05-05-2016, 12:35 PM
I guess if you have to crash into something, a soft, comfy mattress is probably high on the list of preferred objects. 
Why do people think something propped over the cab of a truck is going to stay there at road speeds without being tied down? You don't need an aerodynamics degree to imagine what strong breeze is going to do to an object that's angled into the wind.
A couple of years ago I was riding down the interstate at about 70 mph, passing a truck with a long couch sticking up over the cab. It wasn't til I got right next to him that I realized that the couch wasn't tied down. I noticed this about the time the couch lifted off the cab and flew in my direction. I'm not sure how close it came because my head was planted on the gauges, but I could see the pattern of the fabric quite clearly out of the corner of my eye.
Why do people think something propped over the cab of a truck is going to stay there at road speeds without being tied down? You don't need an aerodynamics degree to imagine what strong breeze is going to do to an object that's angled into the wind.
A couple of years ago I was riding down the interstate at about 70 mph, passing a truck with a long couch sticking up over the cab. It wasn't til I got right next to him that I realized that the couch wasn't tied down. I noticed this about the time the couch lifted off the cab and flew in my direction. I'm not sure how close it came because my head was planted on the gauges, but I could see the pattern of the fabric quite clearly out of the corner of my eye.