Ghost Car
Not quite a pointless experiment, but I've been reminded of the game we 'invented' from a previous posters comments about driving round with your car lights off.

We do this down the country lanes near where I live, and its called Ghost car!

What you do is drive round at night and if you hear another car coming turn off your lights, and then as they come towards you put the lights on, wave and then turn your lights off after you've passed them.

Or even better if you're coming up behind someone turn the lights off then, as you appear from round a bend put all the lights on!

Ghost car rules lol!
(Lord Monkey of Yorkshire,OBE killed a gipsy on...., Tue 29 Jul 2008, 23:33, 6 replies)

that
sounds nice and safe...
(misskitty reeks of sex and turpentine; laudanum afternoons, Wed 30 Jul 2008, 1:17, closed)

i once did this
Driving through sheffield at night, I hadn't turned my lights on as thanks to the street lighting I could see perfectly well, I was approaching another car from behind quite quickly on an otherwise empty road when I realised and flicked the lights on.

I'm pretty sure I gave the driver a good scare as s/he suddenly accelerated violently.
(randomer has a 20 sided die with your name on it, Wed 30 Jul 2008, 1:34, closed)

Hm
I am reminded of that scene from The World According to Garp.

I hope that you don't bump into any pedestrians. Just saying.
(Captain Skippy pooed in a bag and left it on your doorstep, Wed 30 Jul 2008, 6:59, closed)

I think it's a sign
that I've been filling in too many health and safety forms recently (our lab got inspected and H&S found out we have no risk assessments) that all I can think is "Oh no, how potentially hazardous".
(Lord of Marzipan Fact: Clouds are worse than Hitler, Wed 30 Jul 2008, 10:35, closed)

my job
is all about H&S so I tend to do the mechanic inhale at things like this
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Wed 30 Jul 2008, 12:35, closed)

NOT A GOOD IDEA
Several years ago I was driving late on a summers night. Up ahead I saw flashing hazard lights and people milling about...obviously an accident.
I stopped to find a damaged car and mangled wreckae that I eventually managed to identify as a motorbike, 4 lads from the car flapping about in an agitated state with minor-ish injuries and one very dead biker spread across the road. They had been playing this game, switching their lights off as they drove, only to encounter a biker coming the other way. He had been going a bit quick, it was 3am on empty roads, only the road wasnt so empty, it was occupied by 4 twats in a car with no lights on. Insta-death ensued.
(dave likes cheese, Thu 31 Jul 2008, 9:38, closed)