History Main / GanglandDriveBy

* ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'': Tig performs a drive-by shooting on Laroy (usually an ally of the Sons) in broad daylight while he's at a restaurant with his girlfriend because he--falsely--believed Laroy to be responsible for a previous hit on Clay. He misses Laroy and shoots the girlfriend instead, which both results in an immediate high-speed pursuit by an angry Laroy that Tig only survives with Jax's help, and later the girlfriend's father, a powerful drug kingpin, seeking revenge on both Tig and SAMCRO.

* An earlier example of this is featured in ''VideoGame/{{Quarantine}}''. The player can fire out the side windows of his hover-cab by using an Uzi to destroy vehicles and kill pedestrians on site; this is made available once you enter a Weapon King shop and have the money to buy it, which comes in the form of an upgrade of your cab's hood-mounted machine guns.

* The Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures novel ''Blood Harvest'', set in Prohibition-era Chicago, has a variation. A passing car rolls down a window and sprays machine gun fire through the windows of a restaurant where a gang boss is eating. Nobody is killed, but that's part of the plan: the idea is to lure the boss and his men out onto the street where a second car can get them more easily.

* This was how the character Sway in the ''{{ComicBook/X-men}}'' mini series Deadly Genesis lost her parents when they were in the wrong place at the wrong time when it occurred (her powers kicked in which saved her life from the bullets).

-->'''Peter:''' ''Oh my God''...[[ComicallyMissingThePoint Are you okay?]]

* This was how the character Sway in the {{Comicbook/X-men}} mini series Deadly Genesis lost her parents when they were in the wrong place at the wrong time when it occurred(her powers kicked in which saved her life from the bullets.)

* This was how Sway in the X-men mini series Deadly Genesis lost her parents (her powers kicked in which saved her life from the bullets.)

* In KluenCheewit, a motorcycle pair try an assassination attempt at a funeral.

** In another scene, an ambush on the Stanfields was going to include a drive by, and to try to counter the loss of accuracy that is typical with drive bys, the guys in the car were only going to attack once a pair of hitmen had struck the Stanfield gang and had them distracted. The guys in the car, however, [[GloryHound were far too eager for glory]] and [[LeeroyJenkins decide to attack without waiting for the signal and to disregard all the tactics they had been told to use, including keeping their driver out of the line of fire]]. Unbeknownst to them, a lookout for the Stanfield gang spots them before they even try to pull it off, so the gang is armed and ready when their car goes by. The result is an EpicFail, and only one of would-be shooters escapes alive.
** Both Snoop and Chris each managed to pull off one successfully in the third season. Snoop rode by a drug corner on a motorcycle, stopped there, and then opened up on the gang with a handgun before riding off. Chris spotted a suspicious car and rolled past slowly in his own car, put a shotgun shell through the window, (nearly killing rival kingpin Avon) then sped away.

A form of HitAndRunTactics. See also VehicularCombat and HorseArcher.

* ''Film/MenaceIISociety'': [[spoiler:The main character]] is killed in a drive by shooting at the end.

* ''Film/FallingDown'': D-Fens gets into a scuffle with Hispanic gangsters when they try to rob him. They come back for revenge by performing a drive-by shooting on him. Unfortunately, [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy they're such poor shots]] that they injure several other people but miss him completely.

* Several appear in ''Film/TalesFromTheHood'' when Crazy K is being {{Mind Rape}}d.

* In the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' games from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' on, the player can dispatch opponents by firing their gun from their car, and in ''San Andreas'', CJ can recruit friendly gangsters to act as gunmen.

* ''Film/AnalyzeThis'': Surviving a drive-by (that kills his old friend) is what gives the massive nervous breakdown that drives the main plot.

* Happens to a priest in ''Series/Lucifer2016'' who was involved in a murder/drug case. The shooter missed him however [[spoiler: as he was was only trying to scare him, being the true drug dealer and a former protege of the priest]].

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'': CJ can either dispatch opponents by firing his gun from his car or by recruiting friendly gangsters to act as gunmen.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': "A Piece of the Action" has the crew on a planet who based their society on 1920's gangsters, complete with period weapons and vehicles. Minutes after beaming down, a drive-by takes place right in front of them.

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