I tried to miss it, but didn't quite make it. Ruined the bumper though, which is aggravating as it took me months to find that bumper (as I cut my other one up for the intercooler)

I'm at least thankful it didn't crease the fender so I think I can straighten it out and it be good as new. But still. Ugh.

 

Flying coolers ???

 

Yes, a flying cooler would be this flying across the highway directly in your path

 

i hate when people dont secure **** down in the back of their pickups

 

Was it at least full of beer (good beer )and you got to keep it??

 

dam

first glance at those pics it looked like you could just bend the fender back in place but i see where the bumper edge cracked/separated... these bumpers love to separate there, my rear bumper did the same thing when i hit a sign pole

 

So what happened after you hit it? Did the guy come back for his cooler, or you go after him?

 

Well, I was in the far right lane, so after I hit it, it went flying about 20-30 yards to the right into ditch thingy that was on the side of the highway.

I was on my way to work and the car wasn't driving any differently so I knew there wasn't any major damage or anything. I did give the day-laborer looking dudes in the raggedy S-10 that the cooler fell from the evil eye

 

Were you at least able to see which car it came off of? Plate info? It never ceases to amaze me at how irresponsible drivers can be.

 

I actually saw the S-10 it came off of, but now that I think of it, it didn't even occur to me at the time to get the plate info or anything.

I actually got slightly rear-ended/side-swiped (all it did was pop a big dent in the corner of my rear bumper and knock some paint off) a few months back by a thug wanna-be guy "swangin" (or whatever the **** they call it) in his Cadillac. I tried to get his plate info but he took off and ran a red light and I figured I better not try to chase some guy around southeast Dallas at 1 am

 

I present article 001 to the court for evidence!

At least it wasn't sheet metal from an 18 wheeler... that's what happened to my front end :/

 

lol.. good beer in the US? get serious. maybe if the truck was on its way in from canada.
but this sounds like one of those stories where after you fix your car, you can look back at it at just laugh.

 

Hell I've had the crap fall off a contractor's trailer on the freeway and scuff my front bumper. Luckily I was able to buff it out. A few weeks earlier large sheets of sheet metal fell off another contractor's trailer and almost got me. Thank god for my drop because if I didn't it would of caught my roof.

 

scariest I have ever had was a 55 gallon drum getting airborne from a dump truck and landing right next to my passenger door while traveling 55+

 

That sucks, James. It seems like when we are on our way to work, the most important thing is to get to work on time. I would have probably just done the same thing.

My brother ran over a car battery on the freeway in his Supra (old kind, like an 84) and it had fallen off of a flat bed. It blew out his LF tire, messed up the wheel, messed up the splash guards and dented some of the floor.

 

I know. No good beer in the US. Heard it all before. Went to college at Clarkson in Potsdam NY and used to cross the border every weekend to bring back cases of Molson Brador which I admit was great at the time.

I'm old now so some good Yuengling Lager or Corona with lime on a hot summer day will do me fine. maybe some Guiness if I have the money

 

I have hit a piece of semi trailer metal and blown out a tire on the freeway because of it (Maxima), narrowly avoided a ladder that came flying out of the back of a pickup (Maxima), and nailed a nice big chunk of semi tire which messed up my chin spoiler (Corvette).

That sucks, dude.

 

raccoon ripped off my air filter....

 

could have been worse..

i was watching a show where this girl was driving and the car in front of her ran over a pipe and it popped up, went through the windshield, and into her chest, pinning her to the seat.

Now that **** would suuuck

 

Dang raccoons! Always messin' up somethin'...

 

Odd, I just hit a 3 foot piece of pipe that fell off a house(on a trailer) that was driving down the highway today. I ran over a shovel going 60 in my mr2 last year. Dallas seems to have alot of random crap on the freeway