I nearly turned my garage into a drive-through once with my Cummins. The linkage slipped off the clutch pedal as I was backing into the garage - basically side-stepping the clutch for me. Turns out the pin that the linkage rides on was worn from 210,000 miles of use; the E-clip had come out of the groove that was no longer there; and the linkage came off.
You don't stall a Cummins.
Trust me.
Fortunately, I had the presence of mind (amid a loud "ohshitohshitohshit" moment!) to turn the key off...the truck stopped about a coat of paint before the back bumper went through the back wall.
I removed the pedal and had a buddy weld material back to the pin. Grooved it with a Dremel for a new E-clip. And fabricated a bracket/fence that bolted onto the pedal, and put 1/4" thick flat metal at the end of the pin, just past the E-clip, to keep this from EVER happening again.
THAT will pucker you up right quick!
As for a garage burnout - with no video it's hard to tell what happened, but I know folks who have nudged the front bumper against things (utility poles, retaining walls, other cars) in order to do burnouts before....I could see that being a "good enough" idea for the guy in question?
