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[Jeremy]

[KyleMyers]

Burnouts can be tricky enough to do, never even tried a Donut myself. Just don't have the room to risk it. Some nice smoke coming up from those rides.

[KingApathy]

Yeah very true Kyle, I have only done a few myself. It always seems when I am with some one doing burn outs the cops always show up haha I tend to stay away from them for that reason, that and I can never afford new tires

[Jeremy]

That reminds me of a funny story. I've been a racer for a long time, and had about 7 fox bodies, so I feel extremely comfortable with donuts. It really is a combo of knowing the car, and restraint. Too much throttle will get you every time.

Anyway, my girlfriend and I were coming out of a movie theatre when some kids were standing on the curb near where we parked. This kid yells out "hey is that a 5.0?" and I said yeah, and he says "nice car, roast em off man". I told him maybe, and got in the car and started it up. As we were pulling out, they started doing the "burnout" signal with their hands. My girlfriend says "you know you want to do it, just do it".

So i pulled away into the empty part of the lot and just lit it up. I laid down a patch about a block long, kind of half braking, and then spun a couple donuts, and did a little figure 8 action in the open space. I've always liked the way those marks looked. After the smoke cleared I slowly pulled out of the cloud and headed towards the entrance of the lot, and noticed headlights at the parts store across the street. As I pull out on to the road, with small rocks hitting my fenders and everything, two sheriff cars hit their lights and pulled me over.

The officer walked up and asked for my license, reg, insurance etc. I gave him all that and he walked back, not saying a word. He was an older guy in his 50s, and I remarked to my girlfriend that he looked like a hot rod guy, maybe he'd cut me a little slack and only give me a couple tickets rather than raking me over the coals. "No chance" she said, and I started to think she was right. When he got back to the car, he asked for an explanation. I was completely honest (what choice did I have?) and told him I was being an idiot, screwing around and I deserved whatever he had to throw at me. He left back to his car again.

When he came back, he had all my info together and a couple of written warnings. I recognized the pink tickets in his hand and was shocked. (pink is warning, yellow is ticket). He said he figured I knew what I did, and was old enough to know better, and didnt think I'd do it again. He told me he appreciated the fact that I drove away from all the people and cars to do it, but that didn't make it right. Then he calmly reminded me if I so much as revved the motor up in town, he'd give me every ticket humanly possible and told me to be on my way.

I was shocked I had gotten so lucky. I figure that's the kind of thing that only happens once in a lifetime. If I didnt have a witness, I wouldnt even tell the story because it's so unbelievable.

[Green-Moo]

There was a supermarket car park ideal for mucking around in your motor near me, and I had a good couple of sessions there. Then the spoil sports went & put kerbs all through it, for 'public safety'.

[KingApathy]

Damn you got away pretty lucky jeremy!! That reminds me of a story haha It was in my first mustang a cherry red 96 v6 i was 18 and was doing donuts in a big empty stripmall parking lot waiting for my roommate to get off work (worked at blockbuster so it was a little after midnight) The car was co-signed so it was really in my parents name..I had just gotten done finishing a good bunch of donuts when a see head lights pull into the parking light and head for me and as i drive to go park the car in front of the movie store they hit the light's and pull in behind me..of course i start shitting my pants knowing i am done for..the cop comes up and immediately tells me i'm stupid lol not a good start! he takes all my stuff and goes back to his car..few minutes pass he comes back and ask if my dad knows what I'm doing in his car..and i say no..he says that he did the same thing when he was my age and the cop let him off and he always remembered it so he was going to do the same for me all i had to do was have my dad call him with in 48 hours so he knew what i had been doing!

[Green-Moo]

Proof that there really are some human cops out there!

I guess everyone did silly things in their car when they were young. It's just not all of them that remember.

[josiahes]

I had the same experience alot of you guys have...having some fun in a back parking lot of a mall and a rent a cop nailed me. He told me he was in a good mood that night and that he didn't want to catch me doing "stupid stuff like that" no more. close one considering my parents would have had to give me the money to pay the ticket, which would not have been pretty...

[mtrent]

My sentiments exactly. That was f...... cool dude. You make the best videos in the world dude. You make my heart burn.