What's the weirdest thing you've seen on the public roads?

"not for canada - australian in disguise" (for-canada) 05/18/2016 at 18:24 • Filed to: None

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For me, it would have to be the time I saw a few snowmobilers riding around. In the middle of my neighbourhood in the 6th biggest city in Canada. Never change Canada.

HammerheadFistpunch > not for canada - australian in disguise 05/18/2016 at 18:28

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I’ve seen me a mermaid, I’v even seen a whale eat an octopus, but I’ve never seen no phantom Russian submarine.

Luc - The Acadian Oppo > not for canada - australian in disguise 05/18/2016 at 18:32

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You’re in Edmonton right? If so then it’s not weird at all. Only because I’ve seen the same thing.

Horse in a Drive Thru has to be the most unusual I’ve seen.

Random pic of the interwebz

Sovereign, Purveyor of Coupes > not for canada - australian in disguise 05/18/2016 at 18:32

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I’ve seen an atv running (and succeeding) from the cops in the suburbs during a snowstorm. But I think the strangest was a man, sitting with his pants down, bare ass in the snow, in the middle of the road. I pulled up and asked if he was alright but he just blankly stared at me for a minute, then screamed “just go!” Probably on meth, oh well. I guess snow brings out the crazies here.

MultiplaOrgasms > not for canada - australian in disguise 05/18/2016 at 18:32

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stock ‘95 civic

Honeybunchesofgoats > not for canada - australian in disguise 05/18/2016 at 18:33

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One time I saw a BMW signal before changing lanes.

not for canada - australian in disguise > MultiplaOrgasms 05/18/2016 at 18:33

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Holy shit. Nobody is topping this.

HammerheadFistpunch > not for canada - australian in disguise 05/18/2016 at 18:35

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in seriousness, this was pretty strange.

not for canada - australian in disguise > HammerheadFistpunch 05/18/2016 at 18:36

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I’ve seen plenty of horse-drawn carts on the road. But a guy just riding a horse about is extremely weird.

HammerheadFistpunch > not for canada - australian in disguise 05/18/2016 at 18:38

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It was the same day I happened upon these.

it was a strange day

TheHondaBro > not for canada - australian in disguise 05/18/2016 at 18:39

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I’ve seen a Camry go airborne.

whoarder is tellurium > HammerheadFistpunch 05/18/2016 at 18:42

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When I lived in Jacksonville, FL there was a lady that would ride her horse around part of the town. Never harmed anybody, but just a weird sight to see for sure.

Sad thing is one day some asshole went up and stabbed the horse.

WTF is wrong with people.

Xyl0c41n3 > HammerheadFistpunch 05/18/2016 at 18:42

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That’s a pretty normal occurrence around most of this state, even in the middle of downtown Austin.

Milky > not for canada - australian in disguise 05/18/2016 at 18:43

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In a neighborhood? No big deal.

whoarder is tellurium > not for canada - australian in disguise 05/18/2016 at 18:43

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I had a completely stock 96 Integra RS once.

Once.

HammerheadFistpunch > Xyl0c41n3 05/18/2016 at 18:44

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Whats odd is that I don’t actually recall it happening anywhere I was in west Texas except fancy neighborhoods like colleyville and Euless...I think its more an urban cowboy thing than actual cowboy. No one would do it in Amarillo or Lubbock.

Gone > not for canada - australian in disguise 05/18/2016 at 18:46

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Lou (LG Motorsports) would take his WC ‘Vette down 78 in Wylie (where his old shop was) from time to time. Lived close by and happened to see it in traffic once.

Xyl0c41n3 > not for canada - australian in disguise 05/18/2016 at 18:47

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A farm tractor in the middle lane of the freeway doing a speedy 35-45mph. The speed limit on that particular stretch of freeway is 70mph, which means people regularly go around 80mph. When I got the dispatcher on the phone she said multiple people had already called about him. Heh.

TheHondaBro > whoarder is tellurium 05/18/2016 at 18:48

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Oh yeah?

I’ve seen a stock 240SX once.

Ferdinand Adlersflügel > not for canada - australian in disguise 05/18/2016 at 18:48

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a stock ‘96 integra gsr

whoarder is tellurium > TheHondaBro 05/18/2016 at 18:49

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PICS OR BAN.

JK

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > not for canada - australian in disguise 05/18/2016 at 18:52

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45mph road, with wonderful sidewalks off to the side. Late dusk. Skateboarders in the middle of the fucking road.

There have been weirder, but this one has a video.

Invinciblejets > not for canada - australian in disguise 05/18/2016 at 18:53

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Not really that weird but saw a guy in Connecticut riding a unicycle uphill.

Impressive really.

not for canada - australian in disguise > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 05/18/2016 at 18:56

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Funnily enough, about a week ago someone was longboarding down the ring road of my city. Which has a speed limit of 100 km/h. Or about 60 mph.

People are just stupid sometimes.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > HammerheadFistpunch 05/18/2016 at 19:00

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Once upon a time...

NotUnlessRoundIsFunny > not for canada - australian in disguise 05/18/2016 at 19:22

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Driver weaving at 10 under the limit on the freeway because she was busy reading a bottle of salad dressing. Really.

Liam Farrell > not for canada - australian in disguise 05/18/2016 at 19:25

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FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > not for canada - australian in disguise 05/18/2016 at 19:31

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I saw a BMW use a turn signal once.

OPPOsaurus WRX > Luc - The Acadian Oppo 05/18/2016 at 19:35

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I didn’t realize the coffee place had an inside tooso I used to ride my bike thru the drive thru.... My mountain bike

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > HammerheadFistpunch 05/18/2016 at 19:39

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I saw these two riding horses at a McDonald’s drive thru on the outskirts of El Paso. They seemed to think it was a perfectly normal thing to do.

Xyl0c41n3 > HammerheadFistpunch 05/18/2016 at 19:53

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I live in an area of the state that has only a few affluent places, and none of them as affluent as, say, Plano. Riders are a pretty common sight. It’s not a pretense.

The county I grew up in even has a “County Cowboy” on the payroll whose job it is to wrangle loose or escaped livestock and otherwise help law enforcement with matters that involve animals. Though parts of where I live can rightfully be considered rural, it’s not anywhere near as empty as the counties of far west Texas or the still-operational working ranches that exist in the space between the Mexican border and San Antonio (where each ranch measures in the tens of thousands of acres).

The thing you have to understand about Texas is that even our “urban” cowboys are cowboys. In fact, it’s our more affluent Texans who can still afford to live the ranch life as you probably imagine it. Horses, pastures, cattle, land, feed, ranch hands, crops — none of that comes cheap.

There are some of us who own expansive ranches but live in less rural places, and there are folks who have a single horse tethered out in the front yard of their very modest frame house. You can’t rightly say that one of them is a more legitimate cowboy than the other.

Big Bubba Ray > not for canada - australian in disguise 05/18/2016 at 20:38

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I was in DC a month ago. All my friend had been telling me about guys that hoon around the streets on their quads and dirtbikes, popping wheelies at full throttle. I didn’t think I’d see it until the last night I was there, it actually happened.

I went to dinner with three friends out on H Street for drinks/dinner. Sitting on the patio around 11 at night and we see six dudes RIP down the street, all on quads doing wheelies at full blast. It was hilarious and beyond entertaining. Even after they got outside our sight, we could hear their four wheelers in the distance. It was quite a sight.

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > Xyl0c41n3 05/18/2016 at 21:09

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I’ve seen tractors on the highways in San Antonio too many times to count (always in the right lane though). In urban Texas there is always a frontage road - stay down there, tractors!

TheD0k_2many toys 2little time > not for canada - australian in disguise 05/19/2016 at 00:22

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That’s weird? happens quite often here in Michigan when we get lake effect snow dumped on us

The Compromiser > not for canada - australian in disguise 05/19/2016 at 21:35

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One time I was riding my snowmobile with some buddies in the 5th largest city in Canada, and some putz was staring at us and saying it was weird to see snowmobiles in the 6th largest city in Canada....