, after having negotiated what seemed like 200 km of traffic jam, came to the cause. An old Hi-ace was getting a full engine and gearbox on the highway. There were parts everywhere on the bitumen and looked like he had been at it for days. I guess the highway was a nice flat surface to work on.

**GasoLane** · 06-10-2009, 07:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Envi XR8

I was driving home yesterday afternoon when I stopped at a set of lights. Coming through the lights from the other direction was guy in an old Valiant windows down and with a set of big head phones on. Not talking iPod or walkman style, but a set like a DJ would wear!

Not so silly. I've got a set exactly as you describe (Nokia Stereo Headset BH-905) brilliant stereo an well as bluetooth.

FORCED F6 · 06-10-2009, 08:57 PM

Not long ago I was driving down the freeway and saw this Holden with testicles attached to the rear bumper dangling... This thing was jumping everywhere especially going at 100km/h... The driver didnt look much different from the item either....

XR6_190 · 06-10-2009, 09:15 PM

Some really great stories here guys, keep it up.

A couple of years ago, I was sitting at the lights off the Ballarat Rd exit from the Western Ring Road, in afternoon peak hour. There are cars everywhere, when all of a sudden an Ambulance comes out of nowhere, sirens and lights blaring trying to turn onto the onramp to get onto the Ring road, everybody gets out of it's way except for one brown Mazda, which stops, causing the Ambulance to stop about 2 meters behind it, the ambulance is just about to try and go around it, when the Mazda proceeds to select reverse, and reverse - at speed - into the front of the Ambulance. The Mazda then proceeds to do a U-Turn, and speed off in the opposite direction, while the Ambulance proceeded onto the freeway.

Rodp · 06-10-2009, 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by GasOLane

Not so silly. I've got a set exactly as you describe (Nokia Stereo Headset BH-905) brilliant stereo an well as bluetooth.

Call me nuts but I think it is silly to be wearing a set of headphones that will drown out everything around you when driving.

barra265t · 06-10-2009, 09:58 PM

A while back on a wet day, VX Commodore ahead all of a sudden does a 360 turn at around 80kmh, bouncing off the concrete barrier, somehow ends up with the car going in the right direction and continues driving on for about 100m with a bent axle before coming to a stop. No idea what happened and the bloke must have had a heart attack.

paule11 · 06-10-2009, 10:01 PM

At a service station I saw a guy reverse in for fuel between 2 cars who where filling up as he is doing this one of the car owners who is filling up is screaming at him to stop reversing he had one of those narrow little suzuki 4wd things . It just fitted in between the 2 cars except his mirrors hit the other cars mirrors and bent them back one driver stood there abusing him while he was filling up the guy in the suzuki took his shirt off then filled up the other guy abused him the whole time . I couldnt stop laughing

Suvo · 06-10-2009, 10:07 PM

A while ago heading along Donnybrook Road, we were travelling behind a 4x4 with polished checkerplate tray etc.. and hanging from the towbar what appeared to be a set of crown jewels. Gave the 4 of us in the car a good laugh out to Geelong.

homegrown · 06-10-2009, 10:16 PM

blokes grooming themselves at traffic lights putting hair wax in while they sit there and god knows what else they put on the faces. Whats going on here.

FORCED F6 · 06-10-2009, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by homegrown

blokes grooming themselves at traffic lights putting hair wax in while they sit there and god knows what else they put on the faces. Whats going on here.

Think thats bad, saw a guy shaving 6.30am while driving with one of those machines....

tankclare · 06-10-2009, 11:22 PM

the whole fake testicles thing is everywhere in the country..no biggy lol

chrisfpv · 07-10-2009, 08:21 AM

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Originally Posted by loftie

The other day I was following a small hatch back when the front passenger door swung open, and a guy kinda fell out of the car....
He actually got a little tangled in the inner door handle and kinda tumbled out underneath the back wheels...
The car bounced over him like it had just been over a speedhump... and he tumbled down the road cartwheel style (his phone flew out of his pocked and smashed to pieces)... while all this happened, he managed to hold a cigarrette in his mouth (one of those special ones that are rolled with the oregano/parsley flakes)...
He got straight up, picked up his phone pieces... and stormed up the LH shoulder of the road, while the hatchback that just ran him over slowly crawled next to him...
he yelled something into the STILL open front door at the woman driver, and then he climbed back in and continued to whichever MENTAL INSTITUTION was closest...

I was gobsmacked and didn't know what to say to my 5 year old son who was in the back asking "why did that man just get run over dad???"....

We overtook them not long after, and as I browsed the front seat, it was all pretty normal.... like nothing had happened...

EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT HE'D JUST BEEN RUN OVER!?!??!?

Weird....

Haha I actually laughed out loud at this, thanks

chrisfpv · 07-10-2009, 08:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Pinch

Many moons ago on one nice spring Sunday arvo was travelling back up the F6 from the 'gong. Mates and I admiring a nice VK that we were overtaking. The lone guy was looking dead straight, looked to be really concentrating. Checked out the car as we passed and thought nothing of it until he flew past us a few k's later. Female passenger now clearly visible, he gave us the thumbs up.

I read this and was like hmm..fair enough then

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Then I realised...

f1tzy · 07-10-2009, 08:40 AM

If your in brisbane and you drive on old cleveland rd you will have seen the walking man. He wears blue overalls and thongs and walks from cleveland to i think the city. Friggin far and he does it everyday (i think)

Oxa384 · 07-10-2009, 08:41 AM

passed a holden craptiva yesterday on the bruce hwy with a FPV sticker on it!!!made me look twice.wtf

Pinch · 07-10-2009, 08:48 AM

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Originally Posted by XR6AUS

I read this and was like hmm..fair enough then

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Then I realised...

I tried to go PG rated subtle....

FORD5 · 07-10-2009, 08:48 AM

sitting at traffic lights a few years ago in ACT two guys on the side of the road one was cleaning windscreens for smokes, other guy was holding a sign and his bag, sign saying need a lift in to civic centre or something alike and in the turning lane (we were in) a car in front with a trailer ( empty) put his window down said chuck your bags in the trailer and i'll give ya a lift into town guy chucked his bags in the trailer the guy took off and the guy was screaming at him, i was in stitches, the car behind me started beeping cause i forgot the light was green i looked up it was amber i take off car behind me is screaming his head off. lolol

Envi XR8 · 07-10-2009, 08:59 AM

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Originally Posted by f1tzy

If your in brisbane and you drive on old cleveland rd you will have seen the walking man. He wears blue overalls and thongs and walks from cleveland to i think the city. Friggin far and he does it everyday (i think)

I've seen him also. Apparently walks from Cleveland to Roma Street everyday and then catches the train home. I know someone who sees him most days.

Takes all day I hear.

XR6_190 · 07-10-2009, 07:14 PM

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Originally Posted by f1tzy

If your in brisbane and you drive on old cleveland rd you will have seen the walking man. He wears blue overalls and thongs and walks from cleveland to i think the city. Friggin far and he does it everyday (i think)

Oh, you just reminded me of something similar, There used to be an old lady that was often seen walking along the Bacchus Marsh - Geelong Rd with one of those trolleys the old girls take to the markets.

She was seen by quite a few people I know, some say near Geelong, and others say nearer too Bacchus Marsh, (it's about 60km from Geelong to Bacchus Marsh with absolutely nothing in between). I myself saw her 2 or 3 times, at one time it was not long after I got my Ls, and I was driving my mum's Swift, and she actually stood right out in front of me, I actually had to swerve to miss her.