August 20, 2006
Beware the number of the beast... oh and also those cylindrically symmetric rubber things that go on cars.
I was driving once on the southbound frontage of 35 near William Cannon. I was driving behind this big boat of a car (think: Wildcat) that went over a dip in the road and the guy's hubcap popped off and just started rolling next to the car. Just perfectly, it was weird. Anyway, he veered left onto the on-ramp and his hubcap rolled off the right side of the road into a ditch. He didn't even notice.
A number of years back a Metrobus siezed up a bearing and the front wheel flew off. It proceeded down the highway and jumped up into my parents yards where it then jumped up and bounced across the front of the house and blew out every pane in the front dining room windows. 28 panes, 3 windows.
The dude in the vid at the gas station was hit by a set of dual wheels from a pickup sized vehicle. that probably wheighed about 150+ lbs. So I imagine he was pretty fucked up.
Both TTJ and I have had tires come off at highway speeds. Let's just say if you hear a weird knocking sound from the rear of your car and you loaned it to your brother recently you should check that the lug nuts are installed correctly (round side towards rim).
That comic has some pretty good stuff -- thanks pino. PS make sure you read the mouseover links, they're funny. PPS doncarlo.
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So one day this past June, before I split town to avoid the mob, I was driving up N I-35 between. Just after the Town Lake bridge, a chrome wheel and tire came bouncing over the center wall from the southbound lanes about five car lengths in front of me. Looked like an 18" rim. It took a couple of bounces across the northbound lanes, and bounced off onto the frontage road. Didn't hit anything on the northbound lanes, mostly because it was about 10am and there wasn't much traffic. Weird, though.
posted by javelina at 09:12PM CST on August 20