Car Surfing Not The Best Idea Ever

I did this EXACT same thing when I was in high school and, looking back on it more than ten years later, I still can’t believe how DUMB we were, even then.

We’d take my old Sundance and drive up and down the back roads of rural Pennsylvania, however, someone would be on TOP of the car, holding on by putting their hands into the ajar moonroof. We once got up to like 80 miles per hour.

The fun ended one night when one of my friends decided to jump from the car (which was going about 12 mph in this instance) and try to land on a grassy patch in my high school’s sports complex parking lot. Well, he missed, landed on his head, they had to staple his scalp back together and I wasn’t allowed to park on high school property for two weeks, but that’s about that.

Either way, don’t try this at home.

A 17-year-old Hackettstown High School student was flown Friday to Morristown Memorial Hospital after he fell off the hood of his friend’s moving car.

Hackettstown police responded about 4:30 p.m. to the high school at 701 Warren St. for a report of a pedestrian hit by a car. An investigation revealed a 17-year-old boy was riding on the hood of a car driven by another 17-year-old boy. Police did not identify either teen.

The driver hit the brakes, and his friend lost his grip, slid off and hit his head on the ground. He was treated for his head injury and has since been released from the hospital, according to a news release issued this morning.

The driver was cited for allowing his friend to ride on the hood of his car. Source

There is actually some law that specifically states that you can’t let people hang on to the outside of your car. Which obviously means that this type of behavior has been done many times even before when I did it.

At least the kid is alive, I wasn’t sure if my friend was going to make it. Scary shit…