What's the strangest thing you've crashed into?
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Not crashed into anything to odd - did crash in something odd(ish).
Which leads on to...how about posting any good pictures you have of 'incidents' in cars - always interesting to see how they stand up in real world 'tests'. Would love to see an NCAP test of elises, TVR's etc.
PS The paving slab on the 1st pic is what caused the damage to the 'A' pillar during my 2nd or 3rd roll - quite close to the old noggin that was!
Edited by hoganscrogan on Wednesday 1st August 11:32
Edited by hoganscrogan on Wednesday 1st August 11:34
Edited by hoganscrogan on Wednesday 1st August 11:32
Edited by hoganscrogan on Wednesday 1st August 11:34 
Oh I'd forgot I hit a princess once
http://homepage.mac.com/croggymassive/.Pictures/Fiat v Princess.jpg
Very messy
Edited by hoganscrogan on Wednesday 1st August 12:48
Hoganscorgan, that is the best looking princess I have ever seen. You should be awarded a medal.
Now the last princess has been finished off does anyone want to give me a hand with the 2 tone matt red over black maxi with a straight through middle exit exhaust that runs around Portsmouth?
.mark - that portsmouth one sounds fly!! The particular one that hit me was a nice mid brown. Came out of a side road, hit me, his throttle jammed open and was then dragged about 20 ft before the our car untangled and he limped up the road for another 40 ft! Had a look under the bonnet afterward - must be enough room under there for a V12 - the sad little 4cyl looked very lost.
A skateboard! Well, nearly! Some reject from the plonker school thought it was 'cool' to do tricks on his board as I drove past. His perfectly executed manoeuvre saw his battered looking implement shoot out from the curb and into the path of my V8. As if he hadn't displayed enough stupidity he thought he would earn some extra 'street' creds by ambling out in front of my car with all the speed and conviction that he undoubtedly gives his education (and dress sense). I should have ran it over - the skateboard I mean, honestly........
Edited by leehodges on Wednesday 1st August 15:42
Edited by leehodges on Wednesday 1st August 15:42 
First of all, I'm not Driller, I'm his brother, Kneedown - little bugger uses my PC and I can't change the profile.
Once managed to crash into a swimming pool in a brand new Golf convertible - still have a press cutting somewhere to prove it!
Used to live in Johannesburg and shared a posh house with other creatives from an ad agency I was working for. This house was at the bottom of a long downhill and had a gravel driveway leading to a double garage that had wooden doors front and back, allowing access to the rear garden and pool.
Had a 750 Kawasaki at the time and, in youthful stupidity, got into the habit of belting down the hill, turning off the ignition, coasting down the driveway and stopping just short of the garage doors. Don't ask why...(actually I think I got the idea from The World According to Garp - and that had an unfortunate denouement too!).
Anyway, there was this girl I liked who lived in one of the other nearby posh houses. After much harassment, she asked me to her 21st birthday party, at which she was presented with the Golf, which her parents had imported specially for the occasion.
Party went well and, as it was a family/parenty sort of thing, it was decided we'd hit downtown Joburg afterwards in the new motor.
Had a truly great night but, unlike the four other people in the car, stayed sober. So, we decided to head back to my place for coffee, and I'd drive as I hadn't had a skinful.
Got halfway down the hill and had a moment of pure youthful inspiration - took out the keys halfway down the hill and threw them into the girl's lap.
Hit the driveway still doing 40-ish - tried to brake and discovered...no servo assist. Grabbed keys and tried to reinsert them with garage door looming.
Must have been doing 20-25 ish when we hit the garage, still trying to frantically find the ignition barrel, went straight through the garage, (somehow avoiding two motorbikes parked inside!) through rear doors and bullseye into swimming pool.
Never did see her again!
Driller
Ice Blue Griff500
Whow, that's a very good one but I think congratulations are inappropriate. Anyway, at 15 I managed to open the front door of the house with the back of my mother's car. Ah, and a couple of years ago I parked in a hill. I went away and suddenly heared a noise like metal on metal and thought "What idiot was that". In the same moment I thought "Uuch, it could have been me". When I came back 5 minutes later my car wasn't any more where I parked it. Instead, it was on the other side of the street 10 meters away in another parked car. Mmh, what a mess.
Borrowed a friends car once to nip into town and took a 90 degree bend at a similar speed that I would in my Elise - not thinking that a 10 year old cavalier might not handle quite as well as my mid engined sports car.
Needless to say the car carried straight on and after skidding across about 20 metres of grass I hit a farmers gatepost that bent at a 45 degree angle, acted as a ramp and launched me onto a rather sturdy hedgrow. I was left with all four wheels off the ground, and had to bribe the farmer to pull me off the hedge with his tractor after promising to pay for the damage to his property.
My mate was none too chuffed though as I wasn't insured for the car and I ended up having to buy him off aswell !!.
Jim
I wanna know how mags hit his own house!!? 
Im ashamed to say that I have never crashed anything into anything ever...boo am boring. Do have a brief story from a friend - I take NO responsibility for his stupidity...(and do not approve but it is funny!)
This young man drove home rather late one night from a party whilst still partly under the influence of a well known psychotropic drug (told you I didnt approve). Drove out onto the B road leading out of the estate we were in at said party, and saw a fridge lying in the middle of the road. He decided that due to his slightly trippy nature the fridge was obviously a hullucination, so he drove straight into it! God knows what a fridge was doing in the road but there ya go!
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Im ashamed to say that I have never crashed anything into anything ever...boo am boring. Do have a brief story from a friend - I take NO responsibility for his stupidity...(and do not approve but it is funny!)
This young man drove home rather late one night from a party whilst still partly under the influence of a well known psychotropic drug (told you I didnt approve). Drove out onto the B road leading out of the estate we were in at said party, and saw a fridge lying in the middle of the road. He decided that due to his slightly trippy nature the fridge was obviously a hullucination, so he drove straight into it! God knows what a fridge was doing in the road but there ya go!
N now remembering....
another friend managed to reverse his Beetle (old one years ago) into a pylon with such speed that it a) took out half the power to Odium, and b) made the stereo fly out of the dash with enough force to knock out the guy sitting in the passenger seat
he folowed this up by getting another, this time convertible, beetle (to replace that one which was wrecked) and in trying to pull the roof down whilst driving, clipped a kerb and spun the car across the road and into a brand new police car which was being delivered to the local police station - writing them both off..
UTTER liability.......and people say young drivers arent dangerous?!
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