Ever had weird things thrown @ you...

[Bad JuJu]

Half-eaten hamburger--disgusting! It didn't actually hit me, but I was so shocked I didn't get the license plate number. I hope I'll have greater presence of mind if that sort of thing happens again.

[Grog]

I really feel for both the boy and the hedgehog.

I couldn't resist some unproductive googling. But they are really cute:




A hedgehog with broken bones (after colliding with a cyclist?):


And finally, how to wash a hedgehog (you've always wondered):
http://www.travelingtiger.com/pix/hedgehog.htm

Ok, sorry, I will go to work now!!!!

[GLC1968]

Those hedgehogs are so cute!!

I had a boy throw a dead bird at me in grade school. Does that mean he liked me?

While cycling - an unopened can of soda, general paper trash and a tin of tobacco (gotta love tobacco country!).

[Brandi]

Well as a Sand scupltor I have had a lot thrown at me! My husband had a metal skewer thrown at him from a 2nd story in a mall. Landed right next to him. Scary!
Funny I just reminding him of that and he is walking around right now saying "fricken psychopath" I hope that kid is in jail! That was 20 years ago when that happend.
I had food, rocks,toys and balls thrown at me as well. Nice people out there. And this is while we are sculpting. Oh the best for me was when someone shot a marble at the sculpture with a gun and it hit the back of my leg. I had a huge welt! And this was shot from the other side of a wall at a fair we were at in Colorado. We saw the house where it came from. We told the police on the grounds and they went to the house but the kid denied it.
it was a good thing it had not hit me in the head it wouldd have knocked me out! You would not think Sand sculpting could be dangerous?

[mimitabby]

I had food, rocks,toys and balls thrown at me as well. Nice people out there. And this is while we are sculpting. You would not think Sand sculpting could be dangerous?

Thanks for the reality check. Why the heck would people throw stuff at someone minding their own business and not even on the road?!?!??

[KathiCville]

Ugh, I can't believe the items you've had tossed at you while on your bikes (or in the sand). Yikes! So far (knock on wood) I've only had to deal with two close calls in which drivers seemed to want to force me off the road into a ditch. Don't know whether they were actually trying to, or simply didn't have a clue how incredibly close they came to hitting me as they passed...........Less scary, but no less startling was the beer bottle that a guy in the passenger seat of a fast-moving pick-up truck hurled at a road sign directly across the way from me. The bottle (empty) exploded as it hit the sign. Fortunately, none of the shards flew far enough across the road to hit me or get under my tires. I don't think the guys (driver, passenger) saw me until after their projectile was on its way to the sign; at any rate, I didn't get the feeling they were trying to harrass me.

[bikerHen]

I was having a great time riding home in yet another snow flurry last week, when I was hit with a burrito! Salsa and sour cream all over me and my bike! At first I thought it was snow from the wheels of a truck but then I started smelling salsa. I was pretty pissed, but my dogs were extra happy to see me that night. Plenty to lick off my shoes and bike.

Other than that, I've been hit with a golf ball, and of course the usual verbal assults. It all use to really upset me, but now I just chalk it up to stupid people doing stupid things and trust that karma will get them in the end. bikerHen