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Standing on a Car Roof.

2007 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance

Darwin says, "Thanks for the submission MickyD, sounds like your friend's father barely made it to adulthood! A risky thing to do, car surfing, and the panic of the driver could easily have eradicated the surfer from the gene pool."
A Friend's Father told this story over a couple of beers late one night. We were talking about stupid things we had done. This bloke is about 60 and this happened when he was 18 so we are going back to 1963 to 1967 or somewhere around then. One of the things they liked doing was "Surfing" on the roof of a moving car. They did this late at night, down back streets in our local town of Colac in Victoria, Australia.

This night they had a couple of beers and one thing led to another and a dare was put forward to drive down the main street. The challenge was on. Off they went. One bloke driving, one bloke "Surfing". Car was doing about 60Kph. Unfortunately a Police car saw them and turned on his light and siren. The driver panicked and accelerated hard, turning right at the next intersection. With nothing to hold onto, the surfer was thrown off the car and along the road at about 85Kph. The result was almost no flesh on the left hand side of his face, shoulder and thigh from where the road had scraped of his skin. He died before the ambo's could arrive.

Submitted on 01/02/2007

Submitted by: MickyD
Reference: Story told by a freinds Father

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Graham said:
Neutral: Personal Account
Seems like History is repeating itself, MickeyD - this silly 'game' is once again popular anmong the cerebrally challeneged! Thanks for sending this story to us.

James said:
Neutral: Personal Account
A pretty cartoony PA, MickyD! OUCH!

Jack said:
Neutral: Personal Account
I normally dislike car surfing stories, but as this dates so long ago and is a personal account, I'll vote to keep it. Thanks, MickeyD.

Chip said:
Neutral: Personal Account
If this had taken place recently I would have voted it as being too common. But the time frame shows that this bloke was just ahead of his time. Thanks for the story, MickyD

Shadow said:
Neutral: Personal Account
Surfs up! Or should we say down? Thanks for the submission Mickey

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