Hi
have you ever come round a bend/corner and come across something strange in the road that gives you that bum clenching moment ???? Other than cars, tractors, etc ?????
Going home last night i came round a right hander on the A446 a mile or so before Balsall Common and in the road looking at me was.......................................................................
A Turkey !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
well you dont get that every day I assume he had gone awol from a local farm.
Many years ago, me and my brother were going down a dead straight road, flat out on our CG125s with a howling side wind. All of a sudden, a complete wooden shed came flying out into our path which my brother promptly ploughed straight into embedding himself in the woodwork. He didn't drop his bike and there was no damage to it but the shed was a right off. Lucky he didn't have to claim off his insurance, can you imagine the write up?
I'll have to put a baking tin and and a pack of Paxo in the box on me bike.
Doesn't have to be Xmas Lynn to have Turkey
To be fair i think a flying garden shed tops a Turkey..........but can anyone top that ?
The oddest thing I have ever come across was over 30 years ago. coming back from a girl friends one foggy night on a lane just outside a village. what looked to be 4 large ants eggs about 18 - 24 inches long . across the road glowing in headlight. wtf? Or words to that effect. turned out to be blown up condoms. stuck to tbe road with shaving foam ( well i think it was shaving foam ) as god is my witness
Hmmm a strange encounter with a naked bloke walkin up the middle of the road outside the ford inn in Holmfirth at 5am one morning in the dark! Missed him by inches and freaked me so much I stopped in Holmfirth and rang the plod....never heard owt else :o
Not a personal experience but imagine this transit van driver filling in the insurancclaim form lol...................................................
Date:13 AUG 1996
Time:08:57 UTC
Type:Learjet 25B
Operator:MAC Aviation
Registration: EC-CKR
C/n / msn: 25-184
First flight: 1974
Total airframe hrs:4596
Engines: 2 General Electric CJ610-6
Crew:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Passengers:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Total:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3
Airplane damage: Written off
Airplane fate: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:Northolt Airport (NHT) (United Kingdom)
Phase: Landing (LDG)
Nature:Executive
Departure airport:Palma de Mallorca Airport (PMI/LEPA), Spain
Destination airport:London-Northolt Airport (NHT), United Kingdom
Narrative: Learjet
25B EC-CKR arrived near Northolt following a flight from Palma de
Mallorca. Due to the presence of priority traffic which was due to
depart Northolt at that time, the flight was extended down wind to a
distance of 10 nm before the crew received vectors and descent
instructions for the final approach to runway 25. At 3.5nm short of the
runway the pilot was asked to confirm that his landing gear was down and
locked as is normal procedure at Northolt. After some rephrasing of
this question, the landing gear was confirmed down, however during this
exchange the aircraft was seen to deviate above the glidepath. At 2.5
nm, landing clearance was confirmed and the aircraft was advised of the
surface wind and the fact that there was a 4 kt tailwind. The aircraft
was also advised that it was above the glide path. At the decision
altitude which was at approximately half a mile from the runway the
aircraft was still above the glidepath although seen to be correcting to
it. On arrival at the runway the aircraft was observed to land some
distance beyond the normal touchdown point. Towards the end of the
landing roll it veered to the right and then swerved to the left and
overran the end of the runway. It collided with three lighting
stanchions and continued in a south-westerly direction towards the
airfield boundary which is marked by a high chain-link fence. After
bursting through the boundary fence the aircraft ran onto the A40 trunk
road and was almost immediately in collision with a Ford Transit van on
the east bound carriageway, and seriously injuring its driver. The
aircraft came to rest in the left hand lane of the road with the van
embedded in the right side of the fuselage immediately forward of the
right wing.
A few years ago I worked at a university. On the way home from an evening out in Keswick, nipped into work to pick up something. It was about 11pm on a typical Lake District night chucking it down with rain & I had my 2 daughters, 14 & 12 in the car.
Just slowing down for the mini roundabout at the bottom of the Struggle in Ambleside and about a dozen lads appeared out of the rain lashed blackness & ran in front of the car....only wearing boxers.....they all stopped in the brilliant full beam spotlight of my headlamps, turned backs to me & did a synchronised moon hahahahahahaha....then they all ran off.
Drowsy daughter in the passenger seat suddenly had eyes like saucers & said, "is it like this here all the time?"
As a student services officer at the uni I knew there was going to be trouble with our neighbours the next day so thought I better give colleagues the heads up that the complaints would be coming in.
I was asked if I'd done anything to stop em......errrrr, nope
I was also asked if I recognised anybody......errrrr, nope again. Just couldn't put a name to a botty
have had 30 years (oh, old) of dealing with "other folks" incidents on the roads, some bizar some scary some funny, from cows/bull/ horses, to swans in cars and driverless cars (moving)
but personally, funniest bike incident ive had involving "wild life" after a long ride out, on a long left hander, I had a female pheasant, fly out from the left hand hedge and head straight for me, I was traveling on an empty road, I knew well, and may have been making progress (aahem) the bird hit my front wheel, and shredded, being forced up through every conceivable hole/fairing/radiator vent/ my leathers, up into me helmet, you name it, it went there, I know it was female, because every time I got off bike for 6months I could smell cooing eggs, despite washing/stripping/washing the bike ha ha
hit a crow from behind on M6 the once....pfoomm!!!.....swear he gave one last despairing glance over his shoulder before impact with speeding CB750 four and my shoulder...took weeks to clean everything off.......also,zooming through Forest of Dean one night,six of us came round corner to see Fresian cow crossing....three bikes written off,three battered bikers,the other three of us shat ourselves laffin',rolling about in tears...cow got up,shook itself,vanished amongst trees..
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