Your most idiotic driving moment...

[BullDog71ss]

Done something stupid while driving/racing your car? Of course you have, we all have...post it here. We might learn something from our stupid selves.

I'll start this one off...

A couple of years ago when my Camaro was still running well, I took a couple of buddies out for a joy ride. While cruising along I desided in all my wisdom that making a right hand turn from the inner lane at 40 mph was a good idea. So before making this stupid ass turn I say to my buddy jake who's in the passenger seat, "Hey dude, hold on to your soda" he replies with a suprised "HUH?!"
About half way into the turn my turbo charger kicks in and passing gear engages, which causes the rear end to go into an uncontrolable fishtail. I fishtailed about 5 times, almost hitting an oncoming car on the left side, and some construction signs on the right. Once I figured out that there was no way of correcting this little problem without getting someone hurt, I mashed on the brake and cranked the wheel to the left which caused the car to do a 180. I ended up facing the opposite direction in the middle lane, looking directly at the police station that I hadn't noticed before (what an effing moron I was). I hastely turned around an went home to park the car.

Luckily no one was hurt during my little "stunt", but it could have been much worse. Lesson learned...don't do things you're not sure you can do without killing yourself or someone else.

[CassiesMan]

Checkpoint raced...

[-Jayson-]

well this one time in my old cavy, i was going onto the freeway, and i punched it to get into traffic, well some dickhead thought i wanted to race, so as im flooring it so is he, i get up to about 80-90mph and im ahead of him enough so i can pass. Well my lane didnt last to long in the first place and i was starting to get onto the shoulder. My lane was only there for merging purposes. Well so i kinda turn the wheel quickly to get over before hitting piles od dirt and debri on the side of the road, as i do i just so happen to hit a pile of salt left by a salt truck. I live in michigan, it was winter time, salts all over the palce on the roads. Well as soon as i hit that salt i lose traction, cars starts sliding back and forth in heavy traffic. After face the right side, then the left side then the right side again, my car slide off the road and onto a shallow grass meridian. I got all kinds of dirt and rocks shoved into the tires, between the rims and rubber. I got one flat and that was it. I took a minute to make sure my balls were still attached, then drove off. AFter 5 mins of driving my tire went flat, then in abut 10F weather, i had to change a flat, my fingers went numb!

Want an adrenaline rush? spin your car doing 90MPH in heavy traffic. I honestly thought i was gonna get killed or seriously hurt. While i was spinning all i kept waiting for was some car to just nail me and send me rolling. I was lucky, very lucky, someone was looking out for me that day.

[nissanfanatic]

Anytime I miss a gear. God I HATE that.

I was coming home from work one day doing the speed limit when a grand marquis passed me. He was passing everyone and I just got pissed at the guy. So I sped up and passed about 4 cars(including him) and swerved over too hard putting the car into a drift at 70. I spun off the road and into a ditch. I felt like such a douche, which I was. It was when I had first got my car. I was very thankful that there were no cars coming the other way and that I spun off the road on the right place. If it would have occured 20ft later, I wouldn't have a car.

[Sleepr awd]

how about stupid decisions to ride: my friends car, fwd turbo eclipse, pulled the e-brake doing about 40 around a turn to a semi gravel road, fishtailed didn't correct w/ traction, narrow bridge, hit the side of the bridge dodging another car and it was all in slow motion, because the bridge and the corner are next to each other and it felt like it took 10 seconds to get there when it was probably 3

total damage, 16" OZ GS rim, front bumper, front left fender, back left panel a nice dent in the railing on the bridge along w/ a nice red smear
amazing : 5 feet sooner hittin it we would have been in the creek, 30 more feet down the street there were kids playing by the road, the headlights and turn signals weren't damaged

good thing: we wore our seatbelts
no airbags deployed...in fact...he's been in a few accidents and they didn't deploy in any of them....

[Polygon]

Originally Posted by nissanfanatic

Anytime I miss a gear. God I HATE that.

I've got a worse one, how about miss-shifting.

One night I was out in the LeBaron having some fun doing some rolling WOT runs. While shifting from third to fourth somehow my dumb ass shifted into second. I've never seen my tach hit that high, right into the red. As soon as I realized I had shifted into second I shoved the clutch to the floor. No damage done, but I still don't see how I did that. I've never done that before.

Anyhow, that isn't the dumbest thing I've done in a car.

[Robs71Nova]

I was driving one night with my girlfriend in the passenger seat. We were having an arguement when I pulled up to a stoplight. Well I was looking at her in the passender seat and kind of keeping an eye on the light (this was about 2am). Well out the corner of my eye I saw a light turn green so I went. When I was already passing under the light I glanced up to see that my light was still red, and the light that had turned green was the light for the turning lane... Heres the kicker... while doing this and waiting at the light I was in the slow lane and a city cop was in the fast lane (4 lane highway). Well as soon as I went through it the cop pulled me over. When he came up to me I was laughing my ass off at my stupidity and the officer started laughing too asking me if I was on drugs. Because it was so late at night he let me off with a warning, but man did I feel like an ass.

Rob

[3000-GTO]

Well one night me and my friend got borred so we went joy riding. So of course I was just doing what I always do... speed. But then I did something really stupid. I was at a stoplight and waiting for my left hand turn signal to go green. So it turned green and I started going but it was really dark so I couldn`t see the divider which separtes ongoing traffic. So I turned and I heard my friend say at first under his breath (I think he was thinking to himself or something) "your on the wrong side of the road" and then again louder "What the fuck are you doing your on the wrong side of the road!?" Then I was like "Oh shit!" luckly there was only like one car coming and we was going straight and I was in the left hand turn lane on that side of the road so I just quickly floored it and turned around before a cop came or something. That wasn`t the worst part though. Me being the dumb ass I was did something crazy again on the way back to my house. I started driving up a residential street and started going faster I had to turn left though to get to my house. I usually liked powersliding on this street I did it a few times before and it seemed pretty wide at the time, that is until after this night. So I was going about 40-45 and quickly turned left and powerslid right into the curb... and my friend was just like "Fuck!" and then just started busting up. I was like oh shit I broke my car. So I got out to check for damage and I saw my right front rim was grinded a bit but I didn`t really care because I have shitty rims right now anyway and a little paint was chipped off the bumber. Anyway the final result of this was I fucked up my allignment and bent some part in my steering. So I just am now getting the bent part fixed really sucked my steering wheel was really off for a while. Peace out sorry for such a long post.

[chevydrummer76]

Well I wasn't driving but I was in the car when my friend used to drive his dads sweet 91 buick century around. So one night were driving by the high school and decide to drive throughout the campus, over the sidewalks, and up against the tennis nets. Then we get to a grassy area and knock around some garbage cans. Well the front of the car smashes one of the cans in and somehow the front of the car high centers, because the bumper is jammed into the side of it. He puts it in reverse....tires just spin a huge hole in the ground.....uh oh were stuck. So anyways I lifted up on the front of the car while he stomped the gas in reverse and eventually we got it off there. That car went through a lot over the years.

[GTR2b]

96 Camaro SS convertible.

Did a 180 in the middle of the road to turn around since the road was too narrow and I was feeling too lazy to do a 3-point turn.

Unfortunately, a King-County Sheriff was sitting not a 100 feet away from me in the bushes and saw the whole thing.

1 Count, Reckless Driving reduced to Neg. 3. that will fall off my record this December.

[allthrottlenobottl]

". While shifting from third to fourth somehow my dumb ass shifted into second. I've never seen my tach hit that high, right into the red. As soon as I realized I had shifted into second I shoved the clutch to the floor. No damage done, but I still don't see how I did that. I've never done that before."i have done that exact thing before


now that i think about it ive done alot of stupid shit in my car and one of them was 2 nights ago. i got wasted and decided to let one of my friends who wasnt drunk drive(bad idea, lol)anyway i told him to hit it and he did and he couldnt shift for shit. so i made him pull over and let me drive we were on about a 2 mile straight road right by my house, i jump in the drivers seat and say "this is how its done" any way i end up getting to 140mph in a 35mph zone before my friends start screaming at me to shut it down, i realized how stupid it was the next day and it gave me cold chills thinking about it.

another dummass thing: i was driving home from oklahoma in my firebird on a one lane highway (377 if anyone knows it) and i decide to pass 2 cars by crossing the yellow line, the car in front was a bmw and when i tried to pass him he hit it, not wanting to back off i kept in it until 130 when i finally got far enough ahead of him to pass him, there was a car coming at me though and if i had stayed in the other lane for a second longer i wouldnt be here right now talking to yall

[GritMaster]

Originally Posted by GTR2b

96 Camaro SS convertible.

Did a 180 in the middle of the road to turn around since the road was too narrow and I was feeling too lazy to do a 3-point turn.

Unfortunately, a King-County Sheriff was sitting not a 100 feet away from me in the bushes and saw the whole thing.

1 Count, Reckless Driving reduced to Neg. 3. that will fall off my record this December.

Nice hehe where abouts was this?

[Underground_Killah]

hmmm


let's see...


there's a list... i'll break down with each car..

02 accord se... good car... my ex's at the time, she was drunk so i drove her home... She kept on well... exposing herself to me so i decided to act stupid... i started speeding (about 90 in a 40) and she said she'd do something... well... special down to me if i'd spin the car around... well, i go "hell yea" and my dumb ass does a complete 180. I didn't notice the other car down the road, which i darn near hit because of her dumb ass.... so i decided to never listen to her again... and never spoke of it to her dad either...

88 crown victoria - i went through a yellow light and the stupid bitch in the stop sign ran it and hit me... not something on my fault, but they tried to blame it on me

94 accord - yet again another ex's car... she was being pissy about being lost in BFE alabama, so i decided to drive (since of course i'd know where it was... even though it was my first time there) i decided to show her... so i got into a parking lot and began doing doughnuts... until i heard POP.... fucked her tire up....

let's just say... that wasn't cool on my part and i paid for it. (but not with money)

and finally my newest car (93 j30) i did a take off in the school parking lot at my college and the school police pulled me over... they went "that was cool as shit" and let me go... but still.. really stupid.

[turbo2nr]

haha it was today.. i drove into the local chekers.. a whole bunck of ricers were in the parking lot.. so i pull up hard letting my bov sound loud.. they are all looking and intimidated.. i feel like the man.. i oreder my food. rev the motor while i wait.. but ont alot only untill about 2k and let off so my car back fires a little... so at this point the ricers think my car is some peice of work.. so i get my food and i turn out and misadverage the turn.. and ride over a high curb.. o0o man.. i felt soooooo stupid.. i totally made a foool of my self. after that i just gassed it peel tires in first, let my bov sound cherped into 2nd and was gone...

o0o well good times
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[CassiesMan]

Now that I'm done with my paper, I can explain my checkpoint racing.

Me and a coupla buddies had been wanting to try this whole checkpoint racing thing for about a year one of them got a new car (Jetta 1.8T), and wanted to race it with the rest of us. I was about to go back to school (this was just August, for some reason I've been good about not doing REAL stupid shit. ), and we decided that it would be fun to have one last night of kicks before I went back.

We decided to do it scavenger hunt style, where a freind would be at each location and we would get a clue and race to the next point. I was in my moms C320 (BMW was getting its first service done), my friend was in his 1.8 Jetta, and another freind was in a 98 GS300.

I'll spare ya the deatils of the race, like the clues and shit, but the stupid stuff was that, in 45-60mph zones, I was weaving in and outa traffic anywhere from 10 over the limit to 30 over the limit. I know how stupid it was, but at the time it was fun. Turns out the final location was a strip club, and the winner got a free lap dance.