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Atlanta has a new candidate for the Darwin Award.

There was a news story the other morning about a car falling from the 6th floor of a parking deck in Atlanta. Apparently the driver was demonstrating “Drifting” in a parking deck, lost control of the car and either went through the railing or over the railing (the front bumper of the car was hanging from the sixth floor) and landed in an alley behind a Publix grocery store.

Drifting is sliding the car sideways around a turn or a circle where the rear wheels take a wider turn than the front wheels, then steering the car with the throttle to maintain the drift usually by spinning the rear wheels.

You can find out more about drifting on Wikipedia: Drifting

The driver in this case was driving a Chevy Cavalier, one of GMs J body front wheel drive cars. Yes, front wheel drive. Front wheel drive makes it difficult to spin the rear wheels to induce oversteer to get the car to drift don’t you think?

This guy will not make the top of the Darwin Awards list because he was unsuccessful in cleansing the gene pool. He survived. He had just dropped his girlfriend off when he decided to do his demonstration. Good thing he did, because the passenger seat wound up with a 2X4 piece of wood sticking through it! The driver was taken to a local hospital in stable condition and asking for a lawyer. He was charged with reckless driving and DUI. (Why do they call it reckless driving when you have a wreck?)

Glad you dropped in!