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The East Bay: Home to sooo many culturally-valuable auto-related activities.
Posted on 05/07/2009 2:26:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A 17-year-old girl had to be airlifted to a local hospital Tuesday evening after she was run over by her own car while trying to "ghost ride," a car stunt popularized in the East Bay, police said.
"Ghost riding" typically entails a car owner walking or dancing alongside or on top of a vehicle that is idling forward without a driver. The stunt has local origins, particularly in the Bay Area rap scene radiating from Oakland and Vallejo.
The injured girl was "performing a horseplay maneuver" as her 1980s-model Chevrolet Blazer idled along about 6 p.m. near San Jose Avenue and Stonewood Drive, said Brentwood police Sgt. Mark Misquez.
With music blaring from the vehicle, the girl apparently was standing on a footstep on the driver's side while the SUV crept forward, Misquez said. At some point she slipped, lost her grip and fell to the ground, and shortly after the vehicle ran over her upper legs, he said.
The girl was taken by helicopter to a local trauma center and while her injuries are serious, they do not appear to be life-threatening, Misquez said. He added that the girl appeared to be performing the stunt alone and was not as a part of an impromptu sideshow, a sort of street corner exhibition where the ghost riding the maneuver is done along with other car stunts such as "doughnuts"— quickly driving in a circle.
A smattering of ghost-riding-related injuries have been reported throughout the country over the past few years after the stunt was given national exposure through the rap hit "Tell Me When to Go," a 2006 song performed by Vallejo-based rapper E-40.
"We wouldn't recommend folks doing this type of thing," Misquez said. "This is what can happen."
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May need more chlorine for that gene pool
....Or at least a better life guard
Sorry, no.
Cars are cars and trucks are trucks and never the twain shall meet.
And my 1990 Chevy is a Hummer Recovery Vehicle.
Life guards show up too late. Even guardian angels would leave most of these type people when they wake up and start their day.
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