What is the strangest thing you've ever seen on your commute?
11-14-08, 02:11 PM
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About 20 years ago,I was riding my bike to the Rose Parade,going north on Rosemead Ave.I get to Whittier Narrows about 3 am..It's dark,foggy and as I start climbing the hill,it's getting brighter,then an orange glow appears above the hill.It's about a half mile to the top,I get there and see a car on fire on the opposite side of the road.I stop,look at it for a second,get ready to ride on,then out of the corner of my eye,I thought I saw movement in the car.I put 2 and 2 together,and come to realize that nobody is standing around the car.So I get as close to the car as I can,sure enough,there are 2 people in the car.I couldn't get close enough to help them,so I waited there for almost 10 minutes until the FD came.There is nothing worse than seeing somebody in need of help and not being able to do anything about it.It's one of the things that will haunt me till the day I die.
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I was riding to work about a month ago and I see a small animal running down the road. I thought it was a squirel but as I get closer I see that it is not. It is a wet muskrat in the middle of town. He stopped and looked at me go by, then continued to run down the middle of the street. Someone must of sprayed him with a hose.
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while riding the Fullerton trail, in the O.C., I was taking a break and walking along my bike, looking at the trees. From the next trail bend, 2 huge black dobermans come huffing right to me, and proceeded to smell me up and down. For the next 20-30 seconds or so until their owners popped up from the same direction, I thought i was done for. After the smell-a-thon, both parties proceeded on their marry and shaken ways!
11-28-08, 09:22 AM
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11-28-08, 09:45 AM
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It's hunting season here right now. A couple weeks ago I saw a yellow Volkswagen Bug. It had a bull skull attached to the hood, and tied to the top of the car, wrapped up in blankets, was two dead deer with the heads sticking out. 
11-28-08, 03:47 PM
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That's different. Makes me sick. I had a deer run next to me for about 25 yds as I was riding a couple of years ago. He was just off the road. I'm glad he cut back into the woods instead of across in front of me!
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One sunny morning commute along Crescent Rd. in Greenbelt, MD, on a two lane stretch with bike lanes through a wooded area, I looked to my left and saw a duck flying on the other side of the road, about head-high, following the curve of the opposite bike lane going exactly my pace and direction. We continued this way for about 30 seconds and parted without so much as a "nice pull", or a quack.
11-28-08, 08:25 PM
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i saw a live lobster in the middle of the road, in cincinnati ohio...never could figure out where it came from.
a few weeks later, i commented to my wife that you never see squirrels miss a jump from branch to branch, but you know they have to sometimes...the next morning riding to work i see a squirrel fall straight out of a tree and THWACK right onto the ground 10 ft in front of me. he had to have fallen at least 20 feet, but he took off like a rocket out of the street before i got close.
a few weeks later, i commented to my wife that you never see squirrels miss a jump from branch to branch, but you know they have to sometimes...the next morning riding to work i see a squirrel fall straight out of a tree and THWACK right onto the ground 10 ft in front of me. he had to have fallen at least 20 feet, but he took off like a rocket out of the street before i got close.
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I wasn't commuting but mountainbiking with my buddy when we came on a full out nude photo shoot,(girl). She was fully nude and doing poses on a big boulder. It wasn't an just a guy and his girl either. They had the shading umbrellas and about 6 people standing around. We came up on them fast, and rode right on by. Then we circled around and went back and watched for a while.
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Yesterday on the W&OD trail (around mile 40 for those that know the trail) a deer jumped across the trail about 15 feet in front of me... I almost soiled myself. At first I thought it was a person jumping out of the tree either being goofy or waiting to mug somebody or something. It wasn't close enough that I had to slow down not to hit it, but it was still close... and FAST! I never knew they were that fast.
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I've heard bike couriers carry all sorts of stuff like blood or body parts. But today I saw something was over the top. A bike courier was pushing a man in a wheel chair while riding his bike.
12-31-08, 11:45 AM
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A pair of osprey heli-jets coming in for a landing. It was so strange and cool looking that I stopped on the side of the road and stared upwards for a minute before continuing.
12-31-08, 12:05 PM
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Not long ago on my homeward commute I rolled up on a herd of donkeys...about 30 of them scattered all over the road. This was at night(I work 2nd shift) and it was about 20F. They all looked at me w/their ears forward(donkey, horse, burro body language for 'benign interest'). Very quiet and calm as I wove my way through them. The thing that struck me when I was in the middle of them was how BIG they are, yet very graceful. It seemed an almost spiritual moment and one I'll cherish always. My commutes are generally pretty uneventful.
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I see them almost daily (along with other Marine Corps aircraft) and they're quite fun to watch.
12-31-08, 12:58 PM
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I guess I don't have a ton of experience with weird stuff on my way to work.
So far the strangest thing I saw was unicyclist riding alongside traffic in Brooklyn, and a kid eating Mcdonald's french fries riding down a slope no-hands.
So far the strangest thing I saw was unicyclist riding alongside traffic in Brooklyn, and a kid eating Mcdonald's french fries riding down a slope no-hands.
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a female crackhead walking bare assed down the bike path
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Last spring, crack of dawn. I passed an oriental woman with a pole on her shoulder.
Had a dogpatch bundle on each end of the pole. Hair wrapped up in a towel.
I thought...."National Geographic"
Had a dogpatch bundle on each end of the pole. Hair wrapped up in a towel.
I thought...."National Geographic"
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Really? Disturbing?
I've sighted topless females while doing my ocean swims... never found them to be "disturbing."
Seems in the area where I swim there are a small group of female swimmers that desire to swim topless and thus do so once they are off shore. No doubt they are relatively safe from ogling eyes as only long distance swimmers tend to be that far off shore... typically a 1/2 mile or so.
I can understand their desires... it just feels good to be in the water and moving with it.
Of course I am talking fit athletic females... perhaps "crackheads" are not so pleasant on the eyes.
I've sighted topless females while doing my ocean swims... never found them to be "disturbing."
Seems in the area where I swim there are a small group of female swimmers that desire to swim topless and thus do so once they are off shore. No doubt they are relatively safe from ogling eyes as only long distance swimmers tend to be that far off shore... typically a 1/2 mile or so.
I can understand their desires... it just feels good to be in the water and moving with it.
Of course I am talking fit athletic females... perhaps "crackheads" are not so pleasant on the eyes.
