Do You Ghost Ride It?

[bhsup]

and who thinks its cool?

Probably the same person who thinks this is:

 

[Red Door]

Pretty darn close.

So, doesn't the ghost riding require one to step out (or into) a moving car?:



A whole new way to get dumb

Not ghost riding. Ghost riding is on the hood.

 

[Gr3yL3gion]

No, I won't. It looks so silly.

 

[Red Door]

It looks like a particular jokester voted for every option. That's not funny.

 

[Drewcifer]

*Shakes head*

What is wrong with people today? Yeah, that is really cool; what's next, driving your car into brick walls?

I sense that this is natural selection in action, and a good thing too.

 

[Guangxi]

too young to drive. who in the hell would do something this irresponsible?

 

[Tykinruoka]

Cars are not toys, so my answer is no.

Spoiler :

Hip-Hop Car Stunt Leaves 2 Dead
By GARANCE BURKE, Associated Press Writer
Fri Dec 29, 2:20 PM

MODESTO, Calif. - "Ghost riding the whip" _ a stunt in which a driver gets out of his car and dances around and on top of the slowly moving vehicle to a thumping hip-hop beat _ has gotten at least two people killed, led to numerous injuries and alarmed police on the West Coast and beyond.

A fad among devotees of a West Coast strain of hip-hop music called "hyphy," the stunt has been celebrated in song and performed in numerous homemade videos posted on YouTube.

"It did not take Einstein to look at this thing and say this was a recipe for disaster," said Pete Smith, a police spokesman in Stockton. "We could see the potential for great injury or death."

Earlier this month, Davender Gulley, a ghost-riding 18-year-old, died after his head slammed into a parked car while he was hanging out the window of an SUV in Stockton, police said. In October, a 36-year-old man dancing on top of a moving car fell off, hit his head and died in what authorities said was Canada's first ghost riding fatality.

The stunt has also led to numerous minor injuries.

Hyphy was born in the San Francisco Bay cities of Oakland, Richmond and Vallejo in the late 1990s, and devotees often hold late-night car rallies called "sideshows" where crowds perform risky stunts, including ghost riding.

"Ghost riding" refers to the absence of a driver. "The whip" is urban slang for your car. Typically, the driver drops the car into neutral and dances around and on top of the vehicle while it inches forward.

Sometimes it is a solo act; sometimes a half-dozen or more passengers get out and dance, too. The stunt is usually performed late at night, on a deserted road or in a parking lot.

The Vallejo-bred rapper E-40 introduced mainstream listeners to ghost riding with the single "Tell Me When to Go," whose lyrics describe how to pull it off. Another single, "Ghostride It," by Oakland rapper Mistah F.A.B., offers a step-by-step guide: "Pull up. Hop out, all in one motion. Dancing on the hood, while the car still rollin'."

The antics have gone nationwide thanks in large part to YouTube, where a search for ghost riding turns up hundreds of grainy videos of young people pulling the stunt. The videos were shot from Portland, Ore., to Chicago and many places in between, and judging from the backdrops, the phenomenon has crossed over from the inner city to the suburbs.

Joe Calderon, 17, of San Diego, posted a YouTube video of himself dancing alongside his moving, driverless 2005 Mazda. "We love that style of music," he said. But "my mom wasn't too thrilled about it."

Another video shows a man sitting on the roof of his fast-moving pickup truck and leaping clear seconds before it crashes into a telephone pole.

Where record labels see hyphy as hip hop's next big thing, police see a menace.

Stockton police said they have written more than 1,500 citations and impounded about 400 vehicles since late March for sideshow antics.

The spontaneous nature of the sideshows _ which are staged on interstates, in deserted parking lots, and on downtown streets _ keeps police guessing. Departments have spent millions in overtime policing the outlaw rallies.

Even F.A.B. concedes that sideshows have gotten out of control. He said he would like to stage sideshows in large arenas where organizers could charge admission.

"It would be like a ghetto NASCAR," he said.

 

[Ramius75]

Thats dumb and idiotic.

 

[TheBladeRoden]

 

[holiday_hawk]

He should make it really convenient and just be carrying his will while he is doing this

And i say Excuse me, I speak white, what is "ghost ride it", people actually do stuff this dumb? I've never heard of it in till i say that thing with the Marines doing it on the other thread.

 

[Grisu]

It's things like Ghost Riding that makes me believe that humanity is comprised of idiots.

I think it's things like Ghost Riding that keep humanity from being compromised of idiots. Darwin FTW

though I have to admit, I thought that thread was about that idiots who tapes his speeding on the autobahn with his motorcycle.....

 

[raketooy]

It's gotta be sweet BUT the risks are quite damn extremely much too high.

 

[classical_hero]

This is how I ghost ride!

That was what the first thing I thought when I heard the Title, but it is not about that, but stupid Americans.

 

[holiday_hawk]

but stupid Americans.

I would like you to know us "stupid Americans" are the ones who came up with putting the hot dog on a bun so i think the world is in our debt for that.

 

[Rossiya]

Wow... Darn I'm officially old.

No, just French.

Spoiler :

bare jkz man, I don't know what it means either. Shame about France 0-2 Italy, eh?

 

[Masquerouge]

Shame about France 0-2 Italy, eh?

Shaddap

 

[Leonel]

Hey where's the option "Beat the stupid effs that think this is awesome with a 2x4?"

 

[Phlegmak]

Ghost riding the whip is one of the dumbest things ever invented.

 

[Angry Ninja]

Ghost riding the whip is one of the dumbest things ever invented.

Well, it gives you something to do when you get a new car while feeling like a star. What else are you going to do to pass the time?

The song is stuck in my head and I can't get that line out...

"When you get a new carrr...
And you're feeling like a starrr...
Whatchu gonna do?
GHOST RIDE IT!
Ghost ride your whip!"

 

[Shylock]

Diagnosis: Fecal encephalopathy.