A prankster has been branded an ‘idiot’ after he was filmed car surfing – on the front of a moving van.
The young man holds on to the front of the vehicle with one hand and smokes a cigarette using the other.
The driver – who has also been described as idiotic – squirts windscreen fluid at the man, while beeping the horn and laughing hysterically.
No-one in the clip seems too bothered that if the joker fell off he would be run over by the van a fraction of a second after smacking off the road surface.
The clip was filmed at the Larkfield Industrial Estate in Greenock, Inverclyde, and uploaded to YouTube by a user called Falconhoof.
The stunt, dubbed ‘car surfing’, has claimed the lives of several youngsters in recent years.
It usually involves clinging to the roof or back of the vehicle rather than the front.
Falconhoof captioned the video: ‘Some Dafty! Stuck on the grill of a van at work lol.’
The minute long clip, filmed from inside the vehicle, shows a man clinging on to the front with his hood up.
The person filming the footage, who has not been identified, shouts: ‘Waldo, what you up tae? We got it stuck to our windscreen and we canny get it off.’
While the passenger can be heard laughing loudly, the man holding on to the front, wearing a khaki green Adidas hoody and blue latex gloves, smiles and lifts up a cigarette.
A prankster has been branded an ‘idiot’ after he was filmed car surfing – on the front of a moving van. He held on to the front of the vehicle with one hand while smoking a cigarette
The driver – who has also been described as idiotic – squirts windscreen fluid at the man, while beeping the horn and laughing hysterically
The passenger shouts ‘Turbo!’ as the driver turns on the screen wash, which nearly hits the man in the face.
He can be seen leaning back to avoid the spray, but still continues to smoke his cigarette when the vehicle begins moving again.
The men then joke that if the vehicle’s bumper fell off there would ‘be blood all over it.’
The stunt, dubbed ‘car surfing’, has claimed the lives of several youngsters in recent years. It usually involves clinging to the roof or back of the vehicle rather than the front
The clip was filmed at the Larkfield Industrial Estate in Greenock, Inverclyde, and uploaded to YouTube by a user called Falconhoof
A spokesman for driving campaign group Scotland’s Worst Drivers said: ‘In my opinion the driver is as much of an idiot as he or she is the one in control.
‘By driving at speed and squirting the windscreen with screen wash, the man could have fallen off and ended up under the vehicle.’
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: ‘Anyone with concerns that content posted online may be criminal can report this to Police Scotland via 101 or through Crimestoppers where anonymity can be maintained.’
The last moments of 18-year-old Luke Benson’s life were captured on camera in April 2015.
He rode on the roof of a moving vehicle and fell off.
His friend was driving him around a car park in Washington, USA, when he banged his head and suffered fatal injuries as a result.
Mohammad Khalid also suffered serious head injuries after attempting the risky stunt in Sterling, Virginia, USA.
The 17-year-old had attempted to recreate a ‘car surfing’ stunt from the 21 Jump Street film, but died in August 2014 after being critically injured.