Hey, agentarsenic, well the fuck done with that Disasteradio vid. I've watched that thing many times in the last twenty-four. Oh my god. And thanks to Beamish for starting the engines.
I can't remember if any of these have been posted on Whitechapel before... but here they are anyway.
@agentarsenic - It turns out that a lot of people used to do that as kids (not necessarily Mario, but imagining something running alongside the car, jumping over stuff). I used to do it, and when someone mentioned it on a radio station I was listening to a few years back they were overwhelmed with people calling in to say they used to do it. It seems to be a common human phenomena that no one's bothered to study yet.
I used to hold my breath on sidewalks as cars drove past. I pretended that their shadows or profiles were deadly lasers, and if I took a breath before they went past, I lost the game/died.