It would have been hilarious if it happened to someone else...

[Patches]

...so I thought I'd share, and you can get get a kick out of it.

On Sunday I added transmission fluid to my car. I closed the hood, and while I didn't know it at the time, I broke the latch that holds the hood shut. So, on Monday morning I'm driving to work, going over a bridge at about 65. Around the middle of the bridge, the hood of my car flies open and smashes the front windshield! So now I'm on a bridge, going 65 blind, with a shattered windshield. I stop in the middle of the bridge, and amazingly, I don't get killed stopping or sitting in the middle lane on a goddamn speedway! Even more amazing a buddy of mine happened to be going by on the way to work and stopped. He had a rope in his truck, and we were able to tie down the hood (which was now shaped like the top of my car). Anyway, the car isn't even worth fixing, I'm alive and need some wheels fast.

Anyone have similar stories? Suggestions on used car shopping? Or just tool on me, all my friends call me either "Windshield" or "Crash" now.

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[IrishAlkey]

Good story, Crashy McWindshield!

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[wilee]

That was you?

Hey, it could've been worse. You know, stuck out there for 2 hours in -10ø weather with howling winds and snow. Good luck in the car hunt.

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[jocefus]

one thing came into mind when reading your story

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[GaryWyze]

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I fucking hate when that happens!

[ADF]

That could happen to anyone, Crashy McCrasherton from Windshieldville.

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[Bill From Yorktown]

if you or your friend had a video camera, you'd be Joe Bazillionaire

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[Tall_James]

Yikes! Than God you're safe Spiderweb O'Shatterton!

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[LatterYearsJimMorrison]

Its funny cause it didn't happen to me.

[TheMojoPin]

No, this is HILARIOUS because it didn't happen to me.

Granted, it wouldn't be at all if you were hurt or killed (Well, maybe a little...if at least a monkey or two was involved), but this sort of accident is nothing but comic gold, Jerry, GOLD!!!

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[Dewey]

Glad you're OK, Hoody McFly from the Windshield City (near Highway 65).

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[FUNKMAN]

Good Story being you are okay!

i was in the Truck Lanes, left hand lane on the NJ Turnpike doing 70-75. There was a pickup truck on my tail and a truck in the center lane, about 20ft behind me. I'm driving my Isuzu pickup.
I'm looking in front of me, of course and the vehicle in the middle lane that's ahead of me kicks up what looked to a broken piece of lead or cast iron pipe. It came right for me and blew out the sidewall on my right front tire and slashed my back right tire.
I had to hold on the sterring wheel for dear life, the truck was getting very out of control.
Somehow I got it steady and over to the shoulder.
Then i'm laying under the bed trying to get the spare off not knowing you had to unscrew what was holding it on with your tire iron. Trucks were wizzing by a few feet away.

I finally smartened up and walked to the Rest Stop which was a short distance away and bought 2 new tires...

scary....

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[shamus mcfitzy]

I hear that's common, Joe Icrackedmywindshieldwiththehoodofmycar

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[Geppetto]

I used to own a VW Rabbit it was old and made all kinds of bad noises. Well it turns out one of the noises was the last dying breath of the right rear wheel bearing. I found this out as I was slowing down and my rear wheel came off the car and passed me. No shit it was like a cartoon, no one was hurt the back corner of the car just sagged and scraped the ground. Time for a new car.

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[stickyfingers]

think about how bad your luck is...it had to happen ON THE BRIDGE, not before or after where there would be a shoulder

Anywho, my story involves my naivety when it comes to automobiles when I was in high school. I had gotten a flat tire so i brought the tire(in another car) to my local Firestone...got the replacement, brought it home and put it on the car

so then some time passes and i keep hearing a noise of some sort but its very light so i figure its not that big of a deal...and besides i couldn't even hear the noise when i turned up the radio so that's what i did

then driving along one day i go around a bend and *boomp* the very same tire i had replaced flew off of my car, rim and all, into oncoming traffic at about 45 miles an hour....while i am in the middle of breaking and pulling over i see my brake cover go speeding past me and cars slamming thier brakes and i figure, 'jesus christ my tire just nailed someone' so i go back to see if everyone was alright and somehow the tire missed everyone and i was told apparently went in the woods....well after about 45 minutes of searching I found the tire about 150 feet into the woods....there is no explaining how it got that far through all of the trees. There was clearly no straight path from the road to its final stopping point.....it was strange and I was baffled






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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

I survived two tire blowouts. THe first time I had driven to MD from NJ. The steering wheel felt really shakey. I kept mentioning it to my "passenger" (cough cough) and he kept saying, "It's nothing! Don't worry!" Ten minutes later, at 60 mph in the middle lane, the tire blew. I was lucky that I didn't lose control of the car and was able to pull over to the side without a problem.

The second one happened 8 months later. I was just getting onto the GSP when the steering wheel started getting shaky again. I was about 30 minutes from my friend's house and all I could think was "God, I hope I make it!" Yeah, 10 minutes later, the tire blew out.

I never listen to anybody when they tell me things like, "Oh-- you only have 30,000 miles on your tires. They're fine!"

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thank you dcpete!

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[high fly]

That beats my story about stepping on a rake.

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[FUNKMAN]

another time...

i'm driving the 75 Monte on the Belleville Turnpike heading out towards Kearney/Lyndhurst and I was up between 80-85 mph, with a quart of beer between my legs and no seatbelt...

so, we come to this part of the road where there is an incline and you cannot see the road on the other side. Well lo and behold I got to the top of the hill and the traffic was stopped and backed up not far from the bottom of the other side.

I panicked for a second or two and luckily my buddy thought quick, he reached over and turned the steering wheel all the way to the left and we missed the back of the car by inches at probably 60mph... And thank goodness there was no oncoming traffic in the other lane or it would have been head-on...

needless to say I realized i just dodged a big bullet and turned the car around and drove home at a nice slow pace...

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