This is the second time that something like this has happened to me. Amazon's scheduler is busted. - Laurence Gonsalves

They do that to stop traffic before accidents sometimes. Maybe they changed their mind. - Sanjeev Singh

They also do it for traffic congestion, they slow down traffic to relieve congestion further down the road.. - Derek Collison

I saw a CHP motorcycle do that one time to stop traffic and move a huge chunk of metal that was lying in the middle of the road. - Jim Norris

Yeah, afterwards I was wondering if he was trying to set up some sort of roadblock, but I didn't see any obstacles or accidents further up the road. A few years ago I'd seen a car go out of control in a very similar manner, so this really worried me when I saw it. (The car I saw a few years ago ended up doing an end-over end flip into the ravine at the side of 101.) - Laurence Gonsalves

Photos? - Robert Konigsberg

or it didn't happen... :) - Sam Pullara

Sorry, no photos... but it really did happen. :-) - Laurence Gonsalves

wow... how big was the hawk? - Mitchell Tsai

I'd guess a bit over 20 inches from beak to tail. It showed up twice. The first time I'd snagged my line on a branch about 20 feet up and was trying to shake it down when the hawk landed on the tree near where the line was caught. After about 10 seconds it flew off. A couple of minutes later I got the line down and threw it back up into the tree (trying to get a certain branch), and the hawk flew over me from behind. It was much closer that time, but it was moving pretty fast and didn't stick around. - Laurence Gonsalves