Every day brings some excitement. Yesterday I saw flying broom. It was coming straight at me. I had to swerve hard to avoid hitting it. No, it wasn’t a part of witchcraft. I was riding to work and it fell out of someone’s truck at 80mph.

I’m amazed how naive and stupid people are about transporting objects in their vehicles. Some just throw stuff in the truck bed thinking it will stay there. Ever heard of turbulence, dumbass? How about losers who tie a matress to their roof with thin rope only to lose the damn thing on the freeway? The scariest one I have seen so far was the BASKETBALL HOOP together with the pole an the base falling out of a truck 30 yards in front of me. Another good one was one wheel steel garden cart, I was lucky enough to avoid it but the car next to me wasn’t, from the looks of the damage it was TOTALLED, even his airbags went off.

If for a car driver dangers like this present the possibitily of property damage, for motorcycle rider the outcome could be crashing hard or even death. That is why every time I see a car within my sights loaded with something that could potentially fall out, I stay as far as possible and prepare for evading action. This morning I barely missed 10 lbs sledgehammer laying in the fast lane. I’m glad it wasn’t flying.

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