Cars Where They Shouldn't Be...

[clowninasack]

So on Monday I walked to work. My route takes me on a walking path (meaning that it's NOT wide enough for a car) next to a man made 'lake'. Just as I'm nearing the exit to this walking path I see a fracking CAR pull into the walking path entrance! I get the frack of the path, giving the driver a death glare, and as the guy drives by he waves to me! WTF!

So I figure this must not be an isolated incident. There must be more stories about cars going where the shouldn't.

[strawbabies]

A guy I used to work with was drunk, and tried to drive his Jetta over a bridge made for golf carts. The car got stuck, and he ended up being arrested for DUI.

[Chanlin]

Our call center used to be located behind a large chain supermarket that is fairly popular in this area. Between our parking lot and the back of the supermarket where its loading bays for trucks were is an embankment of dirt that extends for the entire length of our lot. See the picture to get a small idea of what the layout looks like ( note this is most definitely not to scale :p ). This embankment is about two feet tall and has a very steep slope to it.

In any case these geniuses decided the slope was small enough to try and drive over and get stuck with their car in the air on the slope with neither the front nor back tires touching the ground. So one of them gets out and sits on the hood of the car and gets the front tires to touch down and the driver is about flooring it spinning the back tires of the car. In other words these geniuses were trying to put traction on the front tires of a rear wheel drive car to try and get it off the embankment. One of my co-workers and I witnessed this. Pointed and laughed for a good three or four minutes until I piped up and told them the back tires were spinning so they must have a rear wheel drive.

In the end they finally did get it off the embankment and then we pointed to the connection just 600 feet away and one of them made a cat butt face and said “but that’s so far away.”

I just laughed and said whatever.

[Caveat Emptor]

There should be metal or cement posts blocking cars at the start of the path, but then again anyone with a hint of a brain knows what a PEDESTRIAN path looks like vs. a ROAD... :rolleyes:

I accidentally started down a one-way road in the wrong direction because I misunderstood directions to a vistors center, but I backed out before any problems started.

[smileyeagle1021]

There should be metal or cement posts blocking cars at the start of the path, but then again anyone with a hint of a brain knows what a PEDESTRIAN path looks like vs. a ROAD... :rolleyes:

I accidentally started down a one-way road in the wrong direction because I misunderstood directions to a vistors center, but I backed out before any problems started.

oh, I saw that all the time in downtown salt lake (still do actually)... people going the wrong way down one way alleys was the worst.

[clowninasack]

There should be metal or cement posts blocking cars at the start of the path, but then again anyone with a hint of a brain knows what a PEDESTRIAN path looks like vs. a ROAD... :rolleyes:

Yeah, this is not the best set up walking path in the world. The path actually goes up to the street, so if you weren't paying attention you may think it was a street for a split second. There aren't any markings on it though, and it's way too small to be a road.

[crazylegs]

Mostly I see cars in ditches, wrapped around/under road signs, in flood water etc... Never anything that humerous though...

[Argabarga]

I towed a Mazda 626 off a flight of concrete stairs once. I have no idea what the person was thinking when they tried to drive down them. To even GET to where they were, they had already left the roadway and driven down a walking path a good 20 yards.....

It's a mystery.

[Caveat Emptor]

Anyone else see "The Great Race" with Tony Curtis?

"If we turn right back there, we'd end up on the Montmartre Steps!"

(cut to Professor Fear and his driver bouncing down the Montmatre Steps)

:lol:

[Argabarga]

And who could forget the "We'll save 10 miles if we follow the tracks...." :lol:

[monolayth]

I work for an emergency roadside assisstance place. I will keep ya updated on what I hear.

[Andara Bledin]

(cut to Professor Fear and his driver bouncing down the Montmatre Steps)

Um... Professor Fate... with is loyal assistant, Maximillian Meen (played by a young Peter Falk) at his side.

^-.-^

[Primer]

This embankment is about two feet tall and has a very steep slope to it.

In any case these geniuses decided the slope was small enough to try and drive over and get stuck with their car in the air on the slope with neither the front nor back tires touching the ground.

Ahh yes, the infamous "high centering."

I saw that recently at a major highway construction site. I don't know if it was one of the workers, or a car that left the road, but either way, all I could do was laugh when I saw it. (There was no apparent damage to the vehicle, so I'm assuming no injuries.)