Today’s BangShift Question Of The Day is inspired by an old video that I found while rummaging through the hard drive of one of the computers that I have lying in various states of disrepair around my house (All I’m going to say is that my wife is a saint for putting up with me and my hobbies).
While only a hair under thirty seconds long, last night I felt like I had just discovered the freaking Holy Ark Of the Covenant as this video was thought to be lost forever, relegated to quotes of “remember that time ::Name redacted to protect the guilty:: got pulled over while peeling out in a parking lot?“, whenever a few of us got together for a beer.
To add some backstory to the video: The local “street racing” scene in my area of Southeastern Massachusetts consisted mainly of a bunch of 80s and early-to-mid 90s pony cars and imports doing more “hard parking” than actual driving. Like most groups, we had “That Guy”, the one that always seemed to have the fastest cars around, or so he claimed. Sound familiar?
Anyway, this particular night there was even less action than normal so our buddy, That Guy, decided to peel out of the parking lot in his (admittedly, pretty nice) first generation Ford Lightning, which another friend of ours caught on video, filmed with what, judging by the quality, looks to be a potato. As you will see in the clip, hilarity in the form of a bored town cop waiting for just this occurrence happened to be right around the corner.
Given that our That Guy was a bit of a Hot Shot, it was one of the highlights of that summer.
CLICK BELOW TO WATCH “THAT GUY” GET WHAT’S COMING TO HIM (WORK WARNING: SWEARING INVOLVED)
Alright guys and gals, your turn: Ever had your day made by seeing “That Guy” get what he deserves after acting like a jackass?
Never big a truck to a car show
Really? A true Lightning is all kinds of bad ass.
“bring” dammit…
we had a guy with a 65 mustang that he pulled the front bumper off on purpose so he would be the only person in his “gas” class every Saturday at our local strip. this way he would get a trophy every week. he would never take anybody on one on one. well, here comes a little geeky kid in a beat up 56 sedan delivery with a 409 and no front bumper, made him put up or shut up. the kid in the 56 launched hard enough to get the front wheels very light and beat the “guy” by 300 feet. his excuse was he missed a shift. he just quit coming to the track
i was driving to Strawberry AZ once- late at night big block suburban pulling an empty car hauler. 3 mile before Strawberry is another town called Pine. it was 1030 PM friday night. While driving through Pine (35MPH) some dude came flyin up behind me in a truck– thought he was gonna drive right up on my trailer. Pine to strawberry is uphill excepth the last half mile and 55MPH posted. As soon as i hit the 55 section i floored it. we were doing between 75 and 80 most of the way up the hill- he stayed right on my bumper. just before you crest the hill and drop into Strawberry is a pullout section for slower traffic so at the last second i let pulled out of his way and he went roaring past me- right down the hill to the only bar in town. ther was and AZ DPS(highway patrol) officer just finishing a ticket over the crest of the hill- he was at hte pickup drivers door before the guy got out of the truck- i stopped across the highway to watch- it was AWESOME!!!!
One winter while driving home on Rt95 to NJ from NC, it was snowing. It wasn’t too bad as long as you drove slow. This BMW 3-series blow by in the fast lane doing maybe 60-70 mph. Up ahead was a fork with a gulley in the middle. Low and behold the BMW was down in the hole! We laughed the incident the rest of the way home!
Well .. I’m certainly about to … ;-)…… A nice tidy group of them in fact . Best part being they’ll do it all to themselves .. with me on the sidelines laughing every step of the way . Sometimes the old Chinese proverb of patiently waiting by the side of the river till the bodies of your enemies come floating down is the best vengeance imaginable . Seeing as how most people will do more damage to themselves due to their arrogance , stupidity .. and the fact they’ve severely underestimated who you are … than you’d ever consider doing to them at your very worst
The rich boy in town had his daddy by him a GTO when they came out. He obnoxious as it was. After he got the GTO he was even more obnoxious. He kept claiming he had the fastest car in town even though no one with a fast car could remember racing him. He only ran cars with stock small blocks. One day a boy in a flathead 49 Ford lined up next to him at the only light in town. He goaded the rich kid into a race and blew him into the weeds.
A hillarious one I wasn’t there for – I know a guy who had an autocross prepped CRX that he was driving on the freeway, and somebody in an Expedition thought it was a good idea to tailgate the CRX staying 6′ off his bumper. Even when going around a cloverleaf intersection. At 90 mph. Predictably, the CRX had no problem with it; the Expedition went through a guardrail. Don’t know if that guy was supremely inattentive or just thought his truck was invincible.
In the early 70’s I was running a 69 Chevelle with a built small block, 4 speed. Due to “exercising” that combo frequently, my license was hanging on by a thread. One night out riding around with 1 friend with me, I had a Mustang keep trying to provoke me into a race. Knowing that another ticket would cause me to lose my license, I wouldn’t take the bait. Finally the Mustang just decided to ride my ass for a while, about 3 feet off my back bumper. About 1/4 mile later I came around a curve and there was some unfinished road repair in my lane. Saw horse’s and some barrels only blocking it. At the last second, I turned away and the Mustang didn’t have time to. Straight in he went. Short way down the road, I turned and went back. He had some serious damage to his car and wasn’t going anywhere soon. So just to rub salt in the wound, I did a burnout and went on my merry way.
I wrote a long funny story about my “that guy” and when I tried to post it the web site said ” whao, slow down, youre posting too fast” I aint typing all that out again so I will simply say….Yes, I had my day made multiple times during a long road trip by that guy…..and it was funny pulling him out of a ditch on multiple occasions…
crazy woman behind me in a hurry honking and waving for me to get out of her way, she’s an important person’ I tapped the brakes and she drove her car under my rear towbar bumper on my truck. right up to the windshield. She jumped out of her car and berated me for wrecking her car and she was in a hurry, and made sure to mention her 40k a year job and all the head bobbing and smack-talking. the cops came, and questioned her and her passenger, separately, asked me a few questions, asked if I brake checked her, “no , not really, I had to brake because I was turning left and had to wait for oncoming traffic.”
after a while, the officer came up to my truck,’you’re free to go, have a nice day’ the headbobbing bitch got two tickets AND a wrecked car.
another one. Driving across Texas the long way. watching three tornadoes dance on the horizon ahead, a guy decided he was going to ‘beat the storm’ we waited under a bridge until they passed, drove on and the ‘storm beater’ was up[side down in a ditch.
I WAS that guy. Buddy was parked in a parking lot as I was driving up Main St in our town. I jumped on it in 1st, banged 2nd, and hit between 95-100 mph in a 35 mph zone. What I DIDN’T see was the cop car pulling up to Main St from a side street, just as I hit 2nd and squawked the tires. The officer of course asked “Do you know how fast you were going?” I replied that I didn’t, and he follows up with “Well, I was doing 90 mph and you were still pulling away hard!” He cut me a break with 15 mph over, advised me I could be going to jail and they could take my car.
Now, I’m the guy that pulls over THAT guy. Funny how that worked out eh?
Recently I had purchased a windscreen video camera , just for times like this when you needed it on film to catch the dickheads! Also recently we had temperatures of 50c and this almost melted the camera on my windshield.To cut a long story short , I had pulled up behind a 4X4 sitting to wait for the right turn light.I noticed in his large drivers side mirror that he was on the phone and was getting pretty agitated about something when the turn light came on and we were clear to go. He just sat there yelling abuse at whoever on the phone so I gave him a reminder beep with my horn , he flew out of his car and came back to my car , obviously very angry , WITH ME! I pressed my window down button and calmly said “what’s the matter mate?”he replied with the biggest foul mouthed utterings at the top of his voice and threatened to kick my door in on my new car. Knowing my now useless camera wasn’t working I calmly said to him , “go ahead mate, I’m fully insured and I know where to get hold of you for the authorities because I now have your rego number ,your face and your threats all on my security camera!” He took one look at my camera , uttered some other statements about my parents not being married , ran back to his car , jumped in and drove off through a red light with his phone still on his roof! Made my day.
I had one years ago when I was still a cab driver – I was coming up to an intersection where there are 2 right turn lanes only onto a main road – I’m in the right lane and that guys in a BMW convertible in the left lane. He’s revving his little shitbox and giving me the look (it was the end of a 14 hour shift and I really wasn’t interested in racing him) -anyway we take off and he’s about half a car length in front – and he gives me the finger! Arrogant sod, I thought and just accelerated enough to keep level with him and that really pissed him off….so he’s accelerating along in the slow lane, giving me the finger and staring at me like hes gunna intimidate me – but not looking forward at all….I was – in the slow lane ahead were a bunch of parked cars and at the last possible moment I looked at him through his ranting and just pointed forward. He looked up about 3 feet before putting his beemer into the back of the parked car…. Sure enough, maybe 5 minutes later, the radio dispatcher is on the radio and telling me that apparently I kept bumping into his car and had pushed him into the parked cars. Our dispatch room was in the city at the back of a petrol station and as I’m talking to the dispatcher I’m pulling in to fill the cab up. The dispatcher, himself a bit of a dick, wouldn’t believe me and he’s going ` where are you?’ which means come in, we want to talk to you.. told him where I was and he and the big boss came down all flustered…the cab I was in was only about 6 months old and it didn’t have a mark on it anywhere…..`uh, how exactly did I bump / force this guy into a parked car but not leave any marks at all on the cab? I asked….they went over it with a fine toothed comb, found nothing, and concluded that beemer boy was talking shit trying to scam an insurance claim…