Originally Posted by Tundra_Man

Several years ago I had a plastic bag get caught on my pedal. I didn't realize it was caught at first until several crank rotations had passed. It started to wrap itself around the neck of the pedal where it screws into the crank.

I was in pretty heavy traffic and I thought, "meh... it's just plastic. It should rip and fall off in a minute." So I kept pedaling.

Several hundred yards later the bag had impressively stretched but not broken. It finally stopped the pedal from turning forcing me to pull over and deal with it. At that point it was wrapped so tight that there was no way to merely unwrap it. It's like the bag had fused and became one big glob of plastic on the end of my crank. I wound up having to walk the bike the remaining way to work and then find a carpet knife to remove it. Even then, it took about 10 minutes of cutting and pulling little shards of the bag out before I got it all.

Not the best day I ever had.