Potential comic accidents

[Arch]

Just riding back from campus, enjoying a freewheel down one of York's few 'hills', I spied a woman crossing the road ahead. She was carrying about four cardboard trays, the sort moulded to take eggs, stacked one on top of the other, and each holding about 48 eggs.. And I thought, this would be a very comic point for my brakes and/or steering to fail..

Anyone ever had a real comic accident? Found themselves careering towards two men holding a sheet of plate glass between them, or turned a corner to find themselves in the midst of a military band/drum majorettes march past or anything?

(Afterwards, I thought, even if I'd just shouted suddenly, she'd have had egg on her face, but I would have had to shell out for the damage and on my budget, that's no yolk....)

(Also, bizarrely, she was carrying the eggs FROM a B and B, to a van liveried up form an egg farm. I'd sort of assume it would be the other way about...)

 

[Kirstie]

i've always wanted to crash through a ramshackle wooden barn stuffed with straw and chickens, leaving a person/bike shaped hole in both sides and sending chickens fleeing in all directions....but it's not happened, yet...

 

[alecstilleyedye]

we used to have a geography teacher who rode into school (wilmslow) from macclesfield. to those local to the area, he used to ride past the wizard and down the steep hill into alderley edge past the hotel.

one fateful day he suffered brake failure and careered across the main road and through the window of what was then a shop called "joy toy" (now a chippy).

we used to whisper "joy toy" in class to wind the guy up

 

[fossyant]

Tisk - could he not have gone down the side road by the Trafford pub......

 

[alecstilleyedye]

Tisk - could he not have gone down the side road by the (de) Trafford pub......

which a few years later had a range rover wedge itself into the porch, go i guess that road must have a mystic forcefield…

 

[Night Train]

Don't know how comic this could have been but it got me totally confused and and made me question my sanity for a moment.

I was visiting the local tip and reversng the trailer in. As I turned around to drive forwards again all I saw was sky, loads of blue sky and a few whispy clouds. I couldn't see the ground, the tip or any people. It had all vanished and there I was driving up into the clouds. The car was still creaping forwards but then vertigo got the better of me and I jammed the brakes on to try and stop my sudden skyward progress.













Turned out to be two blokes carrying a large mirror to the tip right in front of me.

 

[Amanda P]

We were riding down a steep hill through a town somewhere in Devon. Parked on the left, just before a bend, was a bread van with the back doors open.

As I went to overtake it, a car appeared round the bend coming the other way. No time to brake, so to avoid it, I steered close to the bread van to go between it and the car.

As I got the back of the van, a guy suddenly appeared in front of me, about to cross the road carrying a tray of loaves on the palm of one hand.

"Wah!" I shouted, as helpfully as I could.

"Woah!" he responded, equally inarticulate, and describing a graceful pirouette out of the way. Ten yards further down the road, when I'd managed to stop, I looked round to see him dancing about trying to recover control of the tray.

He managed it after a few seconds.

We laughed anyway.

 

[andy_wrx]

I once rode into the back of a parked car (in York actually, Arch) by staring too hard at the front brake, trying to see if it was rubbing on the wheel.
At the last moment, I noticed the car in my peripheral vision, couldn't stop or avoid it, so as I ran into the back of it I stuck my arms out and landed on the back of it.
The tyre hit the bumper, no damage to car or bike, I was OK but stuck spread-eagled on the back of the car with my feet still in the toeclips trying to work out how to get off without the bike falling over and me sprawling in the road.

This was right opposite a hotel - the doorman thought it was much funnier than I did...

 

[Arch]

Not even a potential accident, but as I rode through town yesterday I saw a van delivering a small box to JJB sports (driver was handing box from back of van to shop worker), and clearly visible in the back of the van behind the driver, were about half a dozen inflatable bananas. Inflated.

WTF?

Sorry, Andy, I'm with the doorman on that one! Well, assuming you weren't hurt..

Uncle Phil - did either of you say "crumbs!"?

Kirsty, I love the barn and chickens idea. There would have to be a sound track of banjo music and aggrieved clucking....

 

[Arch]

Night train, that sounds creepy, with the mirror!

 

[Kirstie]

Kirsty, I love the barn and chickens idea. There would have to be a sound track of banjo music and aggrieved clucking....

and intermittent squawking too...and a flurry of straw

 

[marinyork]

I've seen a plate of glass being carried across a busy main road for a renovation when I was cycling past. More amusingly it was very likely for one of my landlord's renovations on a house he'd just bought in York and had people working on at the time.

When I was cycling through tang hall those horses that were usually tethered there from time to time escaped and were galloping around Tang Hall. Would have been funnier if there were a horsebox going home at the time as there are quite a few horses near that area.

 

[Arch]

Yeah, I've seen horses tethered beside James Street, luckily, never loose! Always a bit of a double take moment though...

 

[marinyork]

Other end of Tang Hall. That nature reserve or perhaps they belonged to those travellers that were rotating around the Murton area for a while. A pretty strange sight seeing half a dozen horses happily gallop through a suburb with no riders.

 

[Night Train]

Night train, that sounds creepy, with the mirror!

For those few seconds it was really weird.
I did manage to come to my senses and stop the guys from dumping the mirror. I had it and two more the same before the tip operators got them. It was a very slow drive home with the mirrors balanced on my trailer.