Touring - Yellow Coke

You're riding along on tour, everything is great and you're enjoying life. You pass some squirrels, you absent-mindedly roll over some occasional cracks in the pavement, you casually dodge a plastic bottle of yellow coke- what the hell, yellow coke? You look over your shoulder... it looks like someone bottled some dirty lake water in a plastic coke/pepsi bottle, sealed it up, and threw it on the side of the road. You shrug and keep rolling.

Later, you see another one. Then another. And maybe a couple days later, you find one that's standing upright on the side of the road. Okay, something's up. You don't stop to investigate, as you don't stop to investigate most garbage you find by the road. Then it hits you: it's urine in those bottles. Oh wow, truckers or people just driving along are drinking all these carbonated drinks, and having to take a leak but for whatever reason don't want to stop. So they just pee in whatever is available in the car (coke bottle I guess), seal it up and throw it out the window as they drive down the road.


Anyone else have this experience? Sorry, it's a slow day at work and I'm just wondering if I was alone in this experience. How many of these yellow coke bottles have you seen in a day while on tour?

I'd say that my record is probably about 5 in one day. And one was a full 2L bottle, which means that: a) someone used it several times, b) people were sharing it in the car, or c) someone had a racehorse in the car with them.

thats soo funny. thank god you didnt stop and check it out ;)

Ah yes, trucker bombs... (http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=23495)

Thanks for sharing...:)

Yea, I've passed many a piss bottle along the interstate. Nothing like seeing those ferment on hot asphalt when it's 100 degrees outside and you're thirsty as hell.

FWIW, the number one thing I notice on the side of the road are hundreds of those black rubber bungees with the "S" hooks. Always broken off where the hook attaches to the rubber. Somebody has to re-design those things!

muhahaha.... I remembered that daily show skit. Beat me to it!

I've never seen or heard of this phenomenon... is this a west coast thing?

I've never seen or heard of this phenomenon... is this a west coast thing?
Also found on Texas highways and byways. Can those things explode in the heat?:eek:

Thanks for sharing...:)


FWIW, the number one thing I notice on the side of the road are hundreds of those black rubber bungees with the "S" hooks. Always broken off where the hook attaches to the rubber. Somebody has to re-design those things!

Yea my tour was the same way. I eventually found a 24" one that wasn't torn apart and used it to keep my panniers on the rack. It also kept some articles of clothing nice and tight on top of the rack. Highway gold!

After a hour of riding this bottles can be a good sport drinks :D

Yellow Cake -

Is uranium oxide.
I was worth about $10 a pound four years ago and is worth $140 a pound now.
So if you have found a lot of yellow cake, you stand to make a hefty sum of moolah.

OMG it's true...they are everywhere...both the 'yellow coke' and the 2 hook bungies thingies....people are pretty ill....using it and then tossing it out the window, YIKES!!!

Highway gold!

I hope you are referring to the bungee, not the trucker bombs.:eek:

I hope you are referring to the bungee, not the trucker bombs.:eek:

:roflmao:

and its not that much of a joke (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/152686_waste16.html) for those who have to clean it...

how many "pamper puffs" do you see daily?
i see more sealed pampers here than yellow cokes, most seldom seen are craftstman or snap-on adjustables, bungie cords that are usable, or cash....
an interesting thread!

Bottles filled with yellow liquid litter all of our highways for sure. Along a short stretch of interstate in Oregon I began to count them and arrived at an average of more than 10/mile. YUK. Then I saw the road clean up crew all wearing rubber gloves. Wonder why?

Pellet gun on the first pickup crew, should be empty by the time the last one comes through. :)

"Watch out for
the busted spoke
and don't you drink that
yellow coke"

Picked up a whiskey bottle in Colorado that looked full. One whiff and I knew it was that yellow Coke. In my current area Evian and wine bottles are more of a problem.