No thread on the Mustang crashing at Cars and Coffee in NC

Maybe I just missed it. I hope his license gets suspended.

http://jalopnik.com/mustang-at-cars-coffee-shows-how-you-do-not-drive-at-1514303344

I'm as guilty as anyone of giving it the beans as I'm leaving a car meet..... But that was just stupid.... And not even a good burnout.

I wasn't paying attention; I regret giving jalopnik the click, doubly so for finding someone taking video of the video playing on another device. One step down from that in technical savvy is forgetting to breathe.

Must've been the 'stang owner himself.

Looks like he was lucky that's all he hit. Slid sideways just past the nose of 2 vehicles.

Meh, this E36 M3 happens all the time at these gatherings (all of them, not c&c alone). Most of them around here are a small phallus support group that I don't have the required "lack of girth" to attend anyways.

If people don't watch out, you won't be able to find a venue to hold these events. I know of one event in SC where the coordinator gets really POed over this crap. This is why its so hard to find a place to run an autocross now.

Isn't this crap kind of like heroin (re: Phillip Seymour Hoffman thread)? Don't car show burnouts pretty much without fail lead to somebody looking like a tool on Youtube?

We had a Corvette meet at a local car dealership and they had 4 police cars sitting on the road in front all day. I drove past there about 8 times while delivering pizza and every time a Corvette was being ticketed. Watched as one fellow jumped out and smoked the tires past 2 of the police cars. One trip had them pulling a Vette out of the ditch! Stupid people exist!

Bruce

Asshats like this are the reason these things always go away. Someone should have told him how stupid he looks when his car was wrapped around that fire hydrant.

I used to go to a Nathan's on Long Island every Wednesday. They would get a few hundred cars each week and then asshatery like this started and the police had to shut it down. There was a similar event at a train station where a friend used to take his restored vintage Corvettes. On night some kid with a Mustang sat behind him revving his engine when his foot slipped of the clutch sending him through the back of my friends freshly restored '67 Big Block. Of course Junior's cut rate insurance did a fine job of covering the damage.

This is why we can't have nice things!

We all do stupid E36 M3 every once in a while. I was just thinking about how the term "young and stupid" is thrown around. I've decided not to use it or acknowledge it because old can be just as stupid as young.

Now that I've had that little rant, yes around here there are many events that have been shut down, but the underground scene still keeps the "fun" of the dangerous street bit alive.

People will still keep being stupid, old events will be shut down, and new events will start. Gateway Motorsports Park is really trying to get the street racers to the track (for anything ranging from shows, to get-togethers, to races) where the shenanigans are not a risk, but they have a ways to go in track preparation to keep them coming back.

A group of friends started something similar on Wednesday nights a couple years ago. It went on for a while and got pretty big, different groups of car guys just hanging out, it was pretty cool. Until some drunk guy in a mustang decided to attempt (keyword there) a burnout, hit a couple parked cars, then take off I think. Yeah...

There is a local more exotic leaning c&c here once a month though that has yet to have this issue. Hope it continues as such.

Now, where's that video of the woman trying to pull out of a parking lot with the Cobra kit car. . .

Yep, on dope ruining a good thing for the rest of us. Should be sentenced to driving a 1982 K-car for a year.

Craziest thing I've seen wasn't at a car show or get together. A local radio station decided to have an impromptu get together in a parking lot near a fast food restaurant. A bunch of high schoolers showed up and shortly after mayhem ensued. Apparently somebody stole somebody's girlfriend and the guy started to try and run him over with his car. Everybody ran to the restaurant and the guy was trying to hit anybody he could. He smashed every single car that was in the parking lot , hit the building three times and then took off. I don't think anyone got hit but it was crazy.

Gearheadotaku wrote: Should be sentenced to driving a 1982 K-car for a year.

Around these parts that may be seen as rewarding stupidity

Duke wrote: Isn't this crap kind of like heroin (re: Phillip Seymour Hoffman thread)? Don't car show burnouts pretty much **without fail** lead to somebody looking like a tool on Youtube?

IMO, unless you're heating your tires before a drag run, any burnout makes you look like a tool.

Knurled wrote:

Duke wrote: Isn't this crap kind of like heroin (re: Phillip Seymour Hoffman thread)? Don't car show burnouts pretty much **without fail** lead to somebody looking like a tool on Youtube?

IMO, unless you're heating your tires before a drag run, *any* burnout makes you look like a tool.

Well, yeah, I have to agree on this point. Though it's not really a popular opine in these parts.

I don't care what anyone says, that was impressive...the way he got that car completely out of control with little to no loss of traction!

and people wonder why I do not enjoy driving anymore. I might just finish my fiat and seal it into a hermetically sealed room so I can run a diaper over it and make "vroom vroom" noises once in a while

In reply to mad_machine:

Do that and the asshats win.

Duke wrote:

Knurled wrote:

Duke wrote: Isn't this crap kind of like heroin (re: Phillip Seymour Hoffman thread)? Don't car show burnouts pretty much **without fail** lead to somebody looking like a tool on Youtube?

IMO, unless you're heating your tires before a drag run, *any* burnout makes you look like a tool.

Well, yeah, I have to agree on this point. Though it's not really a popular opine in these parts.

+1. We've all done it once or twice or even more. Doesn't make us look any less like a tool though.

Why did someone take a video of the video? Why not just upload it?

My take is if you are going to do something stupid like this....do it somewhere a whole lot of people aren't. Like behind a FedEx Kinko's is suburbia on a Thursday night with some VHT on fire. Or out in the woods with some friends. Not at a huge gathering with lots of people holding smart phones videoing the wrong way.