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Driver Doing 'Doughnuts' In Parking Lot Dies
The Indy Channel ^ | 07/18/07

Posted on 07/20/2007 11:45:50 AM PDT by Abathar

(SUV On CSU Lot Flips)

FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- A driver doing "doughnuts" in a parking lot near the Colorado State University campus was killed Wednesday night when his vehicle flipped and crashed.

The incident occurred at about 8 p.m. in the parking lot of CSU's Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory.

A witness told the Fort Collins Coloradan that the driver pulled into the parking lot and then gunned the accelerator.

The driver was thrown from behind the wheel to the passenger side and then out the window, witnesses said. The vehicle flipped and partially rolled over the victim, a CSU spokesman said.

Three other people in the Ford Explorer were not hurt.

All of the occupants were in their late teens or early 20s. The victim has not been identified. Police are investigating whether drugs or alcohol played a role.


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: doh; doughnuts
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To: Abathar

61 posted on 07/20/2007 12:17:29 PM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG (Apparently my former party considers me an "ugly nativist".)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

That’s a big-ass motor! Mine was only the 327, bu it still went like a bat out of hell.


62 posted on 07/20/2007 12:17:44 PM PDT by Clam Digger
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To: dfwgator
Police are investigating whether drugs or alcohol played a role.

Sounds like the driver was "glazed".

63 posted on 07/20/2007 12:17:54 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Abathar
Yeah, and to think everyone knows you always do the donuts with a right hand turn,

I don't think I ever did one to the right, always to the left.

64 posted on 07/20/2007 12:19:25 PM PDT by Clam Digger
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To: Abathar
Defenestration, I just learned that word this week.


65 posted on 07/20/2007 12:20:33 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Clam Digger

66 posted on 07/20/2007 12:21:24 PM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG (Apparently my former party considers me an "ugly nativist".)
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To: Clam Digger

If you have a lot of horsepower you can do them any way you want, but for cars with less power to break the wheels free a right turn throws the weight to the left tire, allowing the inside tire to burn much easier.


67 posted on 07/20/2007 12:22:43 PM PDT by Abathar (Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
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To: Elle Bee
I don't have the video any longer but this X5 made a complete recovery in this race.

The Cayenne and the Q7 will perform as well.

68 posted on 07/20/2007 12:24:43 PM PDT by Daffynition (The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.)
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To: Kevmo

Absolutely a shoe-in for a Darwin award!


69 posted on 07/20/2007 12:24:54 PM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: Abathar

Where did he pick up a prostitute named “Donuts”?


70 posted on 07/20/2007 12:25:25 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Hegemony Cricket

He gave a demonstration
of self-defenestration...

And an orchestration
Of Darwinization! :)


71 posted on 07/20/2007 12:25:27 PM PDT by gimme1ibertee (If not Fred, who?....If not now, when?)
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To: Daffynition

Longer wheelbase and width of the SUV should lower the center of gravity enough perhaps. Although I’d rather have a good solid muscle car (American steel only) to do it instead.


72 posted on 07/20/2007 12:25:35 PM PDT by billbears (Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
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To: Abathar
I go back and forth on seatbelt laws.

But this story illustrates the real design behind seatbelts, as they were developed back in the 50s.

Seatbelts are not for your protection. If you ever sat behind the wheel of a car from the 50s with the seatbelt on (lapbelt), you’d know that the steering wheel is going to knock your teeth out if you ever crash.

The design of the seatbelt is to keep you behind the steering wheel so that you can maintain/regain control of the vehicle if you lose control or are in an accident.

In this regard, it’s a pretty good idea to wear one.

73 posted on 07/20/2007 12:28:23 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
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To: the_devils_advocate_666
Is this a “hold my beer and watch this” moment?

And Fort Collins, Colorado has some pretty fine beer!

74 posted on 07/20/2007 12:28:58 PM PDT by hunter112 (Change will happen when very good men are forced to do very bad things.)
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To: Daffynition

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV55l1Hl-iE


75 posted on 07/20/2007 12:31:38 PM PDT by Clam Digger
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To: Clam Digger

Thanks! That’s exactly the vid I lost track of ... quite a recovery, eh?

An Explorer would have rolled a dozen times.


76 posted on 07/20/2007 12:33:43 PM PDT by Daffynition (The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.)
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To: Abathar

Whether drugs and/or alcohol was were involved or not, teenage lack of judgement and inability to assess risk was.


77 posted on 07/20/2007 12:34:11 PM PDT by oneolcop (Take off the gloves!)
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I used to do donuts in a big green rustbucket Chevy station wagon, like this one except for the color and condition:

The long wheelbase made it somewhat more languid.

78 posted on 07/20/2007 12:34:18 PM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: dblshot

At least Doc Brown had brains.


79 posted on 07/20/2007 12:36:00 PM PDT by freepertoo
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To: mvpel

We had a big ford LTD station wagon which was great for power slides on the dirt backroads, but it was too long and weak for doing donuts.


80 posted on 07/20/2007 12:37:35 PM PDT by Clam Digger
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