Dan Scott said:

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More random crap happens on 45N than any freeway in Houston.

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Noeth Freeway strikes again!

https://www.chron.com/houston/article/Harris-County-sheriff-s-deputies-rescue-man-who-12892376.php

Don't forget parts of 18-wheeler tires!

So I was driving on 45 North and I was in right lane, 18-wheeler in middle Lane ahead of me. One of the tires starts separating. A large piece of tire comes into my lane, I am unable to stop, but slow down to run over the damn tire.

Thankfully my undercarriage was covered by a plastic piece so no real damage done. The problem was the screws holding the plastic in were wrenched out, so I had the cover flopping under my car. Apparently a common occurrence because I went to the dealership and asked about buying replacement. It was fairly cheap and they installed it for free in parking lot of dealership.

I hate 18-wheelers just because if their size!

I was in Austin once on the upper deck of I-35 in the right lane. Dude just slightly ahead of me in the left lane is driving a pickup with a mattress just laid across the truck bed...up on the sides of the box and not tied down or secured in any way. Mattress starts to bounce a little, as unsecured mattresses will do at 60+MPH, and so I slow down. The mattress then pops straight up vertical, spins in mid-air, taps the guardrail and then drops on to the lower deck. From the news that night, I learned that the mattress hit one car and the driver slams on his brakes, only to be rear-ended and pushed in to one of the concrete support columns.

To make this Houston related: I was born in Houston and some of my family still lives there.

Of course the T-Mobile outage was caused by a contractor cutting a fiber cable along I-45 and Aldine Bender.

Years ago I was going northbound on 45S in afternoon rush hour. Ended up in the far left lane right behind an old blue van with a ladder on top. We're cruising along and hit an overpass or some bumps or something and that's when I realized the ladder isn't tied down. The ladder pivots exactly 90 degrees such that half of it is over the van and the other half is extending out in free space and may have been in the next lane over. The ladder sits there perfectly balanced on the rack on tp of the van, waving gently with road. I freaked out, cars start evacuating the are around the van. Ladder stayed perched on top of the van long enough for me to get by him. Last I saw he must have realized the ladder was loose as he was signaling and moving over. Of course, maybe that was just his exit and he was clueless.

More recently while driving East on the South Beltway, I passed two cars parked on the shoulder on top of an overpass, somewhere around Mykawa or another closeby road. I notice the front car has it's hood up and there is a guy in the engine bay, another guy looking under the car, and a woman standing between the cars / guardrails. As I pass by them, I hear what I can only compare to a gunshot. I start scanning and carch sight of an airborne debris cloud. An F150 had drifted onto the shoulder and rammed the cars at near full speed. I saw at least one person bailing over the guard rail and down the overpass, but I was sure I had just seen someone die. Never even saw anything about it on the news.

Caught a red eye into IAH one night and get in my truck to drive home. Get on Beltway West headed South and can clearly see thick black smoke rising up in the sky. Keep driving and eventually realize I'm going to pass right by this. Come up to 90 and realize the fire is right next to the Beltway. There are 2-3 cop cars on the overpass, cops are looking at the fire from the guardrail, and I can see flames shooting up past the height of the guardrail. Checked and that one made the news. Gasoline tanker was on the surface street turning left, somehow rolled the rig in the turn, gas leaked, lit off, and burned everything up. Luckily, some passerby pulled the driver out of the truck so he lived!

Those are my top 3. Not nearly as crazy most of the others on here. Except that ladder, I can still pull a vacuum on my chair just thinking about that thing spinning around while I was 6' behind that van.

That's cause it was Mykawa. Houston's Iraq.
Still a great Hobby shortcut...daytime. Only.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/only-in-texas-horse-caught-on-camera-running-on-highway-59-at-hopper-road

Not 1-45, but still Tine.

A lost load of severed pig heads yesterday.


https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/A-lost-load-of-slaughtered-pig-heads-made-Houston-12943423.php?ipid=hpctp#photo-15615175

Same damn thing happened on 10 at 45 a few years ago. They didn't do any cleanup either. Just left them there to get ground into nothing. There was one on the far left shoulder under the 45S to 10E ramp that sat there for a few weeks. It was a little macabre to drive past it every day and see it rot away.

Every item is moved by trucks. What do you expect

Matsui said:

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Every item is moved by trucks. What do you expect?

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Well, after reading some of the crazy **** on this thread, I guess you better be ready to expect pretty much anything when you driving in H-town.

But since I'm here:

How the **** is it legal to tow multiple vehicles in tandem down 59 / 77 south with a 92 Ford ranger.

Can't count the number of times I've seen this **** over the course of my life.

Hey, but at least they got the courtesy to scribble "IN TOW" on the back window with shoe polish.

Stat Monitor Repairman said:

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Honorable mentions:

Rice professor drives Prius into flooded underpass (during the daylight ... while TV reporter doing a live spot)

Lady drives her Tahoe into flooded underpass. Video shows the lady texting on her phone. SUV slowly sinks. Light from phone screen goes out and the lady dies.

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Wasn't there a dude that drove a mcclaren or something into the water and he blamed it on a seagull?

Edit: A Bugatti

That's just a day that ends in y on 59S. Every time I drive 59 I see vehicles caravaning South. I remember driving 59S probably close to 20 years ago and seeing them.

My personal favorite so far was the school bus towing the box truck that had a car in the box partially hanging out the back (the roll up door couldn't close). They were puttering along at ~55MPH.

I'll hand it to those guys that they are pretty clever when it comes to hooking up a ford taurus to the back of a dodge neon all hooked up to the back of a chrysler minivan. The minivan is a necessity in this case so you have a place to shove all the bumper panels on the cars that had to come off for the tow hook ups. And the temporary signal wiring is a truely a modern marvel of redneck engineering.

Last night I passed a bald shirtless tatted young Hispanic guy staggering/walking a bicycle in the shoulderless fast lane of I-10 just west of 45. He was along the wall and cars were barely missing him. No doubt released from the pokey downtown, procured a mode of transportation and was taking the fast lane home.

62strat said:

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Wasn't there a dude that drove a mcclaren or something into the water and he blamed it on a seagull?

Edit: A Bugatti

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That was an all time classic.

Dude had a good insurance scam going until some random kids going down 45 happened to be rolling video and filmed the whole thing. I think he told the insurance folks he swerved to miss a bird in the road or something.

Darn pelicans.

Stat Monitor Repairman said:

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62strat said:

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Wasn't there a dude that drove a mcclaren or something into the water and he blamed it on a seagull?

Edit: A Bugatti

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That was an all time classic.

Dude had a good insurance scam going until some random kids going down 45 happened to be rolling video and filmed the whole thing. I think he told the insurance folks he swerved to miss a bird in the road or something.

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What are the odds someone would have just been randomly filming that? I realize they are greater since he was in a Bugatti, but still...

N8Dawg05 said:

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My personal favorite so far was the school bus towing the box truck that had a car in the box partially hanging out the back (the roll up door couldn't close). They were puttering along at ~55MPH.

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I saw this exact rig headed south on 59 just today. There were two sets.

Semi Carrying Millions Of Bees Overturns On East Texas Highway

(Tine related b/c driver probably tried to make it to Houston before crashing his rig, but obviously f-ed that up as well)

LAMAR COUNTY A semi-trailer truck carrying a reported 15-30 million honey bees overturned on an east Texas highway on Memorial Day. One witness said as her truck approached the scene, hundreds of bees buzzed around the vehicle. "It wasn't enough to block out the sun, but we could tell it wasn't normal. That's when we saw the semi on its side and the beekeepers," she described.

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2018/06/01/semi-carrying-millions-of-bees-overturns-on-east-texas-highway/


"It wasn't enough to block out the sun, but we could tell it wasn't normal.

So I guess the standard for a flying incect incident is the Biblical standard of "blocked out the sun."

Hell, if i see more than a few bees, in one spot, my ass is looking to gtfo.

Updated. Originally posted by RPM.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/animal-waste-spills-across-59-in-sugar-land

Updated to add the animal waste spillage on 59S.

What's next? Anyone want to call it?

I think we are up to 3 instances of animal parts spilling on the freeway on this thread alone.

Giant spools were also popular this year, apparently.

https://abc13.com/fist-fight-breaks-out-between-drivers-along-i-45n-video/5407183/

On-brand for I-45

from that link:

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Police say Chad Lee Butler died after being shot during a road rage incident in southeast Houston.

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either pimp c was still alive or this gentleman had thoed parents.

Water bottle
https://abc13.com/i-10-to-be-closed-for-another-hour-and-a-half-after-crash/5429792/

It's sad that two kids were hurt because of this

Both times for me were on i-10 east bound.

One 2x4 almost through front window. Missed it by a foot or two

One large masonry block fell off flatbed truck next to me. Landed in front of hood and my car tire went over/through causing my car to jump what felt like a foot. Probably was only a few inches.

Driver charged with third DWI after hitting officers escorting giant crates through Houston.

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Harris County officials have charged 36-year-old Christian Everado Perez Robledo with his third DWI offense, accusing him of injuring two officers while escorting two large crates through the city of Houston on Friday night.

26.2 said:

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David_Puddy said:

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Stat Monitor Repairman said:

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Honorable mentions:

Rice professor drives Prius into flooded underpass (during the daylight ... while TV reporter doing a live spot)

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Never forget....

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"What do I do?"

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Reporter - leave the car.. swim!
numbnut - stay in the car?

This is idiocracy to level 11 right here.

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******. I followed the link and got Deborah Wrigley'd. Thanks ******er.