Strangest thing you've seen while on the freeway?

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AznKhmerBoi wrote:seen this several times, cops turning on their siren to pass through traffic and finding out that is was uncalled for.
I've seen an ambulance with sirens blaring drive PAST a hospital. Now let's think about this. I clearly saw it coming far down the road past the hospital -- so it couldn't have been coming out of it, and through my rearview mirror I definitely did not see it turn into the hospital on my right.

That means either A.) this ambulance was coming from another FARTHER hospital to reach a possibly dying individual or B.) The ambulance already picked up said dying person and drove PAST A HOSPITAL. There's something just not right with that picture.

Unless, maybe they were going through stop-lights/traffic too?? :?
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I've seen a hairy old man with a gray beard, wearing nothing but fishnet stockings and a tutu, ride his bicycle slowly down the interstate highway while smoking a huge cigar. This is not the strangest thing I have seen while traveling in a car, just the strangest I've seen on the freeway.
Sideroller wrote:I've seen an ambulance with sirens blaring drive PAST a hospital. Now let's think about this. I clearly saw it coming far down the road past the hospital -- so it couldn't have been coming out of it, and through my rearview mirror I definitely did not see it turn into the hospital on my right.

That means either A.) this ambulance was coming from another FARTHER hospital to reach a possibly dying individual or B.) The ambulance already picked up said dying person and drove PAST A HOSPITAL. There's something just not right with that picture.

Unless, maybe they were going through stop-lights/traffic too?? :?
Or they could have been taking a patient to a specialty unit that wasn't available at the hospital they passed.
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flamepanther wrote:I've seen a hairy old man with a gray beard, wearing nothing but fishnet stockings and a tutu, ride his bicycle slowly down the interstate highway while smoking a huge cigar. This is not the strangest thing I have seen while traveling in a car, just the strangest I've seen on the freeway.
Sideroller wrote:I've seen an ambulance with sirens blaring drive PAST a hospital. Now let's think about this. I clearly saw it coming far down the road past the hospital -- so it couldn't have been coming out of it, and through my rearview mirror I definitely did not see it turn into the hospital on my right.

That means either A.) this ambulance was coming from another FARTHER hospital to reach a possibly dying individual or B.) The ambulance already picked up said dying person and drove PAST A HOSPITAL. There's something just not right with that picture.

Unless, maybe they were going through stop-lights/traffic too?? :?
Or they could have been taking a patient to a specialty unit that wasn't available at the hospital they passed.
I suppose that could be true. At the time though it just seemed a bit comical.

Although no where near as much as an old guy in a tutu and fishnets. :shock:
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Sideroller wrote:I suppose that could be true. At the time though it just seemed a bit comical.

Although no where near as much as an old guy in a tutu and fishnets. :shock:
The cigar and the grin really completed it.
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Sideroller wrote:
AznKhmerBoi wrote:seen this several times, cops turning on their siren to pass through traffic and finding out that is was uncalled for.
I've seen an ambulance with sirens blaring drive PAST a hospital. Now let's think about this. I clearly saw it coming far down the road past the hospital -- so it couldn't have been coming out of it, and through my rearview mirror I definitely did not see it turn into the hospital on my right.

That means either A.) this ambulance was coming from another FARTHER hospital to reach a possibly dying individual or B.) The ambulance already picked up said dying person and drove PAST A HOSPITAL. There's something just not right with that picture.

Unless, maybe they were going through stop-lights/traffic too?? :?
So ambulances aren't necessarily based at a hospital. Many ambulance companies are third parties that are contracted by the hospital, so the ambulance you saw could have been coming from its home base.
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My wife tells me that when she was a kid in California, her and her family were driving down the 101, when they looked up and saw a homeless man standing on the overpass.

As they were passing, this guy whipped out his junk and took a piss off the bridge, and it got all over their car.

Brings a whole new meaning to "making it rain" huh?
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