# Drive-by sightings **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 13, 2004, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-by-sightings/250199 "2004-06-13T23:30:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-by-sightings/250199/1 "2004-06-13T23:30:41Z")
Ever see something strange as you were driving by? I think the strangest thing I’ve ever seen was as I was traveling through the Northwest, I can’t remember the city. I was driving along and saw a man in a dark suit arrest a police officer. What about you? ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-by-sightings/250199/2 "2004-06-14T04:11:07Z")
The freeway I use to go to work has practically no median so there’s a permanent jersey barrier instead. One morning there was an armored truck at a right angle to the direction of travel, neatly balanced on the barrier – high centered with a vengeance. when I came back that evening the truck was gone but a truck-wide, six-inch down bite was out of the barrier. It was patched up in a couple weeks. DD ---
**Author:** ![spizzum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@spizzum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spizzum)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-by-sightings/250199/3 "2004-06-14T04:25:35Z")
Because if they do, then the strangest thing I ever saw while driving was a guy wearing boxer shorts emerging from a sewer grate in the middle of the mall parking lot. ---
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-by-sightings/250199/4 "2004-06-14T04:46:28Z")
> [@spizzum](#): > > Because if they do, then the strangest thing I ever saw while driving was a guy wearing boxer shorts emerging from a sewer grate in the middle of the mall parking lot. Only three posts in, and we have a winner ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-by-sightings/250199/5 "2004-06-14T04:48:09Z")
Once in a parking lot I saw a group of teenaged boys chase down another teenage boy, beat him up and throw him in their car and drive off. After 7 years, I still wonder what happened to that boy on that day. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-by-sightings/250199/6 "2004-06-14T04:59:29Z")
A confused-looking young man emerging from the trunk of a small white sedan parked behind an auto body shop on a major thoroughfare. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-by-sightings/250199/7 "2004-06-15T15:20:02Z")
About midnight on Interstate 10 outside of Lordsburg, NM, I saw a man riding a wheelie on a bmx bike along the shoulder. He was followed by an RV, which I guess was his support vehicle and light source. I assumed he was riding a wheelie across the country, but I never heard anything about it. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-by-sightings/250199/8 "2004-06-15T18:24:49Z")
A young man walking down the street, who’d had a big night. You could tell because he had no pants on - his bottom half was clad only in boxers. The jeans that should have been around his waist were, interestingly enough, wrapped around his right foot, which he was dragging at every step to keep the impromptu denim footwear on. Apparently he’d lost one shoe at some point and had to walk home, and came up with this way of protecting one foot. Why, yes, I did see him in Vegas - why do you ask? Snicks ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-by-sightings/250199/9 "2004-06-15T18:40:54Z")
Driving down Ponce De Leon Ave. in Atlanta is always a treat. Drunks, prostitutes and the mentally unstable coexist in a surreal environment. The strangest sight I saw was a large, older woman at a bus stop scratching her butt. To increase the effectiveness of her fingernails she had pulled her pants down to her knees. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drive-by-sightings/250199/10 "2004-06-15T18:45:52Z")
I was driving down the street, with Barnes-Jewish Hospital on my right (a huge hospital complex in St. Louis). I was coming back from a weekend spent at my mom’s house in Indiana. I came to a stoplight, and across the street from me, three guys hopped out of a black SUV. They were all buck-naked. They ran around the car three times (you know - firedrill), hopped back in, and one of the guys popped, still naked, out of the sunroom and started flashing the people in front of him. I think the weirdest part of the whole experience was my reaction. I shrugged and muttered, “Huh. You don’t see that one everyday.”