Try it, it's fun !
Sat at traffic lights in my car I notice a semi drunk bloke crossing in front of me. I rev the engine hard. Drunk bloke jumps 3' high in the air and does comedy
'running in the air manoeuvre' before landing and bolting for the pavement, me and mate laughing our heads off.

Light goes green, I drive off and within about 6 feet I realise I have a flat tyre.

10 mins later I realise I have badly seized wheel nuts.

About three hours later (plus a suspected hernia - a different drunk bloke who swore he could shift the seized wheel nut - failed) the RAC have me on my way.

I still do it to people at pedestrian crossings but these days I only blip the throttle.
(sham-il-eer-tak-tak noes better but still can't give a fuck at, Fri 22 Feb 2008, 23:56, 2 replies)

Some karma for you
Years ago, my dad watched a group of kids cross at an intersection. Apparently there was a "honk" or an engine rev and one of the kids fell down in front of the car at a stoplight. The rest of the kids crossed the street, turned toward traffic and kept walking down the sidewalk.

The kid crawled around the car below the view of the passenger windows. Then when he was out of view, rejoined his friends.

The light turned green, and the person in the car didn't dare drive forward fearing there was a kid laying in front of the car. Cue the honking, and road rage.

Finally someone got out of their car, walked up to the prank victim and asked what was going on. The victim explained there might be a kid in front of their car. There wasn't, of course and the victim looked like a total tying-up-traffic nut-case.

So, next time you gun the engine at someone, they might fall down in front of the car.

Then what?
(Yank, Sat 23 Feb 2008, 20:27, closed)

yeah, and...
it's just quite a twatty thing to do. And you will sometimes come across pedestrians like me who will take your engine revs as a sign to slow down, perhaps stopping to tie a shoelace or look at clouds.
(entry_level_adultette, Sun 24 Feb 2008, 0:45, closed)