Dang... that was pretty stupid!
http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=-8110880470768460776&q=genre%3Acomedy&pr=
goog-sl
> Dang... that was pretty stupid!
>
> http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=-8110880470768460776&q=genre%3Acomedy&pr=
goog-sl
Sheer driver incompetence. The best way to learn car control during
skids is to go have fun sliding around in a large, empty, snow covered
parking lot. It should be a required activity for every driver.
goodnigh - 11 Aug 2006 19:23 GMT
>> Dang... that was pretty stupid!
>>
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> is to go have fun sliding around in a large, empty, snow covered parking
> lot. It should be a required activity for every driver.
Having just purchased this old Mustang, can't wait until the rains
come. With oil and such being baked into the pavement during
sunny months, when the pavement gets wet, look out.
Hope I remember my Ohio snow and ice training :)
mike
ZombyWoof - 11 Aug 2006 20:50 GMT
>>> Dang... that was pretty stupid!
>>>
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>
>mike
"This Old Mustang"....Hmm, sounds like a good title for a new Speed
Channel segment!! Somebody get me a script writer quick.
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a
permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until
the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from
the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for
the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury,
with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose
fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship." -- Alexander Tyler
goodnigh - 11 Aug 2006 23:00 GMT
>>Having just purchased this old Mustang, can't wait until the rains
>>come. With oil and such being baked into the pavement during
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> "This Old Mustang"....Hmm, sounds like a good title for a new Speed
> Channel segment!! Somebody get me a script writer quick.
Yeh; No ABS, No airbags, dubious seatbelt system...
At least it is good old fashion Detroit iron.
mike
Michael Johnson, PE - 12 Aug 2006 00:27 GMT
>>> Dang... that was pretty stupid!
>>>
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> sunny months, when the pavement gets wet, look out.
> Hope I remember my Ohio snow and ice training :)
I grew up in small town Indiana. We had a Kroger's there and it was a
given that their parking lot was the place to be during a good snowfall
at about 2:00 in the morning. There was so much room to slide around
that it didn't matter if you had been drinking or not. ;)
meggers - 12 Aug 2006 03:18 GMT
small town indiana...krogers...would it be anywhere near monticello
indiana??? I was once stranded in a KROGERS with my 65 in indiana in
Feb...it was NOT fun.
> >>> Dang... that was pretty stupid!
> >>>
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> at about 2:00 in the morning. There was so much room to slide around
> that it didn't matter if you had been drinking or not. ;)
Michael Johnson, PE - 12 Aug 2006 03:42 GMT
It would be a hole in the wall near Terre Haute.
> small town indiana...krogers...would it be anywhere near monticello
> indiana??? I was once stranded in a KROGERS with my 65 in indiana in
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>> at about 2:00 in the morning. There was so much room to slide around
>> that it didn't matter if you had been drinking or not. ;)
Robert A. Plourde Jr. - 11 Aug 2006 20:50 GMT
It appears he did turn his front wheels to the right but he was too far gone
into the skid before he did so.
> > Dang... that was pretty stupid!
http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=-8110880470768460776&q=genre%3Acomedy&pr=
goog-sl
> Sheer driver incompetence. The best way to learn car control during
> skids is to go have fun sliding around in a large, empty, snow covered
> parking lot. It should be a required activity for every driver.
Michael Johnson, PE - 12 Aug 2006 00:23 GMT
He really wasn't going that fast when he lost it. Another example of
having more horsepower than common sense.
> It appears he did turn his front wheels to the right but he was too far gone
> into the skid before he did so.
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>> skids is to go have fun sliding around in a large, empty, snow covered
>> parking lot. It should be a required activity for every driver.
goodnigh - 12 Aug 2006 00:38 GMT
Clearly a triumph of technology over reason.
> He really wasn't going that fast when he lost it. Another example of
> having more horsepower than common sense.
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>>> skids is to go have fun sliding around in a large, empty, snow covered
>>> parking lot. It should be a required activity for every driver.
Kate - 12 Aug 2006 02:17 GMT
I got to do it when I was a kid :)
in the parking lot at the auction yard just up the road from our house, then
later in Alaska at the Mall...
that was FUN!
>> Dang... that was pretty stupid!
>>
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> is to go have fun sliding around in a large, empty, snow covered parking
> lot. It should be a required activity for every driver.
Michael Johnson, PE - 12 Aug 2006 03:46 GMT
There's few things that put a smile on my face like a good slip-n-slide
session on a snow covered, empty parking lot. Also, it is great
practice for those times when the sliding can have "severe consequences".
> I got to do it when I was a kid :)
> in the parking lot at the auction yard just up the road from our house, then
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>> is to go have fun sliding around in a large, empty, snow covered parking
>> lot. It should be a required activity for every driver.