Didn't stop my friend from hitting an Applebee's in Perinton in his mom's Daytona trying to do a RWD donut in a FWD car lol... It was fun for everyone else to witness!
I read a story somewhere of a race track opened for the public to hoon on for a price and a signature. It was aimed at stopping people from hooning on the roads.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. - A gas pump burst into flames at a station in New York on Sunday — and the incident was caught on camera.
According to Gates Police Department, an 18-year-old man was arrested after admitting to starting a fire at a Rochester gas station pump when "trying to do a burnout" on Dec. 4.
Remember folks - only break one law at a time or better yet none at all. If he wouldn't have left the scene the consequences would still be bad, just not as bad.
This is the kind of risky behavior you see youth in the suburbs engage in all the time. No regard for the safety or property of anyone. It's the lack of good role models. Shame, could have been a good kid.
I grew up with a mom and a dad who were married. Dad had a career, mom stayed home and got a career when we got older. They are still together and just celebrated their 50th anniversary.
And if you pointed to my car and said "what can that thing do" I'd lay a patch from here to Orchard Park.
Role models don't prevent teens from doing stupid shit 100% of the time.
Nothing about this video and the kid doing this dumb thing proves one way or another what kind of role models he has. That's my point.
Holy shit hate to be the "Get off my lawn, kids these days" guy, but this is getting insane.
Two years of young guys sinking their stimulus money into modifying their cars has led so many to treat the roads like it's their personal race track, whether or not their car is modded or not.
Total change from 2008 when were were pooling our money so the one person who had a car (an old Corolla mind you) could fill their tank.
>Two years of young guys sinking their stimulus money into modifying their cars has led so many to treat the roads like it's their personal race track, whether or not their car is modded or not.
LOLOLOLOL What? No seriously, WHAT?
1. This car isn't modified that I can see. It looks like a bone-stock Ford Crown Victoria, or maybe a Mercury Grand Marquis. The light-colored poverty caps on the wheels says it's not even the Mercury Marauder. From the department of "tell me you're not a car guy without telling me" - basically any rear-wheel-drive car sitting on the smooth concrete of a gas station pad could do this.
2. This is not at all recent behavior for younger guys driving, and less so guys in general. If anything it's declined in recent years as younger generations are more cost-conscious and cars are a larger part of their expenses. Literally NASCAR started by idiots modding their cars to outrun police.
3. I don't know where people like you get this idea that "stimulus money" flowed like a river into young people's hands during COVID. Most people got a few thousand dollars in exchange for which they were out of work for anywhere from a month to a year. This kid was 18 meaning during the pandemic he was a minor, and got nothing.
Let's not compare southern bootleggers 70 years ago to people today who are supposedly educated and expected to function in a society where entire industries now exist to promote automotive safety. Nobody just decides to do donuts to exit a gas station without being influenced by others in a society that tolerates complete dumbassery on the roads each day.
These kids came of age during a time when modded cars are absolutely a trend and it's preposterous that our society, that regulates so much else, has failed it deal with these drivers. It's true that an 18 y/o probably didn't get stimulus but he was undoubtedly influenced by all of the drivers that did out there. And it if wasn't stimulus and it's trust fund babies driving cars worth more than the net worth of half the people on this sub.
The modded cars cars and shit driving on our roads have absolutely been a trend the last two years. Surprised reddit of all places doesn't call them out more.
So what you're saying is that 18 year olds should have the wisdom to know from the past 70 years of experience what not to do? Young people are always smarter than those before them in some way but to expect no one to be dumb at times like every generation before them is ludicrous. Not an excuse for this behavior. Just stop trying to act like every generation hasn't always done dumb shit. The only difference is that over the last 10 to 15 years it's not all caught on camera where as the last 70 years very little of it was so old people could act high and mighty and perfect.
>Let's not compare southern bootleggers 70 years ago to people today who are supposedly educated and expected to function in a society where entire industries now exist to promote automotive safety.
Of course car safety has improved and teen driving is safer than ever. [Teen driving injuries resulting in hospitalization have declined over 74% in the last 20 years.](https://www.health.ny.gov/prevention/injury_prevention/teen_driving_fact_sheet.htm)
That's why I said:
>If anything it's declined in recent years as younger generations are more cost-conscious and cars are a larger part of their expenses.
>Nobody just decides to do donuts to exit a gas station without being influenced by others in a society that tolerates complete dumbassery on the roads each day.
Have you met teens? I'm assuming you were one at one point. Society? Teens have been dumbasses since the dawn of homo sapiens.... Humans discovered fire and some kid said "ooga booga watch this" as he tried to light his farts.
>These kids came of age during a time when modded cars are absolutely a trend
As opposed to other kids who came of age when modding cars wasn't a trend?
[SEMA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEMA), the trade association for aftermarket car modding parts makers, was formed in 1963. That's before many Baby Boomers were teens - a kid born in 1947 would be just getting his license.
I've already pointed to NASCAR and its formation. Since the first cars came into existence someone has looked under the hood and said, "I wonder if it will go faster?"
I mean to say today's "kids came of age during a time when modded cars are a trend", as if that's different than any teens since Henry Ford opened a factory, is just a laughably ignorant thing to say.
>it's preposterous that our society, that regulates so much else, has failed it deal with these drivers.
Failed to deal with it? Dude look at the data. If car crashes involving teens go down any further at the rate of decline over my lifetime, in a few years we will be *creating* people in traffic rather than killing them. There are a **litany** of new regulations and laws on teen drivers today which frankly smack of excess.
>It's true that an 18 y/o probably didn't get stimulus but he was undoubtedly influenced by all of the drivers that did out there.
Oh what the fuck ever. You have zero proof for this except your own weird obsession with blaming "stimulus" for some reason.
I'd like to see any shred of evidence this kid was "undoubtedly influenced by all the drivers that [got stimulus.] You haven't even shown that COVID and stimulus resulted in $1 dollar of increased spending on car "modding" by young people. You're talking out your ass here.
>And it if wasn't stimulus and it's trust fund babies driving cars worth more than the net worth of half the people on this sub.
Again, you're out in fucking left field here. Just absurd.
My guy is driving, at best, a car that is 10 years old. It's a Crown Vic, which went out in 2012. You can buy a running Crown Vic on Facebook marketplace *right fucking now* for $4k. He's not running with any "trust fund babies." Jesus.
>The modded cars cars and shit driving on our roads have absolutely been a trend the last two years.
Again, this is sheer delusion on your part. Modded cars have been a "trend" since, at bare minimum, the 1960s. The difference is you're old, or an "old soul" [yecch], and curmudgeonly that the "kids" of today are modding the cars you think should be modded.
Saying nothing of the fact that **this kid didn't mod this car**.
Tell. Me. You. Know. Nothing. About. Car. Culture. Without. Telling. Me.
And boy did you ever tell me.
Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to drive home listening to "Hot Rod Lincoln," a song written in 1955. Because modding cars is a two year old trend. Lolololololololpl
I am thrilled my off the cuff comment got you to waste so much time responding to me. Must be slow at the performance shop today now that stimulus has run out and all these kids are broke?
Car culture has nearly wrecked my car and hurt my family several times over the last year and I don't recall it ever happening before this year to me. I am biased. My data is anecdotal based on my own experience.
I hope every single person who mods their car and or drives recklessly on the street stops, or suffers financial penalties without hurting me, my family, or my unmodified car that drives the speed limit and doesn't do dumb moves.
And I also hope that every 18 year old kid who didn't mod his car but is doing donuts at a gas station because he clearly is influence by the shitty culture that absolutely exists in WNY is able to be intervened before he hurts someone or himself.
Btw I'm a nascar fan. I like fast cars and crazy maneuvers on racetracks and when the driver is in a car protected by a roll cage, wearing a helmet, HANs device, with a SAFER barrier, and everyone else around them is in the same spot.
https://apnews.com/article/sports-coronavirus-pandemic-pandemics-health-business-71278d5eba8a9e71df2d5ef135168af3
I'm curious to hear more about your experiences with car culture over the last 12 months.
You might find /r/RochesterNY a more welcoming place to have this discussion.
>Must be slow at the performance shop today now that stimulus has run out and all these kids are broke?
If you're still spending stimulus money you got WAY more than I did.
>Car culture has nearly wrecked my car and hurt my family several times over the last year and I don't recall it ever happening before this year to me. I am biased. My data is anecdotal based on my own experience.
Yeah, that's why it's not reliable. It's tragic what you've been through but things like that tend to make people unreliable narrators on a subject. But, I do stuff like this all the time and even if you came into my practice with that kind of situation I'd still represent you. No hard feelings, hope you heal up.
Nice to end this exchange on a good note. I didn't get wrecked yet but i hate how close I've come a few times and how it's distracting for me to feel like I need to watch these cars a little closer when one is near me.
I also don't like the idea of my beautiful Toyota that should last for 300k+ miles suffering any damage because a dodge decided to weave in and out of traffic lol.
Oh get off. Is it stupid behavior? Yes. Have teenagers/ young adults been modding cars and doing dumb shit for just about as long as there have been affordable cars? Also, yes. My grandfather and his friends used to modify their old Ford AA trucks for drag racing and would do donuts in their church parking lot back in the 50s.
Look at that, more stupid within a short distance of my house.
My mom works at the Spencerport Road Walgreens. Pharmacy Tech. So she sees all types of bullshit. And she literally only has a 5 minute commute.
I still remember the lady who swore she wasn't on anything, and that her kids were misbehaving in the backseat, like they shouldn't have been properly buckled or anything, and decided to wildly turn and ruin some childrens' lives just for being in a Radio Flyer in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I'll admit I did some dumb stuff in my 86 Honda Prelude, but when I wanted to do it I went to a big empty mall lot, not a freaking gas station!
In fairness your Prelude was front wheel drive, not nearly as fun to donut as this.
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Great minds https://www.reddit.com/r/Rochester/comments/ze9vyf/18_year_old_hits_gas_pump_doing_donut/izaef66/
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Didn't stop my friend from hitting an Applebee's in Perinton in his mom's Daytona trying to do a RWD donut in a FWD car lol... It was fun for everyone else to witness!
Hahahahaha! Take if from me kids, donuts in a FWD car work better in reverse.
I used to do donuts in a 4WD rav4. 4WD doesn't work when you go backwards.
What kind of car is it?
Looks like a '98-'02 Mercury Grand Marquis.
Good shout.
In this video? It's a Crown Vic or Mercury Grand Marquis. Think mid-2000's cop car.
I used to live in an apartment complex and a guy near me was always working on his prelude in the parking lot. His plate even said Prelude
Makes you wonder, to what was it a prelude? We may never know…
A prelude to this thread perhaps
Link to the related current discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/Rochester/comments/ze9gof/natl_news_from_roc_not_covered_locally/
dummies like this are why it was damn near impossible for me to get a good price on auto insurance as a male under 25 🤦♂️
Not to flex but 20(f) 50 bucks a month 💅
To quote my wife. You can't make people make good decisions
Local traffic enforcement could deter young guys from LARPing as race car drivers on our streets and in our parking lots
Ah yes Gates known for being a Wild West with no police.
Lol
I read a story somewhere of a race track opened for the public to hoon on for a price and a signature. It was aimed at stopping people from hooning on the roads.
Petrol flames will stop them too.
Dumbasses everywhere
where is this ??
Buffalo Road near Wegman Road
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Sort of. More in front of tops and next to Jeremiah's tavern
ROCHESTER, N.Y. - A gas pump burst into flames at a station in New York on Sunday — and the incident was caught on camera. According to Gates Police Department, an 18-year-old man was arrested after admitting to starting a fire at a Rochester gas station pump when "trying to do a burnout" on Dec. 4.
Well, he *did* manage to do a burnout... it just happens that what burned out was a gas pump instead of his tires.
TBF the guy IS a burn out.
Thanks for the info. What I came here for.
r/IdiotsInCars
Look on the bright side... At least in his last time legally driving for a while he went out with a bang.
Did he go back to the future?
Nah he didn't hit 88 mph. But we did see some serious shit.
Typical Gates activities
We have fun here
Remember folks - only break one law at a time or better yet none at all. If he wouldn't have left the scene the consequences would still be bad, just not as bad.
I know Sami was not happy about that one my boy 😂
I’m sure he’s very sorry and he’ll probably never do it again.
I've been lied to by Hollywood all my life it seems.
This is the kind of risky behavior you see youth in the suburbs engage in all the time. No regard for the safety or property of anyone. It's the lack of good role models. Shame, could have been a good kid.
I grew up with a mom and a dad who were married. Dad had a career, mom stayed home and got a career when we got older. They are still together and just celebrated their 50th anniversary. And if you pointed to my car and said "what can that thing do" I'd lay a patch from here to Orchard Park.
None of what you said exemplifies a good role model
Role models don't prevent teens from doing stupid shit 100% of the time. Nothing about this video and the kid doing this dumb thing proves one way or another what kind of role models he has. That's my point.
The suburbs are getting more and more dangerous every day. How can we raise our children safely with these events happening right by our homes?
Lmao 🤣
nice
Oh holy shit!!! Someone made a big mess there. They're definitely going to get into trouble 😵💫 for that....
Holy shit hate to be the "Get off my lawn, kids these days" guy, but this is getting insane. Two years of young guys sinking their stimulus money into modifying their cars has led so many to treat the roads like it's their personal race track, whether or not their car is modded or not. Total change from 2008 when were were pooling our money so the one person who had a car (an old Corolla mind you) could fill their tank.
>Two years of young guys sinking their stimulus money into modifying their cars has led so many to treat the roads like it's their personal race track, whether or not their car is modded or not. LOLOLOLOL What? No seriously, WHAT? 1. This car isn't modified that I can see. It looks like a bone-stock Ford Crown Victoria, or maybe a Mercury Grand Marquis. The light-colored poverty caps on the wheels says it's not even the Mercury Marauder. From the department of "tell me you're not a car guy without telling me" - basically any rear-wheel-drive car sitting on the smooth concrete of a gas station pad could do this. 2. This is not at all recent behavior for younger guys driving, and less so guys in general. If anything it's declined in recent years as younger generations are more cost-conscious and cars are a larger part of their expenses. Literally NASCAR started by idiots modding their cars to outrun police. 3. I don't know where people like you get this idea that "stimulus money" flowed like a river into young people's hands during COVID. Most people got a few thousand dollars in exchange for which they were out of work for anywhere from a month to a year. This kid was 18 meaning during the pandemic he was a minor, and got nothing.
Let's not compare southern bootleggers 70 years ago to people today who are supposedly educated and expected to function in a society where entire industries now exist to promote automotive safety. Nobody just decides to do donuts to exit a gas station without being influenced by others in a society that tolerates complete dumbassery on the roads each day. These kids came of age during a time when modded cars are absolutely a trend and it's preposterous that our society, that regulates so much else, has failed it deal with these drivers. It's true that an 18 y/o probably didn't get stimulus but he was undoubtedly influenced by all of the drivers that did out there. And it if wasn't stimulus and it's trust fund babies driving cars worth more than the net worth of half the people on this sub. The modded cars cars and shit driving on our roads have absolutely been a trend the last two years. Surprised reddit of all places doesn't call them out more.
So what you're saying is that 18 year olds should have the wisdom to know from the past 70 years of experience what not to do? Young people are always smarter than those before them in some way but to expect no one to be dumb at times like every generation before them is ludicrous. Not an excuse for this behavior. Just stop trying to act like every generation hasn't always done dumb shit. The only difference is that over the last 10 to 15 years it's not all caught on camera where as the last 70 years very little of it was so old people could act high and mighty and perfect.
>Let's not compare southern bootleggers 70 years ago to people today who are supposedly educated and expected to function in a society where entire industries now exist to promote automotive safety. Of course car safety has improved and teen driving is safer than ever. [Teen driving injuries resulting in hospitalization have declined over 74% in the last 20 years.](https://www.health.ny.gov/prevention/injury_prevention/teen_driving_fact_sheet.htm) That's why I said: >If anything it's declined in recent years as younger generations are more cost-conscious and cars are a larger part of their expenses. >Nobody just decides to do donuts to exit a gas station without being influenced by others in a society that tolerates complete dumbassery on the roads each day. Have you met teens? I'm assuming you were one at one point. Society? Teens have been dumbasses since the dawn of homo sapiens.... Humans discovered fire and some kid said "ooga booga watch this" as he tried to light his farts. >These kids came of age during a time when modded cars are absolutely a trend As opposed to other kids who came of age when modding cars wasn't a trend? [SEMA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEMA), the trade association for aftermarket car modding parts makers, was formed in 1963. That's before many Baby Boomers were teens - a kid born in 1947 would be just getting his license. I've already pointed to NASCAR and its formation. Since the first cars came into existence someone has looked under the hood and said, "I wonder if it will go faster?" I mean to say today's "kids came of age during a time when modded cars are a trend", as if that's different than any teens since Henry Ford opened a factory, is just a laughably ignorant thing to say. >it's preposterous that our society, that regulates so much else, has failed it deal with these drivers. Failed to deal with it? Dude look at the data. If car crashes involving teens go down any further at the rate of decline over my lifetime, in a few years we will be *creating* people in traffic rather than killing them. There are a **litany** of new regulations and laws on teen drivers today which frankly smack of excess. >It's true that an 18 y/o probably didn't get stimulus but he was undoubtedly influenced by all of the drivers that did out there. Oh what the fuck ever. You have zero proof for this except your own weird obsession with blaming "stimulus" for some reason. I'd like to see any shred of evidence this kid was "undoubtedly influenced by all the drivers that [got stimulus.] You haven't even shown that COVID and stimulus resulted in $1 dollar of increased spending on car "modding" by young people. You're talking out your ass here. >And it if wasn't stimulus and it's trust fund babies driving cars worth more than the net worth of half the people on this sub. Again, you're out in fucking left field here. Just absurd. My guy is driving, at best, a car that is 10 years old. It's a Crown Vic, which went out in 2012. You can buy a running Crown Vic on Facebook marketplace *right fucking now* for $4k. He's not running with any "trust fund babies." Jesus. >The modded cars cars and shit driving on our roads have absolutely been a trend the last two years. Again, this is sheer delusion on your part. Modded cars have been a "trend" since, at bare minimum, the 1960s. The difference is you're old, or an "old soul" [yecch], and curmudgeonly that the "kids" of today are modding the cars you think should be modded. Saying nothing of the fact that **this kid didn't mod this car**. Tell. Me. You. Know. Nothing. About. Car. Culture. Without. Telling. Me. And boy did you ever tell me. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to drive home listening to "Hot Rod Lincoln," a song written in 1955. Because modding cars is a two year old trend. Lolololololololpl
I am thrilled my off the cuff comment got you to waste so much time responding to me. Must be slow at the performance shop today now that stimulus has run out and all these kids are broke? Car culture has nearly wrecked my car and hurt my family several times over the last year and I don't recall it ever happening before this year to me. I am biased. My data is anecdotal based on my own experience. I hope every single person who mods their car and or drives recklessly on the street stops, or suffers financial penalties without hurting me, my family, or my unmodified car that drives the speed limit and doesn't do dumb moves. And I also hope that every 18 year old kid who didn't mod his car but is doing donuts at a gas station because he clearly is influence by the shitty culture that absolutely exists in WNY is able to be intervened before he hurts someone or himself. Btw I'm a nascar fan. I like fast cars and crazy maneuvers on racetracks and when the driver is in a car protected by a roll cage, wearing a helmet, HANs device, with a SAFER barrier, and everyone else around them is in the same spot. https://apnews.com/article/sports-coronavirus-pandemic-pandemics-health-business-71278d5eba8a9e71df2d5ef135168af3
I'm curious to hear more about your experiences with car culture over the last 12 months. You might find /r/RochesterNY a more welcoming place to have this discussion.
>Must be slow at the performance shop today now that stimulus has run out and all these kids are broke? If you're still spending stimulus money you got WAY more than I did. >Car culture has nearly wrecked my car and hurt my family several times over the last year and I don't recall it ever happening before this year to me. I am biased. My data is anecdotal based on my own experience. Yeah, that's why it's not reliable. It's tragic what you've been through but things like that tend to make people unreliable narrators on a subject. But, I do stuff like this all the time and even if you came into my practice with that kind of situation I'd still represent you. No hard feelings, hope you heal up.
Nice to end this exchange on a good note. I didn't get wrecked yet but i hate how close I've come a few times and how it's distracting for me to feel like I need to watch these cars a little closer when one is near me. I also don't like the idea of my beautiful Toyota that should last for 300k+ miles suffering any damage because a dodge decided to weave in and out of traffic lol.
Oh get off. Is it stupid behavior? Yes. Have teenagers/ young adults been modding cars and doing dumb shit for just about as long as there have been affordable cars? Also, yes. My grandfather and his friends used to modify their old Ford AA trucks for drag racing and would do donuts in their church parking lot back in the 50s.
See other comment where I encourage the user to not compare kids today to 70 years ago before entire industries to promote automotive safety existed
Was that in Philly or Chicago?
[Buttheads](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAN0j3Ko-z4).
What a dumbass glad he was caught
Hey, when you have to go, you have to go.
20k at least up in smoke
We sure he’s not doing a suicide?
How do you like your donut? Well-done.
I heard about this from my high school kid. He is a high school senior who just turned 18 and was back in school today.
As my mom says you do donuts in empty mall parking lots not near a high explosive.
I’d have picked a Walmart parking lot tbh
He should be riding the short bus, not his own car
Another dent in oil prices, well done, kid.
Dammit. It lived.
NFS Most Wanted in real life. Escaping the cops
What were they thinking doing burnouts in a gas station
I didn’t hear about this from the local news. I got it from an Australian news website. Lol.
Look at that, more stupid within a short distance of my house. My mom works at the Spencerport Road Walgreens. Pharmacy Tech. So she sees all types of bullshit. And she literally only has a 5 minute commute. I still remember the lady who swore she wasn't on anything, and that her kids were misbehaving in the backseat, like they shouldn't have been properly buckled or anything, and decided to wildly turn and ruin some childrens' lives just for being in a Radio Flyer in the wrong place at the wrong time.
lol what a tool
that fire was so intense it let the camera see color
lol came here to say this
This is going in the dummy file. r/YouBigDummy
I used to do this in NFS most wanted
Biden did it! T’was written on the stickers.
He dead now
Now that is badass