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MODESTO, Calif. -- An increasingly popular car stunt has killed at least two people, led to numerous injuries and alarmed police on the West Coast and beyond.

"Ghost riding the whip" is a stunt in which the driver gets out of his car and dances around and on top of the slowly moving vehicle to a hip-hop beat

A fad among devotees of a West Coast strain of hip-hop music called "hyphy," the stunt has been celebrated in song and performed in numerous homemade videos posted on YouTube.

"It did not take Einstein to look at this thing and say this was a recipe for disaster," said Pete Smith, a police spokesman in Stockton. Davender Gulley, a ghost-riding 18-year-old, died this month after his head slammed into a parked car while he was hanging out the window of an SUV in Stockton, police said.

In October, a 36-year-old man dancing on top of a moving car fell off, hit his head and died in what authorities said was Canada's first ghost-riding fatality.

The stunt has also led to numerous minor injuries.

Hyphy was born in the San Francisco Bay area cities of Oakland, Richmond and Vallejo in the late 1990s, and devotees often hold car rallies called "sideshows" where crowds perform risky stunts, including ghost riding.

"Ghost riding" refers to the absence of a driver. "Whip" is slang for your car. Typically, the driver puts the car in neutral and dances around and atop the vehicle as it inches forward.

Sometimes it is a solo act; sometimes a half-dozen or more passengers get out and dance too. The stunt is usually performed late at night, on a deserted road or in a parking lot.

The Vallejo-bred rapper E-40 introduced mainstream listeners to ghost riding with the single "Tell Me When to Go," whose lyrics describe how to pull it off. Another single, "Ghost Ride It," by Oakland rapper Mistah F.A.B., offers a step-by-step guide: "Pull up. Hop out, all in one motion. Dancing on the hood, while the car still rollin'."
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Another way of spelling "stupid"?

Stupid, yes. But I JUST finished watching Jackass 2 not 10 minutes ago for the like 3rd time, and I laugh my ass off the whole movie. There is some sort of morbid facination (sp?) with doing stupid stuff. I mean Ive done my fair share of stupid things, just for the fun of it.

It's called "Natural Selection"....just weeding the stupid people out. As for "rap"...what more do I have to say?:slap:

Back in the day "hood surfing" (standing on top of car hood while driver drives) was a popular sport.

Big Sissy was pretty good at it and was showing off her skills as they drove thru the downtown. She was having a high old time until they passed Dad going the other way.

Grounded for the rest of the summer.

It's one thing to ride the hood or roof with someone else driving. Not real smart, but certainly not as completely stupid as doing so with no one behind the wheel.

There was another story about "car surfing" where one gets on top of the their car and "surf" down the road. Some local politician was doing this and fell off the car, this was on the freeway by the way. Anyway, the car kept on going and eventually slammed into another car. Everyone survived.

I'd hate to have to explain this one to my insuance company, dammit.

Ghetto NASCAR (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0612300060dec30,1,3498620.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed)

MODESTO, Calif. -- An increasingly popular car stunt has killed at least two people, led to numerous injuries and alarmed police on the West Coast and beyond.

"Ghost riding the whip" is a stunt in which the driver gets out of his car and dances around and on top of the slowly moving vehicle to a hip-hop beat

A fad among devotees of a West Coast strain of hip-hop music called "hyphy," the stunt has been celebrated in song and performed in numerous homemade videos posted on YouTube.

"It did not take Einstein to look at this thing and say this was a recipe for disaster," said Pete Smith, a police spokesman in Stockton. Davender Gulley, a ghost-riding 18-year-old, died this month after his head slammed into a parked car while he was hanging out the window of an SUV in Stockton, police said.

In October, a 36-year-old man dancing on top of a moving car fell off, hit his head and died in what authorities said was Canada's first ghost-riding fatality.

The stunt has also led to numerous minor injuries.

Hyphy was born in the San Francisco Bay area cities of Oakland, Richmond and Vallejo in the late 1990s, and devotees often hold car rallies called "sideshows" where crowds perform risky stunts, including ghost riding.

"Ghost riding" refers to the absence of a driver. "Whip" is slang for your car. Typically, the driver puts the car in neutral and dances around and atop the vehicle as it inches forward.

Sometimes it is a solo act; sometimes a half-dozen or more passengers get out and dance too. The stunt is usually performed late at night, on a deserted road or in a parking lot.

The Vallejo-bred rapper E-40 introduced mainstream listeners to ghost riding with the single "Tell Me When to Go," whose lyrics describe how to pull it off. Another single, "Ghost Ride It," by Oakland rapper Mistah F.A.B., offers a step-by-step guide: "Pull up. Hop out, all in one motion. Dancing on the hood, while the car still rollin'."
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Another way of spelling "stupid"?
Here we call it thining the heard:banana: