Stupidest thing you've done while driving

[JBA]

Had SEX, I was the driver.......twice,:D

[AWMac]

Originally posted by JBA
Had SEX, I was the driver.......twice,:D

Single Occupant vehicle.

[AKS\/\/ulfe]

I was talking on a cell phone, eating fried chicken, drinking a forty, cutting up a watermelon, having sex, all while driving backwards down a highway waving my gold plated forty five in the air. I had spinners on my ride too.
-SW

[Saurdaukar]

Originally posted by RTStuka
Come on Nash, I gotta hear this story.

By popular demand.

Originally posted by Nash


Sandman - "I can recall sitting at a four-way stop sign for awhile."

I'm real wasted, and I come up to a red light and stop. And Iwaited... and waited. Then eventually cars started to pile up behind me while we all waited for the light to turn green. The car directly behind me? The cops. And we all had a good long wait...

Until the cop car started flashing its lights, and making whoop whoop sounds. Then over their speaker I hear them say this muted "Mmppp yrrrr hrrricle mmmmmmrrrwww!". I'm like, "WTF?!"

But I'm panicking now, cuz I want VERY badly to get away from all this and the freaking light is still red. I look in my rearview, and now one of the cops is getting out and walking up to me. "Ah man, I am hooped.".... I roll down the window and in a moment of bravado I pre-empt whatever he's about to say with a witty "What the hell is wrong with these lights?!" I can't imagine how it must of actually sounded.

He said, "These lights are controlled by the weight of your car. You're way too far back. Move forward on to the pad."

Ahhh...

So I moved up a bit, the light turns green almost immediately, and I am a free man. I think my legs stopped shaking by the time I got home.

[spitfiremkv]

not me, but someone I know got pulled over watching a film on a portable dvd player while driving.
The cop let her go....
moral: hot chicks get away witha  lot of stupid things.

[Chortle]

Trying to create my own overtaking lane at about 90mph in a hire car. The gravel bouncing off the windscreen was the first clue that all was not well, followed by the central reservation looming out of the murk.

Lost the deposit on that one with chipped windscreen, bodywork etc.

[eagl]

I was on a wide city street on a saturday night, and ended up #1 in the slow lane at a stoplight while driving my trans-am.  Sure enough, a camaro SS pulls up in the fast lane and a turbo'd ricer pulls up in the middle lane.  Like an ass, I figured I'd play boi racer and off we go.  The SS got a great launch but I was beating the ricer even though his car was making these loud whsssfhhhppp-weeeee noises from some popup valve or whatever makes those little engines go fast.  Anyhow, right as I approached the redline and maxed the torque/hp curves, the wheels slipped just a bit and the car turned just a bit on me, probably due to my abused limited slip rear end.  I've had this happen before and a short-shift always fixes it, so I decided to just short shift and continue.  But as I did, another part of my brain had already decided to powershift so I powershift into second and the car immediately looped right there in the middle of the damn street, towards the poor dude in the ricer.  Fortunately he saw my car start to get squirrly and he had dropped back enough that I missed him.

I spun left across all 3 lanes, and managed to slow the rotation enough with gas/throttle/brake to slide through a gap in the center divider, thereby avoiding removing my tires and suspension on the median curb.  Of course this meant I entered the opposite direction lanes going sideways at about 50, but thank god nobody was even in sight coming the other way so I never even kissed the curb as I ended up coasting in the opposite direction from how I'd started.

There's no good reason why I didn't wipe out 3 or more cars right there, other than pure damned luck.  I've always thought street racing was full-up stupid and that's why before this incident I had strictly limited my racing to track events and autocross.  Of course the one time I give it a go, I pulled a stunt I've never done even during solo laps on wet track.

It didn't help that my tires were old/hard and my rear shocks were set up for turning/acceleration grip instead of straight-line hookup, but it was still a dumb thing to do and something I won't repeat.  I still do a little track racing from time to time...

[slimm50]

I once drove home drunk as a skunk. The good Lord was watching over me and everyone else along my route that night.

That was many years ago, and I haven't touched a drop of liquor in 5 or 6 years. I don't miss it.

[AcId]

I'm doing what I can to make up for ya slimm but I'm only one man.

[2stony]

And I thought I was the only one in our state that did that. High five Rip!

[2stony]

#1 "The sex thing": My wife and I took a trip from Washington, through Oregon, California, Arizona, Utah and Nevada. I got "road head" in all six states.

#2 "The drinking while driving thing": I was at an afternoon party drinking all day into the early evening. I decided to head to my favorite watering hole. The last thing I remember is waiting for the light to change at the I-5 overpass. I don't remember doing any of the following.
      I drive over the overpass and miss my turn onto I-5. I go through an "S" turn and drive down the road. I turn around and am headed back through the "S" turn again. I drive straight at the 90 degree corner and go off the road flying over a dirt burm. I now come to my senses airborne in my 72' VW bug. I hit the ground and stomp on my brakes. All the softball equipment in my car is flying all over the place hitting me in the head. After gathering my senses, I turn the car around and drive around the burm and there's a car stopped by the side of the road that saw me go "airborne". I wave at him as I drive to the onramp and get on I-5.
     Guess where I went? That's right, to the tavern I was originally headed to and closed it down.
     I drank alchohol for another 2 or 3 years, but haven't drank in over 20 years to date.

[mosgood]

Got my first (and last) D.U.I. a little over a week and a half ago.  

Since then I've been hearing a lot of info about accidents related to drinking and driving....  23% of car accidents are related to it.  

Heard a story, at the court house from one of the lawyers, about a girl leaving the same bar i did with a friend in the passenger seat.....  crashed on the freeway and the friend is paralyzed.  

While I'll be screwed for a very long time because of this, I gotta say I still support the laws about it.  first time offence....minimum 180 days suspended license, fines... and 4 days in a seminar. ... plus the insurance bendover that is coming.....  ouch.



Interesting side note......

One of the officers present during my arrest was a squadmate from AH.

[BlckMgk]

Originally posted by Nash
I pulled to a stop at a red light. I was about 17 at the time. I was in the center lane, and there was a car on my left and another on my right.

The car on my left started revvin' his engine, which caught my attention. I looked over at the driver and he was lookin' at me and makin' those gestures that suggested we race. I was in my mom's Buick Century but like, I was the best driver in the entire world at the time so it didn't matter. He was in one of those cars that Lazs could tell ya about.

Anyways, I nodded 'affirmative' to him, and immediately he looks forward and takes off. So I punched it and launched the car into the intersection. A blood curling scream from my girlfriend punctuates the roar of my V6. I look forward, and discover that I am racing through a red light. I check my mirror to find that my opponent (you know, the one to the left of me), having received his left turn signal, was making a standard left turn.

The bastard.

Your turn... Fess up!

You have lost all credibility...





-BM

[Widewing]

What is the stupidest this I've done while driving?

Hmmm.....  Yesterday or today?


My regards,

Widewing

[lasersailor184]

Christ, I have nothing that compares with any of this.