Should I?

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• WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  To preface this story, miraculously and thankfully no one was hurt:
  Back in the day when I was young and excessively stupid and had my first car my buddy and I were driving around the city drunk as fuck. Doing laps on the highways circling the city, we drove through the college campus (like literally through the campus, stairways, quad, etc), and at one point I found some vacant hanger with what looked like a small airstrip.

  So we’re testing the poor cars top speed (or more accurately how much can it vibrate before I loose control) and I see a ramp or what looked like a ramp. Obviously I swung around and floored it.

  The car survived, but I learned that night to never ramp off anything in a car. Hitting the pavement was the most godaweful sound I’ve heard from a car firsthand.

  Never ever ever EVER do anything like that, people. That has to be my dumbest night in my life. Decades later I’m still amazed no one was hurt and still shocked no one even saw us do all that shit. I would think it was a lucid dream if my buddy wasn’t there and talked about it the next day. That could have easily been the last night of our lives, and God forbid someone else’s.

  TL;DR No, don’t try ramping off of it.

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  • tapdattl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This ramps straight into a cemetery, though, so kinda a one stop shop, no?

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    • victron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You think of everything, don’t you, smart boy?

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    • Sharpiemarker@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s convenient

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    • TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I suppose there are worse ways to go. Have fun!

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  • vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t think your story has the intended effect. All you’re saying is that it was loud and scary but no one got hurt. If I was a dumbass teenager that would probably make me want to do it even more.

    But yes, that would be incredibly stupid.

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    • WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ideally hearing stories is a way of experiencing them. And trying to make sure the people hearing the story understand is faults is a way of telling them not to make the same mistakes as in the story.

      That’s how it worked for thousands of years until movies and TV.

      If you’re just being pedemic about it though, then no there isn’t any story that’s going have it’s intended effect.

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  • Imgonnatrythis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Every once in awhile I’ll see a very low hanging car carrier truck on the road, and I’ve always wanted to try just driving up onto it while they are still moving. I’m guessing you are the kind of person to tell me that’s a bad idea too.

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    • ooterness@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Mythbusters did that once, and it worked just fine.

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    • WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Depends. Can you make it before anyone realizes what’s going on?

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• luckyboy@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  you missed the stunt bonus…

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  • ShadedCosmos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I felt that in my soul

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• Jerb322@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Probably clear the STOP sign. If you’re flying over it, you don’t have to stop,right?

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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Cops hate this one trick! The STOP sign clearly is out of its jurisdiction above the sign itself.

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  • tapdattl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah I don’t think the stop sign applies to airborne vehicles

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    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah but light pole and tree sure do

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    • TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Technically true. I doubt planes stop for that stop sign after all.

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• un_aristocrate@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is a one in a lifetime opportunity, either way you will regret it.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How’s the roll cage on your car?

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• gaybear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  you can do it, but only once :-)

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• DickFiasco@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My intrusive thoughts go crazy when I see this.

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• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well that’s certainly one way of getting into the cemetery.

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• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  OMG, last week I was on the interstate as passenger behind one and recorded a brief video saying “Should we ramp it? Should we?..”

  LOL, I haven’t bothered uploading it yet, but I might later.

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  • TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nah, we’re good man. Save the electrons.

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Do you want to get chased by Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane? Because that’s how you get chased by Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane.

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• _ffiresticks_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There’s no cone in front of it for a reason…

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• rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Here’s what that looks like. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QxLdb77-Ic

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  • Leoimirmir@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That happened where I used to live Absolutely insane

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  • tapdattl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hold my beer!

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• TheEgoBot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah! Offspring intensifies

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• afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is this Florida? In which case get a bag of bath salts first.

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  • ShustOne@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s Southern California. What up Riverside fam?

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• jayrodtheoldbod@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They leave this lying around every once in a while, just so it’s barely plausible when you see a convenient trailer like this in a movie. Some prop master left this here to tempt you, like the devil.

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• TIEPilot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Send it!

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• AssPennies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So right about here.

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  • LazerFX@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s freaky… Do you know that area, or are you pulling out EXIF or something else?

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    • AssPennies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s a pseudo hobby of mine to attempt pin pointing a picture on google maps when enough information is visible in the picture/post context.

      In this instance, I saw the street cones have “City of Riverside” stenciled on them, and zooming in I can see the street sign in the background says “Fourteenth St”.

      So a gmaps search of “City of Riverside cemetery fourteenth st” got me to the right city block. After that it was “cruising around” in street view to find this intersection. I further confirmed with a unique gravestone on the right, and a gate in the background.

      Finally, the exif info on this file looks like it’s stripped/scrubbed, no geo info or other hints to give away location. I’m hoping Lemmy by default strips exif info on upload (I know it’s a common practice for other social/image hosting apps).

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  • tapdattl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s a bingo!

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• bearclaw191991@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hit the nas

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  • OldTreePuncher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why are we hitting a New York area Rapper?

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    • dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No hitting or I’ll tell mom.

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• mtechnik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  With a stolen car, yes.

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  • Nastybutler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or a rental car with the extra insurance package

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• EntirelyUnlovable@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  14 hours later - how did it go?

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  • nailbar@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Car still stuck in the power lines

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    • stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      the car would get any further that the cone in the back

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• Nastybutler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Let us know how that works out for you. If you survive

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• Legendsofanus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Get those stunt points man!

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• evatronic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There’s an invisible power-up at the end of that ramp.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy_Hunter

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• Dxthegod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  that’s gotta be worth at least 5,000 points

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• cyberpunk007@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Can’t unseen burnout track.

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• Bluefruit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is that the freebird solo i hear?

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• letsgo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Do it!! We know from the Dukes that no matter how bent your car looks immediately after a jump, it’ll just immediately straighten out and keep driving!!1!!

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• adventurecyclist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Do it

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• EmperorHenry@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  YOLO!

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• Butters@lemmywinks.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is that thing locked into that position? Or will it teeter forward as soon as you put the car’s weight on the front of it.

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