ewww. that was hilarious and disgusting at the same time. thanks for that ;)
rg2 On 9/25/07, Bob Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh that's a messy picture Doug! Regards, Bob S. > > On 9/24/07, Doug Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > William Robb wrote: > > > > > I saw one on Saturday, though not as exciting as that. [...] > > > > My favorite was about 25 years ago. I was headed up I-95 northbound > > from Brunswick, GA, past Charleston, SC, to I-26 and home. That stretch > > of I-95 runs mostly through coastal lowlands and marshes. So, it's long > > straight flat stretches intermittently interrupted by low "ridges" for > > the overpasses. > > > > There was a truck a mile or two ahead of me loaded with chicken cages > > going to the processing plant. If you've never seen one of these, the > > cages are rectangular solids about two-feet square on the bottom and > > maybe 9 or 10 inches tall. And they stack them ten or twelve or so > > layers deep on a flatbed rig to haul them. > > > > Well, anyway. This truck is almost exactly one "ridge" ahead of me. For > > several miles, just as I'm topping one of those overpass "ridges", I see > > him topping the next one. Then I don't see him until I top the next ridge. > > > > So, this goes on for like five ridges, then we reach an area where I-95 > > goes under the crossing road instead of going over it. And that truck > > is loaded about two layers of cages deeper than the overpass is tall. > > > > Just as I topped the last hill before that bridge, he's out of sight, > > but I see this HUGE white cloud envelop the bridge. Uh oh! I knew what > > just happened, so I parked on the side of the highway for a few minutes > > to let the debris cloud settle. Good thing I did, too. > > > > When I got there about ten minutes later, the mess was unimaginable. > > And the cars who'd whipped past me while I waited for the cloud to > > settle were now parked just beyond the mess picking feathers and > > entrails off their cars. I did have to hose the car off a couple of > > miles down the road, but it was no big deal compared to what /those/ > > folks had to deal with. :-) > > > > -- > > Thanks, > > DougF (KG4LMZ) > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- "the subject of a photograph is far less important than its composition" -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
