Donuts on the roads ?

fryup

Driving the length and breadth of the country i'm taken aback by the amount of circular skid marks on the roads...there everywhere even quiet country roads!

So whats going on? do the bowsies come out in the middle of the night and get up to all sorts of shenanigans?? Has it resulted in carnage anywhere?

kneemos

Absolutely everywhere.
More ruined tyres and engines than carnage I'd say.

Mister Vain

Ahh I was expecting a thread about free donuts on the road. Damn you. :mad:

DEFTLEFTHAND

I've even seen them on motorways which is really worrying.

ectoraige

Mister Vain wrote: »

Ahh I was expecting a thread about free donuts on the road. Damn you. :mad:

OP username makes it all the more disappointing.

Sir Osis of Liver.

mmmmmmmm donuts.

whupdedo

Free donuts , now that's a call to the guards that would be answered with priority

StonyIron

I've seen a few of those around too. Very worrying as I'm always a little concerned if driving on a quiet road at night that you might hit something.

punisher5112

Yes its wrong but honestly if the car is legit in words not stolen and its done late at night or early morning with nobody else around there is so much more worse and dangerous things going on.

kirving

How anyone doesn't get bored after 2 loops is beyond me. About the most boring stunt you can do in a car. Parallel parking takes more skill and demonstrates more car control.

Roquentin

are these otis spunkmayer donuts

Nib

They're everywhere, courtesy of your local unemployed scumbags who spend the wee hours of the night driving around in their 1999 Passats.

kneemos

Nib wrote: »

They're everywhere, courtesy of your local unemployed scumbags who spend the wee hours of the night driving around in their 1999 Passats.

A Passat doing a dohnut would be a sad sight.

punisher5112

They are an Irish answer to crop circles.

No pissat could leave those marks.

fryup

punisher5112 wrote: »

Yes its wrong but honestly if the car is legit in words not stolen and its done late at night or early morning with nobody else around there is so much more worse and dangerous things going on.

ah sure its alright then leave em to it :rolleyes:

and what about the poor residents living nearby being awaken by screeching tyres?? or the innocent pedestrian who might get hit by one of these goons??

no its about time the guards stamped this out

kneemos

fryup wrote: »

ah sure its alright then leave em to it :rolleyes:

and what about the poor residents living nearby being awaken by screeching tyres?? or the innocent pedestrian who might get hit by one of these goons??

no its about time the guards stamped this out

How?

punisher5112

fryup wrote: »

ah sure its alright then leave em to it :rolleyes:

and what about the poor residents living nearby being awaken by screeching tyres?? or the innocent pedestrian who might get hit by one of these goons??

no its about time the guards stamped this out

Most I have seen there ain't a house for miles, pedestrians on a motorway?, guards should be catching murders, thieves etc etc.

I said it is wrong but isn't it better then them racing and doing other things far far worse.

Encrypted Pigeon

Nib wrote: »

They're everywhere, courtesy of your local unemployed scumbags who spend the wee hours of the night driving around in their 1999 Passats.

Unemployed? I thought they had stopped for a while during the recession since they couldn't afford to replace the tyres. Seems they have been making a come back since. Is it an indicator that the good times are back?

punisher5112

I love the smell of burning rubber and a BMW 2litre or above.

Volvo 240 brings back some memories they had some power for donuts.

Mint Sauce

punisher5112 wrote: »

Most I have seen there ain't a house for miles, pedestrians on a motorway?, guards should be catching murders, thieves etc etc.

I said it is wrong but isn't it better then them racing and doing other things far far worse.

Any of the ones I see are in the vicinity of a junction. Meaning they are using one of the roads as a run up. I would be more concerned of an unsuspecting driver being caught up in it.

jungleman

fryup wrote: »

Driving the length and breadth of the country i'm taken aback by the amount of circular skid marks on the roads...there everywhere even quiet country roads!

So whats going on? do the bowsies come out in the middle of the night and get up to all sorts of shenanigans?? Has it resulted in carnage anywhere?

Haven't heard that word in a long time!! :pac::pac::pac:

johnny osbourne

don't worry, i'm a professional rally driver

Fr_Dougal

Chinese lanterns.

NomadicGray

What fine lives we lead if these are they things to worry us

sjb25

Gardai intercepting one of these "bowsies"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VqXjsi97OWg

irishgrover

punisher5112 wrote: »

Yes its wrong but honestly if the car is legit in words not stolen and its done late at night or early morning with nobody else around there is so much more worse and dangerous things going on.

personally I think that people who do this at any time of day or night or public roads are fu(king retards and deserved to be banned from driving for a considerable length....

Menas

I was about to post saying 'sure who hasnt done donuts at some stage or other' but having read this thread it seems quite a few havent....

punisher5112

irishgrover wrote: »

personally I think that people who do this at any time of day or night or public roads are fu(king retards and deserved to be banned from driving for a considerable length....

Show me a statistic where someone has died or being seriously injured doing donuts.

Yes it is wrong as I said but a hell of a lot worse going on out there.

How about catching those drug dealers sell crack to kids etc...

Guards need to be out patrolling and actually catching real criminals but most of all have a judge and court system that backs our police force and the hard working citizen.

irishgrover

punisher5112 wrote: »

Show me a statistic where someone has died or being seriously injured doing donuts.

Yes it is wrong as I said but a hell of a lot worse going on out there.

How about catching those drug dealers sell crack to kids etc...

Guards need to be out patrolling and actually catching real criminals but most of all have a judge and court system that backs our police force and the hard working citizen.

with respect, I don't need to show you a statistic to have an opinion. And I very firmly believe that the type of person who does this on a public road is a fu9king retard, plain and simple.
What my opinion has to do with Garda enforcement of drug dealing to children really escapes me, but I congratulate you for the hyperbola of associating my opinion with the suffering of crack addicted children

whupdedo

Menas wrote: »

I was about to post saying 'sure who hasnt done donuts at some stage or other' but having read this thread it seems quite a few havent....

I havent , but simply because I never had anything with enough power to do it in :pac:

Massimo Cassagrande

Nib wrote: »

They're everywhere, courtesy of your local unemployed scumbags who spend the wee hours of the night driving around in their 1999 Passats.

Fail - Passats don't go round.

You need a rwd. Courtesy of your clapped out beemer or Lexus Is. They could be at worse. Some kids leave rings, some leave track-marks. I prefer rings. And them rings take money - tyres, insurance, tax, buying the car, fuel....unemployed me hole. Work made them rings.

Odyssey 2005

Mister Vain wrote: »

Ahh I was expecting a thread about free donuts on the road. Damn you. :mad:

Sorry to disappoint you Guard

The Backwards Man

You can do a donut in a fwd by the way, just like you can take a drink of brandy out of a Hennessy bottle without breaking the seal. :P

Sheep Lover

The Backwards Man wrote: »

You can do a donut in a fwd by the way, just like you can take a drink of brandy out of a Hennessy bottle without breaking the seal. :P

Hub caps under the back wheels and you'd get a fwd to go in circles. Doesn't leave rubber on the road either. Very environmental friendly. Helen Lovejoy types of the world can rest easy now.

The Backwards Man

Sheep Lover wrote: »

Hub caps under the back wheels and you'd get a fwd to go in circles. Doesn't leave rubber on the road either. Very environmental friendly. Helen Lovejoy types of the world can rest easy now.

Or just stick in in reverse.

*Only knobs make donuts on the public highway imo*

Massimo Cassagrande

Sheep Lover wrote: »

Hub caps under the back wheels and you'd get a fwd to go in circles. Doesn't leave rubber on the road either. Very environmental friendly. Helen Lovejoy types of the world can rest easy now.

Reverse, handbrake, full lock and high revs...but it takes a good yoke to stick it. Suzuki Swifts do good rings. :pac:

jimgoose

Whatever about ho-boys in sham-cans doing doughnuts, it takes a real blithering idiot to deliberately break traction on a 1,000cc superbike on a busy roundabout on a wet Tuesday afternoon and Mick Doohan it around with his arse hanging out, to the pasty-faced horror of the civilians.

Ave Sodalis

I think it should be part of the driving test, and I'm being serious. This and drifting etc. Obviously not on a public road but there should definitely be places where you get taught to do this. It teaches people how to react properly when the car gets away on them, and you'd be a far safer driver in that you'd have more control when something goes wrong. People should be taught how to use a car to its full potential, so they know its limits. Panicking and ignorance causes preventable accidents.

Although, in saying that, when something like a rally is on and they have places purposely set up for donuts (or diffing), there's really no excuse to do it in the road...

NachoBusiness

We used to do handbrake turns on Donabate beach when I was eh, with it, but on the road seems like a waste of good tyres to me.

Youngblood.III

Look to the local rear wheel drive car owners....can't be that hard for the cops to find out.

Kevin Irving

Kevin Irving wrote: »

How anyone doesn't get bored after 2 loops is beyond me. About the most boring stunt you can do in a car. Parallel parking takes more skill and demonstrates more car control.

Its actually takes a fair bit of skill to donut believe it or not.

Kaiser Sosay

whupdedo wrote: »

Free donuts , now that's a call to the guards that would be answered with priority

In fact, they'd be on the scene before you ever picked up the phone.

Filmer Paradise

Ramiro Steep Addict wrote: »

Its actually takes a fair bit of skill to donut believe it or not.

No. It's very easy in the right car.

Anything with RWD with a half decent engine in it will do.

Nothing to it really.

Andre 3000

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

mmmmmmmm donuts.

Purple is a fruit

Youngblood.III

Ramiro Steep Addict wrote: »

Its actually takes a fair bit of skill to donut believe it or not.

Not...anyhow tell us the magic of said "donut"

Cienciano

jimgoose wrote: »

Whatever about ho-boys in sham-cans doing doughnuts, it takes a real blithering idiot to deliberately break traction on a 1,000cc superbike on a busy roundabout on a wet Tuesday afternoon and Mick Doohan it around with his arse hanging out, to the pasty-faced horror of the civilians.

Now that takes skill. And balls.

kfk

They would make excellent rally drivers if only the entire stage was around a cone! Co driver would have a tough job though!

nullzero

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

mmmmmmmm bowsies.

FYP

cournioni

I used to live at a four cross road in the country side, a place where these brain dead hicks seem to love doing donuts. You'd hear it at least once an night. Part of the four cross road has a bridge as a river runs beneath and I awoke one morning to see one of these gob****es attempting to pull his 86 Corolla out of it as it had nose dived straight down into the river after doing a donut. Delighted.

rottie 11

Doing donuts on a quiet road at night ? What's the problem ?

kneemos

rottie 11 wrote: »

Doing donuts on a quiet road at night ? What's the problem ?

Doing donuts on the road.