Post the Most Dangerous Thing You've Done on the Roads #NotACop

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I got one. About a decade or so ago I worked at a Ford dealership in the service department, and one of my jobs was to take trade ins and go over them and do any work to them that was necessary before we could list it for sale. One time we got in a '99 Camaro with a bunch of modifications, including an aftermarket exhaust that was loud as all hell, and the dealership decided that we had to remove the exhaust before we could sell it, so they enlisted me and another coworker to take it to a muffler shop downtown to get the work done. Okay, we thought, we might as well have some fun. I drove the Camaro down, while my coworker followed me in a Hyundai Tiburon that was also on the lot, he wanted to see just how fast it could go. So we are flying down the freeway, in the middle of town, easily pushing 130 mph and weaving in and out of cars, when I come up to I car in front of me blocking my path and a tow truck in the next lane over a little behind it. I look over and determine there is just barely enough room between the car in my lane and the tow truck, and decide to change lanes in front of the truck. So I changed lanes, still going more than 120 mph mind you, and I swear to god I must've only had about 6-8 inches of room or the rear bumper of that Camaro would've tagged the front bumper of that tow truck, probably scared that guy shitless.

And oh yeah, I creamed the shit out of that Tiburon, gutless piece of shit that car was.
 
This bitch was riding my bumper coming down one of Cottonwood Canyon in Utah and I was going at least 5 over the speed limit. He was giving me a bunch of attitude and made this big dramatic move to pass me when we got to a passing lane. Well that shit was not going to fly with me so I put my foot down (was driving my brother's Ford Fiesta ST at the time) and raced him down the canyon until the passing lane ended.

Whooped his ass but in hindsight probably wasn't the best idea.
 
I ran over a Florida panther while driving a buddy's truck; it ran into the road and we were buzzed driving. We threw it into a ditch to hide it. Stupid fucking panthers.
 
I had some shitty friends in high school and we used to drift our junk cars around the neighborhood during lunch hour. We used to do extremely stupid shit like drift in the middle of traffic to make a U-turn.

I remember one time we were all in one guys car driving to a Wendy's and we dared him to drift his car into a parking spot between two other cars. He basically did a donut and shot into the spot going way too fast. Somehow managed to land it perfectly without hitting either car. Only years later did I realize how fucking bad any of those times could have gone. Glad I never got in an accident.
 
Col WillieSharp said:
So much acid
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Did that once. Me and two friends were at this bar and had each dropped at about 10pm. By 11pm it was obvious the band sucked and we knew wild times were coming so we decided to get out of there. We got in my '85 Ford Ranger, stopped by a Quik Mart and bought two 12 packs (and already had plenty of weed) ... and then it started to snow. Should've just driven home right there, but didn't. Three hours later we were drifting through turns in a blizzard on a mountaintop road in the middle of nowhere West Virginia, screaming our heads off.

Stupid. Dangerous. Criminal. Fun.

Approx. 26 years ago. Living very much in the slow lane now.
 
I overtook 25 cars at once, one time. They were like sheep just following each other at 40mph, so I when it was clear (the road has very good visibilty and can see far in the distance for oncoming cars), I put my foot down and blasted by all of them.

It was in my old car, which was a Renaultsport Megane 225. Great acceleration for overtaking, and miss it a fair bit.
 
CarpeDeezNutz said:
Having a fast car also gets you coaxed into racing/reckless driving, I would have guys revving their engines next to me often. I only raced one guy cos I don't know how to get all fast and furious.
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Weirdly, I have gotten less of this with the newer car (300C, with the V8 Hemi.) I guess because everybody just assumes I didn't spring for the gas guzzler, since 80% of 300 owners in NJ are elderly.
 
german gafer here, so I do everythign mentioned here on a daily basis.


jk
a little bit


edit: me and a buddy were at mcdonalds.
both with our own cars.
when we drove off, 2 other cars followed us.

after some time my buddy was in the front, I was at the back and the 2 other cars in the middle of us.
then the 2 other cars overtook my buddy.
and then I overtook all 3 of them.
doing 180+ kph in a 80 kph zone.

thankfully it was late at night.
 
285kph on the motorway on a Yamaha R1 at about 3pm. That's the most dangerous thing I've done.
 
Randam said:
german gafer here, so I do everythign mentioned here on a daily basis.
doing 180+ kph in a 80 kph zone.

thankfully it was late at night.
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german drivers unite!
217kph in an 80 zone while being followed by a undercover camera car.
was on the autobahn, knew the road but I didn't see the signs for the changed speedlimit (from unlimited). probably because I already flew past doing 160 in a 130-zone.
got stopped, angry policeman screaming wanting my license and registration, returning and telling me what a lucky guy I am for the signs being a little covered and can't be considered as in effect.

Got tons of these. I like driving fast.
 
160mph on a highway with lots of traffic when I was around 16 years old, without a license of course.

Finnish people are complete idiots with cars and I was no exception back then.
 
I've been feeling better about trying to learn to drive again recently, but I think this thread just put me back to square one.
 
My list that I'm not proud of (no really, I'm not):

  • Stoned (I don't smoke now)
  • Ran a couple of red lights (late at night, out of town)
  • Speeding (oh so much speeding). 140mph on a motorway on a busy Saturday afternoon is probably the worst.
  • Racing (not for any real period of time though, just not worth it - plus I kept on winning, which is obviously what counts)
Actually, I'm probably not that bad. Glad I calmed down in my mid 20's, discovered track days and RWYB meets too. Plus my current car has the power of an asthmatic weasel.
 
I did something dumb a few days ago. I changed lanes without checking my blind spot so I could have easily hit somebody. My immediate reaction was "OH MY GOD I can't believe I did that stupid shit right now." I can't remember ever doing that before that time.
 
A couple of friends drove into town hammered, then forgot where they parked. Had to wander around with romping hangovers looking for it.
 
The content of this thread is further convincing me, that GAF membership should be a reason to get pulled over for.
 
I was at a stop sign one day with a car coming from the right. I still don't know why but I tried to cross in front of the car and luckily the other driver was very aware. I still feel bad about it.

Another day I was on the left lane of a three lanes road with a car behind me (which seemed hurried).
I was starting to switch to the middle lane but a car from the right one started to do the same with the car behind me already on my left. We ended up with 3 car on two lanes and not a single scratch.
 
Driving after pulling an all-nighter to finish an assignment.

Being sleep deprived and driving is fuuucked

I nodded off at a light and the car next to me beeped me awake.
 
like my first week of driving i didnt look and moved into the lane to the left of me, and hit a car side on like we were racing or something, the woman looked at me like "WTF?" but then just sped off up the road and i never saw her again. I guess she might've been uninsured or something but i got lucky because it was totally my fault.

I've had a few crashes too :/
 
I drove on the freeway towards the setting sun while wearing an eye patch over my left eye and no contact lens in the other eye. I had a corneal abrasion in my left eye and my glasses were broken. The sun was obnoxiously blinding and I could barely see 10 feet in front of me.
 
andycapps said:
About 14 years ago I got my Nissan 200SX up to 115 MPH on a highway at about 2 in the morning. Just because I could and nobody was out, I guess. Then I realized I'd have my license taken away if I were pulled over so I slowed down quickly. Less than a mile later I saw a cop in the median with his lights off clocking me.
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ACCPD? I can top that ACCPD story!

I once RAN from the Athens-Clarke County popo. Was speeding down College Station road approaching Barnett Shoals, where that big curve in the road is. Well, a cop came around the curve from the other direction and as soon as they saw me, put his blues on. I decided it was a good idea to floor it even more exiting that curve and ducked into a neighborhood while the cop was turning around.
 
Way too many things to name off the top of my dome.

...but most have been listed already by others. Having kids changes you and haven't done none of that shit anymore.. don't even have a radar detector because I just don't speed like I used too.
 
Was a passenger in a car at 3 AM in the middle of winter where the road was an icy mess, there was that really spooky rolling ground fog... and the driver was on 3 hits of acid... in WY.
 
Driving around in a tipsy state. It has the effect of making me overconfident and removing my restraint resulting in me riding around thinking I'm a F1 driver.

I remember one occasion after a saturday night out with co-workers with some moderate drinking I drove back home feeling buzzed and pumped up by some tune on the radio and the empty roads before me I decided to just floor it and go for it.. Reached my car's max speed ( around 200 kph) on 70 - 90kph roads and taking corners at speeds I'd probably piss my pants if I were sober.

So stupid looking back.. I was just a tiny slip up away from being a statistic.
 
1) I almost fell asleep at the wheel when I was driving home from my trailer by myself. It was a 2.5 hour trip, and I was driving at around 7pm. Ended up pulling off for a bit, then continued with the windows open and Slipknot blaring.

I was on a country highway, and it wasn't busy. I don't think it ever got to where I veered much, but it was scary.

2) In high school, my friend drank a beer while he was driving to pick someone up for a party. I think he'd maybe had one previously. His brother also drove us home once after drinking. I didn't like it, but couldn't have really stopped them.

3) Same friend used to drive high. He almost crashed into a median on the 401 because of it, while we were en route to Barrie.

4) The same friend governed his car at about 170km/hr on the 401 when we were going to his brother's in Ottawa.
 
Road Head
Roof Riding (Wet highway we held the seat belts speeds over 60mph)
Speeding (125+)


I don't do any of that anymore....well, maybe the road head.
 
Doing 80mph on the highway during a white-out blizzard was probably the dumbest thing I did. I did make great time to my grandparent's house that year.
 
I am ashamed to write this, but I've driven drunk a couple of times. Not sloppy blackout drunk, but over the limit for sure. This would've been 10 years ago now, but it did happen.

Never got a DUI and if I had there would've been severe professional ramifications. Was so stupid.
 
I'm a super slow driver now, but I used to have a deathwish on the roads. My parents bought me a 300ZX when I graduated from high school. We lived in the middle of nowhere, and the roads were windy and super fun to drive. I pushed that car to the limit on those roads. The worst thing I ever did was pass a schoolbus going up this hill:
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I came up on it going 90mph and just whipped around it right before the top of the hill. If someone had come over the hill, we'd have all died.

I also ran from the cops in that same area once. I knew that I'd lose the car and my license, and at 18, I wasn't smart enough to think beyond that. I was going around 80mph in a 55 after dark when this cop passes me going the other way. He turns his lights on and starts turning around. I sped up and took one of the next dirt roads that came along. The moon was out, so I turned my lights off and kept driving until I was up in the mountains. It was really stupid.

...oh and I used to drive drunk when I worked at this local pizza shop. We'd get off work and drink straight from the taps, or at least have a pitcher or two a piece before heading home.

I get so angry at myself when I think about what I used to do. The amount of destruction I could have caused to myself and others was off the charts, and I was oblivious to it.
 
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