I have now covered roughly 700 miles and am ready to comment on what I have seen along our nation's roadways at 9 mph. My first conclusion is that beer drinkers and smokers are pigs. No surprise here. Beer cans and smoking debris is by far the most prevalent items decorating the ditch. What are the most popular beer brands blithely being tossed out? Number one is Bud Light, followed closely by Coors light and a distant third is Busch light. With all this light beer they may be pigs but I guess they don't want to look like pigs. I did not see a single craft beer. In the soda category the winner is Mountain Dew. Dew's target market tilts towards
our feckless youth which tells me the marketeers are hitting their mark. Then we have less common items found along the road. Things that fly out of open boats: cooler lids, life preservers, nylon straps, bungee cords. There are lots of car parts, bolts, nuts, trim, shredded tires. Odd stuff: a pair of crutches and an ironing board. Finally stuff you should never set on the roof even for a second lest you forget: A Samsung smart phone and an Apple Ipad. Both smashed. That Ipad guy must have had a bad day.
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| Not so smart phone |
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| Wish I found this before it was run over. |
Then we have the carnage of critters that close up on a bike can be pretty grisley. For some reason racoons must be suicidal. They outnumber all other critters about 10 to 1. Number two is surprising: Frogs. Yes there are alot of desicated amphibians that drivers don't even notice but met their fate on the roadside. Should have stayed in the pond. Also surprising is that deer are that not that common but seem so for drivers since they are hard to miss. As I head further south, we will see if new creatures make the list. In fairness, I can't escape culpabililty in this category. I am shure a lot of grasshoppers, catapillers and crickets met their fate under my wheels that wanted to live just as much.
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| Hand cuffs. |
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Question: How does a fish manage to become roadkill?
Answer: Dropped by an eagle along lake Pepin |
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