Did the Holy Spirit Descend Upon Me This Morning?

[Dibbons]

Everything was quiet in the yard as I finished up waxing the almost fresh paint on my '65 Barracuda Formula S. The Doberman kept laying down on the concrete right smack dab in the middle of my work area (but thankfully she grudgingly moved away when asked politely).

Then I heard a loud whoosh of wind, or air, or maybe it was something that fell off a shelf nearby! I never heard anything like it before, kind of like the air brakes going on or off on an eighteen wheeler. It only lasted about a second, then all quiet once again.

Here we have a total of five vehicles parked all around, so I began my search looking over the twenty tires. No, all appeared to be in order there. Looked inside the vacant building (someday to be our home-if it ever gets completed) where I store stuff. No, nothing on the floor that gravity may have pulled down.

Then I opened the rear hatch of the '92 Cherokee where I had thrown a tire that lost its tread the other day, but the air had not escaped. Bingo! I guess I wasn't being blessed after all.

 

[odcics2]

Was driving next to a semi when a tire blew.
You don't forget it!!!!

 

[BeepBeepRR]

Was driving next to a semi when a tire blew.
You don't forget it!!!!

Me too on I-75 North that scared the crap out of me.. And loud as hell too.

 

[33 IMP]

I have had four tires blow like that in recent years, but all were on parked cars. One on the front of my racecar while it was in the garage on Jackstands (!? that was scary) one on the rear of a dually, and two on a parked camaro. For honesty sake, the dually and camaro were in 115° + Arizona heat, and the all were old tires.

 

[67440chrg]

When I was young and only afforded used tires I had two blow out on a trip from KC to OKC about a six hour trip. I drove on one with the tread missing for about 30 miles to a town. I miss being young but not being that broke. A old man in the middle of no where made me a real good deal on more used tires then back to 80mph in my rusted out Plymouth Trailduster again.

 

[Brandy]

Way back in olden times, 1976, I was driving a 5 ton military wrecker down the Autobahn in West Germany. Against regulations I was cruising at 65 miles an hour in the left fast lane. The regs are there because those military off road tires are not designed to roll at those speeds for hours because they generate a lot of heat. So, I'm rolling along and suddenly BOTH front tires go BLAMM!! and the whole front of the truck slams down onto the roadway with sparks flying, the steering wheel trying to break my arms and the noise of a hundred demons screaming in the air around me. I managed to steer it to a stop up against the inside guard rail with 5 lanes of cars going hell bent for leather between me and a safe parking place. About 2 feet of big *** mil truck still hanging out into the fast lane. Along comes the Polizei on his big BMW bike and he was NOT happy about the whole affair. Jabbering and gesticulating everywhere..like I could understand a single word...all in all a fun time...lol.
One of these...

 

[Dibbons]

When I was working as a Border Patrol Agent in El Paso: My partner was driving our "patrol" vehicle which was a full-size Ford van. We parked under a freeway overpass near the border waiting for illegal entries. No crossings after a couple of hours so my partner starts to drive out from under the overpass. The front of the vehicle suddenly drops down a few inches, we each hear a super loud pop (like a gun shot) and the vehicle jerks to a stop.

There was a formed concrete channel for water drain off (which was dry at the time) that the Ford dropped into. Then instead of the front end climbing back out, both front tires slammed into the opposite vertical side of this mini drain canal, the rims bent, and both tires blew at the same instant. We only had one spare tire so we had to call for help. We felt clever hiding under the overpass at first, then felt rather foolish after blowing out a pair of government tires.