watersports gone wrong
I used to run a soundsystem with my brother and a couple of friends. Breaking into warehouses and airfields to put on free parties and other, heavily drug fueled fun things.

To transport all the (mainly stolen) speakers and amps around we purchased an old police riot van from an auction. This thing was a fucking v8 monster with bullet proof blacked out windows. It could outrun most cars at the lights, but did around 6 miles to the gallon.

For some reason we had a megafone with which we used to drive around Croydon and shout obscenities at old people while hanging out of the vans sliding door.

One day in the shitty little Croydon based village of Addiscombe it rained, and it rained and it rained. A huge puddle formed outside the local Woolworths and we decided the best thing to do with it would be to open the sliding door, grab the megafone and bellow at the shoppers while we floored the van as fast as possible and drove directly into the puddle in the hope that we would completely soak everyone.

While we were in full flow, screaming at people, we did indeed drive straight into the puddle, but it was so deep that it fed back into the exhaust pipe and flooded the engine.

We rolled to a pathetic stop with all the shoppers watching us, knowing exactly what we had been trying to do. I had to sheepishly get out and step into near waist deep water and try to push this four ton van down the road past all the laughing, dry pedestrians.
(drshipman iz in yr shower killing yr nan, Sat 29 Nov 2008, 9:51, 5 replies)

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I thought that this was some strange sexual accident for a moment.
(welgar, Sat 29 Nov 2008, 10:02, closed)

addiscombe
Having grown up in Addiscombe many years ago, I'm surprised no-one tried to mug you...
(etak, Sat 29 Nov 2008, 10:36, closed)

flooded engine due to water up exhaust pipe = ...novel
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Sat 29 Nov 2008, 10:42, closed)

lol, serves your own fecking right :D
*clicks as I would've tried the same*
( Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Sat 29 Nov 2008, 12:41, closed)

hehehehe
I would have laughed, despite spending a happy year or so involved in similar pursuits..So click!
(Beer Elf Thought this was like a campfire, anyhow, on, Sat 29 Nov 2008, 12:43, closed)