By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

Though it’s easy to get caught up in all the YouTube videos of kids drifting in parking lots and so on, it goes without saying that people have been hooning cars for as long as there’ve been cars. Check out this vintage comp–it seems that driving through flaming walls of various construction was something of a yahoo’s holy grail back in the day.

Hotrod vs Brick Wall

By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

This video starts with some dude doing a fat burnout in the middle of the highway, and then pans over to another dude driving on two wheels. Crazy stuff. Guess there aren’t any traffic laws in Dubai! via Jalopnik

What Really Happens On Dubai Motorways

By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

This looks like fun.  It also looks like a great way to get your legs broken. But what’s life without a little—or a lot—of risk?

Motorcycle Soccer

By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

I’m sure there’s somebody out there who could actually pull off a motorcycle leapfrog, but booth attempts I’ve seen have ended in failure, meaning “nut crunch.” Looks like the guys in the video I posted the other day came closer than this pair of geniuses. Ouch.

Another Motorcycle Leapfrog Fail

By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

If you’ve got plenty of room, pulling some donuts is a fairly safe form of hooliganism. But if you attempt this rite of passage without your seat belt on and are dumb enough to leave the driver’s door open, you’re totally begging for trouble. This dude is super-lucky he didn’t run himself over…

By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

Wow, if only somebody had seen this coming. Notorious celebrity-spawn/felonious lead foot Nick Hogan has wrecked another car. Unlike last time, nobody was rendered a vegetable, but the fact that he was coming directly from a Los Angeles charity event called Keep It On The Track makes me think the eight months he spent in the slammer for his previous Supra-destroying/best-friend incapacitating incident didn’t make much of an impact. Personally, I don’t care if it was just a fender-bender, because to paraphrase Maverick’s cigar-chomping CO in Top Gun, he’s got to be driving better, and cleaner than the other guy. But the really mind-numbingly stupid element to this story? The organizers of Keep it on the Track have his dumb-ass mug plastered all over the front page of their website. Maybe those jokers have been spending a little too much time at the “dispensaries” that pepper La La Land? Come on, guys! Perez Hilton via Jalopnik

By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

Now, I’m not a master mechanic or anything, but even I know that you’re supposed to shut the engine off before changing a belt. But hey, this dude seems to have the whole quick change thing under control, so who am I to judge? I’m not sure if the tension is exactly where it needs to be, but that’s another detail I’m going to overlook in light of the general trickiness of this whole operation. Damn…

By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

This was uploaded to StreetFire this morning, and the description—”Just plain stupid…”—cracked me up. But as someone who’s done tons of “stupid” things in pursuit of a good time, I’m more inclined to call this guy’s stunt totally bad-ass. I mean, hanging out the door is one thing, but climbing into the engine bay while the car is turning donuts? That takes a serious set of stones. Obviously, said stones would get seriously mangled if this daredevil slipped, but hey, life is short.  Let’s just hope we don’t see another clip of this dude with “fail” in the title emerge…