Back in my dragstrip days I just bought new cheater Mickey's for the back. The Mrs and I left the car show and I goosed the throttle spinning the tires up to about 80 mph. Came home and saw that one of the air shocks leaked and the body cut a ribbon out of one of the $400 tires. Ah, the ol' days of stupid shit.

Only vaguely interesting tire story was i the early 80's I worked for a while at a shop that did restorations and someone brought in a barn find Model T on a flat bed. It came from about 100 miles away if I recall. Anyway, still on the trailer it gets pulled in the shop and about 15 minutes later just by itself one of the tires blows with a pretty good "kerpow!". So after the jump scare everyone goes back to doing whatever it was, then about a half hour later another one blows while it was still sitting on the trailer and over the next hour of so all of them eventually wind up blowing out without any human intervention.

Otherwise not much tires-wise. I remember being horrified at my boss telling me to torch a "Knock Off" wheel from a Jaguar XKE that was rusted on but that's more about the wheel than the tire.

When I was in college, I worked at a full service Chevron station across from the college.
A student that spoke broken English and had poor driving skills pulled into the the station and requested an oil and filter change.
I gave him a price quote that he agreed to after much explaining.
We always did a safety check, fluids etc.
When I checked the tire pressure, the gauge stem shot out and stopped well beyond the numbers. I checked to see if I grabbed the low pressure gauge. Nope!! It was the truck gauge... Well over 120 psi. Scared the crap out of me. All 4 were the same.
I went into the office where he was waiting and asked him who aired up his tires. After a while of asking in different ways, I took him to his car and showed him. He did not understand the problem. I showed him the psi numbers on the tires and on the gauge. I asked him if did this or someone else.
He filled them. He did not know what to do, so he aired them up until the air stopped going into the tires.
I then taught him how to correctly check his tires and what gauge to buy at a parts store.
The next time I saw him, I asked him how the car felt while driving it. He said it was much smoother and did not bounce and did not follow the grooves in the road like it did before.
From that point on, he always looked to see if I was at work before stopping for service.