Charles Darwin's Darwin Awards 
HOME
Darwin Awards
Honorable Mentions
Urban Legends
Personal Accounts
Slush Pile
2007 August Slush
(DA) Marlboro Cigarette Raft and a Flood
(?) Mirabilandia - Katun
(HM) Dancin' In The Street
(DA) Beer for Bears
(?) I've Been Texting on the Railroad
(?) Man dies after being run over by po
(?) Wooden Rails
(Hmm) CSI 1, Provo 0
(?) Covered load
(?) Would You Like Fry With That?
(?) Self-disposal
(DA) Those aren't teddy bears!
(HM) Key to Stupidity
(?) Rookie cop who killed himself ...
Forgetting Something?
The Anaheim Space Program
Porch Swing Pipebomb
(?) Police Academy 8 (
conveying the message
(DA) Expanding Foam & Blowtorch Fatality
Why do you need a steering wheel?
Balls R Us
OMG, Train meets Texter.
(?) Witchdoctor meets his ancestors
Glass-Eating Crook
Cinder block'd
Volt reader mishap
Stoned and Educated???
"Et Tu Brute?"
A quiet place to sleep!!!
no nuts
That's all he wrote ...
Another jump from moving car
Danger High Voltage
Laying Rubber
Anything for aa high
Flip and Miss
Train Surfing
Dwarf in on stage accident.
When it turns out that the guy you
Man struck, killed by train in Melb
"I can do that!"
S.F. rookie cop who shot himself to
Teen falls six stories
Scrap Van Man
Beheaded rattlesnake can still bite
Police pluck flip-flopless teen off
Japanese biker fails to notice mis
The Deer Hunter
Cockroaches brutally attack........
Man On Lawnmower Killed In Collisio
A Valuable Lesson
Camel kills Australian woman
Where's the doorknob?
An Explosive Game of Frisbee
Follow that rod!
Illegal Surgery - Testicle Removal
When Nature Calls...
Bedford High School student died wh
Watch out for that tree?
Cooking his own goose..
Death by band-aid.
peepong tom electrocuted
Game Over, Dude
Inmate thrown from Roof
Woman killed by pet camel in outbac
Another Method of Electrocution!
Brazilian edition
Older Slush 
 
~ Randomizer ~
Newsletter
Gift Shop
Rules  Search
Contact Darwin
Submit a Story
Philosophy Forum
Home

  

Darwin Awards
2007 Slush Pile

This item was recently submitted by a reader.
Should I include it in the archive?
Vote to tell me what *you* think!

Laying Rubber

2007 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance

Hi Darwin,

I'm an engineer and scientist and known for my rock-hard practicality. That said, this is the dumbest thing I did in high school, par none.

I was anything but a wild kid. Hardworking and- back then- rather dour. So, this was completely out of character for me.

One day, some friends and I were driving back from someplace in the desert east of Bend and we got the bright idea to drag race. We had brought CB radios along and our passengers passed the idea back and forth.

I had a '69 pontiac tempest with a 350cc, 265 horsepower engine, and my friends in the other car had a straight-six Nova. No contest. I was in front after a few seconds.

Then we came up to a side road. My passenger suddenly yelled "turn here"!

I didn't even think about it. I immediately started the turn.

There were three problems with this- 1. I was doing between 80 and 85 miles an hour. 2. Both roads were narrow lanes. 3. The turn was roughly 110 degrees- 20 degrees greater than a right angle.

To make a long story short, the car made the turn. I even stayed on the pavement. My passenger was talking on the CB when I made the maneuver and the other car's driver and passenger heard some words coming over the CB that surely must have been a violation of subpart 95 of the FCC regs of the time.

I must have taken a few thousand miles off the tires and brakes with that little maneuver. Not to mentioned scaring the @%## out of the four of us...

Gee, brakes really DO smoke heavily when applied hard when one brakes from 80 to 40...

Bill Hunt Bend, OR

Submitted on 08/20/2007

Submitted by: Bill Hunt
Reference: Personal Account

Copyright © 2007 DarwinAwards.com

Great? 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Awful?
Love it! Hate it!
>> Moderator Scores <<

Chip said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
Ben, thanks for your personal account. Having done similar things I am surprised that you didn't mention the change of wardrobe that must have been required by both you and your passenger!


Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
At 80 mph and such a tight corner you're lucky you didn't end up rolling the car or worse. Thanks for sharing this with us!


The Darwin Awards Gift Shop

$15 Grenade Juggler T-Shirt / White
Heavy 100% cotton Hanes Beefy-T with a man juggling hand grenades on the front... and his empty smoking tennis shoes on the back! Based on a true story.
Buy the Grenade Juggler T-Shirt

 

Slush Pile
Slush Pile Rejects


Advanced Search

HomeRulesFAQsAwardsSlushSite Map
DarwinAward | HonorableMention | PersonalAccount | UrbanLegend