Years ago I was driving at night and, as I got closer to a car ahead of me, I saw what looked like a small red light orbiting another red light! As I got very close, at a stoplight, the picture became clearer: The car had a bicycle mounted on the back so that one wheel was over one of the red taillights, and the wheel was rotating–probably because of the car’s motion–and the “orbiting” red light I saw was a red reflector on the spokes, revolving around the taillight! Still, it had the same effect as the title footage on 3rd Rock from the Sun has. 
Post here something you saw from behind the wheel, that you thought was funny. 
An elderly asian man riding a pink little girls bike down a busy street. Obviously as a mode of transportation.
I saw a car that had run into a cherry picker. No one was hurt, but boy did that look funny. Car hanging from the cherry picker. Definitely one of those times where I could understand lookie loos.
A car with a Tazmanian Devil air freshener. And Taz decals in every window, often taking up the entire window. A plush Taz resting on the back seat. Taz artistically painted on the doors of the car. The vanity plate, TDEVIL77. It irks me to think that there are 76 other cars like this.
Better still, a car with a gigantic Playboy Rabbit Head decal on the rear window, and the vanity plate, Big Tease.
Often the road provides its own entertainment.
A tank with a “Student Driver” placard (in Scotland).
A young black man, walking down the street, carrying a basketball, wearing a shirt with glittery letters proclaiming him “#1 MOM!”
'Bout ran off the damn road laughing.
I saw a Motorhome towing a Jeep behind it, and in the Jeep’s driver and passanger seat were a HUGE stuffed gorilla, and a HUGE stuffed tiger. They were buckled in mind you. Gotta practice seat belt safety no matter if you’re living or a stuffed animal
Does it count if I wasn’t driving, but standing at the edge of the street, smoking a cigarette?
That’s exactly what I was doing during my first year at Young & Rubicam (NYC ad agency). Some hippie charged out into the middle of Madison Avenue and took off all his clothes. Running betwixt taxicabs for a good 5 minutes, he met his match when some of New York’s “Finest” wrestled him to the ground, cuffed him and threw him in the back of a squad car. I never really figured out what it was that drove that hippie to run out into the street naked like that, but I sure felt sorry for the cop who had to tackle him.
A bus completely covered in Powerpuff Girls artwork.
A woman driving on the highway, doing at least 100 k/h, using an eyelash curler and applying mascara.
A man driving on the highway, using a laptop.
A man driving on the highway, shaving his face.
“Jesus” walking down the street, dragging a massive cross.
A group of guys driving a car that was plastered in signs, “SHOW US YOUR TITS!”
Where to start.
Setting: About 150kms west of Georgetown. For all you forners this is about 500 kms west (ie inland) of where they filmed the last “Survivor”. The middle of what is charitably called savannah only because the desert species drown in the floods every summer. Middle of March. This is as close to the middle of nowhere as you’re going to get. Temperature about 40[sup]o[/sup]C. Middle of the afternoon.
A man in late twenties/early thirties. No shirt and wearing a bandanna pulled down over his eyes to the tip of his nose. Sunburnt bright red walking directly into the afternoon sun. Leading a horse loaded with about a dozen plastic shopping bags with water in them. The water was sloshing out all over the horse with every step. Apparently he’d walked there from the east coast. He refused to talk to anyone and just slept in the scrub every night and walked all day. Wierd anywhere but very strange in the middle of the desert.
Setting:A minor road in the middle of the rainforest in north Queensland.
Come tearing around a corner to be confronted by the Lord Jesus Christ. I kid you not a man with long hair and beard, wearing a loose, oversized white T-shirt, jeans and sandles with a full-sized cross slung over his shoulder. The cross had little wheels on the bottom for travelling. It’s an impressive sight when you see him standing in the middle of the road looking more then a little startled by a 4WD coming towards him at speed. I’ll admit I was too scared to stop and ask his story but I found out later he was planning on walking around the continent carrying his cross. Jesus of the Jungle. Now that’s wierd.
Setting: 50kms south of Cunnamulla. Again the middle of nowhere and real desert country complete with sand dunes.
An aboriginal man, wearing shorts and a large beard and nothing else, carrying two spears and about half a dozen didgeridoos steps out onto the highway to ask for a lift. Turns out he ran a small business making ‘artefacts’ for the tourists and had gotten his ute bogged. We only had a ute so he had to ride in the back back into town. That got a few looks form the couple of cars we passed.
I could go on. You see some odd things on outback tracks.
The funniest thing I’ve ever seen while driving was a man, going about 80/mph, FULLY reclined and jacking-off. He didn’t really seem to be paying very much attention to the road.
~Kittie
When I was riding the school bus once, it stopped at a busy intersection for a red light. One of my friends noticed his brother’s car on the other side of the intersection, going the other way, so he jumped out of the bus door, sprinted across the intersection, and jumped in the car.
Once, while driving near my house. I saw a mobile home that had been converted into a gigantic Jesusmobile with all kinds of cheesy slogans written all over it. This was on a narrow residential road, and it could barely make it around the turn (the driver must have had some divine guidance.)
The “Pinchero”, a hybrid vehicle that almost defies description. It is on a first generation Bronco chassis (1966-70), and has a modified Pinto body. It was a wagon, but the back was turned into a pickup bed, a la the Ford Ranchero, hence the name.
Now for the really strange part: it’s pink. Stark, flaming, carnation pink.
It can probably still be seen cruising the highways and byways of Washington County, Oklahoma. I have several friends in that area that are 1st gen Bronco fanatics and they told me about the car. I couldn’t quite figure out what this thing looked looked like in my head until one day I was sitting in my car at the Bartlesville Mall, looking at some of my latest purchases, when it pulled in and parked right next to me. Since I have a very low car, at first I thought it was a big pink 4wd pickup, which would be strange to begin with. Then I started the car and started retracting the convertible top. I glanced over and was dumbstruck. Definitely a one-of-a-kind.
Haven’t seen it in a couple years, but a van used to be seen around the Valley from time to time. It was covered, every inch of it, with metal objects. Utensils, parts of machines, flattened cans, and I don’t know what all. All of it was sprayed bronze. Don’t know if the owners have given up driving it, dismantled it, it’s broken down, or they moved away. Should have asked them, while I had the chance, what inspired them. I saw them in the parking lot of Lucky’s, as it was at the time, more than once. But I didn’t want to bore them with the same old questions.
I have to give them points: it must have been a blast furnace in there, even in what Angelenos call winter. Air condtioning would have helped, but jeez, like the gas mileage wouldn’t be bad enough already!
Also, anyone who lives in the Valley must have seen Dennis Woodruff’s car.
A stretch limo, painted very pale “institutional” green, raised up on a monster truck chassis. The tires alone are taller than my car.
A big black hearse with the same treatment.
A van covered completely in duct tape.
The Mystery Machine is in Columbia, Mo.
There was a van in my hometown for a bricking company that was covered in fake bricks.
I haven’t seen it on the road, but in a car commercial there was a school bus with monster truck tires. That’s pretty funny.
Tattva, if that commercial was for Subaru, then that was a real Alaskan school bus.
The funniest thing I’ve ever seen? A 1950s-era Caddy hearse with a 48-inch lift kit installed. Even more frightening, it was for sale.
-Brianjedi
I drove truck for a while and the raised vantage point gives a truck driver an entertaining point of view at times.
Suffice it to say that people in convertibles should put the top up more often if they do not want their more intimate moments shared.
On the way home from a family reunion in North Dakota I was driving through Eau Claire, WI and mown into the grass on the side of a hill along the freeway was the word: UFO
For quite a while in Lake Geneva, WI, this guy used to keep a female mannequin strapped into the front passenger seat.
I’d always thought it was an urban legend, but I actually saw it one day as I was walking down the street!
It was pretty freaking looking…
Also in Wisconsin, I was driving home from my oldest niece’s high school graduation in Woodruff and got caught in a power play on the highway with a station wagon with WI license plates (I’m from Illinois). They just flat out did NOT want me in front of them and no matter what, they did what they could to keep me from getting in front of them. Finally, I sped about 80 MPH around a bunch of cars to get away from them. I went to get in the left lane and somehow they were there to make sure I didn’t get in!! I still can’t figure out how they did it, since the highway was packed that day… Anyway, I came up along side them where 90/94 splits (they were taking the left exit, I was taking the right) and a little old lady on the passenger side of the car was sitting there FLIPPING ME OFF! She was 90 if she was a day and could barely see over the side of the car. My friend (who had come with me) and I were totally flabbergasted! We laugh about it to this day.