Wordless Wednesday

That’s a huge sinkhole isn’t it? I’m amazed that the vehicle parked beside it seems to be on stable ground!

Here’s another big sinkhole.

Can you imagine driving along and then feeling the ground open up beneath you. Scary! Glad it’s never happened to me so far (crossing fingers!).

I’ve seen a lot of photos of donkeys pulling carts or even old rusted out vehicles, but I’ve never seen a donkey riding in a car let along a taxi!

Is this a case of Donkey See, Donkey Do? Or maybe it’s just payback for all the hauling it’s had to do in it’s lifetime?

Have you ever been driving on a highway and noticed items like mattresses, box springs or other large objects on the road or at the side of the road? If you’re like me you’re probably glad that you weren’t driving behind a vehicle when they lost those items, right?

Well, an elderly motorcyclist wasn’t so lucky. Last month a motorcycle rider was critically injured when a boxed bathtub fell off a pickup truck.

Wow, hit by a bathtub. That man will have a story to tell! When he was hit on a Louisiana interstate he was thrown from his bike and landed on the grass median. When helped arrived he was taken to a local hospital. I’m uncertain as to what his injuries were but I’d imagine that he’d have a few broken bones at the very least.

Naturally the pickup driver was charged with driving with an unsecured load and booked for negligent injury.

Martin Baylis of Plymouth, Devon was a very nervous man after having had a snake hide in his car for four days He ended up dismantling his car in order to retrieve the serpent.

Martin had been transporting the reptile, Dave the rat eating Sinaloan milk snake, to his 20 year old son Chris’ home when it escaped from the tank. The tank had been in the trunk of the car and by the time the discovery was made the snake had vanished into the vehicles bodywork.

Martin went to work removing the seats and dashboard but he still couldn’t find the snake.

Over the next few days the snake occasionally popped out of crevices in the car three times while poor Martin was driving. Baylis finally managed to trap the sneaky snake in a pillow case.

The dad of three said: “It’s an unnerving feeling knowing there’s a 4ft snake circumnavigating the whole car.”