Bart, you and Marcus have way too much time on your hands to find this stuff. LOL.. But it makes for a good fun day today. ( remember what today is Bart???)
hey HEY Hey, why come you guys are dissin my G-Ride... I love that car.....................HE HE HE, J/K...
The tasteless fool who owns this monstrosity is probably a ghost rider, too: Hip-Hop Car Stunt Leaves 2 Dead Dec 29 2:20 PM US/Eastern By GARANCE BURKE Associated Press Writer MODESTO, Calif. "Ghost riding the whip" _ a stunt in which a driver gets out of his car and dances around and on top of the slowly moving vehicle to a thumping hip-hop beat _ has gotten at least two people killed, led to numerous injuries and alarmed police on the West Coast and beyond. A fad among devotees of a West Coast strain of hip-hop music called "hyphy," the stunt has been celebrated in song and performed in numerous homemade videos posted on YouTube. "It did not take Einstein to look at this thing and say this was a recipe for disaster," said Pete Smith, a police spokesman in Stockton. "We could see the potential for great injury or death." Earlier this month, Davender Gulley, a ghost-riding 18-year-old, died after his head slammed into a parked car while he was hanging out the window of an SUV in Stockton, police said. In October, a 36-year-old man dancing on top of a moving car fell off, hit his head and died in what authorities said was Canada's first ghost riding fatality. The stunt has also led to numerous minor injuries. Hyphy was born in the San Francisco Bay cities of Oakland, Richmond and Vallejo in the late 1990s, and devotees often hold late-night car rallies called "sideshows" where crowds perform risky stunts, including ghost riding. "Ghost riding" refers to the absence of a driver. "The whip" is urban slang for your car. Typically, the driver drops the car into neutral and dances around and on top of the vehicle while it inches forward. Sometimes it is a solo act; sometimes a half-dozen or more passengers get out and dance, too. The stunt is usually performed late at night, on a deserted road or in a parking lot. The Vallejo-bred rapper E-40 introduced mainstream listeners to ghost riding with the single "Tell Me When to Go," whose lyrics describe how to pull it off. Another single, "Ghostride It," by Oakland rapper Mistah F.A.B., offers a step-by-step guide: "Pull up. Hop out, all in one motion. Dancing on the hood, while the car still rollin'." The antics have gone nationwide thanks in large part to YouTube, where a search for ghost riding turns up hundreds of grainy videos of young people pulling the stunt. The videos were shot from Portland, Ore., to Chicago and many places in between, and judging from the backdrops, the phenomenon has crossed over from the inner city to the suburbs. Joe Calderon, 17, of San Diego, posted a YouTube video of himself dancing alongside his moving, driverless 2005 Mazda. "We love that style of music," he said. But "my mom wasn't too thrilled about it." Another video shows a man sitting on the roof of his fast-moving pickup truck and leaping clear seconds before it crashes into a telephone pole. Where record labels see hyphy as hip hop's next big thing, police see a menace. Stockton police said they have written more than 1,500 citations and impounded about 400 vehicles since late March for sideshow antics. The spontaneous nature of the sideshows _ which are staged on interstates, in deserted parking lots, and on downtown streets _ keeps police guessing. Departments have spent millions in overtime policing the outlaw rallies. Even F.A.B. concedes that sideshows have gotten out of control. He said he would like to stage sideshows in large arenas where organizers could charge admission. "It would be like a ghetto NASCAR," he said. Ghost-Riding: Brake-Dancing With Zip Under the Hood By Paul Farhi Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, December 27, 2006; Page C01 It might be the youth trend that most clearly epitomizes an age of exhibitionism. All the elements are there: Cars, music, dancing and the potential to make parents very angry -- plus, it's a spectacle tailor-made for taping and posting on the Web. "Ghost-riding the whip," as it's known, has swept from its origins in San Francisco's East Bay to much of the rest of the country, propelled by a pair of hip-hop songs that celebrate this exceptionally dangerous regional tradition. Ghost-riding videos abound on the Web, showing young drivers getting out of their slow-moving vehicles to dance on them as long as possible. (Youtube.com) To ghost-ride, the driver climbs out of the car while it's moving at low speed. The ghost-rider then busts a move around and on top of the vehicle, usually accompanied by a thumping soundtrack from the car (or "whip," in urban slang). What they're attempting is to make the dance steps as gaudy and elaborate as possible and to stay outside the car as long as possible. It's all about self-expression. Or possibly cheap thrills. Or maybe the ever-popular youthful flirtation with bone-breaking, brain-damaging injury. A young man in Stockton, Calif., for example, died this month when he hit his head on a parked car while attempting what police said was a ghost-riding maneuver, according to news reports. Spokesmen for the District of Columbia police and several Virginia and Maryland police jurisdictions say they have seen little or no ghost-riding in their jurisdictions. Ghost-riding videos are all over the Web, displaying a vast array of dance styles and vehicles. On YouTube, the most popular video-sharing site, clips abound of young people climbing out of cars, trucks and minivans, dancing frantically on hoods, trunks and even roofs. "It's a fantastic waste of time, and it's really funny," says Andy Shields, a college student from the Chicago area who tried ghost-riding with some classmates this month. The stunt was in an empty school parking lot in Casey, Ill., during a recent road trip. As a buddy rolled tape, Shields car-surfed at about 3 mph atop a friend's Chevy Suburban. Shields enjoyed the ride so much he's hoping to repeat it -- on a combine or a cement mixer. Although such antics probably began with the invention of the automobile, ghost-riding seems to have sprung from Oakland's "hyphy" movement, a hip-hop style with its own slang, fashion and car culture. Dating back to at least the 1980s, young people on Oakland's tough east side have been staging impromptu car rallies, or "sideshows." During these meetings, drivers show off by ghost-riding, cutting figure-eights or performing other driving tricks, such as "gas-brake dipping" -- lurching along by alternately mashing the gas and brake pedals. Hyphy (derived from "hyperactive") is also bass-heavy hip-hop music that celebrates things such as "thizz" (the drug Ecstasy); "scrapers," which are large, late-'80s domestic makes like Buick LeSabres and Oldsmobile Cutlasses; and oversize sunglasses, called "stunner shades." All of that is referenced in the hyphy anthem, "Tell Me When to Go," by the Oakland rapper E-40 (sample printable lyric: "Ghost-ride the whip / Now . . . Scrape / Put your stunna shades on / Now . . . Gas, brake, dip, dip"). The song was on the album "My Ghetto Report Card," which topped Billboard's R&B and hip-hop chart this year. Another variation on the theme is "Ghost Ride It," released last summer by Mistah F.A.B. The song samples bits of Ray Parker Jr.'s "Ghostbusters" while F.A.B. raps, "Ghost ride, ghost ride / Get out the way and let Casper drive / Ghost ride, go crazy / Who that drivin'? Patrick Swayze!" (Casper, of course, is the friendly ghost, while Swayze starred in the 1990 movie "Ghost.") F.A.B. (real name: Stanley Cox) says in an interview that he first saw people ghost-riding about 10 years ago in Oakland's "Ghosttown" section ( where he thinks the name might have originated). "It's something that's popular in the streets," the 24-year-old says. "Rappers are like news reporters. We just talk about what's going on in the streets." However, ghost-riding is illegal and potentially lethal. "It's about the stupidest and most dangerous thing you can do with a car, other than driving drunk," says John B. Townsend II, a spokesman for AAA Mid-Atlantic. "It's just suicidal." Since an unattended moving vehicle can become an unguided missile, Townsend says, ghost-riding jeopardizes not just the car's driver but also the lives of other drivers and pedestrians. Things can get out of control. Just ask the guy in one YouTube video who ghost-rode his red pickup truck down a suburban street -- and right into a telephone pole. Or ask Mistah F.A.B., who, while shooting the soon-to-be-released video for "Ghost Ride It," tumbled off his car and rolled on the pavement. He suffered only minor injuries. "It's fun, it's an adrenaline rush," he says, "but I won't lie to you or sugarcoat it. It's dangerous. I've seen a lot of bad stuff happen. Definitely, do not try this at home."
Proof positive that there is just no cure for stupid! I say let them do it. The way I see it, we interfere too much with the theory of natural selection in this country. We have helmet laws, seatbelt laws, etc. We put up signs in the desert asking people if they are getting tired, signs on the luggage belts at baggage returns telling people to stay off, etc. If we just leave stupid people to their own devices, they'd naturally eliminate themselves from the gene pool! As it is, we put things in place to keep them alive and they get together and make stupid kids!!
Naw, I don't have too much time on my hands. I scan the 87-93 mustangs on Autotrader and Yahoo autos all the time. I saw an ad that caught my eye that said 22" wheels. I had to look like it was a train wreck. Sure enough that car had those wheels on it. It's not a photoshop. Like Jay said, I hope some of these guys and those ghostriders don't have any offspring.
