Driving home from work last night, I saw something dark in the middle of the road. It was roughly 7:45 so nearing the end of twilight and getting dark. Anyone who's been down Osceola Parkway near Disney knows that there's two cubic fucktons of dead possums, squirrels, and other small mammals on the road, and we usually just drive over them in between our tires.

Unfortunately for me what I drove over was not a dead animal, and I didn't notice until afterword that it was a very large piece of wood, that banged my car upwards a good several inches. Enough to fling my phone out of its holder and knock the windshield wipers active. Transmission is now completely shot and the local repair shop is estimating around $3000 in repair. Luckily we have insurance, but this could all have been avoided if I simply drove around it.

I remember there's a thread on Verb learning to drive. I'd hope he see this thread and not make the same shitty mistake I made. But knowing how Verb is, he wouldn't have done something like us Floridians do anyways. However the message is all the same to everyone: In any situation, think what Ian would do...and then DON'T do it.

When I started driving to work, literally everyone I saw drove over them but kept them in between their tires to make make anything more messy. It wasn't until I left FL that I saw other people do differently.

In some situations, driving around might not be feasible since there could be another car right next to you in a two lane road with one right behind you causing slowing down to be unavailable as an option as well.

people usually avoid them anyway though

Like I said, I thought it was roadkill. The idea of it being literally anything else is not feasible on that road and incredibly improbable considering there aren't any trees for at least another mile. I would chock this up to an act of God considering I've been going down that road for years and there has never been anything else other than roadkill on it.

But I agree with what you say, on other roads I usually go around all objects.

Driving over a foreign object on the road is never okay no matter the situation unless you absolutely have to.

No shit.

Wait, how do you fuck up a trans running over a two by four?

Lol stupid Ian wrecking his car

Quote from: Solonoid on August 29, 2016, 11:32:24 AM

Quote from: DAS B00T x2 on August 29, 2016, 11:02:59 AM

Wait, how do you fuck up a trans running over a two by four?

Ask Kiyo.

eh that kinda fell flat

Yeah not my best work.

I couldnt avoid something in the road a few weeks ago, it was a board and it cut my break line. Fun stuff

I think most people would slow down if they are going over large objects if they have a safe distance to.