Mile. Long. Dog.
As kids we went on holiday to camp over in Switzerland a couple of times. Part of this budget way to get across Europe involved a crushingly long drive from the ferry through France, and most notably the white knuckle ride around Paris' own North Circular, the Peripherique.

This road is basically just a bigass roundabout that surrounds Paris and has similar rules for entering / exiting as footage you might have seen of the roundabout at the foot of the Champs Elysee - ie no real rules at all.

Anyway - the second year we made the gruelling trip we got severely stuck in a traffic jam and ended up piddling around this road at about 1 mile per hour for what seemed like an eternity. What had caused it wasn't clear for a long long time, until I started to notice a certain amount of red on the road - sort of a streak.
As we continued, it got wider, more vibrant and with better overall coverage of the pale parisian concrete.

What could it have been? Well eventually we got to the front of the 'blockage' and there was a car pulled up against the aanco with the remains of a very large alsation dog caught up in and around its rear axle, bumper and chassis. Fur. Guts. Bone. The lot. Quite traumatic for a 10 year old boy at the time.

It must have run on to the road from one of the overpasses but what I never really worked out was how after being hit and caught under the car, the driver took what must have been easily a mile before realising and stopping.

Like 'National Lampoons Vacation without the woody wagon' (Though it was a Citroen Safari so similar...
(AFL)
( LittlePixel, Fri 22 Jun 2007, 16:00, Reply)