Ok...story 3.
Industrial/Office Parks in New Jersey are usually not plowed right away when there's snow/ice...especially on the weekends, as they target bus routes & major thorofares first.
So...they get pretty slick on the roads.
About mid-season one year, (so there were piles of snow on the corners where plows had been through earlier in the year) we got about 3 inches of snow.
My brother, a couple of friends and I grabbed an innertube, a rope, and jumped in my ford escort and headed for the office park.
Now...we were crazy, but we weren't dumb...we know you don't tie the rope to both the car AND the tube...so we tied it to the car, and whoever was sitting on the tube would hold the rope, and someone would sit in the trunk with the lid open to be a "lookout".
So...I was driving, dragging my brother on the tube...got the car up to about 30mph, but had to go around a corner...so I started my turn and began to slide...which means I need to gun it to make the corner, or my brother would be UNDER the car. So...gun it I did...and that whipped him around the corner with us...where he decided it was time to let go...heading for a pile of snow left on the corner...which just happened to have been angled down to road level. So he hit...and LAUNCHED into the air over the top of the rest of the snow, and into a parking lot on the other side.
No injuries...just us crazy guys deciding "COOL"...it's OUR TURN to try it.
None of us went as high or as far as him...we would usually let go of the rope to early, or whoever was driving wouldn't time the turn right. Twice my poor Escort got buried in that snowbank
).
Industrial/Office Parks in New Jersey are usually not plowed right away when there's snow/ice...especially on the weekends, as they target bus routes & major thorofares first.
So...they get pretty slick on the roads.
About mid-season one year, (so there were piles of snow on the corners where plows had been through earlier in the year) we got about 3 inches of snow.
My brother, a couple of friends and I grabbed an innertube, a rope, and jumped in my ford escort and headed for the office park.
Now...we were crazy, but we weren't dumb...we know you don't tie the rope to both the car AND the tube...so we tied it to the car, and whoever was sitting on the tube would hold the rope, and someone would sit in the trunk with the lid open to be a "lookout".
So...I was driving, dragging my brother on the tube...got the car up to about 30mph, but had to go around a corner...so I started my turn and began to slide...which means I need to gun it to make the corner, or my brother would be UNDER the car. So...gun it I did...and that whipped him around the corner with us...where he decided it was time to let go...heading for a pile of snow left on the corner...which just happened to have been angled down to road level. So he hit...and LAUNCHED into the air over the top of the rest of the snow, and into a parking lot on the other side.
No injuries...just us crazy guys deciding "COOL"...it's OUR TURN to try it.
None of us went as high or as far as him...we would usually let go of the rope to early, or whoever was driving wouldn't time the turn right. Twice my poor Escort got buried in that snowbank
).
