Real Life Roadkill-type Stories

Had an old Suzuki Samurai and the throttle cable broke 3 hours from my house, used a shoe lace to tie the throttle where I wanted it. But after awhile it started to slack a bit and couldn’t do highway speeds so I pull over to redo it and the hood latch cable broke, so I had to take the through towns and back road route with a tied up throttle, got home :)
Oh geez, I broke that cable too on my 87 tintop. Was ready to run in the mountains but instead ran entire way home, just about 1 1/2 hours. Sore knees, ankles, feet