Yeah my first too, a freaking ladder lol, never thought I'd run into one on the fwy. There's a hole in the bumper now, hopefully the insurers are gonna replace it and not do a patch job or it....I'd be royally pissed.
Basically I was driving on the right most lane and going past cars and suddenly all the cars on other lanes infront of me were jam braking so I thought maybe cop but I was at the limit and they were slower so couldn't be. So I braked lightly since there was a car behind me....and here comes a ladder, opened sliding across the fwy....decided to jam brake at this point since the car behind me would have seen me slowing down already and also if I didn't I would have probably hit is just as it was coming into the lane and either a) I would drive over it and do more damage to my car or b) it would bounce of my car and hit the car next to me on the left and continue bouncing back n forth. So yea, braked enough so I wouldn't get rear ended and just enough that it would just bounce to the divider.
Jeez....hate people...why can't you secure your shit properly...