[Porsche-O-Phile]

Your incident is an inconvenience. Not all that long ago I had an "unsecured" igloo gatorade jug come loose off a "work truck" on the freeway at about 75 miles an hour. I was on my motorcycle behind. It's probably 90% luck and 10% skill that I'm alive today as a result. If I'd hit it, I can virtually guarantee I'd have lost control of the bike and probably been launched. Large, cylindrical objects in your path of travel doing freeway speeds on a motorcycle get your attention in a big hurry.

About a month ago I saw a semi-mangled aluminum ladder sitting in the left lane of the 22 freeway. Good thing I saw it well in advance and was in a different lane. Hit it in a car or truck - it's an inconvenience and some money. Hit such a thing on a motorcycle and you could very well be looking at a trip to the morgue.

Needless to say, I for one am VERY concerned about this - the general state of our roads and the amount of debris/crap that accumulates on them. Why the heck aren't all the gang bangers doing "community service" out picking up this stuff? God knows we've got enough of them.

And yes, I think a big part of the problem is illegals that don't care and treat the entire region as an extension of some third-world country/mentality where endless amounts of garbage are free to be thrown/deposited anywhere. That and the fact that people are unfathomably stupid/inconsiderate when it comes to vehicle operation.

Cripes there was a SOFA in lanes reported on KNX last week. What's next?