Win a copy of Burnout Paradise!
by Andrew Yoon 
{ Jan 24th 2008 at 2:30PM }
To enter, simply tell us of your best real-life Burnout moment. Did you do a donut in a parking lot? Did your mom speed through a red light at 100MPH? Tell us! The comment must be left before January 26th, 5PM EST. You may enter only once. One winner will be selected in a random drawing. One Grand Prize Winner will receive a copy of Burnout Paradise for PS3 (valued at $60). Click here for complete Official Rules. Eligibility is restricted to the legal residents of the 50 United States (including DC). You must be 18 years or older to enter.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 15)
Mike Felton @ Jan 24th 2008 2:36PM
My Burnout moment was when i drove near my house and hit an emtpy trash can. and it flew 3 feet onto my driveway.
Bryan jones @ Jan 24th 2008 2:38PM
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gfxgum @ Jan 24th 2008 3:30PM
My burn out moment happened, on my friends 16th bithdate, we got him really drunk, he was on the passangers side screaming out the window, half of his body sticking out as well, any in our city of mount washington there is not street lights, so were driving pretty fast, and this happened so quick, there was a guy ona bicycle with no reflectors and no lights, i coudant break soon enough, and what happened was that my freind with half his body sticking out hit the guy on the bicycle, knocked him right of the bike, down the hill, and my friend had 2 brocken ribs, luckly the that was the only seriouse injury, and to top it of the guy in the bicycle was telling us he is very sorry, for not having proper safety equipment, i coudn't belive it, it happen so quick. but at the end evreything was fine except for 2 brocken ribs.
adog @ Jan 24th 2008 3:37PM
My burnout moment? Head on collision with a Semi on the highway. I spun off and twisted around into the guardrail. Heres the lesson guys: 4 months in the hospital and 2 years of rehab and I'm permanently disabled. True Story.
Carlos Caldera @ Jan 25th 2008 11:32PM
I was driving late one night and went to sleep at the weel. When I woke up, I noticed I killed a cow.
will fn b @ Jan 24th 2008 2:37PM
i almost hit a cat once...
Jason Axelrod @ Jan 24th 2008 2:38PM
Back when I was working as a Rent-a-Cop at a Holiday Inn, we were hosting for a Volkswagon Water Cooled Custom Car Event. The disruptive nature of the whole event wouldn't have been much of a problem, if it wasn't for the fact that most of the people doing donuts and illegal stock racing in the parking lot... were the local cops...
So... doing donuts and racing against cops in my governer removed, Mazda Millenia Supercharger which I bought from a reformed ex-drug dealer...
boarder4021 @ Jan 24th 2008 2:37PM
I was listening to Minus The Bear - Michio's Death Drive when I accidentally peeled out in a right turn during the keyboard solo and almost slammed the back of my Chrysler Cirrus 2000 into a Escalade. Didn't happen though as I barely missed out on the gas guzzler. The keyboardist continued, sweat poured from my forehead, and I threw on the sunglasses.
Burnout-tastic
djsyndrome @ Jan 24th 2008 2:38PM
Years ago - and long before the Initial D fad - I managed to do a perfect 180 degree handbrake drift into the Sunnyvale Golfland parking lot.
In a Volvo 240.
kylec @ Jan 25th 2008 9:38AM
Back in 2001 I had a camaro with 2 1/2" exhaust. It was Spring of my Junior year. My highschool had a dirt parking lot. I was giving a friend of mine a ride home and it was the first time they had been in my car and I decided to scare the bejesus out of him. I took off down the parking lot, which was completely full. We quickly approached the end of the aisle and the only way to go was a 90 degree turn to the right. I spun the wheel quickly to the right, then back to the left as the car yawed, seemingly out of control. My passenger gripped the side of the door and I was grinning from ear to ear. However, that smile quicikly went away as I completed my drift and all my tires quit spinning. The next aisle over, the Dean and the Student Resource Officer (the Sheriff Deputy assigned to the school) had seen the entire incident as my loud exhaust had betrayed my apparently illegal stunt.
Tucker (the Dean) began yellling at me to get my attention. I had to stop. He asked me "What are you doin"?, then told me to park and come into his office. My passenger was informed that he would have to find another ride home. I held my head high as I walked into the Dean's office with the Deputy.
The Dean asked me again what I was thinking and why I did that (the drift). I didn't have a lot to say, so he called my father. Tucker told my dad what I had done, saying that I had "almost spun out." It was quite funny to me, although I acted remorseful because I knew I was going to get a ticket.
The SRO informed me that he would be writing me a ticket for "improper change of land or course" and my punishment from the Dean was that I could not park on campus for 3 weeks. It ended up costing me about $150, but my reputation on campus for my driving ability was noted by my class and most of my teachers.
Bryan jones @ Jan 24th 2008 2:38PM
haha i once did a doughnut in a whole front yard
there was no grass left on the ground
and mud and dirt on the front door and all the way up to the roof :)
wind_dragon @ Jan 25th 2008 12:43AM
My burnout moment was when my mum drove from Mississippi to Illinois at 95 mph from 3am to 7am. Off the main expressway so she wouldn't get caught.
greekgoat91 @ Jan 24th 2008 2:38PM
donuts in an empty parking lot at midnight... classic
Brian @ Jan 24th 2008 2:40PM
My best Burnout moment was when I first hit over 90 mph on a freeway, thats when I realized I actually had a driver's license, no more having Mom and Dad with me in the car.
Brian @ Jan 24th 2008 2:39PM
I ended up doing a barrel roll off a jump at only 15 mph, while having rockets explode out of my arse, and fireworks coming out of the golf cart I did it in.
Jettic @ Jan 25th 2008 8:44PM
My best burnout moment was when I went out with some of my older friends (22 & 24) and we did 114MPH in his Lancer VIII, I love those things!!
Molniferous @ Jan 24th 2008 2:40PM
Spun the car out in a tight corner and got the car on two wheels before it dropped!
aaron_k7 @ Jan 24th 2008 2:40PM
My friend was merging onto the freeway when one of his tires blew. The four of us in the car were pulled back and forth on the the freeway, but thankfully we ended up facing towards the right, away from traffic. We ended up on an embankment facing downward, perpendicular to the freeway itself. We didn't have any injuries, but the car mysteriously had earned some boost power for "drifting." Weird, huh?
greekgoat91 @ Jan 24th 2008 2:41PM
donuts in an empty parking lot at midnight... classic
Jeff H @ Jan 24th 2008 3:27PM
Years ago I once ran a red light across a 4-lane intersection.....at 20mph! I was chatting to some friends in the car and was totally immersed in the conversation, completely unaware of the light. Lucky me it wasn't in Burnout Paradise and had zero traffic, otherwise I wouldn't even live long enough to learn how much fun Burnout series are.
JaffaBoy @ Jan 24th 2008 2:45PM
I live in the UK so can't enter :-( ... so I'm not telling my burnout moment ;-)
Doug @ Jan 24th 2008 2:44PM
My burnout moment was when I was late to my friend's birthday party and I was incharge of the cake. So after many events I was late about 30 min. when I picked the cake up, so one of my other friends calls me to hurry or else the surprise would be ruined, so I was going about 80 mph on the highway, and since his house is right off of that highway when I got there i made too much of a sharp turn and crashed into a car and a mail box (it was his neighbor) after that, lets just say the damage had cost me a lot more then the cake.
Ty @ Jan 24th 2008 2:43PM
Last summer, driving from Houston to Dallas I'm going 110 in my v6 Accord trying to get it to go 115 when suddenly a cop on the other side of the highway comes after me. Gave me a ticket for going 97 mph thank goodness. I should have known in a town called Buffalo, TX I should have been more careful.
Seth @ Jan 24th 2008 2:44PM
100mph in a dodge caravan on a hilly black top country road, nothing bad happened, but looking back that could of one nasty nasty nasty burnout moment.
Vincent Bridgers @ Jan 24th 2008 2:44PM
I was driving about 90 in complete darkness on a road I know pretty well...I knew that a grate was coming up, along with a small bump in the road.
Well...going 90 and all, that small bump turned into a ramp. My car lifted and came back down with a crunch. I looked in my rearview mirror to see sparks across the road from my car completely bottoming out.
Skaterkided @ Jan 24th 2008 2:45PM
me and my friend sped through changing light in highschool in his parent's mini van. We got about 3 feet of air on accident, when we landed the engine mounts broke and we slid off the road into a fence...the bump in the intersection technically became our revenge rival...
benzml430 @ Jan 24th 2008 7:52PM
My burnout moment happened when I was in undergraduate at the University of Florida. I was supposed to meet up with some friends in Tampa to go out and meet some girls we were going to hang out with that night. I was gasing up my car in gainesville and locked my keys in my car. It took 2hours before a locksmith came to open my car. So now I had 3 hours to get to tampa and get ready to go out; when the drive itself is usually 4 hours. So I ended up driving 110 on the FL turnpike and I-75 the whole way. It felt like I was flying as I went over hills. I was constantly flashing my lights so cars would see me come up on them and not move in my lane. it was crazy and I will never do it again!
yobie @ Jan 24th 2008 2:46PM
It was a college event in Austin, Texas in the Fall of 2000. On the first morning, I convinced a good friend of mine to let me borrow his 1998 red targa top Corvette for a spin around the neighborhood. I failed to mention that I planned to mash the pedal to the medal. I hit a top speed of 140MPH going downhill to the famous "360 bridge" and managed to avoid ticket and tragedy. At that speed, the car hydraulic lowers itself and the steering tightens tremendously. I nearly peed myself.
Joe @ Jan 24th 2008 2:45PM
I was doing about eighty miles an hour in a parking lot and drove over a driveway that had been buckled from freezing water such that it angled up in a severe "jump".
Next thing I knew, I was not only airborne (two full feet off the ground according to a friend that was watching) in my '76 Jeep Wagoneer, and not only were the bags of aluminum cans in the back completely airborne as well (blocking my view through the rear view mirror), but the guy in the office to the right of the driveway entrance was spilling hot coffee all over himself while looking at me.
I remember watching him spill it in slow motion. :)
-Verxion
ps3fanman @ Mar 5th 2008 3:47PM
Drifted around a corner perfectly (it seemed) in an old ramcharger. It was a little wet out, and gave the ideal conditions.
confusa @ Jan 24th 2008 2:45PM
Spinning through the grassy section of the interstate in my 81 Scirocco going about 65 after losing control in the rain. 4-5 complete circles later the car stopped and I just sat there with the car still running for a few minutes till I stopped shaking.
Evan Brower @ Jan 24th 2008 2:46PM
Nine years ago, while driving to my high school in early morning hours, I was driving like a madman to get to school on time. I was easily doing 80 mph in a residential zone. All of a sudden, as an intersection approached, my friend yells, "What the F*** are you doing?!?!??!?!?!" I look up to see the stop sign wizz pass my field of vision. I instinctively pound on the brakes, but not in time... I slammed into a car that had moved into the intersection (who had the right of way) and totally demolished my POS '88 Chevy Corsica. The impact was so intense (I was doing around 40 mph on impact), that my tape desk dislodged from the center console, and flew into the back seat. The front of my car looked like an accordion. No seat belt for my friend, but a nice bruise on his forehead and a cracked windshield. Thanks to my seat belt, I survived, but was laid out with whiplash for a week. Now, for the other car. My car collided with the old lady's (yes, I nearly killed an old lady) front driver side tire, smashed the axle, leaving that tire seated parallel to the pavement. The are around the wheel well and the left part of the hood was demolished. After some massive careless driving tickets, my friend and I were able to leave the scene under our own power, but the lady was taken out on a stretcher.
Jim @ Jan 24th 2008 2:48PM
hitting black ice on I-75 near Detroit and doing 80 mph donuts (at least 3 or 4) in rush hour traffic
antlive84 @ Jan 29th 2008 1:42PM
i was on the meritt parkway in CT and i was doing about 125 at about midnight in my Nissan Maxima.
wei @ Jan 24th 2008 2:49PM
After having played too much Burnout 3, I was driving to work one morning when one of the songs from the game started playing. I instinctually slammed on the gas for a moment before realizing I wasn't playing the game.
Eden @ Jan 24th 2008 2:49PM
When I was younger, we used to hang out in the parking lot at the mall I worked at after work and we used to line up shopping carts and pull the front bumper of our cars to the carts then slowly speed up through the empty parking lot and get up to a decent speed and then put on the brakes and the carts would go screaming across the parking lot until hitting the curb and launching 10-20 feet in the air! It was stupid as all get out, but a complete blast. Oh the good ole days.
Kicks @ Jan 24th 2008 2:49PM
My burnout moment happened in high school when I went to do a u-turn on a 3-lane highway. It had just finished raining and the oncoming traffic light went green.
I spun out and around 180 degrees further than I wanted and ended up facing a semi and a bunch of other cars in my 84 Honda Accord Hatchback. You can only imagine what my best friend and I were saying as we were spinning
topbravo @ Jan 24th 2008 2:50PM
We were driving down I-95 from Orlando to Miami and it was during the afternoon. I was sitting in the back seat (You like where this is going?) and my buddy's girlfriend was driving us. We had like a 3 car convoy going. So we were going at about 80 miles per hour and all was going well. Everyone was tired from the previous nights party for the rest of the friends who were not coming on this trip. All of a sudden this semi-trailer was merging in to the highway but totally didn't see us. Since I was on the right rear passenger I had a clear view of what this sit-u-ation was going down. So I reached over the aisle and grabbed the wheel from the back seat, yelled, "Watch Out!" and i grabbed the wheel and it the horn and motion to the other car in the next lane to move to the left. I managed to move the car to the next lane with just about 1 inch of clearance from the car next to us and the semi truck. SCARIEST moment for me of all time. If I didnt do that we would have all got trapped under that big rig and we would have probably died.
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Thats my biggest burnout moment
Anthony Ramdon @ Jan 24th 2008 2:52PM
My best burnout came about a year ago. I work for an automotive dealership. One day, after parking, I noticed we took in a 2006 Pontiac GTO Manual Transmission with a Corsa Exhaust through a trade in. I couldn't help but to take the LS2 beast out for a ride. A buddy of mine went a got the keys to the vehicle without the managers knowing. We took it on a test drive for about 5-8 miles each. The burnouts are incredible on this vehicle, from fish tailing to the good ol' standing burnout. Lots of fun. The tires were wore down a bit, but a little servicing and some new tires, and the car was sold within a couple days.
chad @ Jan 24th 2008 2:53PM
I once slammed on the breaks so hard that it left long black skid marks in my pants.
MetallicAbobo @ Jan 24th 2008 2:52PM
I've never really had a "Burnout" moment, but i've run my fair share of red lights. I like to live dangerously like that.
john @ Jan 28th 2008 4:41PM
my burnout moment. about 3 miles from my house the drive gear went out in my car and I drove home in reverse.
Mike @ Jan 24th 2008 2:52PM
I remember hitting 120mph in my Camaro. Just to see how close I could get to the max 150mph. It was late 3am. Only did it once probably never do it again but it was a rush.
mberkowitz @ Jan 24th 2008 2:54PM
Wow I used to live burnout when I first got my license. I had an '89 ford taurus and one time I drove full speed in one of those back alleys with all of the trashcans in them. The cans were flying everywhere and I devastated the alley. Really fun at the time but really stupid looking back now. Another time I drove up this hill by my house that had dirt on the side of it. I use to drive into the dirt and spin the wheel back onto the road, shredding a 270 and smoking the tires.
chad @ Jan 24th 2008 2:53PM
My Burnout moment happened when I was driving about 70 on a rural back road and I slammed on my breaks to miss another car so hard it left long black skid marks in my pants.
Space_Butler @ Jan 24th 2008 2:56PM
Before turning onto my street at 3am last summer, I hit my brake to do a powerslide, which I did successfully.... until I slid into a neighbors trashcan. Thankfully no damage to the car or trashcan, but I decided to not try that again.
travi @ Jan 24th 2008 2:55PM
Last year, I got my car out of the shop. 1976 chevy, with a built 350 and lot of loud goodies. Well I never been a very fast driver, but I love the roar of old cars and big engines. I was driving home, and there was an acura and mitsubishi, racing to every stop light, few lights down I decided to show down their coffee can rattlers and I stepped on it, I caught up and just blasted away (felt like I had NOS charged up LOL) it was sweet, biggest adrenaline rush....right up until the red sirens lit up behind me.....hahaha, it was still fun!
Dolorous Dave @ Jan 24th 2008 2:54PM
My best Burnout moment was during an ice storm in Virginia--the entire Sam's Club parking lot was one big sheet of ice and we took my friend's beat up old Oldsmobile up there and drove around in circles like maniacs for hours.
wooddaver @ Jan 24th 2008 2:55PM
my brother-in-law flipped his car a couple of weeks ago, and many years i was in a car that did a 720 in an accident.
Miguel Hernandez @ Jan 24th 2008 2:55PM
My favorite burnout moment was when i was driving with my cousin down a hill in his old ass civic when he turns to me and says "check this out!", and he floors it down to the bottom of the hill, pulls on the E-break, and powerslides into the turn at the bottom...
It was fun as hell once I got over the initial heart attack that it induced. From then on, I had a new appreciation for powersliding in video games.