Among the demonstrations best left unexperienced, "This is how you drive crazy" must rank right up there. Victoria A. Zell of Minneapolis, Minnesota, knows that, now. She didn't on that night she and her friends Joshua Schmidt and Amity Dimcock left a bar together.

Instead, according to court documents, Zell and Schmidt argued about "who could drive the craziest." Things started off with Schmidt behind the wheel of Zell's SUV, but when he stopped for ice cream, Zell slid into the driver's seat. When Schmidt returned, Zell allegedly hit the gas and sped off the curb and into the street, saying, "This is how you drive crazy." Witnesses said they saw Zell's vehicle moving at over 100 kilometres an hour through a stop sign before hitting a pick-up and flipping onto its side. Schmidt was fall-down funny killed, while Dimcock was knee-slapping paralyzed. Zell, only superficially injured but registering a blood-alcohol level of 0.12 per cent four hours after the accident, faces the non-stop hilarity of criminal vehicular homicide and criminal vehicular operation charges.

» Scott Saxon