Real Life Roadkill-type Stories

Early '90s, in the beeper era before I had a cell phone. Heading west into Buffalo on I-90 about 5:30 AM in a Mack Midliner six wheeler. 0°F.
The truck started losing power and I started to smell raw diesel at the same time. I pulled over, checked it out and found a rubber fuel hose with a good sized split in it. I could sit and freeze, hoping for someone to stop and help, or get busy. I cut out the bad section of hose. I pulled the guts out of a Bic pen and jammed the tube part into each end of the hose. I taped it up with vinyl electrical tape and was on my way. I got the 25 or so miles to the Pennzoil warehouse which was my destination. That was low pressure mechanical injection. It would never work on a modern, high pressure electronic injection diesel.