Warning: This blog post may/will contain strong adult language.  If you are easily offended, please do not continue to read the following post.

Everyone at some point in their lives have done something extremely stupid.  You know exactly what I am talking about.  It’s that moment you think about in your past where you think to yourself “What the hell was I thinking?”.  For most of us these moments were all when we were teenagers and in our early 20′s.  Why is that?  My theory is because teenagers are stupid.  Teens make up some of the dumbest people on the planet…  Here’s some proof!

Ghost Riding or Ghost Riding the Whip is a relatively recent idea originating from the Bay area that teenagers are using to entertain themselves and apparently others.  The concept of Ghost Riding is best defined as the act of when a person puts a car with an automatic transmission in drive or allows it to idle and then the driver (and passengers) of a vehicle exit while it is still rolling and dance beside it or on the roof.  Wait! What?

That’s right.. You read it correctly.  It’s when you exit a moving vehicle to dance beside it and on the roof while it continues to move down the road.  If your over the age of 25, you can already see the horror coming can’t you?  Now I can tell you that I couldn’t believe that this was real after reading a blog post about ghost riding the whip by Justin.  So I checked with several other 20 something employees in the building and sure enough.. they all confirmed that it is indeed a real thing.  Sure enough there is even a Wikipedia page on Ghost Riding.

Just in case you can’t grasp the concept of what I am talking about, here is a parody video of two senior citezens ghost riding a scion.

How fucking dumb do you have to be to think this is a good idea?  Who is the bright youngster that one day decided to remove himself from a moving vehicle so he could dance next to it like a moron?  It’s amazing to think that this is the future that we will be turning the world over too one day.  Even some of the men and women in the armed forces have decided to get on board the ghost riding wagon:

Here’s another one of our brave soldiers serving his country well:

We can only hope that more situations like the following keep happening.  This moron was ghost riding his piece of shit car when a onlooker decided to jack him for it.  This is just too priceless.  Hey dipshit!  If you were in the car while it was moving then it wouldn’t have been stolen so easily!

There’s also another new term I learned today while doing my research of Ghost Riding.  That new term is “Hyphy Train”.  This is apparently when a entire group of morons gets together to ghost ride multiple whips in a row down the street.  Like the idea of just having one car load of idiots in a area wasn’t enough, now we have to do it in larger groups?  You know that’s not going to turn out well.  Typically the larger the group the stupider the people in it get.

After being just horrified watching videos of these idiots ghost riding on YouTube, I decided to go check in with a part time co-worker who happens to be a law enforcement officer in the Portland metro area.  He also had heard of the stupidity that is called ghost riding and informed me that drivers caught doing it will only get a ticket for wreck less driving and/or endangerment.  Unfortunately after a few more questions I found out that they simply can’t lock these poeple up in the clink for a week under the charge of being stupid.  That’s too bad, It might have helped.

Parent’s need to be aware of this ridiculous phenomenon.  They need to keep an eye on their vehicles.  If your teen borrows the car, or has their own, and it comes back with foot prints on the hood or roof… you know whats been happening.  Teens are tricky little bastards too, you should be suspicious if they come back with a fresh car wash every time too!

If you find out your teen has been ghost riding the whip with your car,  might I suggest foot riding as a punishment?  That’s where they dance down the street and you kick them in the ass every few steps for being a idiot.  Hell make them go around the block a few times, invite the neighbors out to watch.  If you feel particularly inclined… lets the neighbors join in on the kicking!

As you can probably tell, my thoughts are that your a god damn moron if your participating in these kinds activities.  One can only hope that another driver comes by, with any luck at all it will be a over worked cop, and they “accidentally” hit you with their car while your busy dancing in the street.  Make sure you get a video of that and post it on YouTube as well jackass.  Now that’s a video I wouldn’t mind watching.

What are your thoughts?  Have you done any Ghost Riding?  Is Ghost Riding the Whip popular among your friends?  What would you do if you found out your kid was doing this with the car they borrowed?  Share some link love and give us your comments below!