Guess what hit my windshield????

[BERIGAN]

There is no wrong answer, cuz really I don't know either!!!

I was going about 35 on a 2 lane road about a half a mile from home. The sun was in my eyes a bit, and I had about a second to react thinking it looked like a 3 inch rock coming up from the road, I guess from a truck that was going the other way...there were tiny fragments of glass over my shirt and shorts. Amazed it didn't go thru the glass...where it hit, the glass feels like a piece of plastic wrap!

There is plastic over it now, in case the car ends up outside and it would rain

Edited September 24, 2005 by BERIGAN

[Free For All]

Bummer....glad you're OK. Insurance cover this?

A couple winters ago I was driving on the interstate and went under an overpass just as a snowplow was clearing the snow off of it. A big load of wet snow (with rocks) slammed into my windshield and I'm amazed it didn't crack.

I swear, it's amazing that we get through the day.

[BERIGAN]

Bummer....glad you're OK. Insurance cover this?

A couple winters ago I was driving on the interstate and went under an overpass just as a snowplow was clearing the snow off of it. A big load of wet snow (with rocks) slammed into my windshield and I'm amazed it didn't crack.

I swear, it's amazing that we get through the day.

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Thanks, yeah just have to pay a $100 deductable...little nick on hood as well I have already had to replace the hood twice (don't ask!) so that could have been worse.

Amazing your windshield didn't break!

[ejp626]

Wow -- glad you're ok. My very strangest driving experience was coming back from a concert in Detroit with friends. Started seeing stuff in the highway, which I was able to drive over, then a cushion or something. Then a loveseat in the middle of the lane, I kid you not. It must have all fallen off the back of a pickup. I have no idea what hitting that at 60 mph would have done, but it wouldn't have been pretty. I cheated into the other lane and fortunately didn't sideswipe anyone. I suspect someone hit it right after me though.

[mikeweil]

My left sideshield once cracked at midnight while approaching a stop after I had left the highway. I was scared to death and thought some mad kid was shooting stones from the bushes, but nobody was there. The reapairman told me a small rock thrown up by a tire was enough if it hit at the proper angle .... I still found tiny bits of glass months after the incident.

Put on Frank Zappa's "Village of the sun" and think you were lucky ...

[catesta]

First off, is that a Lincoln?

Second, did you shit you pants?

That had to have made a hell of a bang, glad you're okay.

[JSngry]

Are you sure it weren't somebody's head?

[catesta]

Are you sure it weren't somebody's head?

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Jimmy Hoffa?

[JSngry]

Michael Brown's, most likely...

[BruceH]

Yikes!!! That must have been frightening. Glad you're okay.

[catesta]

Michael Brown's, most likely...

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[BERIGAN]

First off, is that a Lincoln?

Second, did you shit you pants?   

That had to have made a hell of a bang, glad you're okay.

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Yes, the nice 1979 Mach V, I mean Mark V. Couldn't have happened the crappy, rusty 1975 continental we also own.

No, I didn't expel from either direction! Too shocked I guess. I'm just glad I didn't wreck the car, I think since I had a split second to see the rock, or grenade, whatever it was helped... if it had been at night and didn't see it and heard that loud pop, I might have ended up off the road, and possibly into a creek!

[patricia]

Just thank God it wasn't some person deciding to cross the road at random, not looking.

One of the scariest and most dangerous things to hit on the highway where my daughter lives, in central B.C. Canada is a moose. They regularly cross the highway in the winter, attracted by the salt on the highway, wherever they feel like crossing. They just appear seemingly out of nowhere and they are HUGE and much faster than you think they could be.

When I was a kid, my best friend's father hit a moose on the highway and it took the whole front of his hood and his windsheild out, spraying glass all over him, his wife and their infant daughter in her carseat in the back seat.

Whew. Glad you're OK.

Edited September 24, 2005 by patricia

[connoisseur series500]

Glad you're okay, Beri.

When I used to do my long commute to work in Dearborn and Detroit on I-75, the trucks would kick up all kinds of pebbles and small stones. They hit with a BANG! and make you jump.

[Jazzmoose]

Just thank God it wasn't some person deciding to cross the road at random, not looking.

One of the scariest and most dangerous things to hit on the highway where my daughter lives, in central B.C. Canada is a moose.  They regularly cross the highway in the winter, attracted by the salt on the highway, wherever they feel like crossing.  They just appear seemingly out of nowhere and they are HUGE and much faster than you think they could be.

When I was a kid, my best friend's father hit a moose on the highway and it took the whole front of his hood and his windsheild out, spraying glass all over him, his wife and their infant daughter in her carseat in the back seat. 

Whew.  Glad you're OK.

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[StormP]

WAS THE MOOSE GAY?

[7/4]

I see a pattern forming.

[patricia]

Sorry about the moose digression. But, it occurred to me that in the same instant that it took for whatever it was to hit Berigan's windshield, something much more serious could have happened.

Accidents happen in a blink of an eye, often too fast for us to react. Luckily, it was just a whatever it was, hitting his windshield and not a.....well, a moose.

For that we all should be grateful.

Edited September 25, 2005 by patricia

[connoisseur series500]

Sorry about the moose digression.

We expect it from Canadians...

[mgraham333]

Glad you're okay Berigan. I had the same thing happen to me once. A little corner of a brick hit dead center on the windshield. Had the tiniest little glass pellets all over me.

Another time, coming home from college on the interstate at night, I noticed a pick-up truck was slowing down to stop on the overpass as I was approaching it below. Before I could react I notcied something being thrown down directly in my path. It was half of a cinder-block. It hit the road just ahead of me and to the right, but was still in my path. It glanced off the front, right corner of the underside of my car. Fortunately no major damage. Just a couple of scuff marks. It sure made on hell of a noise though.... Not unlike the noise I made as it was happening.

I can't imagine who in the hell would get enjoyment out of doing something like that. A heavy object thrown down onto vehicles moving at highway speeds.... Yeeehaw!

[Guest]

I once wiped out a bird with my radio antenna. It was a rather surprising explosion of feathers.

What's the last thing that goes thru a bug's mind when it hits the windshield?

It's arse.

[patricia]

=mgraham333,Sep 25 2005, 09:24 AM]

Glad you're okay Berigan.  I had the same thing happen to me once.  A little corner of a brick hit dead center on the windshield.  Had the tiniest little glass pellets all over me.

Another time, coming home from college on the interstate at night, I noticed a pick-up truck was slowing down to stop on the overpass as I was approaching it below.  Before I could react  I notcied something being thrown down directly in my path.  It was half of a cinder-block.  It hit the road just ahead of me and to the right, but was still in my path.  It glanced off the front, right corner of the underside of my car.  Fortunately no major damage.  Just a couple of scuff marks.  It sure made on hell of a noise though.... Not unlike the noise I made as it was happening.

I can't imagine who in the hell would get enjoyment out of doing something like that.  A heavy object thrown down onto vehicles moving at highway speeds.... Yeeehaw! 

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You were lucky. A couple of years ago some kids thought it would be amusing to drop big rocks from an overpass onto the highway. One of their rocks hit the windsheild of a car passing under them carrying a young couple and their little baby. The resulting accident killed the mother and baby. The kids were charged with malicious mischeif and were sentenced to some months of community service. They were all under eighteen.

As you say, where's the fun??