Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 08, 2023

I have actually seen this. Instead of taking lessons, the person takes the driving test until he or she passes it.

Very scary to know drivers like this are on the road.

960 times? Spongebob would be proud.

I still wouldn’t trust Cha Sa-Soon.

Odd. I always drug my knee, not my elbow. It’s a good way to KNOW how far over you are. Visuals at speed can be unreliable.

At 101 MPH, one is travelling almost 150 feet/sec- so his elbow was on the ground for about 2/3 of a second.

Fun fact: motorcycle racing tires are only good for 200 miles. They are so “sticky” that the rubber on the tires wears off by that time.

Well sheesh they wouldn’t let me have a kickstand so heck I mean okay then. ~ Josh, really stupid I mean just as dumb as a sack of door knobs but hey my elbow will heal and then I’ll be famous so there’s that

May the shored be with you as they are with the sea. Aaaaannnd gesundheit.

I wonder if maybe that lady needed glasses.

At some point, I’m sure the driving instructor(s) passed her just so they wouldn’t have to put their lives into her hands anymore.

Third wheels aren’t very popular either

Racing leathers have integral wear pads on knees and elbows for that purpose.

The fifth wheel was a great idea, but the mechanics of it had problems. It broke often.

I think a lot of places are getting rid of parallel parking on the driving test, making it much easier to pass.

How bad of a driver do you have to be to need almost 1000 attempts to pass a driving test? It’s not rocket science…

Senior year in Highschool we had a one week course of Drivers Ed instead of Gym class. If you were 16.5 years of age, paid $500 for driving school, you could get a learners permit – or wait 6 months and get it for free at the age of 17 which is what I did.

After 30 days you can take a free drivers test at the state DMV, but everyone I knew drove stick shift and you need an automatic for the test. 2 days before the test, my stepfathers brother spent 2 hours with me in an empty school parking lot, then an hour the following day in my brothers wife’s car driving around the neighborhood and then on the day of the test, I had 10 minutes of practice in a Mall parking lot in my mother’s friends car that I used to take the test.

I only failed parallel parking – so I passed.

I thought, and discussed with a friend, the “fifth weel” many years ago, and now I learn it could have been a thing?

GIVE IT TO ME! Yes, I suck at parallel parking.

i once dragged my elbow for 102 feet

Cha Sa-Soon left my Korean wife in the dust! My wife passed her driving test the first time having only spent 30 days in the U.S.

“Took off.” NPI?

Unless he was more than lucky, Josh Herrin was probably wearing riding gear with Kevlar, because he’d have had a stump, there, otherwise.