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Driver Doing 'Doughnuts' In Parking Lot Dies
The Indy Channel ^ | 07/18/07

Posted on 07/20/2007 11:45:50 AM PDT by Abathar

(SUV On CSU Lot Flips)

FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- A driver doing "doughnuts" in a parking lot near the Colorado State University campus was killed Wednesday night when his vehicle flipped and crashed.

The incident occurred at about 8 p.m. in the parking lot of CSU's Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory.

A witness told the Fort Collins Coloradan that the driver pulled into the parking lot and then gunned the accelerator.

The driver was thrown from behind the wheel to the passenger side and then out the window, witnesses said. The vehicle flipped and partially rolled over the victim, a CSU spokesman said.

Three other people in the Ford Explorer were not hurt.

All of the occupants were in their late teens or early 20s. The victim has not been identified. Police are investigating whether drugs or alcohol played a role.


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KEYWORDS: doh; doughnuts
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To: Kevmo
Darwin award

I had the same thought after reading only the first sentence.

81 posted on 07/20/2007 12:37:54 PM PDT by infidel29 (The US Military: Doing the job politicians don't want to do.)
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To: upsdriver
“Police are investigating whether drugs or alcohol played a role.”

Police office "We had a report that there's donuts here."

82 posted on 07/20/2007 12:39:20 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Clam Digger
I used to also push stray shopping carts with that car. The big, v-shaped chrome bumper was perfect for getting shopping carts up to about 50 mph, and stopping short so they hit the curb and went flying up in the air.

I used to do that in my '65 Ford. I was quite the little hellion.

83 posted on 07/20/2007 12:43:45 PM PDT by SIDENET ("IT'S A COOKBOOK!!!")
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To: Minn

“Don’t donuts usually require a little snow or ice anyway,...”

No, just milk.


84 posted on 07/20/2007 12:53:43 PM PDT by Hacklehead (God, Guns, Guts and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Made America Great)
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To: TDA2

You left out the tires!
I bet they were Firestones!!!
Blame the tires, not the driver.
On another note, remember the old ‘70 vintage Ford pickups with 390’s and 460’s?
They had single track rear ends and you could doughnut in them till the one tire blew out.
Brake job till the tire blew.
Cuttin’ ruts in the teachers yards...
Those were the days...


85 posted on 07/20/2007 12:54:44 PM PDT by 9422WMR ("This will make parents, students, faculty and visitors FEEL SAFE on our campus")
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

I went to an accident years ago (newspaper reporter) where two guys lost control and went off the right shoulder. Their vehicle started up a steep embankment and they were both thrown through the driver’s window and out onto the highway. They were immediately run over by a vehicle behind them.

When I arrived one guy was lying in the middle of the road covered by a sheet. Then I noticed a long red streak going down the road and ending at the vehicle that hit the the two. Yep, the second guy waas wedged under the vehicle and had been dragged down the road.

Somehow, the dead guys’ vehicle was barely damaged. The trooper told me they could have driven it away if they had been wearing seatbelts.


86 posted on 07/20/2007 12:55:18 PM PDT by gracesdad
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To: Abathar

One of my good friends in high school flipped his mom’s K5 Blazer doing doughnuts in a median. He was wearing his seat belt and didn’t get in near as much trouble as the time a few months earlier when one of our friends puked between the seats on Friday night and it sat in the hot sun with the windows rolled up all weekend. Monday morning I could hear his mom screaming his name and cussing 1/2 way down the block as she opened the car to go to work.


87 posted on 07/20/2007 12:59:07 PM PDT by Rb ver. 2.0 (eHarmony reject)
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To: 9422WMR

Oops. I did forget the tires??? We loved doing donuts if you had anything powerful enough to do them in. If not then we would find someplace that was muddy and do it there. I remember especially going to a vacant lot when it snowed and spin around all over it. There might be 6 or so of us doing it. Was really fun.


88 posted on 07/20/2007 1:01:27 PM PDT by TDA2
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To: Abathar

Drunkin’ Donuts?


89 posted on 07/20/2007 1:03:20 PM PDT by small voice in the wilderness ( Bumper sticker idea: Hillary/Obama Nation '08. Let the desolation begin)
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To: Clam Digger
One of these might be me.

Porsche Cayenne

BMW X5 4.6

Audi

And if you have time to kill and for a laugh ...Top gear Winter Olympics Audi Q7 vs Volvo XC90

90 posted on 07/20/2007 1:07:08 PM PDT by Daffynition (The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.)
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To: Abathar

“Most rear wheel cars use the back right tire as the drive tire, unless you have positraction. When you turn right and do it the weight of the car goes to the left, onto the non drive tire, causing the right tire to lose traction and slip free easier.”

Uh, what? Unless you have some form of LSD or mechanically locking differential, like a Posi-traction diff, you have an open differential, which means that torque can go equally easy to either rear wheel. Whichever way you turn the inside wheel will be unloaded and tend to spin. Probably, though, the side of the car you’re sitting on (if you’re by yourself) has a little more weight, so in a straight line the right tire is probably more likely to break loose.


91 posted on 07/20/2007 1:12:43 PM PDT by -YYZ- (Strong like bull, smart like ox.)
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To: Daffynition

That top gear guy is cool, but the comparisons aren’t even close to scientific.


92 posted on 07/20/2007 1:17:34 PM PDT by Clam Digger
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To: Abathar; -=SoylentSquirrel=-; Clam Digger
Most rear wheel cars use the back right tire as the drive tire, unless you have positraction. When you turn right and do it the weight of the car goes to the left, onto the non drive tire, causing the right tire to lose traction and slip free easier.

Incorrect. Most rear-wheel drive cars have a limited slip differential which applies more power to the tire with less traction. That does not seem to make sense bit it is true. The right rear tire seems to slip easier because cars (in the US) turn right much tighter than the turn left (not be design, by convention because we drive on the right) which gives the right rear tire more wear than the left. It is equally possible to spin a car right or left (assuming equal tire wear and weigh-less driver and passengers). Many factors of an older car's wear and tear may change that but it is not a feature of a standard differential.
93 posted on 07/20/2007 1:19:45 PM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: billbears
Muscle cars are fun and none on the market has more value than the Corvette. But if you really have to do snow driving and need a SUV, this video [while quite dated now] shows you what I mean. No muscle car is going to make it in the snow, I in which I have to drive.
94 posted on 07/20/2007 1:19:59 PM PDT by Daffynition (The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.)
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To: Clam Digger
Of course they're not scientific ... but I liked it where they added the biathlon ... my favorite sport.

As for any auto you plan to purchase, if you're serious, you test drive them in many kinds of weather conditions.

95 posted on 07/20/2007 1:23:41 PM PDT by Daffynition (The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.)
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To: TalonDJ

“Most rear-wheel drive cars have a limited slip differential which applies more power to the tire with less traction.”

I think you meant “open differential” - see my post #91. Interesting explanation for why the right rear wheel would tend to spin first, though - I hadn’t considered those possiblities.


96 posted on 07/20/2007 1:31:39 PM PDT by -YYZ- (Strong like bull, smart like ox.)
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To: Rb ver. 2.0
Reminds me of the time I thought MD-20/20 was kids stuff and drank WAY too much in H.S.. The cops picked me up in the local McDonald's parking lot because I kept falling down while talking to my friends.

They drove me home, got right up to my house when I puked all over their coats and hats they had piled in the back seat with me. Mom and Dad made the police wait while they cleaned the car out, and took all the stuff to the cleaners for them the next day and made me pay for it.

My dad just laughed and thought I learned a valuable life lesson, but unfortunately mom was the one who set the punishment that year. Spent half my sophomore year either in school, at home or somewhere in between....

97 posted on 07/20/2007 1:31:59 PM PDT by Abathar (Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
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To: -YYZ-

My right back tire would be replaced 4 times over my left back tire, it spun if I dumped the clutch in reverse, the back right was the only tire that would spin under power in my car.


98 posted on 07/20/2007 1:34:53 PM PDT by Abathar (Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
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To: Daffynition

I buy junky cars, or have them given to me, so i am not so choosy.


99 posted on 07/20/2007 1:44:00 PM PDT by Clam Digger
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To: Daffynition

I buy junky cars, or have them given to me, so i am not so choosy.


100 posted on 07/20/2007 1:44:04 PM PDT by Clam Digger
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