O.T. - I'm a collector!, with the front suspension of my car... Options

[SpecialK]

Just wondering what wonderful road debris the members have "collected" cruising down the highways and byways.

I was heading into work at 3:30am in my DD (Mazda Protege' 5 (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/rolleyes.gif) ), brain and car on cruise in the fastlane, no one ahead, a couple of cars to my right flank. Came up on an area of highway without street lights when..."What the Fu... (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/huh.gif) ...WHHAAAMMM (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/ohmy.gif) ! A metal 5 gal bucket, right in the middle of my lane! Sparks flying from everywhere, thought I took out the passenger front tire by the way it was handling. Managed to get it to the shoulder (funny how people get the hell out of your way when you're showering them with hot metal), got the car stopped, saw smoke coming from the passenger front... "SHIIIIIIIIT!" (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/headbang.gif) . Popped my head under the front end and found a crumple metal bucket half full of some kind of expandable foam crap (I'm guessing 8lb. density by the wieght of it) wrapped around my control arm, and tearing the shit out of the sidewall and cv boot (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/headbang.gif) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/headbang.gif) . Tried backing up...no luck, wedged tight. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/mad.gif) Ended up having to jack the car up and use the handle to pry it loose (don't particularly care to have my head under a car w/o jack stands (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/unsure.gif) ), and cut the shit out of my thumb in the process (someone call a WAAAAMbulance (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif) ).

Time for a new tire, and cv boot (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/mad.gif) .

Hitting objects with your car beats the shit out of coffee for waking your ass up!

Other item "collected" :

Queen size matress (I-15 in San Diego just north of Balboa)

Damn near collected:

Gas Grill w/propane tank attached (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/ohmy.gif)


So what's yours?

[balljoint]

Company has a 20' straight truck for deliveries. One Sunday night, on the way out to start a long run, the truck pulls into the gas station off the highway and thumps a low flying seagull. Don't really think anything of it until some 5 year old kid in the parking lot is grabbing his dad's arm, laughing and pointing to the front of the truck. Turns out the gull went headfirst into the grill and got jammed in there ass and wings straight out. Not such a nice grill ornament.


I thought this story was more on the thread topic as it was a stuck in/on/under the vehicle story, rather than a run over a thingy story...