Riding the Sound Transit bus can provide some interesting stories.  Well, actually any long commute can provide interesting stories.  After work today I had just caught the bus and it was sitting at the intersection waiting to pull out of the Overlake Transit Center.  I'm in the far back on the left side next to a window.  I am calling my wife when I look up and just like a large bouncy ball, this truck tire, still on its rim, bounces into view about 7 feet in the air.  No joke!  My wife answered the phone at the same time I started laughing and trying to understand what I had just seen.  Looking to my right there is a Chevy Tahoe with a missing tire on the rear of the driver's side.  It is just sitting there on the brake rotor.  The tire must have just come completely off and rolled till it hit a curb and flew into the air. 

 

Luckily the tire didn't hit anyone.  It landed in the grass next to the sidewalk where it proceeded to bounce off some structures and roll back into the street, stopping in the left turn lane of the south lanes.  No harm, no foul, except to the Tahoe owner that was sitting in her car on the cell phone, probably with AAA or her husband wondering what had just happened herself.

 

It just isn't everyday I see tires come bouncing into view.