What was your scariest cobra moment?

[mtrain2000]

Originally Posted by twin turbo

Shortly after parking my car in the grass at a cruise in/car show, a little kid with bare feet stepped up on my sidepipes to look in my car.

Happened to me as well.

My fathers church was having a car show so even though I don't do car shows any more I was kinda obligated to go.

My wife, and I got there, parked the Cobra, then went to visit my father at the registration booth.

Lucky for me I had already read about problems with kids here on this forum.

There was a little girl about 4, or five years old running around the midway with a little steel stroller. I know she gave a few guys heart attacks as she narrowly missed hitting their $$$$$ paint jobs.

Anyway, she came up close to where we were, and yep, she was bare footed, and made a bee line to the cooling Cobra [I had already been bitten on my calf, and still have the scar to proove it].

I stood up, and yelled "STOP" as loud as I could while running to get her. Lucky she stopped in her tracks.

My wife admonished the idiot mother who was letting the child run around the cars. Then I told the woman what could have happened.

All the dingbat could say was "your car is DANGEROUS". After she said that, I asked her if she had the $10k money to fix any dents, or scratches her unsupervised kid might inflicted on some of the cars there.

Her reply this time was, " I don't see how, or why someone would spend that much money on a paint job".

I told my father would come to the show the next year, but NOT with any of my cars. Just too many people with special snowflakes out there.