That’s bad. But I’m really tired of the ‘git r dun’ types that haul things in their pickups and bumper hitch trailers: poorly secured or unsecured cargo coming off as they go down the road.
One day going around Columbia, TN on US43, a couple of NICE ford pickups passed me. Their boxes full of split and neatly stacked firewood. One BIG problem: they chose to haul with the tailgates down so they could haul that much more (no net, no straps). At a traffic light I saw them pull away, the second one leaving about 4 or 5 pieces on the road. Idiots.
God must love stupid people, he made so many of them...
I never said that some of these ‘git-r-dun’ types were Rhodes Scholars. Just inventive. Prime example from earlier this evening: I went to Kroger to pick up some groceries. Saw some redneck engineering at it’s finest. The dude was driving an old Dodge mini-pickup, a real beater. Looked to be a late 80’s model. He’d taken two bucket seats out of a car, pushed them all the way back in the bed, against the cab, and bolted them in facing rearward. Then he installed a big Igloo cooler between them as (beer) storage/armrest. Perfect for tailgating and shore fishing. The only thing that I’d have added would be a small, fold-down Bimini top off a pontoon or paddle boat, for shade or rain protection. When you think about the utilitarian value alone, it’s pretty clever. But the firewood thing? If that didn’t cross someone’s mind, they shouldn’t be driving.
I was behind an open bed truck once with a very poorly secured load of plywood.
I was watching the top sheet flap in the wind and decided to hang back a little.
Sure enough, the wind caught it just right and it went flying and fluttered into the next lane. Fortunately, nobody was coming in the other direction.
He did see it, apparently, cause he pulled over and I passed him, but I just remember thinking what an idiot the guy was for not tying that down better and being grateful it did NOT hit my car.