belugawhaleman Posted December 3, 2022 Posted December 3, 2022 On 12/2/2022 at 7:00 PM, Martinnfb said: Expand I ran into a ramblin' racoon at about 90 mph in my '91 Sentra SER..scared the hell out of me.....came to a skidding stop about 100 yards later! Knocked a lot of air pressure out of the tire.. Later found a lot of Racoon hair between the tire and the rim....grisly! Not sure what happened to old rocky... A terrible lesson for a young radiologic technologist in a hurry to get home! 2 1 1
BlrwestSiR Posted December 3, 2022 Posted December 3, 2022 (edited) On 12/3/2022 at 1:43 AM, belugawhaleman said: I ran into a ramblin' racoon at about 90 mph in my '91 Sentra SER..scared the hell out of me.....came to a skidding stop about 100 yards later! Knocked a lot of air pressure out of the tire.. Later found a lot of Racoon hair between the tire and the rim....grisly! Not sure what happened to old rocky... A terrible lesson for a young radiologic technologist in a hurry to get home! Expand I was exiting the highway down the off-ramp which leads onto Lakeshore Blvd in Toronto. There's a seagull in the lane ahead of me, standing there. Traffic is moving so I really don't want to slow down, figuring he'll fly away. Instead, the seagull starts running until finally he remembers he has wings and starts to flap them. Too late. Bam. I look in the rearview mirror and I see a pair of wings sticking up from the pavement. Whoops. Edited December 3, 2022 by BlrwestSiR Fix typo 1 3
belugawhaleman Posted December 3, 2022 Posted December 3, 2022 On 12/3/2022 at 2:25 AM, BlrwestSiR said: I was existing the highway down the off-ramp which leads onto Lakeshore Blvd in Toronto. There's a seagull in the lane ahead of me, standing there. Traffic is moving so I really don't want to slow down, figuring he'll fly away. Instead, the seagull starts running until finally he remembers he has wings and starts to flap them. Too late. Bam. I look in the rearview mirror and I see a pair of wings sticking up from the pavement. Whoops. Expand Oh well, hell..for the seagull...That's the way I felt, nothing I could do.. Jeeez! Just glad I survived! 4
biggtim Posted December 5, 2022 Posted December 5, 2022 On 12/3/2022 at 1:43 AM, belugawhaleman said: I ran into a ramblin' racoon at about 90 mph in my '91 Sentra SER..scared the hell out of me.....came to a skidding stop about 100 yards later! Knocked a lot of air pressure out of the tire.. Later found a lot of Racoon hair between the tire and the rim....grisly! Not sure what happened to old rocky... A terrible lesson for a young radiologic technologist in a hurry to get home! Expand Short and not-so-sweet = skunk, fire truck, dual rear wheels, carcass wedged into gap between wheels, not found until parked IN the station. You can probably do the rest. 3 1 1
biggtim Posted December 8, 2022 Posted December 8, 2022 On 12/7/2022 at 4:03 PM, harv said: Expand If that were an old "split rim" truck wheel, I wouldn't even be in the same room with it!! 1 4
AlanG Posted December 8, 2022 Posted December 8, 2022 On 12/8/2022 at 7:07 PM, biggtim said: If that were an old "split rim" truck wheel, I wouldn't even be in the same room with it!! Expand Having been on the receiving end of a Panavia Tornado GR1 main wheel being split whilst still fully inflated i can assure you that wheels are bloomin' dangerous lol 6
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