Kudos to the poster for resisting the temptation to use the old and tired "...the police would like to speak to you" cliche.

Ha!

... and watch out for the toilet in the road a few miles to the north.

I've seen everything but the kitchen sink on that road, wait....

I came in to say I was sorry but I dropped a stink, not a sink

My bad guys..

Careful keep up with these Florida topics and the St. Petersburg board of tourism would like to have a word with you about it. (If they could form the coherent thought to do so.); ;)

Traffic Chopper is warning drivers of the sinkhole on I-95

submitter: go back and get it

I would, but now there's all that traffic...

More shuttle pieces finally de-orbited?

/window seat

dream2xs: Traffic Chopper is warning drivers of the sinkhole on I-95

It's a DRAIN HOLE!

\Reporters need to hang out with a plumber for a day.
\\Dubmasses!

Well, crap. I had my palmolive out and was all ready to soak in it.

I would like to point out that that really isn't an article as much as it is a traffic report.

//Just saying.

...sorry.

TheBigWhiteWolf

It's a DRAIN HOLE!

\Reporters need to hang out with a plumber for a day.
\\Dubmasses!

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Sink hole

Sink \Sink\, n. 1. A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes.

2. A shallow box or vessel of wood, stone, iron, or other material, connected with a drain, and used for receiving filthy water, etc., as in a kitchen.

3. A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; -- called also sink hole. [U. S.]

Sink hole. (a) The opening to a sink drain. (b) A cesspool. (c) Same as Sink, n., 3.

Did anyone find my toilet?!?!?

I drive a pickup truck with shiat in the back of it all the time, sometimes it's tied down, usually it's not. It always amazes me when I'm driving relatively slowly (ie the speed limit) because of the junk in the back, that people invariably tailgate - I'm not sure if they're trying to get me to speed up, or if they want to get hit by some falling debris and collect the insurance money.

Of course, if I do dump something, the proper reaction is to get the fark out of there, as quickly as possible.

About ten years ago my brother sold his house, and the day before the closing he still had a bunch of shiat to get rid of. I Beverly Hillbillied my truck full of trash, and on the ride home I dumped a very large box (dryer sized) full of returnable plastic soda bottles on 495. He was driving a minute or so behind me, and said it was the funniest thing he had seen in years - bottles still bouncing all over the place.

Heh, Brevard, huh? Usually that sort of thing is endemic to Dade County. Well, that and school buses hitting fuel tankers, especially at "rush" hour.

Here in Jax it is more of a ladder-on-the-bridge sort of thing, pretty much daily, especially on the Buckman. I don't understand why it is so hard for people, especially contractors, to secure their loads.

/it is amazing just how flat an aluminum ladder can get in rush hour
//it is extremely amazing how destroyed a fiberglass ladder can get on te same road.

There is a toilet on I-40 running through Raleigh, seriously its not Raleigh its a real commode!

mikep7777: I Beverly Hillbillied my truck full of trash, and on the ride home

Yeah, I'm looking at YOU, Fred Sanford!

I've seen a kitchen sink on I-15 before.

And the last time my mother moved she really did pack the kitchen sink. (She had a huge stainless steel one-bowl sink, the new owners didn't want it and would have gotten rid of it anyway. She liked it, though--so she packed it.)

I went to Florida less than a month ago and as soon as I left the airport, a truck with purple porta potties tied to the back dropped its load on I-95. Numerous cars were covered in potty sauce and were damaged from impacts, but it was hard not to erupt in gut splitting laughter as an unharmed bystander.

I'm still trying to figure out the whole 'old tire on the fence along the highway with JESUS SAVES painted on it' thing I see here.

/old people
//strange people
///strange old people

A few years ago, I lived on the North Shore of MA (NE of Boston) and my ex-gf lived in a Boston suburb. Needless to say I spent a lot of time on 128, usually going well over the speed limit. One night I was hummin along in the high speed lane and one of those 3-wheeled baby joggers had fallen off or out of someone's car. I was driving a Dodge RamCharger (big-ass SUV) at the time and had nowhere to go, but right over the thing. Once I reconciled myself to hitting it, I just sat back and enjoyed the explosion of baby-jogger bits.
/no baby in it
//as far as I know
/what?

hahaha thats funny

jmayson: //Felt like I was in Hell the entire time.

It improved immediately after you left.

A cesspool. (c) Same as Sink

maybe in your neck of the woods, but around here the two are completely different.

LineNoise, yeah, you should see the Mexican jalopies carrying a shiatload of crap on the I-5 all time, then half of it falls out. Can cause a real biatch of a problem.

I am amazed by how long it takes the CHP to get to debris in the road, they had a call for heavy debris in the road, and I timed it, it took them 2 hours to finally get a car out there (who didn't have any lights on, and just parked on the side, so a couple cars still hit the shiat and had to pull off the road), but there were four guys giving tickets (repeatedly after the call) 2 miles away and within the same jurisdiction. And the one CHP who got their just called Cal Trans who took another hour to get there, all for shiat he could have picked up if the other cars showed up.

A good enough reason to take the Turnpike. Less obstacles, smoother roadway, occasionally friendly toll collectors, clean restrooms (no gloryholes!)....

I-95 eight lanes wide
Midnight drive take a ride
Alongside east coast tide
Getting high so am I
Bloodshot red eyes from the fumes
I consume engine zoom then engine boom
Then enging glow erupt and blow
And overflow like volcano
So far to go can't turn back though
Cheap tobacco cup of black Joe
Fuelin' my body jumstartin' my soul
Set my mind on cruise control
You got your Jesus on the dashbord but the devil's under my hood
You're taking it down legal I'm pullin' it up to no good
God is your co-pilot I let Satan ride shotgun
You pay a toll to get to heaven but on the road to hell there's none
Get up you're asleep at the wheel
Get up you're asleep at the wheel
Get up you're asleep at the wheel

when I was 16-17ish, on 896 in Delaware (just off i95) I hit a refridgerator one night. Damn thing was dead center in my lane, car to the right of me, wet grass to my left. Glanced it off my driver side quarter panel.

That's all I have to add to this discusion, really. ^^

Onkel Buck - sounds like someone works in RTP and has to travel I-40 between 6am-8pm every day...

// works on the NE side of RAL..
/// 3 miles to work round trip
//// no 40, 540, 147, or beltline
// wouldn't give it up for the world.

jmayson I did 10 yrs in PB myself.. 80-98.. whereabouts?

One time I was on I-75 driving from Gainesville to Ocala doing about 80mph...

I had a 6 foot ladder in the back of my truck which I usually had strapped down with bungies.

I guess this day I forgot to tie it down, because a car pulls up to me and starts yelling that my ladder flew out of the back of my truck.

I freaked out...because I can only imagine the damage a 6 foot fiber glass ladder could do at highway speeds.

I immediately took the next exit, went back around and tried to find my ladder, seriously hoping that I didn't kill someone. I also called some workmates that would be heading that way and asked them to look out for it.

I never found the ladder. I never forgot to check my ladder straps again.

Add me to the list of people who forgot to tie down a ladder.

We were rushing around the shop that morning, i put a 6 foot fiberglass latter on the roof of the van and didn't tie it down. We took I-90 (mass pike) from exit 6 to 7 about half way there it flew off. Thank god the people behind us avoided it. We pulled over ran back threw it in the van and took off.

The boss who was driving didn't yell at me because he did the same thing only a few days earlyier. He just said we need to be more careful.

Another one comes to mind simply for the visual effect. This was on a major surface street, the actual speed was probably about 50 mph. The pickup in front was obviously involved in a move and the load wasn't all that secure. Suddenly a nightstand came loose. The 50mph contact with the road utterly destroyed it--it looked like it exploded.

I had a Pallet fall off the back of a truck in front of me two months ago. no time to avoid it. Just raised my arse off the seat a tad, and went for a short ride through the air. landed it, and rode out a dented front rib, and blown out tire.

/rides a motorcycle
//doesn't know how i survived
///Even the worst days on a bike, are better then the best in a car.