Whats the most stupid automotive thing you have done.

"The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock" (jukesjukesjukes)
07/17/2017 at 01:23 • Filed to: None

5 years ago in the Dominican Republic while on the mission trip our bus blew a front tire, a truck picked us up. In broken spanish the mission trip leader (our translator was sick) told the driver the address, & he drove up there. About 20 of us piled in/on the back of a sketchy mid/late 90's Mitsubishi L200. I sat on the front of the roof rack with my feet hanging over the windshield, I held on to a bar. We were on the highway doing 100kph, off roading, crossing rivers. He wanted us to pay 1500DOP (Dominican Peso)/$40. Looking back it was very stupid, but very fun.

Taken from the bus a day later. This bridge was condemned, but had to reopen so the remote villages could access the main town.

DISCUSSION (16)

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
07/17/2017 at 01:34

A few things. Rather not say. Suffice it so say that they were stupid.

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/17/2017 at 01:37

This the most stupid thing I’ve done in country with out many driving laws. I could have rented a scooter for 1000DOP with a Canadian learners permit.

19JRC99 > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
07/17/2017 at 01:49

Wasn’t illegal at all, but very stupid.

Dad took my best friend and I out to The Mounds ORV park in Mt. Morris Michigan for my 12th birthday.

In this.

Kinja'd!!!

Anyone who’s been there, or likely, to any ORV park knows exactly where this is going.

It didn’t take long. We got stuck maybe 10 minutes after we got into the park. Big hole where someone on tractor tires tore it all up.

We actually beached it.

45 minutes of a 12 and 13 year old shouting for help as Dad kept the truck running and all 3 of us tried in vain to get it unstuck.

Thankfully, a guy in a 90s Suburban pulled up and yanked us out. Rather than try to have anymore fun, we called it quits and went home. After draining a ton of water out of the cab, which fried the amp my Dad had put in the truck.

Credit to the little truck; it stayed running the whole time, and other than a starter, never had a single problem after its’ submersion. And the water was halfway up the block.

Sadly, as I posted a few months ago, whoever bought it after Dad traded it in wrecked it. I don’t know if it was totaled though.

beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
07/17/2017 at 02:20

similar to your story only we didn’t have an excuse of being stranded.

That used to be the best way to load all of us in my either mates 94 Navarra or an 86 Hilux. On the roof or in the tray. redline in top gear to the next house over the hill to pick up another mate.

I remember one mate tripped and nearly fell out of the tray at 80kph, we caught him and decided never to do that again.

DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
07/17/2017 at 02:22

For me.

One night in high school me and my friends were on the way back from “visiting” an abandoned facility and bringing back some “souvenirs.” I had a Ford Ranger at the time and two of my friends were riding in the back. Not sure if that was illegal or not, it’s legal to ride in the back at either 16 or 18 can’t remember.

Oh, also the town we were in had a law that after 11 o’clock the police could pull you over without reason. (And they certainly used it somewhat often.)

So we’re on our way back with them in the back with the “souvenirs” when I pull up to a light. It’s 3:00 AM in a pretty quite town, wouldn’t say small. I’m waiting for it to turn green when a car pulls up behind me. I decide to turn left on the red so that he can go, since I didn’t want to hold the guy up when there’s literally no traffic. When I take off my friends in the back start freaking the fuck out. I didn’t know why until the car behind me pulled into the lit intersection and I saw he was a cop.

He turned right and never turned on his lights, honked, or anything.

DipodomysDeserti > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
07/17/2017 at 02:53

Mission trip in the DR? Weren’t they introduced to Christianity before Canada? Fantastic that people went on a mission trip without speaking the local language to a country that has been predominately Christian for 600 years.

Fuggin’ white people.

Full disclosure, I met my wife building houses in Mexico with a Christian-based organization. We got a flat and had a ten year-old change our tire. This was at the beginning of the drug war in Mexico. Had Mexican Marines search our trailer looking for “fruit” once. Good times.

DipodomysDeserti > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
07/17/2017 at 02:54

I worked with a Dominican for a while and he showed me videos of him racing bicycles with motorcycle engines strapped to them.

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > DipodomysDeserti
07/17/2017 at 02:56

We helped build a school. We knew basic Spanish, enough to get by.

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > DipodomysDeserti
07/17/2017 at 02:59

Sounds about right for the DR. Make do with what you have.

Shoop > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
07/17/2017 at 03:13

I booked it up a snow covered 55mph road for 3 hours on my way to college between 70-90 mph. In a snow storm. Through a deer filled national park. At 1 am. In a 7000 lb pickup truck. I had new snow tires and my Hellas on, and it was a route I’d driven a few times before and I had my GPS to show me up coming corners. I was drifting corners and almost hit a guard rail/went off a cliff, but only once.

It was not a good idea. But now I’m not scared to drive in the snow.

promoted by the color red > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
07/17/2017 at 03:17

I tried to pass a semi on a narrow two-lane road. By the time I was past the cab I had entered the DO NOT PASS zone and there was a Chevy Malibu traveling in the opposite direction at the same speed. There was just enough space to squeeze past the truck into the gap in front of it. I didn’t even think at that point, I just slotted the car into the gap and hoped it would fit.

Needless to say I don’t do stuff like that anymore.

pip bip - choose Corrour > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
07/17/2017 at 03:29

driven whilst disqualified.

Shoop > Shoop
07/17/2017 at 03:30

Kinja'd!!!

This is a close second just for stupid things done in the snow alone.

sony1492 > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
07/17/2017 at 03:31

http://oppositelock.kinja.com/nailed-it-1706463686

Not my worst offence, but I tried to powerslide a FWD so it’s definitely up there.

KevlarRx7 > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
07/17/2017 at 08:18

Brought a mk3 supra.

IAN_Z > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
07/17/2017 at 13:09

Handed the keys to my dang wife!

Folks I’ll be here all night