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August 23, 2008

Not My Proudest Moment

By Ron

aka WayTooFurious

Do you suffer from driver’s remorse? Is there something you’ve done on the road that you regret, like cutting someone off in traffic or flipping them the bird? I did something about 20 years that I’m ashamed of and would never recommend as a course of action. Some friends and I were out on the town, but the area we were in was notoriously difficult for parking. After driving around for half an hour we finally came across a spot, only to be cut off by another car. To add insult to injury, the occupants laughed and pointed at us and one of them gave us the bird! I simply kept driving and eventually found another spot. But the mistake those guys made was that I knew where they were parked, and yep, I responded to their slight in a totally idiotic and childlike manner. At the time I was carrying a tyre valve tool that allowed me to remove the valve internals and let the air out of the offending car’s tyres. I knew it was wrong, but I had to wonder what their reactions would be when they realised that not only were their tyres flat but they were unable to pump them up. Still—hardly my proudest moment. Do you suffer from any driver’s remorse?

Not very nice

Comments

CAD Monkey
Aug 29, 2008 at 5:48 pm

Back in 85 we were cruising for a parking spot near the Summerfest grounds. We spotted one and made hast to it only to be cut off by an a$$hat in a little two seat something or other, maybe an MG, and laughed at by his paid for date. So we trolled for another spot. As we walked to the gates we ran into, well looked for that car and by gosh we found it. So we decided that we could lift it and moved it onto the sidewalk snuggled in between two trees.. Man it was hilarious!!! I still don’t know how we didn’t get in trouble, people walked by as we did this and just laughed.

SpeedCanHurt
Aug 26, 2008 at 1:14 am

Shame…
:P

GTwildfire
Aug 25, 2008 at 1:05 am

no, murder would be off-topic. Gotta start a new thread for that.

Anonymous
Aug 24, 2008 at 3:17 am

This blog is giving people alot of bad ideas, how to hot wire cars, how to remove valves out of the stems, whats next, how to get away with murder????

Anonymous
Aug 24, 2008 at 3:15 am

One time I was cut off by a car and they brake checked me and caused me to run off the road. I got thier plates and tracked them down via the copmuter at work (car sales) where we find who the car is titled to and got thier addy. I found his house and not only flat his tires, I cut out about 1 inch triangles out of the side walls with my Rambo knife.

GTwildfire
Aug 24, 2008 at 2:38 am

My first cycle, a Kawasaki 440 LTD, never had a starter and wasn’t equipped with a kick start. The whole 20 or 30k miles I put on it were started by pushing. I made starting it an art, by getting on and instinctively giving the bike just enough momentum to start right up. Most wouldn’t notice even that I push started it.
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I’m with a dude who cruised with me all the time. We stopped at a hot dog place in Philly. I had a couple chili dogs and when it came time to leave I put on the helmet, got on and kicked the stand then, as always rolled it and popped the clutch.
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nothing happened, stopped dead. His bike’s running, he’s waiting for me. I roll it a bit more and nothing. Some more, nothing. I get off and roll it at about 5 mph, hop on and… nothing. I’m perplexed, it always starts up…
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In wonder I look up at him for advice, he lifts his helmet and instead I see he’s been laughing his ass off, probably the whole time.
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he pulled the spark plug wire.

GTwildfire
Aug 24, 2008 at 2:29 am

Dude… that – was – AWESOME!
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shaaahaaahaaa…
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It’s something I would surely do, but I’d leave the valve innards nestled between the stem and rim, and if I was in a particularly nice mood might even have left the tool as well.
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It’s a hell of a lot better than keying the paint, something I loathe completely to the degree of instant, violent vengeance… but this is a very intelligent way to seriously inconvenience complete a$$wholes and it’s educational on two levels, both instruction in tire valves and what can happen when you pull mean shit on people.
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Nothing to regret, well except not leaving the core and maybe something to help someone put it back in so yeah I guess you can regret that, but with me there would also be that silver lining I could take some pride in.

Anonymous
Aug 24, 2008 at 12:07 am

I wasn’t going to answer this. Years ago, about 20..I siphened gas from a state truck for my own rusty truck. It is my worst car crime of my life. Sometimes i cry and hide in the corner. I feel terrible. Ok. I am lying. I just knew to get something better on gas to avoid that kind of desperation…yep. 20 years ago. funny enough my car is over 20, anyway, To add to my desperate innocence. I was a teen who just got a phone call that my mom was in a coma, and was not going to live..If I wanted to see her alive, best travel 260 miles in a hurry. That would have sucked to be in jail and never made it there…all on account of that exotic expensive gasoline. I think it was a buck or so then…

Chris
Aug 23, 2008 at 7:24 pm

and i just noticed how theres a BFgoodrich logo above this blog, yet the tires in the picture are Pirelli

Chris
Aug 23, 2008 at 7:16 pm

i was walking in a high school parking lot during a football game at night. me and 3 other people. then we spotted the car of our bully, and his windows were rolled down, so we all peed in his car, i aimed for the radio, while the others just did the seat, it smelt like pee afterward!
i felt bad cuz the smell/stains are hard to get out

Dave
Aug 23, 2008 at 4:39 pm

I’m a delivery driver for NAPA Autoparts up here in Ontario and one day I decided to race a guy in a Mustang coming off the highway. Well, I guess one of our customers or just a random person saw NAPA AUTOPARTS CALEDONIA with our phonenumber plastered all over my truck and called my boss. The following Monday I got a stern lecture about driving like an idiot.

Still though, I like to think I gave that mustang a good run for his money in our old 2.2L 2000 Chevy S10:)

John Gelnett
Aug 23, 2008 at 3:33 pm

I don’t regret this at all but I thought I’d share it with you. I had a mint 1967 Ford LTD and I was on the way to a car show. I had to stop at the store. I parked way in the back so no one would park beside me but guess what? Some asshole in a rustbucket old ass van parked right beside me and I has a nice new gouge in my door. I was extremely pissed off and proceeded to kick as many dents as i could in the assholes van.

James
Aug 23, 2008 at 8:50 am

I used to drive a 1987 Mercedes Benz 560SEL with a handicap plate (my father is handicapped, he gave the car to me) so someone who sees it would assume that it was a slow clunker, but my 5.6 liter V8 was pissed. Basically, I followed a white early 2000’s Camry after he cut me off, only to find out he was dropping off my ex girlfriend at home. Since I was with my buddy that day, we followed the car, but so we weren’t suspicious, we took turns using my Mercedes and my friends Mustang. I followed him to my ex’s house, (I had no idea this person was with her, nor do I think he knew who I was) and from there, my friend followed the Camry to their house in his Mustang. We came by later, keyed the shit out of every panel, slashed all of his tires, ripped off the emblems, and ripped off the driver side mirror. Came back the next month to see that the car had been repaired, all except the emblems.

Not my greatest moment… sure glad I was not caught… this sure would be a great place to post “I cut off an old benz one day and found my car destroyed…”

Charles Swartz
Aug 23, 2008 at 7:28 am

thats alot more innocent than some people’s versions of payback. Don’t feel sorry, at least you didn’t slash the tires, what you did is a $10 fix for a new vavle stem. The only reason I don’t like giving out innocent paybay like that is because others will take it too far, such as keying a car, etc.

Anonymous
Aug 23, 2008 at 6:37 am

yeah i removed the air out of someones passenger rear tire with a valve stem remover in retaliation to him covering my truck in silly string

unknown2u
Aug 23, 2008 at 4:32 am

Keyed some guy’s car from front to back side to side.Because when he parked he bent my one day old custom front license plate.Not my proudest moment

7urtle
Aug 23, 2008 at 3:46 am

cut off some old ppl and made them flip out

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