Its amazing the lack of street smarts or common sense that today's youth has.
When I was stationed in Germany a few years ago I had a newbie no-striper that was clueless. He bought a BMW M5 from another guy we worked with. Keep in mind, we were in Germany and people sold BMWs for next to nothign on base. Anyway, he had this really sweet M5 with all the bells and whistles...minus an automatic transmission, after all it was a sports car....WAS.
This mental midget claimed he could drive a stick shift but then proceeded to amaze us all with his skills. He would drive down the autobahn at 200 kph and rather than use his brakes would slam the car from 5th to 4th gear. He claimed he wanted to save his brakes. I thought brakes would be cheaper to replace than a transmission. Two weeks later he ran the car into a house and busted up the radiator. Do you think he had it repaired before he drove it? Nope...he backed up, turned around and drove about 15 miles before the car died. He said it was a BMW and should be able to withstand that sort of stuff. He also claimed to not know that all of his radiator fluid was back at the house he hit. He had the engine rebuilt and the car fixed....back to a nice looking M5...until about 3 days after he got it back. He ran off the road and ripped the oil pan right out from under the car. All kinds of lights were on in the car saying pull the hell over. Now...even in German I'm pretty sure a bunch of red lights would be easy enough to interpret. Nope...he kept driving. You can guess how it ended...and basically how a great car went from glory to junk yard dog.
He must have taught his girlfriend a thing or two while they were dating. She was driving down the autobahn at a good clip and came into a construction area. There were plenty of warning signs and then the cones appeared forcing everyone to merge into another lane. This half wit stayed in the rapidly ending lane and continued right into the cones...which turned into barrels. When we asked why she didn't over she said nobody would let her in...so we asked why she didn't stop...she said she didn't want to. WOW!!
Ahh yes....today's youth!!