"MoparKetchup" (moparketchup)
10/31/2013 at 12:24 • Filed to: halloween
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"MoparKetchup" (moparketchup)
10/31/2013 at 12:24 • Filed to: halloween | 0
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We all have our fears while driving. Whether is an animal crossing the street (here in the island the most common one are !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ), a car overtaking your lane or black ice, what is your scariest moment while driving?
Personally, I'll say bees while driving on an expressway, just because when I was a child, me and my family were driving on the countryside in Spain with the windows down, when all of a sudden, a bee got in the car. My sister is allergic to them and this one was crawling with her on the rear seat. My father almost swerved the car into a sunflower field trying to help my mother swap the creature out of the car, while I was screaming at it thinking that would scare it away.
So tell me guys, what's your scariest situation while driving?
Nibby
> MoparKetchup
10/31/2013 at 12:27 |
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Death by a giant piece of metal or wood flying from an improperly secured cargo truck.
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MoparKetchup
> Nibby
10/31/2013 at 12:29 |
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m2m, apex detective
> MoparKetchup
10/31/2013 at 12:29 |
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Being stuck in the car, stuck with the car, surrounded by fire. Shit ain't comfortable.
Party-vi
> MoparKetchup
10/31/2013 at 12:31 |
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I miss Spain :( lived there in Rota as a kid.
Anywho, the scariest situation I was in wasn't on road, but rather off it. I was with a friend in my Cherokee driving on rarely used dirt roads through the woods and was having a blast - climbing over berms and racing down muddle roads, etc. Coming up on what appeared to be a large (but shallow) mud pit, I crept in and all was well, until I felt the front axle drop and saw the Cherokee nose into the puddle - water was just at the top of the hood and I screamed "OH FUCKING NOOOO AHHHH!!!!" and threw it into 4WD and reverse and backed the fuck out O_O. It was the absolute worst feeling ever, knowing that if I had gone in just a wee bit further the Cherokee would have been swallowed up and I'd be out a car.
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MoparKetchup
> m2m, apex detective
10/31/2013 at 12:32 |
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Sn210
> MoparKetchup
10/31/2013 at 12:32 |
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Suddenly ending up under water... That freaks me out
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MoparKetchup
> Party-vi
10/31/2013 at 12:34 |
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Party-vi
> MoparKetchup
10/31/2013 at 12:34 |
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Pretty much yes.
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MoparKetchup
> Party-vi
10/31/2013 at 12:35 |
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I got family near Girona and in Barcelona. I haven't visited them in 5 years. It sucks living so far away.
Montalvo
> MoparKetchup
10/31/2013 at 12:35 |
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My greatest fear is probably rollover. One time during winter my truck spun out on a highway after hitting a patch of black ice. The truck slid across 3 lanes of traffic at around 40-60 mph and hit the embankment hard, luckily there was a decent patch of snow to absorb some of the impact but if I had gotten tapped by other cars or hit the embankment at a different angle it could have flipped fairly easily. This was in an early 2000's expedition where the NHTSA had yet to really test rollovers. Trucks are now safer then they were 10 years ago because of it so I could only imagine what could have happened.
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MoparKetchup
> Montalvo
10/31/2013 at 12:37 |
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Casper
> MoparKetchup
10/31/2013 at 12:38 |
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Having an air conditioner pulley pop apart on my 300ZX at north of 150 MPH. Scared the poo right out of me when the clutch pushed out and into the radiator fan. The noise was horrendous and parts were flying out from under my car and I could see them in my rear view mirror. At that speed even the brief thought of a catastrophic engine failure was something I would have liked to avoid.
Thankfully it wasn't a big deal, we were able to just pull it a part and keep going. The blades for the radiator fan had chunks taken out of them, but being that plastic/nylon they were still functional even with 50% of the material removed. Also it was a good think it was a double electric fan system so I still had the primary fan working at 100%.
RW53104
> MoparKetchup
10/31/2013 at 12:44 |
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Anything that causes you to swerve up onto the sidewalk.
In my case, a sidewalk on a bridge.
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MoparKetchup
> Sn210
10/31/2013 at 12:46 |
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http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/flawed-logic-f…
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Montalvo
> MoparKetchup
10/31/2013 at 12:47 |
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yeah minus the rollcage and it would have looked more like this except the dummies weren't strapped in.
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MoparKetchup
> Casper
10/31/2013 at 12:55 |
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philipilihp
> Nibby
10/31/2013 at 12:55 |
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In highschool my sister's boyfriend's mother died that way in France. Log fell off of the truck they were driving behind. To this day (at least 15 years later) I feel uncomfortable driving behind a car/truck/pickup with logs or planks of wood or pipes on it.
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Casper
> MoparKetchup
10/31/2013 at 13:13 |
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Hope he had a scatter shield.
All Motor Is Best Motor
> Sn210
10/31/2013 at 13:19 |
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Pretty sure that's a Lambo, dude.
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All Motor Is Best Motor
> MoparKetchup
10/31/2013 at 13:21 |
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Being stuck in a car with windows that don't go down and terrible gas, with no place to pull over.
Chteelers
> MoparKetchup
10/31/2013 at 13:33 |
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Someone turning left in front of me. I almost nailed a pickup truck at 50 mph who turned in front of me. I remember thinking in that split second, "There's no way this guy just did that. It's impossible for me to stop in time." Full panic braking and then I even had to swerve at the last second. I was in a Z4 at the time, and am convinced that no lesser car would have been able to avoid that accident. ABS and stability control FTMFW
area man
> MoparKetchup
10/31/2013 at 13:40 |
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Every time I pass a tractor trailer on a road with no shoulder, I always think "PLEASE DON'T MERGE ON TOP OF ME"
pdthedeuce
> MoparKetchup
10/31/2013 at 16:49 |
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fire .
No Prius Needed
> Sn210
10/31/2013 at 20:42 |
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You must mean swerving out of the way because of an impending pelican?
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Montalvo
> Chteelers
10/31/2013 at 22:30 |
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This very nearly happened to me when I was in my father's BMW 550i. We are cruising down a major road at a little over 60 and we have a green light to continue on. Then a woman in a Honda pilot thinks its okay to make a turn because she had a green light in the opposite direction right as we are nearing the intersection. There were very few times where I have felt the car struggling to come to a complete stop and I have never felt the ABS kick in so strongly. It felt like car decelerated from 60-0 in 50 ft and the tires laid patch for about 15-25 ft of that. I remember it as it felt the world turn into slow motion. The tires began to lock and squeal clawing for grip as the seat belt burrowed itself into my chest. To say that I have an extreme respect for the engineers who designed that system would be an understatement.
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Chteelers
> Montalvo
11/01/2013 at 08:05 |
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Sounds very similar. BMW helped us both then!
I hoon, therefore I am
> MoparKetchup
11/08/2013 at 12:42 |
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"So... I'm not on the pill."