What's the Dumbest Thing You've Done While Driving

[Audios]

My buddys uncle came back from South of the border and hid a huge stash of fireworks in his parents basement. My buddy lived on the second floor of the house, so once we found that it was war. Typical bottle rocket/roman candle fights turned into we got the great idea to go racing up the highway, and having our friends shoot each other with bottle rockets and fireworks as we passed each other. Final straw was a few M80s in an empty Utz pretzel container, and threw it through the open rear hatch of an older explorer, mine. Blew out the rear hatch glass, probably a good thing it stopped us there in hindsight. I could only imagine what a north jersey cop wouldve done back then, aerial fireworks only became legal this year.
Plus the ticket for 92 in a 65, in a double fine double point zone. I just flashed my old audi at a euro meet and the [censored] mustve been watching everyone leave and make the u turn. Got the points knocked off, but the fine was nearly twice the price of the flash haha.

Edit: This was between 2000 and 2003, I dont condone anything like that anymore. Id kill my son if I heard about that....guess I couldnt blame him though lol.

 

[walterjay]

Years ago as a teenager I was driving from a friends house who had given me several record albums. I had them laying up on the dash. I made a right hand turn and the albums came sliding over wedging between the steering wheel and speedometer. Luckily I was only doing about 20 mph as I was headed into an embankment and was able to stop.

 

[Dyusik]

97 in a 30, 150 in a 50. /interactions/ splitting a half gallon with two friends, driving with rotors looking like jet turbines, other things in forgetting, other things I'm not willing to talk about.
Youth was great, but I don't want it back.

 

[zorobabel]

Another dumb one: while in a turn, I tried to reset the trip odometer, inserting my arm through the steering wheel spokes. The time to straighten the wheel came faster than I could pull my arm out, arm got stuck in between the dash and wheel, still turning. Fortunately I was only doing 20mph, and the brakes stopped the car before hitting anything.

 

[dlundblad]

There's too many things to list for me.

 

[brianl703]

Originally Posted By: 69GTX
One time when I shifted back into drive at 55 mph, I inadvertently found "REV" gear. The car didn't like that as it stalled out and screeched to a stop.


If you do that while pushing the gas pedal, it will engage reverse and you'll have your rear tires going backwards while the car is still going forwards.

 

[John_K]

Thinking an intersection is a 4 way stop when it is not. I'm sure you know what happened. Fortunately we braked and swerved and missed each other, barely.

 

[Eddie]

Shirt sleeve got caught in my steering wheel spinner resulting in 2 bent rims that impacted a curb. No more spinners which were the thing to have in the 50s. Ed

 

[Powerglide]

Driving my 1956 4 door Chevrolet Bel Air on Card Sound Road in the Florida Keys with my foot to the floor for 2 or 3 minutes. The speedo read about 105mph. My car had 16,000 ACTUAL miles on it at the time. I put headers on it and she'd go pretty good. Drum brakes, no seat belts, a hard metal dashboard and no fear. A REALLY stupid and irresponsible thing to do. Especially on a wavy two lane road with no shoulder. The 280ZX gave us the thumbs up as he passed us at over 100mph. This was in 1983.

 

[Dadillac]

Not proud of this but here goes. Around 1994 or so I was a furniture delivery contractor. Driving on the New Jersey Turnpike there was heavy traffic. Stop and go and whatnot. To my left there was a Buick Riviera that had a drop dead gorgeous woman with a killer body in a mini skirt. Since there was heavy traffic she was next to me for quite some time. Myself and my delivery partner were gawking like you wouldn't believe. Well while I was checking out this beauty for like the thousandth time I discovered what the traffic was all about. There was a truck tire laying in the travel lanes. More precise my lane. I ran the [censored] thing over. Still feel stupid to this day for that. And also very grateful that nobody was around trying to move that tire as I probably would have run them over also. Not sure how this ranks with what others posted as I did not read this thread. But I am sure I am near the top of the idiot list

Don

 

[Nick1994]

Was meeting my grandpa over at his friends house across town in my truck and he couldn’t find the house. So I’m driving around the neighborhood calling my grandpa trying to get him to the house. I called him and I looked in my mirror and see him way down the neighborhood behind me, pulled over to answer the phone. I hung up and did a u-turn (in a neighborhood) and hit the gas. Cop pulled me over for 51 in a 25. No ticket though!

On my ATV in the forest I was following my dad, he was in his FJ Cruiser. I see way up past him a large puddle on a blind curve. I stopped and waited for him to cross it and waited a little longer so I can fly through it (I was 18). I did and around that blind curve he was stopped. I plowed right into the back of his FJ and I flew up onto the spare tire. Luckily I wasn’t hurt. He got out and said “I knew you were gonna do that! I knew you were gonna fly through that puddle!” So what? And why’d you stop!?

Welded the quad back together. Good as new.

 

[4ever4d]

Going the wrong way on a one-way street....twice. In my defense i was in strange towns though.

 

[fdcg27]

Getting to "the ton" in my old MGB on a semi-rural two lane with lots of traffic and with a dead man's curve right ahead with the dubious brakes MGBs had.
The MG and I came through just fine but I always was a lucky fellow.
I have other stupid driving stories involving this car since I was then young, dumb and fearless.
Working my brand new '99 Accord LX 5spd gently up to the ton on the way home from the dealer might not have been my best move either, but I was then over forty, so the young and dumb alibi doesn't work.
Trying for the ton in our '09 Forester on a busy interstate may qualify as dumb but I did nothing dangerous. That car must be governed to 98 mph, since our '17 Forester with the same weight and the same power will easily get to 100 mph. Ask me (and my wife) how and why I know this.

 

[Linctex]

Originally Posted By: toneydoc
.......... he fell asleep. He rode the Goldwing off the road and into a ditch. Moral is don't fall asleep riding a motorcycle. It wont be good ending


No.............

the Moral is:

"Don't ride a Goldwing, and you won't fall asleep"

(I ride a 1988 Harley-Davidson Softail... I don't think it's possible to fall asleep on it)

 

[aquariuscsm]

Originally Posted By: Speak2Mountain
Me: Picking a battle w/a hornet


Haha I remember when I was maybe in high school I was driving down my street heading home and this HUGE grasshopper flew in the window and landed on my leg. I totally freaked and ended up driving through the neighbors front yard!!

 

[BrocLuno]

Rolled the car going too fast and loosing it in a corner with a hard berm ...

 

[antonmnster]

Doing 140 past that state trooper. Calculated that he would never be able to catch up if I maintained it - I was right!

Passing cars at 120+ on a windy 2-lane. On a Honda VFR. Immediately upon getting my endorsement at age 16.

Thinking it was fun to scare my friends in my parents' G30 van by setting the cruise and sitting in the back seat while my friend in the passenger seat held the wheel. Also age 16.

Upon reflection, I should be dead.

 

[das_peikko]

Originally Posted By: wings&wheels
Offering to drive a friend's young son back to the woods to release a bag full of garter snakes he and his bud's had spent the morning catching.

Hmm, let me restate that...not making sure the bag was securely closed was the dumbest thing....

Harmless, but the bigger ones can be grumpy.


I caught a baby rattle snake out of a neighbor's garage one day. Put the snake in a coffee can and took it to an open field. I loosened the lid on the coffee can right before I threw it up in the air as high as I could. The snake came out of the coffee can while both of them were tumbling in the sky.

 

[SwampSurvivor]

Originally Posted By: Virtus_Probi
I used to constantly nod off on long drives, finally I woke up with my car pointed right at a guardrail. Somehow got out of that and learned that napping for even ten minutes made a world of difference and I didn't nod off anymore.


I can't fight it any more. If I'm tired, I pull over for 10 mins of rest.

 

[Alfred_B]

Put in P while coasting at 20 mph.