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Mine involved a few 360's with my bro in a variety of vehicles from an AH Bugeye Sprite, a '67 GT500 427 MR, a Boss 429 and an original 427 Cobra on HW 9 to Santa Cruz. The final venture culminated in a loss on a corner on Channel Drive In Santa Barbara in his Maserati Bora that had us run through the yard of a beautiful coastal residence and straight into palms that kept us from experiencing the sea. The front of the car was destroyed but being a mid-engine my dear bro sorted it out himself months later. I went up to the house we had barged into to try to get a phone. No one would come to the door. Police arrived an hour later and we sorted things out. This in 1983.

When I was in college, I road the back of the train cars like that several times from Mattapan into Dorchester Station...

only reason doing so, missed the trolley by seconds and they wouldn't stop for anything...

still ended up paying my quarter tho..

my crazy and stupid days were all in college...
my folk ran a tight ship at home when I was in High School...

only reprieve we boys had was when the old man was overseas... in Vietnam and then up in Thule Greenland when that B52 crashed with an H Bomb on it back in 1969.. he was up there for a little over a year on that recovery project...

we use to ratrace on narrow twist roads in Fairfax Co Va, and I got pretty good at it...Quit that after someone trying to follow me, lost it and wreck their car or their old man's car trying to follow me... four different times by a different group of guys in a car...in a 6 week period...no one seriously hurt but a few trips to the ER by them..

finally wised up and realized I was play Russian Roulette with it all...the last straw was when a county sheriff car was following me with his lights on, and ended up wedging his cruiser side ways on a one lane bridge, there being a sharp turn coming into it and another leaving it...

manage to set my own car up on two wheels several times but luckily never rolled it...

one of my buddies started calling our little group, the MUVs... short for MF'ers... with the slogan of " a bunch of flaming young punks on a date with death".... think he got that off of one of the old Signal 30 Movies, that we had to watch in drivers Ed in High School... those gory movies put out by the Ohio State Patrol back in the 50s and showed a bunch of accidents where young high school kids went out and were killed in gory car accidents...in Virginia they were still showing those in the late 60s, I think to scare the living crap out of High School kids, and making us afraid to get out drivers licenses...

this, but still riding dinks for my horse trading parents

Billy called she said get your ass to the arena pronto.Your mom hates to wait.

I had an old Jeepster when I was a kid,and was at a big senior class party in big field way up on Sycamore road.Well I had my jeep packed,and was just driving like a wildman through the high grass,and then someone shouted theres Rocco.A buddy of mine was passed out in the high grass,and we had came just inches from running over him...

Too many to list, and they aren't quite as exciting in text, as in they were at the time.

Had an 88 Honda 250R 4-wheeler. They only made them 4 years before banning them due to the deaths, and ensuing law suits. Did too much crazy chit on it, but never really hurt myself badly, by the grace of God.

I'm 45 and have a 450R, that basically sits. Just too old for that, but still believe in my mind I'm not that old.

I always come close to pulling the trigger on another 88 250R, just to have it, but know one of my boys would kill themselves on it.

I was going to tell a tale, but then I realized I misread the title as "stupid things I did when young and immoral".

't was a good tale, though.....

Cliff jumping at the local reservoir, where a classmate would later
become a quad doing the same thing.
Catching rattlesnakes bare handed.
Racing around in too fast cars and trucks.
Drinking and driving.
Had a 70 Plymouth Fury, took the doors off and knocked out the windshield.
Turned it into "The jackrabbit Mobile" Chased jacks cross country and shot the with shotguns out the front missing window. After the umpteenth time of rolling
the vehicle while NOT wearing seat belts it caught fire and saved our lives.

Don't know about "Immortal" but when I was 21, I had an IMMORAL relationship with a older (23) married chick. One day I ended up on our local news broadcast in an interview. The next day when I saw her, she told me she wanted my autograph. I asked her where she wanted it and she patted herself on the butt with a smile. Later that night we met up for a rendezvous at a hotel and I signed her bare ass with an ink pen. After playtime, I sent her back home to her husband. Not the smartest thing I ever did, on several levels...