What's the stupidest car damage you've ever done to your own car?

[Bantamlover23]

The things that I have done to my truck:

1. This was not my fault but I went to the feedstore to get hay for the horses and so they had already loaded some of the hay I was getting and they covered my back window. Then I had to move my truck to get a different type of hay out of another trailer. Well I was just using my side mirrors to back up b/c I could not see out the my back window and they did not stop me in time and I hit the corner a tractor trailer which left a huge dent in my tailgate. Then they tell that is what happens when you get hay, I was pretty ticked off.
2. I was at Wal Mart and did not see a see a shopping cart. It only put a small dent in my truck.
3. I about flipped my truck because I overcorrected my truck when the tire slipped off the road. That one scared me because my literally rocked side to side but it did not go over.

My mom also uses my truck to go get hay and she backed my tailgate two into some thing so now it has a big dent and the hinges are a little messed up.

 

[mom'sfolly]

Camping with the family. I backed into the camp site and into to the tree. It broke the glass and we went home with a duct taped window. The kids do the "remember the camping trip where mom hit the tree". I try to tell them it was a fast moving and wiley tree, but they aren't buying it.

But I still think the greatest idiot in a car is from a friend in high school. He was arguing with the people in the back seat, and managed to rear end a slow moving vehicle. The slow moving vehicle was yellow, painting lines on the road, surrounded by cones, and had a big flashing arrow mounted on the back. Trent still managed to not see it, and rear end a line painting truck. Considering how annoying the guy he was arguing with could be, and how spacey Trent could be, I'm really not surprised. Poor guy probably still cringes when he thinks about it, we had no mercy in letting him know how dumb it was.

 

[hearthnsoul]

you know those yellow concrete barrel shapes in parking lots at the grocery store,..uh yeah I have bumpered them pretty darn good...and twice I have run of boulders the size of a large dog,...one time, no witnesses,..second time I had just sold a million dollar house and had just finished doing a walk through before closing and yeah as the other agent and my client watched on, coincidentally just as they were discussing the need to remove the boulder because people tend to back into it,..BANG I not only backed into it, but set my car right on it. Talk about embarrasing. They had to help me get off it,...ugh

 

[Buff Hooligans]

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Well, if you're going to do it, do it big!

 

[hearthnsoul]

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Yeah tell me about it,..I was so mortified,..the other agent is a snoot, here I am trying not to be my ridiculous self and BANG I guess the lesson is if I wasn't so busy trying to behave it wouldnt have happened in the first place.

 

[mom'sfolly]

OOh, I didn't do this one either, again it was my friend Trent...I hope he's not still driving.

Where I grew up it snows...a lot. When they plow, the go down one side of the road and then the other. This puts a huge berm in the middle of the road, which they eventually come and clean up. The plowing packs the snow, and sometimes we got nice wet snow that is mixed with rain, so it packs really well. Trent, being the guy he was, pulled out of the school parking lot one evening after something we had been there for, and decides to make a left over the berm in the middle of the street. He didn't quite make it, he managed to hand his car up on the berm, all four wheels spinning off the ground.

 

[hearthnsoul]

I thought of two more ridiculous moments when i was younger. Once before cell phone age,..I was using payphone,.I was about 7 months pregnant and my car started to roll,..imagine 7 month pregnant woman chasing car headed into mcdonalds bog picture windows,..somehow I managed to get into it and hit the reaks right before impact. Next time,..yep again pregnant three kids in car,...two older ones sit and watch 3 year old unbuckle self, climb in front and move the car out of gear, it started rolling down long driveway picking up speed and heading towards a wall,..again somehow I managed to get in there,..almost broke my ankle that time and stopped it right before impact. I think cars dont like me.

 

[ChickenToes]

11 days after I got my license I hit the bumper of a ginormous SUV and dented the back door of my car all to heck...didn't even ding the SUV's bumper.

I haven't been in an accident or fender-bender since then...yet. I've been in the truck while my husband was driving and hit a deer, but that's it.

 

[Bantimna]

In trying to find the darn mouse causing the problem, I took a 5 pound hammer and hit he car anywhere I heard a mouse chirp. When DM and DF came home the passenger side door fell off.

Really stupid, but it was good excerise.

 

[Buff Hooligans]

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Bants, I can't believe you did that! Whack your parents car with a hammer? (did you get the mouse?)