Oh my gosh, I had forgotten about the Exxon Valdex incident with my truck!

I vote for Ford, but I think they should share it with Shelby.

 

Personally, I think Ford Motor Company deserves it. #1, no doubt!

 

I vote for the jumping of the mustang with the forklift..................

 

Hi Midlife
I don't believe Ford Motor Company deserves our coveted Doofus award. We need to make a special award just for them.

Something like the Anti-mustang enthusiast award.

They are destroying everything we as enthusiasts have created.

Just my 2 cents
Tom

 

#9 for sure. A doofus has to involve pain.

 

#9 is my choice also. Pain and injury!

Tom

 

#9, doofus involves pain, now if Laurie had really backed into the cactus and not with her leg that would have gotten my vote.

 

I don't know y'all, lot of good contenders, but I have to go with #10 I think. No injury, but how do you measure the emotional pain involved with sitting there wondering why you did what you did and how the h*** are you going to fix it! Although, #7 was a pretty good one too.

Not Mustang related, so it doesn't count, but my biggest doofus to date happened on an 84 Cutlass.

Let's just say if you back a car onto ramps to change u-joints, ALWAYS get under from the rear between the ramps. I learned that because thankfully that's where I was as I slipped the driveshaft loose and realized I forgot to set the brake. Pretty scary laying under a car and watching it start to roll over the top of you. Thankfully, being between the ramps, the bodily damage was limited to a torn up shoulder from the rear axle as the car rolled down the ramps, out the garage door and most of the way down the driveway (stopped about 10 feet from hanging the front end on the edge of the culvert).

 

8 or 9 would be my vote. Probably 9 based on the pain factor. Thanks for the laughs guys, this made my afternoon.

 

#8 get's my vote. nothing worse that doing the doofus then continuing to run around as it gets worse.

 

#2 or #8, maybe they could share the award .

 

Do I vote for:

The worst injury? Radiator fluid burns or the ear hook?

The most expensive damage? Gotta be Midlife's painting adventure.

Or the simply the dumbest? Hard to choose on this category!

All things considered I vote for the most egregious - Ford wins it hands down! :-(

John Harvey

 

My vote goes to #-1 definatly & like Laurie sais it nust be shared with Shelby.

 

I vote #9.

But I'm wondering if there shouldn't be some sort of retroactive recognition for Texas65...

Pretty scary laying under a car and watching it start to roll over the top of you.

That's too funny!... in a could have been so much worse kind of way

 

I vote #9.

But I'm wondering if there shouldn't be some sort of retroactive recognition for Texas65...

Pretty scary laying under a car and watching it start to roll over the top of you.

Thanks, but the nightmares do me just fine! It took quite a while to be able to crawl under a car and not get a little queasy. I still can't crawl under one from the side anymore, makes things a little difficult at times, but does help aleviate that panicked feeling! The Mustang now gets chocked, blocked and I've considered chaining it to something a few times!

I also need to add #8 to the list upon further review. Funny, since he still has both eyes, and I can just picture the panic and the mind going in SO many different directions at one time!

 

I guess there was my dufus described in the thread of #4 where i didn't have the legs far enough out on the cherry picker and it went to tip over so i jumped on the back legs and it catapulted me to the ceiling. My head was only a few inches from the ceiling. Good thing i'm only 5'8"

I've done the dufus with the M/C except i had the lid off and the pedal stuck to the floor. What did i do? Pulled the pedal back up which shot fluid in the reverse direction and coated my hood, engine bay, and front fenders in fluid.

All in all I'd probably have to go with #8. That was a good laugh.

 

I tend to think #7 is the most doofus-like move, especially because it wasn't accidental. But JimNiki didn't actually do the jumpstarting, so I would hate to see the coveted award go to a-non VMF member.

68stang289's misadventure contains the necessary criteria and is the one that made me laugh the hardest so he gets my vote. Not that getting burned by hot radiator fluid is funny, but reading about him screaming and ripping his clothes off sure was. Kind of like when you see someone get hit in the n*ts with a football - you laugh but thank god it didn't happen to you.

 

My vote is for #5 "hot antifreeze"

 

I personally think that Ford isn't deserving enough to have our beautiful Doofus award.. they need something tha'll show em how much of a J@CK @SS they have made themselves out to be.. that's all i gota say....

military_stang
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Oh ya, forgot to vote.. #9 deffenetly...

military_stang
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I'm bumping this back up to the top to ensure that everyone has a chance to vote...

 

I think i'm going to vote twice, hehe...

#9

military_stang
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9, 8, and 5. Such a hard choice...hhmmmmm. OK! I'll say 9.

 

Well since it's bad form to vote for yourself, I have to go with #5, damn that had to hurt.

 

number nine....number nine....number nine....number nine....number nine....
Hummm sounds like there could be a song in there somewhere. Or is this a flashback?