We've all seen people do stupid stuff in cars....how about a thread devoted to these stories. It's Friday, we could all use a laugh, right? 
Here's a couple to get us started.....
I was with a fairly large group of cyclists coming home from a ride one day last summer. We were headed back in to town on a two-lane road. Some idiot going the other direction (ie- we weren't even in his lane) decided that our presence offended him so rolled down his window, honked his horn and screamed the ususal obscenities at us as he passed by. We, of course, let him know he was #1 in our books with the appropriate one-finger salute. I'm up near the front of the group, and about a second after he passed me I hear "SCCCRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH!.........WHAM!"
Guy was so busy yelling at us he didn't notice the car ahead of him that had stopped and was waiting to turn left. He nailed it at full speed.
Another good one:
I was headed up to the mountains (or what passes for mountains here in GA) with a few friends on our motorcycles one weekend morning. We're just about to the onramp to take GA 400 north when a friend of mine (via radio intercom) points out some guy in a brand-new 911 turbo who is zipping in and out of traffic like a chipmunk on crack. I concur that the guy's an idiot.
A minute or so later, we make the right turn on to the onramp to catch 400. This ramp starts out as two lanes and then goes to one and finally spits out on 400. The bit that's one and two lanes has about two feet of grass on either side and then a high concrete retaining wall on both sides. I hear my friend ahead say something along the lines of "Holy sh*t!" and look up just in time to see the guy in the 911 try to pass just one more car before the onramp goes to one lane (a pointless pass since there were several cars ahead of the one he was trying to pass and the retaining wall goes for several hundred more yards once it goes to one lane). The back end gets a bit loose as he mashes the gas and drifts onto the grass. He starts to fishtail, overcorrects, scoots back to the right onto the pavement, overcorrect again, spins, slams the front end of the 911 into the retaining wall, bounces off and spins 180, slams the back end of the 911 into the retaining wall and finally comes to a stop.
The best part? The guy didn't so much as scratch any of the other cars around him, but completely totaled the 911. We stopped, made sure he wasn't dead (he was fine, but super-pissed), laughed our asses off at him and split. It was excellent.
Here's a couple to get us started.....
I was with a fairly large group of cyclists coming home from a ride one day last summer. We were headed back in to town on a two-lane road. Some idiot going the other direction (ie- we weren't even in his lane) decided that our presence offended him so rolled down his window, honked his horn and screamed the ususal obscenities at us as he passed by. We, of course, let him know he was #1 in our books with the appropriate one-finger salute. I'm up near the front of the group, and about a second after he passed me I hear "SCCCRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH!.........WHAM!"
Guy was so busy yelling at us he didn't notice the car ahead of him that had stopped and was waiting to turn left. He nailed it at full speed.
Another good one:
I was headed up to the mountains (or what passes for mountains here in GA) with a few friends on our motorcycles one weekend morning. We're just about to the onramp to take GA 400 north when a friend of mine (via radio intercom) points out some guy in a brand-new 911 turbo who is zipping in and out of traffic like a chipmunk on crack. I concur that the guy's an idiot.
A minute or so later, we make the right turn on to the onramp to catch 400. This ramp starts out as two lanes and then goes to one and finally spits out on 400. The bit that's one and two lanes has about two feet of grass on either side and then a high concrete retaining wall on both sides. I hear my friend ahead say something along the lines of "Holy sh*t!" and look up just in time to see the guy in the 911 try to pass just one more car before the onramp goes to one lane (a pointless pass since there were several cars ahead of the one he was trying to pass and the retaining wall goes for several hundred more yards once it goes to one lane). The back end gets a bit loose as he mashes the gas and drifts onto the grass. He starts to fishtail, overcorrects, scoots back to the right onto the pavement, overcorrect again, spins, slams the front end of the 911 into the retaining wall, bounces off and spins 180, slams the back end of the 911 into the retaining wall and finally comes to a stop.
The best part? The guy didn't so much as scratch any of the other cars around him, but completely totaled the 911. We stopped, made sure he wasn't dead (he was fine, but super-pissed), laughed our asses off at him and split. It was excellent.
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