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Cool, that truck has a rotary sparkler shower generator...

Funny, I've never seen a sparkler generator for sale anywhere, they must be new?.....

Odd only one wheel seems to have a rotary sparkler generator...

Works great though, throws out lots of sparks.....

Holy Sh@%! A wheel is coming right at me! I'll swerve to the right....ACK the wheel is going to hit me! I'll swerve the to the left... OMG I'm heading tward oncoming traffic!!! ACK the truck with the sparkler generator is swerving into my lane, that rotary sparkler generator is causing the truck to lose control....

Phew missed em both....Hey that wasn't a rotary sparkler generator, that truck was missing a wheel....

Why is my heart rate up like I just ran a marathon?

Hey why are my underware dirty???

WOW! I'm glad you survived that. My heart kind of spead up a bit just reading your post.

My daughter had a wheel that came off a car plow into her corolla. Took out the front end.

Years ago here in Atlanta someone lost a tire on the beltway. The wheel hit the cement median which launched it into the air into oncoming traffic.
It found its mark into someone's windshield. DOA.
:(

When I bought my prius, the Westborough dealership had another
'04 out back that had been "tired" -- almost the same way, a loose
wheel bounced across the median and landed on the hood of this
poor prius that itself was going upwards of 70 mph. A couple
of milliseconds later, the driver would have been toast, but
even though the occupant was fine the inverter and surrounding
parts were a mess. Makes ya think.
.
Another reason for hangin' in the right lane...
.
_H*

I've seen this a couple times and there IS nothing more terrifying than a wheel coming toward you on the freeway.
You might be able to avoid it, but that doesn't take you out of the pinball game that's going to be played in .01 seconds.
And then you realize somewhere a little further ahead there's a car with 3 tires. Talk about intestinal pressure.

Was coming home from school one day and watched a car in the left-hand lane (of a 3-lane one way, I was in the right-hand lane) lose it's right-front wheel. It just spun off, the car dropped onto the axle, and the tire kept rolling.

Does this happen a lot?