Anyone need a crowbar?

[Serendipity]

There’s one up for grabs in the centre of the A40 Eastbound just before the Hanger Lane underpass.

https://i1179.photobucket.com/albums/x386/Ultio2003/HelmetCam/Crowbar.jpg

This was on Tuesday morning. I saw it in plenty of time, but it would be a potentially uncool thing to hit while filtering. Crowbar through the spokes\radiator\crankcase\leg anyone?

Over the years I’ve seen a variety of stuff strewn across the roads in my path. A few tyres, including most of what remained of a lorry tyre in the middle lane of a motorway. Countless builder’s gloves, odd bits of clothing, shoes and on one occasion an aluminium ladder across both lanes of a dual carriageway.

What sort of bizarre or dangerous stuff have you seen or hit?
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[chris-red]

I hit a 2x4 on the A13, that wasn't fun. Massive bump then it flicked up and hit my foot then locked the back wheel briefly before being fired out the back and bouncing off the car behinds bumper/bonnet.

A scooter rider in front of me got hit by a plastic sheet, it hit him and wrapped all around the front of his bike and him, made him look like a cartoon ghost.

Fair play to the guy the though, he didn't panic, I hit the brakes because I thought he would just scrabble to get rid without giving a fuck where it was going. Instead he balled it up and put it at his feet and carried on, impressive at ~60mph.
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[UnknownStuntm...]

I saw pretty much an entire toolbox worth of stuff over the course of 20 laps of Castle Combe (in a car, btw).

First a screwdriver, then a spanner. Then a different spanner, then a claw hammer.

By the end of the session most had disappeared. Funny enough, so had the marshals. Should have been flagged. One bloke took a wheel off and started arguing with the officials. Had a pretty big hole in it!

[Mudshark]

slightly related

I do find it amusing on google street view when all you see is the inside of a fertilizer bag

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.7554494,-4.1381711,3a,75y,57.44h,85.35t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sTeLsf3OlfeyowWxld1O6Gg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
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[stinkwheel]

I was coming down the M80 one dau when I saw a torch lying in the road.

Then there was a car jack. Then there was a spare wheel.

"Oop, boot's come open." Thought I.

Then there was a huge ding in the central barrier, glass and debris and another wheel. A door. More debris. A third wheel. Lots of oil. A smashed car on the hard shoulder (different colour to the debris). Another dent in the central barrier, a bonnet, an engine.

Eventually saw what was left of a fiesta in the centre lane with one wheel on and missing pretty much all the bodywork. Nobody in it (you could see, passenger door was off it). Two guys stood on the hard shoulder next to another dinged-up car.

"Were you in that?"
"Yes."
"You ok?! You called the police?"
"We're fine, police are on the way."

Made a sharp exit. Don't know how fast they'd been going when they hit the first car but they stopped beyond visual range of where the stuff started coming out of their boot.
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Step ladder in the outside lane of the A3 about two weeks ago, that could have been nasty.

[MCN]

I saw a dead rabbit on the A62 into Hull this avro.
Well I hope it's dead is was spreaded over half of lane one.

I think it was a wild one and fortunately, not some child's escaped pet Bunny.
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[talkToTheHat]

Rabbit is slippery. Hedgehog stinks if some gets wedged in your exhaust headers.
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[bikertomm]

Seen a huge baton of 2x4 in a roundabout, got out and launched it down the ditch to the side of the road.
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[-Matt-]

Nothing bizarre really but a couple of memorable ones .

Hit a fresh bit of road kill straight down the middle a couple of years back which exploded all over the front end of my bike. Had the smell of roasted fox following me around on my commute for days while it gradually burned off the downpipes. Then the task of cleaning off all the guts and fur which was splattered across the lower fairing .

Scariest one was hitting a full sized house brick at 40mph on my first scooter. Hit it square on luckily and the entire bike came about a foot off the ground then landed back down in the same direction and carried on fine .

[BrownTrousers]

I missed a boat by inches on the A14 one dark night. It had fallen off the back of a trailer and was just sat in the middle lane. Took a good few hours to extract my underpants from my backside.
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[stinkwheel]

Years back, someone lost the front and crashed after going over an orange.
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[Copycat73]

dead sheep .. and live ones .. cattle crossing .. nearly grabbed hold of a pheasant goin to Tan hill.
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[growler]

Face full of swan on the Coventry ring road

I was merging and did a lifesaver as the bloody thing came down over my shoulder, smacked me across the face with its wing and landed about a foot in front of me
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[ADSrox0r]

Funnily enough the Viff assploded a rabbit this morning on the way in to work. Shit me right up and a good dose of blood n guts on the chin cowl to boot.
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[Stalk]

Rabbit ran out in front of us, two up in France, pouring with rain, wife drunk on the back. Snapped its neak with the front wheel. Stayed on and wife did not notice.

[MCN]

[c_dug]

I just came across a coat in the outside lane of the A3.




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[Serendipity]

[Shaft]

[Ariel Badger]

Dead Hippopotamus Zimbabwe, Loads of people were butchering it in the middle of the road.
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[MCN]

[Ariel Badger]

I found that out after I spent my evenings above Victoria Falls trying to flush them and crocodiles out of the bush on the banks of the Zambezi river
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[recman]

Someone had left a car foot well mat on a bend which I narrowly managed to avoid while test riding a Tiger a few weeks back.
It was just around the corner from the dealers on the return trip so you can imagine my relief.
I stopped on my own bike and flung it onto the path.