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Strangest thing you've seen on your road.

  • 04-08-2011 05:49PM
    #1
    W.Shakes-Beer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭


    I was driving down my road just there on my way home from work.

    I was stopped at a set of traffic light on the road when I looked to my left and seen some chap in a blue Lacoste tracksuit cycling along the path.

    I looked closer and seen that in his hand was an electric beard trimmer thingy.

    He was trimming his knacker-tache while cycling to what I can presume was the nearby pub.


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  • #2
    cosmicfart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭cosmicfart


    Zombies driving other cars.


  • #3
    si_guru
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,345 ✭✭✭si_guru


    I was following a BMW and the indicators were used.


  • #4
    skregs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 746 ✭✭✭skregs


    Skobies.

    Go back to Tallaght or wherever, like


  • #5
    stephendevlin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,307 ✭✭✭stephendevlin


    Yesterday .. Old Guy in a tractor.. bollock naked driving down the road with a bail of hay on the back. (windows were all steamed up) Thank fook for that!


  • #6
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,249 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Yesterday on my local road I actually saw a driver in a Dublin registered car keep in and show some respect to other road users!


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  • #7
    Larianne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    When I lived in Melbourne, I used to see this dude a lot around Chapel street.

    On rollerskates, his dogs pulling him down the road. He used to wear a mad hat.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCkjaRPnDxs


  • #8
    FatherLen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    skregs wrote: »
    Skobies.

    Go back to Tallaght or wherever, like
    loike omg! yaw go back to tallaght! ghod!


  • #9
    stephendevlin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,307 ✭✭✭stephendevlin


    The dogs... lol thats a class way to get about!


  • #10
    PseudoFamous
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭PseudoFamous


    castletownman wrote: »
    Yesterday on my local road I actually saw a driver in a Dublin registered car keep in and show some respect to other road users!

    Clearly it was second hand, and had a sensible person at the wheel.


  • #11
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Probably the time someones horse got out and wiped it's arse on my neighbours window. Funniest thing I've ever seen.

    Motoring wise, I once saw a female drive competently.


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  • #12
    Mickjg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭Mickjg


    The sign at the top of the road where I grew up says (to this day)

    CAUTION
    CHILDREN LAYING


  • #13
    Show Time
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,637 ✭✭✭Show Time


    A section of the road with no potholes.


  • #14
    meoklmrk91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,083 ✭✭✭meoklmrk91


    Saw a fella dressesd up as luigi from super mario, was a costume, not make up. With what seemed like his missus and kids in the car. Very funny.


  • #15
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Really, really wish I had seen this guy, but no such luck:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056308456

    Years ago I passed road works where they were fitting cats' eyes to the road and saw a "Caution: Stud Laying Ahead" warning sign. I'm pretty sure I didn't imagine it anyway...


  • #16
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    meoklmrk91 wrote: »
    Saw a fella dressesd up as luigi from super mario, was a costume, not make up. With what seemed like his missus and kids in the car. Very funny.
    A green top and dungarees? You sure that wasn't just a normal outfit?


  • #17
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,745 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Found a cattle skull on my road when I was a kid, 'twas kind of weird because we lived in the city. It made a great racket when the council guy ran over it with a ride-on lawnmower.


  • #18
    meoklmrk91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,083 ✭✭✭meoklmrk91


    phasers wrote: »
    meoklmrk91 wrote: »
    Saw a fella dressesd up as luigi from super mario, was a costume, not make up. With what seemed like his missus and kids in the car. Very funny.
    A green top and dungarees? You sure that wasn't just a normal outfit?
    No because he actually had a luigi head on him.

    Like this: http://cdn3.iofferphoto.com/img/item/203/042/600/super-mario-and-luigi-2-adult-size-mascot-costume-eur-2bb2d.jpg


  • #19
    ratmouse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,856 ✭✭✭ratmouse


    This happened a few years back when I was learning to drive. I was out on a lesson one summers day with the driving instructor and was driving on a country raod between Greystones and Kilmacanogue. It was only my second or third lesson so I was very nervous and concentrating really hard on all the instructions being given. Next thing as I drive around a bend, I see a cyclist on the opposite side of the road cycling along wearing a scream mask and what appeard to be a full length black cape! I tried hard to keep concentrating on the driving and not let this unanticipated sighting put me off. As I mentioned above, it was summer time so it definetly was nothing to do with Halloween and it was during the day, like about 3pm so I ruled out a fancy dress party! It was so random and the fact that the cyclist was cycling with a mask restricting his/her visibilty made it even more weird. But the strangest thing of all was the fact that my driving instructor didn't even comment on the scream character cyclist,almost as if it was anormal sighting on the roads!


  • #20
    up for anything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,791 ✭✭✭up for anything


    I had just reached the house my flat was in and there was a chap coming towards me holding his side awkwardly and I just knew he was going to say something to me. "Excuse me, Miss. Have you got a bandage I've just been stabbed". He kept going and by the time I registered what he'd said and caught sight of the blood all along the pavement he was gone. Polite chap though.

    About six years ago when we lived on a housing estate we woke up one morning to see blood all up neighbours wall beside their front door and the blood trail led all the way through town about two miles. The couple had a new born and none of us knew them well so hesitated to knock. One of the neighbours did in the end and got short shrift so she rang the guards fearing something untoward had happened. They investigated and said he worked some place with sharp knives and had cut himself in work and cycled home. I still find that a bit odd.


  • #21
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    meoklmrk91 wrote: »
    No because he actually had a luigi head on him.

    Like this: http://cdn3.iofferphoto.com/img/item/203/042/600/super-mario-and-luigi-2-adult-size-mascot-costume-eur-2bb2d.jpg
    :D you win


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  • #22
    Absurdum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,444 ✭✭✭Absurdum


    Mickjg wrote: »
    The sign at the top of the road where I grew up says (to this day)

    CAUTION
    CHILDREN LAYING

    we had a CAUTION CHILDREN sign, someone wrote "WITH BRICKS" under it

    see lots of STOP signs with HAMMERTIME under it these days, so unoriginal :rolleyes:


  • #23
    PseudoFamous
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭PseudoFamous


    Absurdum wrote: »
    see lots of STOP signs with HAMMERTIME under it these days, so unoriginal :rolleyes:

    I like the "TRAMPS AHEAD" signs, tbh.


  • #24
    W.Shakes-Beer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭W.Shakes-Beer


    PseudoFamous wrote: »
    I like the "TRAMPS AHEAD" signs, tbh.

    Or the classic, changing the C to P - "Pul de sac"


  • #25
    ScrubsfanChris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,599 ✭✭✭ScrubsfanChris


    An elephant......



    ... it might have had something to do with the circus ;)


  • #26
    maiden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 798 ✭✭✭maiden


    Last Hallowe'en my scumbag neighbours had a fancy dress party and really late that night it all kicked off outside my house.!

    Fists flying, tshirts being ripped off when all of a sudden out of nowhere running towards the fight was a 20 stone woman in a FRENCH MAIDS outfit!!!!

    Since viewing that i haven't been right since but I swore I will never look out my window again unless i have a video cam in hand!


  • #27
    Daniel S
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,533 ✭✭✭Daniel S


    Your Ma!








    :D


  • #28
    merengueca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 465 ✭✭merengueca


    One Christmas Eve coming out of the town with my Mum and Nephew in the car saw some guy in full Santa outfit carrying a sack of toys walking along the street..... guess he was dropping pressies off and getting totally in the spirit, but as it was just gone dark it my 5 year old nephew was totally convinced it was HIM.

    Would love to know who the guy was as he made Christmas that year for the kids in our family due the official sighting!


  • #29
    bluto63
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭bluto63


    I once saw a guy driving the road while reading a novel. Not a road map, a novel.


  • #30
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    I dont own a road :(
    is this some perk I dont know about and am missing out on :confused:


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  • #31
    Fizgig Bandicoot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 149 ✭✭Fizgig Bandicoot


    While living in Phibsboro, saw a clown cycling down the road balancing a box of oranges on the handlebars.

    Live in Wexford now and regularly see a really old guy with long white hair and long beard bringing a goat for a walk (lead and all) on the Enniscorthy/New Ross Road. He's often topless.


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