Ghostriding the Whip

[KnoxVegas]

Has anyone heard of this? Seems to have started in the Bay Area but it won't be long before crackers around the heartland will be emulating this garbage, wrecking the family truckster and causing insurance rates everywhere to skyrocket. This is about the height of dumb.

Watch the videos and judge for yourself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoIDIynSOg8&search=ghostride

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3NHukWLKJA&search=ghostride

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcn0540-zf4&search=ghostride

My personal favourite. An oldie but a goodie. Had no idea this was Ghostriding the Whip though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFhmwpZhN_I&search=ghostride

Wikipedia's entry on Ghostriding the Whip:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostriding

[sohotrightnow]

Man, you guys are behind the times. Been around for years.

[shrekjr]

My personal favourite. An oldie but a goodie. Had no idea this was Ghostriding the Whip though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFhmwpZhN_I&search=ghostride

Now that is the one I was waiting to see!

[OAKS]

two words: TEEN WOLF

[lil lady lax fan]

When my sister was a teenager they used to do something similar whenever "Dancing in the Streets" came on the radio. They stopped the cars though, and blocked off an intersection to do their dancing. Seems a bit safer to me.

[laxfan25]

My personal favourite. An oldie but a goodie. Had no idea this was Ghostriding the Whip though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFhmwpZhN_I&search=ghostride

Ethan, short but SWEET!! I laughed so hard - serves him right - eh?

[KnoxVegas]

I am a giver and this is clearly my kinda season.

[Danny Hogan]

Man, you guys are behind the times. Been around for years.

what he said.

[Sonny]

Reading this thread shortened my life 60 seconds. That is 60 seconds I will never get back.

[Timbalaned]

yeah I am really impressed that it took this long for you to hear about this. I didn't realize it took that long for info like this to travel. We have been ghost ridin for two or three years now...

[laxfan25]

yeah I am really impressed that it took this long for you to hear about this. I didn't realize it took that long for info like this to travel. We have been ghost ridin for two or three years now...

Yeah, that head out the door is a really nice touch! I wonder if he had a mouthguard in - covering all of the upper teeth???

[Sonny]

Ghost-Riding: Brake-Dancing With Zip Under the Hood

By Paul Farhi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, December 27, 2006; Page C01

It might be the youth trend that most clearly epitomizes an age of exhibitionism. All the elements are there: Cars, music, dancing and the potential to make parents very angry -- plus, it's a spectacle tailor-made for taping and posting on the Web.

"Ghost-riding the whip," as it's known, has swept from its origins in San Francisco's East Bay to much of the rest of the country, propelled by a pair of hip-hop songs that celebrate this exceptionally dangerous regional tradition.

To ghost-ride, the driver climbs out of the car while it's moving at low speed. The ghost-rider then busts a move around and on top of the vehicle, usually accompanied by a thumping soundtrack from the car (or "whip," in urban slang). What they're attempting is to make the dance steps as gaudy and elaborate as possible and to stay outside the car as long as possible. It's all about self-expression. Or possibly cheap thrills. Or maybe the ever-popular youthful flirtation with bone-breaking, brain-damaging injury. A young man in Stockton, Calif., for example, died this month when he hit his head on a parked car while attempting what police said was a ghost-riding maneuver, according to news reports.

LINK:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 00994.html

[echo 600]

Kind of a natural-selection-distant-cousin to laying down in the middle of the road on the yellow stripe, ala The Program before Disney pulled the scene from the film.

[KnoxVegas]

I can highjack my own thread, can't I?

"It's time to put the women and children to bed and go looking for dinner." (The Program)

[Ravaging Beast]

"Ghost riding the whip," a stunt in which a driver gets out of his car and dances around and on top of the slowly moving vehicle to a thumping hip-hop beat, has gotten at least two people killed, led to numerous injuries and alarmed police on the West Coast and beyond.

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. "We could see the potential for great injury or death."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2006/12/29/national/a182047S99.DTL

Some of the examples they give are not ghostriding the whip. They sound more like imitating teen wolf of something. Anyone who knows how to ghostride doesn't do it at high speed and definately doesn't do it with their heads hanging out the window. Here is a good example. Some people I know put this together.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlTvSUCCqPo