Stupidest thing you've done

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Frogman got me thinking, what was the funniest dumb thing you have ever done in your car or truck.
Most memorable one I can remember was done about 5 years ago in the summer. Me and my 2 friends went back roading checking for deer on our hunting properties. We had a spotlight (which never got used) , tow chain, cooler of coors light, and my f-150. My friend said he needed driveway reflectors for his driveway. So I started driving by and pulling them out, next we took every for sale sign we seen, then the tow chain came out. By the time we got back the cooler was empty but the bed of my truck was full of reflector, for sale signs, and a bunch of bigger signs. Lesson I learned was when you go out drinking with your friends leave the tow chain at home.
 
I did burnouts until a strip of rubber kept smacking the inside of my fender, or something along those lines.
 
My dad is a Hub supervisor at UPS, he had to fire me for riding the conveyor belts, appearantly it was a safety issue
 
My buddy and I were in my 89 grand prix and passed some girls going the other way. He was driving (was the least drunk). So he turns around and takes off to catch up with them. We start to approach the RR tracks on Avery st, which are elevated about 5 ft higher than the road with a fairly steep incline. He slows down, I tell him to punch it. So like any good friend he does what I say and we went airborn. I have no idea how high we went but we went back the next day and saw our impact marks on the pavement. We got about 60-70 ft!!! We had to be going at least 50 when we hit it so we were flying, litterally.

The car actually did OK, it flew pretty level, landed decently flat, but busted the pan on the tranny and all the fluid leaked out before we noticed, so had to get a new trans.

I didnt have my seat belt on, had the sunroof open, and sorta remember being half way out of it while flying.

Worst part is, we never did catch those 2 chicks. What a waste.

Ahhhhh, to be young and stupid again.
 
We need to have a thread: "The stupidest thing your significant other has done".:shifty:
 
dumbest thing i think i ever tried to get away with was when i was 13, my dad had a 70 dodge dart swinger with a 318 in it. him and my mother went to the mall, me and my sister were home and had friends over, it was summer and maybe 5 pm ish, i saw my dad left the keys to the dart on the dresser in his room. i grabbed them and ran out to the car, over and over i kept backing down the driveway and hammering it back up the driveway, well the last time i did it i hammered it up the driveway and went to hit the brakes and floored it again, shooting into my backyard really fast, i freaked out and nailed the brakes dragging the rear tires across my fathers gorgeous lawn, OH F--K i am so dead!!!!

my sister laughed and said now you are dead, so i thought for a few minutes, how can i hide these huge ruts, i got it!!!!!! grabbed the mower out of the shed, threw the grass bag on it and mowed the lawn, i took the grass i cut out of the bag and filled the ruts with it, hot dammmm i did it! 2 days later the grass i filled them in with turned brown and my dad was welcomed home one night to 2 huge dead grass strips across the back yard, needless to say my ass cheeks had two ruts across them too from his leather belt, he beat me but good!!!!
 
Stupidest thing I've done in my car had to be the day I was driving my Merc down the highway which was three lanes wide. The outer lanes where packed full and travelling less than 40kph, the middle one was dead empty for some reason for as far as I could see...
Well, stupid me pulled into the middle lane and took my car up to a bit over 130kph and I was tooting along past everyone until a dump truck pulled in front of me! :eek: I locked up all four wheels and the smoke billowed out so bad the traffic behind me came to an instant stop! I was drifting into the lane beside me which had cars lined up end to end so I let off, straightened it out and slammed them on again.
I stopped literally 2ft from the truck who just went merrily on his way. I thought for sure I was a dead man! The traffic behind me was totally stopped now because of all the smoke I kicked up, and they let me pull off to the side of the road where I sat for over a half hour, lol... The cars behind me drove by, hooting and hollering and clapping... They probably thought I was going to end up being a permanent new bumper on this dump truck...
I got to buy four new tires because of that because the flat spots where so bad in them :rolleyes:
The lesson I learned: Even if a lane is empty, always go with the flow!!!
 
Let's just say that I probably donated enough money in speeding tickets to pave the pennsylvania turnpike a few times! The last major ticket I got was being clocked at 120 mph on the pa turnpike in a 65! It was late at night, 3 lanes and nobody but a pesky neon srt4 who thought his s*it didn't stink. We thought we were alone but a pa state trooper was waiting! Oh yeah, I was in my 06 f250 powerstroke;)
 
Heh, I've payed for my fair share of paving roads too :D
I got nailed doing speeds in excess of 273kph (169mph) late one night many years ago. Even back then it cost almost $1k by the time I went to court :( Now I'd lose my car and all my money... good thing I've sorta smartened up! :shifty:
Speeding at the BMW dealer I worked at a lil while back was common to (surprise, surprise!) The police would give out a ticket every couple months or so to slow everyone down. Usually it was the salesmen that got the tickets, us techs were much luckier (though I have some nice pics of a new M5 one of the techs wrote off) ;)
 
Well, it was in my buddy's car, not mine.

We were 19 and in advanced individual training for the Army at Pensacola, just out of basic. Was a great 6 months. My buddy Tim had a Mustang with T-tops. We had just gotten a weekend pass and left formation, jumped into our shorts and tank tops, and literally hopped in the car heading for North Carolina and two hotties who were waiting for us.

We're about half way and we see these girls in a car pass us. So we pass them and do the waving/shouting thing. You know, mature 19 year old guy stuff.

So then Tim gets this idea, why don't we put the top down while we're driving 60mph. I'm like, sure, because that sort of thing makes sense when you're a mature 19 year old.

I unlock my T-top and hold it tightly, bracing it against the sudden force of the wind as it releases, and get it in the car. Then I hold the wheel for him. I warn him about the wind. He unlocks his, and before he can grab the T-top, it flies through the air like a square frisbee, shattering into a million pieces behind us. We just sort of stare at each other. The girls, who are watching the whole time, drive off laughing.

We finished the drive with only one T-top. (Still got some thang in NC though)
 
fossten said:
Well, it was in my buddy's car, not mine.

We were 19 and in advanced individual training for the Army at Pensacola, just out of basic. Was a great 6 months. My buddy Tim had a Mustang with T-tops. We had just gotten a weekend pass and left formation, jumped into our shorts and tank tops, and literally hopped in the car heading for North Carolina and two hotties who were waiting for us.

We're about half way and we see these girls in a car pass us. So we pass them and do the waving/shouting thing. You know, mature 19 year old guy stuff.

So then Tim gets this idea, why don't we put the top down while we're driving 60mph. I'm like, sure, because that sort of thing makes sense when you're a mature 19 year old.

I unlock my T-top and hold it tightly, bracing it against the sudden force of the wind as it releases, and get it in the car. Then I hold the wheel for him. I warn him about the wind. He unlocks his, and before he can grab the T-top, it flies through the air like a square frisbee, shattering into a million pieces behind us. We just sort of stare at each other. The girls, who are watching the whole time, drive off laughing.

We finished the drive with only one T-top. (Still got some thang in NC though)
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Hilarious! I don't know what it is about military guys but they just don't give a hell about anything (in a good way). Two of my friends are in the army, one's finishing up military school, and they act the same way.
 
One of the dumbest car related stories I have is when I was 17. I had a '75 Nova 2 door 350. I worked at a Dairy Queen at the time and after work (11pm) some friends and myself decide to go over to another friends house.

5 of us jump into my car and take this absolute sticks Kansas farm road over there. Now, this Nova had totally bald Mickey Thompson N50-15's and one of them was so bad that it was showing it's 2nd layer of cords. I knew it but didn't really think anything too much about it. I decide to bury the speedometer which went to 120 with all of us in the car. One of the guys was playing with a bowie survival knife while in the car.

At that speed it didn't take long to get to my friends house, just a couple minutes. We pull in, stop, get out and I hardly get the door shut on the car and that one back tire BLOWS out!! It startles everyone of course. Then common sense sets in and then I think about what if that had happened just 1 minute before at that speed and a guy playing with a knife of all things. Pretty humbling for me. The stage was set for something ALOT worse.
 
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