hm, I hope you were not right behind them but I think you must have been. Yikes!

What a long, strange trip it's been...

If I just squash down the top bit with these super strong belts, all other bits are fine. It's a law of nature or something. And of course, I won't have to stop suddenly or anything, nothing could possibly fall off this truck. It all fits, see!

Casey Jones, you'd better watch your speed.

I'd rather be behind a garbage truck in July.

Nice. His truck looks like it's about to tip over backwards.

I wish we were able to read what was written on that top box.

Garcia, enhance that photo!

Wow! Reminds me of the time I drove past sofa roadkill on the Hwy one day. A sofa fell off of a pickup truck and went rolling down the road with it's cushions flying every which way. The dude driving the pickup didn't even stop.

As I was driving down the same stretch of road the next day, I noticed someone had uprighted the couch on the side of the road AND had located and replaced the seat cushions -- then just left it there to be rained on. Yep.

He has to know that traffic doesn't move too fast....even in the passing lane.

And if for some reason traffic did start to move, he'll take care of that!

It kind of looks like a Toyota pickup...maybe the boxes are "ballast" to keep the truck heavy so that if it accelerates like crazy that the truck wont be able to get up much speed?

Happens in the country too... I live in rural VT, and came around the corner the other day to find a pickup stopped in the middle of a 3-way intersection, back gate down, and chainsaws spread all over the road. Also a very angry man picking them up and hurling them back into the bed. Then a guy pulled up behind me honking his horn - he had the gas can that apparently dropped a mile back.

Are you sure you weren't driving in Houston this morning?

I have to admit that I have helped The Farmer do the very same thing. I knew it was a bad idea, but he insisted. And it was easier to just go along than risk Farmer Wrath. Danged if he didn't get where he was going without losing a thing! I'll never understand packing a pickup.

Ha! I saw a truck moving a house down the highway in N. Florida a few years ago. Double-wide. An awesome sight.

Yikes! That dude makes my hair stand on end.

Sorry to be off-topic, but I have to give you a word of thanks for inspiring me to make fish in parchment paper. I made it for my husband and teenage son last night and we all gave it an A+. We're not much for fish at my house, so that was a huge score. Thanks Crazy Aunt Purl!

that's a high quality moving company, right there!

Kari, so glad you liked it! So far it's the only way I have found to consistently cook appetizing fish. All the other methods are too easy for me to screw up. Plus, with the parchment paper there is no mess to clean up!

I love it when I see things like that. I'm always amazed that the contents actually stay put.

Do those bottom boxes say "This Side Up", upside down?

Gotta love redneck movers.

I thank heavens for my 4.5 mile commute each way. But it is along a road with mudslides, falling trees and boulders and especially dicey during the rains.

Have you seen "Getting Over Him in Eight Songs or Less."? It's on HBO-On Demand. A lot of elements of your early blog.

Could he be part of the cast for Beverly Hillbillies 2010?

Proof that, as Jeff Foxworthy says, there are rednecks everywhere :-)

You ever see a car on the 405 with a bed strapped to the hood? I have had.

Of course the San Francisco city street version of this is the mini pickups with very open 2-by-4 frames loaded 8-10 feet tall, from over the cab to the end of the tailgate with scavenged cardboard. Held only by very lightweight rope. And of course the truck has no heavy duty suspension.

But somehow, the music never stops.

P.S. Next Monday is Phil Lesh's 70th birthday.

Your new camera works great!

oh happy to day, to see my first Grateful Dead reference in a knitting blog!!

Lol, I live in South Fla so sadly we see stuff like that all the time. At least he attempted to secure it, I ended up hitting a bale of hay on the highway here. Yes a bale of hay because the guy thought he could pile hay in the back of his truck and still go 80mph and everything would stay put. Luckily he was the only other insured driver in Miami, besides me. And his insurance paid for all the damage and the rental. It was really funny when I called my insurance company right after it happened and the guy was like "are you in a rural area ma'am?". Nope on the 826 in Miami.

I want to see the writing too! HA!!
In MY red- neck- of- the- woods( Farmland, Hoosierville USA) the cardboard boxes are totally optional...exceptin' the ones filled with Coor's Light!

There must be something wrong with me.... I didn't notice anything unusual about the truck. It wasn't until I read the comments that I got it. Living in Georgia might contribute

Oh, please! Just this morning I was on the road beside a smallish pickup carrying a load of screen room parts - the parts were way taller than the truck, from the ground up, and extended beyond the truck in all directions. (Picture a chihuahua carrying a dining room table.) They were held on by two, maybe three, straps. I wasn't so much worried that the load would shift, but that a good gust of wind would throw the whole thing into the other lane, truck and all. (Like Jen W, I'm in FL.)

I'm still giggling that one of your lovely commenters called a lane on the 101 a "passing" lane. As if. I'm not missing your commute girl.

I have to agree with Kari and thank you Laurie for introducing me to cooking with paper! Instead of fish, I used boneless skinless chicken thighs. I could not find sole at the store, so I had to make do. It was wonderful! What really made it to me was the lemon slices. I made rice pilaf as a side dish. Keep on inspiring us!

I think the grey "cable" is actually duct tape. The grey, or "mother of all duct tape" imparts special powers to the user. In this case, the user has activated the anti-gravity power. Also the police repelling force field. Therefore, I know those appliances did not fall off the truck,he did not get a ticket for an obstructed rear window, and the Home Depot didn't give him the crap fridge missing both an essential part and the Owner's Manual. Viva la duct tape!!

I love this blog. The comments are as entertaining as the posts.

I live outside of Chicago and see this stuff, too. It's not just a southern thing:-)

Reminds me of a moving truck I saw in Cincinnati once - Sudden Moving & Storage. Had to pull over - was laughing so hard I couldn't drive...

Did he make it? Or was he on the evening news like the "abandoned house" on the 101 a couple of years back? The transmission on that truck will never be the same.

Living in rural Wisconsin I see stuff like this all of the time. Some times traffic will be going 15 miles per hour because a mile ahead will be farm machinery traveling at a snails pace.

I live in Minneapolis and saw a king-sized mattress on top of a Honda Civic. No ropes or straps or tape. Just four dudes, each with an arm out a window, hanging on to that mattress as they did 55 down a local highway. I got around them in a hurry.