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pharasz 04-06-10 11:21 AM


Originally Posted by Yan (Post 10629711)
I saw a dead guy bobbing in the canal, and a police boat trying to hook him out of the water.

OMG I LOL'd :lol:

cervelo48 04-06-10 11:22 AM

sometimes i have birds fly along side my bike. i think that is pretty cool. :/

Leebo 04-06-10 02:09 PM

Last summer on a very hot day, an attractive woman riding her bike. She had a macdonalds soft drink stuck between her ample cleavage and bent forward a little to drink from it. I was somewhat distracted and sideswiped some shrubbery.

gerv 04-06-10 06:20 PM


Originally Posted by coldfeet (Post 10629324)
Damn, I miss all the good stuff. We have had a couple of really big meteors here ( Alberta ) over the last year or so. In both cases I worked out that I had just gone indoors when they lit up the sky. Mutter, mutter.

Gerv, that asteroid was last March.

Oops.... Is this 2010? :o

I thought it must have been a pretty big one the OP saw... especially if he could see it in the day. However, I understand most meteorites are about the size of a grain of sand.

daredevil 04-06-10 06:22 PM


Originally Posted by gerv (Post 10633393)
especially if he could see it in the day. However, I understand most meteorites are about the size of a grain of sand.

My morning commute is at 5 am and it is pitch black at that time. I'm guessing this was certainly no bigger than a grain of sand.

AdamDZ 04-06-10 07:43 PM

Hmmm.... during winter when plowing over the Williamsburg Bridge on my studs I saw guys snowboarding down the bridge, it wasn't plowed yet. That's about the most interesting thing I can think of. I see a fair number of weird things, but I wouldn't call them interesting.

Grillparzer 04-06-10 08:05 PM

I was riding to work one night last fall in the metropolitan Washington D.C. area and suddenly heard a "pitty pat, pitty pat" noise that I first assumed came from my bike. Doing a quick ride along check of my bike to find the cause I spotted a four point buck running down the middle of the road lane to my left pacing me. He stayed with me for about a hundred feet before I braked and watched him disappear through someone's back yard. It occurred to me that a deer/bicyclist collision would probably hurt... a lot, and that it was their mating season. I have always considered myself fairly open minded but I draw the line at inter-species relationships

BigDaddyPete 04-07-10 04:42 AM

I see all manner of local wildlife. Turkeys, deer, fox, coyote. My favorite is watching a red tail hawk slowly gliding on the small thermals coming up from the pavement looking for breakfast. Soon the osprey will be back and visible along my coastal route. Perhaps I'll go that way today.


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