Stupid Things People Do While Driving or Riding in Autos

[Briar Hopper]

Got the idea from Car And Driver magazine's 10 Best/Worst issue, and from the article (below) in my local paper...
What's the funniest or most stupid thing you've ever seen someone do, while driving along? Tell us. No cell phone stories please, unless it involves a victim trying to stick the offender's phone where the sun don't shine...
Some guy in Richmond, Virginia was recently hospitalized for injuries received in an "accident" on the interstate. Seems he and his companion had taken a passenger van to Lowe's and were on their way home with a load of building materials, when the sheet of plywood he was laying on, on top of the van, flew off, with him on it. #ad
The article didn't say anything about why he didn't just stand up on it and ride it like a surfboard for more control, after leaving the van roof.

 

[illflem]

Seen a guy in Los Angeles shaving as he drove. Wouldn't be so bad with an electric razor,but this guy had on shaving cream and was using a straight razor. I sort of hoped he would hit a bump and cut his throat.

 

[Champane Flight]

Being a profesional truck driver I have seen a few X-rated drivers on our highways. But,one woman who used to commute every day down the same road used to get dressed and do her makeup on her 60 mile jaunt to work.
Would see her everyday. This woman was good at it and would wave and honk at me every morning as she passed. Some days she would be in a slip and have her dress over one arm and mascera in her other hand,holding the steering wheel with her knee and honking with her elbow!

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95 Dodge 2500 Luverne grill guard,headache rack,running boards and Amzoiled. Soon to be mildly bombed. 84 Dodge d-150, 318 Hooker headers,Edelbrok intake,mallory ignition,Carter Afb,Accel coil,and Custom dual exhaust. Boat,fifthwheel,motorcycles,and shop,job to support toys. Yuck...

 

[Tom W]

Brian, when you mentioned " ride it like a surfboard" it reminded me of an incident many years ago. It happened on one of Pittsburgh's narrow streets. A guy put a surfboard in his car with the end sticking out the passenger window. I have no idea what he was doing with a surfboard in Pittsburgh but anyway the end hit a parked car causing the other end to hit him in the back of the neck killing him. Not funny but pretty stupid.

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Tom W in Austin Tx 98 24v 2500 Quadcab, auto, 3. 54, lsd, Rhino, white/driftwood, Banks Stinger Plus, Manix grill, nerf bars , DTT's TC, valvebody, cooler, Mag-hytec trans & diff, Pac brake.

 

[Sled Puller]

No offense ment,the person who it was for has a very good attitude. Did not think about other people, stupid on my part.


Gene

[This message has been edited by MGM (edited 12-17-2000). ]

 

[QRTRHRS]

Originally posted by MGM:
I have heard there is people out there that have to turn the dome light on at night to see what their passenger is sayin!

Sounds risky to me!

Gene

Depends, my wife is deaf. I turn on one of my overhead lights so she can read my lips. Beats taking my hands off the wheel to "talk" to her.

 

[QRTRHRS]

Saw a couple of good ones in the newspaper recently.

One gal got charged for DUI after she ran an officer off the road going the other way. Another gal was also charged with DUI after she was found sleeping in her car. In the middle of the road!

One more! Guy I know went to Home Depot for some 4x4's. He goes about shoving them into the car. Wham! Puts one through the windshield!

 

[merryman]

Way back when as a young Judge I was still handling traffic cases, we had a guy come in charged with "Driving while encumbered". He plead not guilty and went to trial (without a jury). He was guilty.
He and his girlfriend were making like slick willy and Monica at highway speeds

Vaughn

 

[Don D]

I was out irrigating one day when I heard what sounded like a radio controled airplane on steroids coming down the road. I stopped and looked to see a large motor home pulling a Porche at about 60MPH. He went on by and I stood there wondering what could be making that terrible noise. Fifteen minutes later I headed for town and noticed a set of skid marks that started just past my place and led me about 3/4 mi. to the motor home that was now stopped in the middle of the road, and the driver was trying to put out the little sports car which was now an inferno. We got it out and then I learned that the noise had been that little Porche engine turning about 10 grand because he left it in first gear when he hooked up the tow bar. He had come nine miles from a state park up the road. The little engine finally seized where the skid marks started. He told me that the motor home had seemed a little sluggish since he left the park.
I'll bet that happens more than a person would think.

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[danandamy]

Originally posted by merryman:
Way back when as a young Judge I was still handling traffic cases, we had a guy come in charged with "Driving while encumbered". He plead not guilty and went to trial (without a jury). He was guilty.
He and his girlfriend were making like slick willy and Monica at highway speeds

Vaughn

#ad
Ok, I'll tell this one on myself. Many years ago when I was single I was involved in similar activity. This gal says, "Tell me if anyone approaches. " Well, after a bit I look in the rearview mirror and here comes this semi. Ok! Ok! I admit it, I didn't say a word to warn her! #ad
Anyway, I ease the truck onto the shoulder to let him around and he comes around real slow. Gal still doesn't notice. About that time I look up and me and the trucker make eye contact and I give him the big thumbs up. I thought he was going to wreck that truck giving me the thumbs up back and dying laughing!

 

[paccool]

I travel a lot and have seen;

1)People reading a book or a newspaper.
2)Women putting on makeup
3)Guys driving while the girls are out of sight #ad

4)Some guy playing a video game

Stan

 

[Briar Hopper]

QRTRHRS, that one about the dome light from MGM was a jab at me #ad
But trying to read lips on a passenger at night is not funny, I usually avoid it if at all possible. My son and most others who ride with me, have a little trick, they lean forward so I can see both them and the road at the same time...
But, hey, this doesn't even approach the level of the stupid things I see people doing while driving. Going down the interstate, I saw one woman using a calculator and flipping through business papers, all while steering...
Once, back when I lived in Alabama, I was on my way from Birmingham to Talladega to visit friends, the interstate at that area was 4 lanes wide each direction, I was in the 3rd lane and a Nova came past me in the 2nd lane. Female passenger was on her knees on the seat, rear end facing me, wearing a mini-skirt, nothing else #ad
Other end was performing CPR, I think... That was one of the few times I've had trouble lip-reading while driving . #ad

Tom W, look again, it's spelled BRIAR, Not BRIAN, this is a handle not my real name, but MGM and other clowns like him are trying to make it stick #ad

 

[Joe G.]

Briar Hopper,

I resisted the impulse to respond to MGM but I did take offense. My hearing is so bad that I have to look at another person to really understand what they are saying. This, of course, means that many times I have to turn on the dome light to "hear" what my wife is saying. She is considerate about this so we don't have to turn on the dome light very much, but it does happen. So far, good hearing is NOT a requirement for a driver's license. Those of us with a hearing problem have to pay attention to what's going on more than others. For example, I can't hear a siren. It's just too high pitched. The volumn ususally shuts down my hearing aid so when that happens I really look around. I have managed to stay out of the way of fire trucks so far.

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Joe George
Eureka, CA

'95 2500 CC auto 4X4,3. 54,Combo EGT/boost guage,custom switch panel,PacBrake,TST #5,BD valve body,Automatic motorhome steps on both sides,Foldacover hard bed cover,Cummins chrome kit,Black steel grill guard,Front hitch receiver

 

[Champane Flight]

Yea, My wife says I'm hard of hearing too. At least thats what I think she said?

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95 Dodge 2500 Luverne grill guard,headache rack,running boards and Amzoiled. Soon to be mildly bombed. 84 Dodge d-150, 318 Hooker headers,Edelbrok intake,mallory ignition,Carter Afb,Accel coil,and Custom dual exhaust. Boat,fifthwheel,motorcycles,and shop,job to support toys. Yuck...

 

[Joe G.]

Gene,

Those sort of posts are insensitive to say the least. I know of one close friend who will probably not respond since he normally lurks on these forums who also will be offended. It's not funny being deaf or almost deaf. In fact it's a big PITA!

 

[Joe G.]

Yeah, politcal correctness sucks ok. You notice I don't use hearing impaired. My wife is crippled, not mobility challenged. Laughing at her limp is just plain rude. She manages to keep from crying when some ignorant person does that. It's NOT just politically incorrect! What kind of sense of humor is that?

 

[Max340]

Hey Joe, the sense of humor I speak of is the one inside each individual when they look at themselves. I am sorry to hear of yuor wife's problems, but I am not about to excuse your inabilty to laugh at the world and yourself and move on. Nor will I excuse the world laughing at your wife. But the fact is, any problem has a good side, a humorous event, a source of amusement.

You keep whining, and I'll keep calling my brother a muppet and when necessary picking him up from the heap he lands in when he miscalculates a step. And he and I will both keep laughing at the whole thing, for what else is there to do? Wallow in self pity? My brother hates that.

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72 Dart 340
89 LeBaron GTC 2. 2 TI

 

[Briar Hopper]

Joe G. , MGM is a friend and a brother in the GLTDR with me, he was trying to get a big laugh out of me, and succeeded, but the two of us had not thought of how others would take it, I guess. He's not the only one in the club to kid me about such things, they ALL do ! I lost my hearing at 5 years of age, and I've had 35 years since then to learn to get around it. I'd say I'm mighty lucky it's just my ears and not something else.
The only time it's a PITA for me is in social situations, and occasionally on the job. I get tired of dealing with it sometimes, it's funny how people can be so ignorant about handicaps just like they are ignorant about how Amsoil can really benefit their truck, or ignorant enough to believe a Ford PSD is the only diesel truck out there... #ad

I'd rather people looked at what I do have, than what I don't have... and preferably forget I can't hear and just treat me like anybody else. MGM rags on everybody, it was just my turn today. #ad

Yeah right, Doc, I ain't putting my fingers around any of y'alls mouths, most of ya don't even move ya lips when ya talk, LOL! Girls, though, now that's another ball game right there #ad


[This message has been edited by Briar Hopper (edited 12-17-2000). ]

 

[Sled Puller]

Briar, You can put my crack under,
"Stupid things people say!"
I wanted to make a post about "CPR" but the smack on my head changed my mind! So your turn came up!
gene

 

[Joe G.]

Max340,

It isn't a inability to laugh at myself or the world that I object to. It's cruel humor that is just not funny that is offensive. As far as my wife goes, the last thing she wants is pity or anything like that. We have a hard time with her attempting to do things she shouldn't. That's not the point at all. Cruel humor is just rudeness is all.