Rocks!!!!
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From: Leamington, Ontario
Rocks!!!!
So I'm going down the highway today and a truck going the opposite direction kicks up a huge rock. Guess where it hits my truck? Yup, you guessed it right in the windshield, first it bounced off the hood and took off a chunk of paint, then bounced into my windshield and cracked it! Scared the crap out of me too, who knew that a rock would be that loud? I had it repaired at the shop and you can hardly tell where it was hit and I knew the owner so it didn't cost anything, but now my spotless truck is blemished
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From: Cheyenne, Wyoming
Saw a similar incident 2 years ago. A golfball Sized Rock went through his windshield. Was behind him when it got him. He didnt make it. Something ill never forget for sure. Definetly cured me from tailgating ANYTHING.
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Joined: Feb 2004
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From: CA Central Coast
Years ago I was piloting a cabover Freightliner with a 48' trailer down I-80 in near Oakland. I don't know where it came from, but suddenly a starter motor was spinning in the air in front of me, looking like it was targeted for my nose.
I swerved as much as I could given the truck and the traffic, and it impacted my drivers side mirror, ripped it half off. Scared the crud out of me.
Bummer about your truck, glad you're ok. Don't blame the trucker...I get many more stones thrown at my car from AT pickup tires than anything else on the road.
I swerved as much as I could given the truck and the traffic, and it impacted my drivers side mirror, ripped it half off. Scared the crud out of me.
Bummer about your truck, glad you're ok. Don't blame the trucker...I get many more stones thrown at my car from AT pickup tires than anything else on the road.
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From: The Big, Oregon
Had a car drop a socket a ways in front of me a few years back. Watched this shiny thing kinda slide along the highway, didn't bother to correct, but then it caught on something and popped up just as I came up to it. Broke the outer glass of my 69's factory windshield, the plastic inside turned white right away- so much for keeping it mostly original. Of course, if it would have been a newer thin windshield, I probably would have been wearing the stupid thing.
BTW, I didn't actually know it was a socket until I got home, and there was a 9/16" 1/2" drive Snap-on socket sitting on top of the steel i had just picked up.
BTW, I didn't actually know it was a socket until I got home, and there was a 9/16" 1/2" drive Snap-on socket sitting on top of the steel i had just picked up.
