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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: BlueJ1 on July 03, 2007, 12:06:37 AM
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Driving home tonight in a 01 4 door saturn I was doing 45 coming around a corner of a 4 lane road. Just coming out of the corner a huge raccoon decides to make his great escape across the road. He could have competed in the Olympics at the speed he was running. Anyways, I immediately did as I was always told by family. I slowed down alittle, not stomping on the brakes and not serving for a dumb animal. I still caught him right about where the license plate is. Good thump felt throughout the car. Looked in rear view mirror and saw him still running his arse off into the woods. Got home, no apparent damage, just some fur stuck into 2 of the bolts attached to the front bumper. Feel sorta bad about the dumb animal. Not the same as hunting for one. Hopefully he lived and learned his lesson.
My first critter hit. Anyone else have stories? I remember a thread a long while back of some of yall hitting deer. A much larger and dangerous critter.
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I tagged a raccoon back in 2004. It pretty much finished off my car, a 1995 Saturn SC2. I was driving home from work and as I was coming upon a turn in the road, there was this huge raccoon just casually strolling across the road. I couldn't swerve...car coming the other way, rock wall on the other side. Sure enough, I hit the fella...KAAAFOOMP FOOOMP....
After that, the car tugged to one side....tie rod/alignment was pooched. It wasnt worth fixing since the car was 9 years old, was burning oil badly....so while the raccoon technically lost, he finished off a car :)
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Clipped a cottontail a few months ago. Thought I missed him... but then when I got out of my truck the side was just sprayed with blood and fur. Thing must have exploded.
Have yet to hit anything but rabbits and birds... That said, a ring-necked pheasant can really wreck your grill work.
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Well clearly these are cases of the manufacturers of the vehicles being responsible for the deaths of those poor, defenseless creatures.
We must outlaw cars and make the manufacturers pay!
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Originally posted by LePaul
I tagged a raccoon back in 2004. It pretty much finished off my car, a 1995 Saturn SC2. I was driving home from work and as I was coming upon a turn in the road, there was this huge raccoon just casually strolling across the road. I couldn't swerve...car coming the other way, rock wall on the other side. Sure enough, I hit the fella...KAAAFOOMP FOOOMP....
After that, the car tugged to one side....tie rod/alignment was pooched. It wasnt worth fixing since the car was 9 years old, was burning oil badly....so while the raccoon technically lost, he finished off a car :)
a perfect example of how the collision model should work. Dale?
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Just checked car again. Pulled it into garage. Bottom spoiler is missing some pieces. The left front of the bumper was pushed up and out of place, fixed that easy. Lucky no damage to radiator. Gona paint the broken pieces of support plastic for the guard in front of the radiator white. Will look like teeth when Im done. :D
Animals should be outlawed from the roads SaburoS. Or put cow catchers on all cars. So when hit they are pushed aside into oncoming traffic. :aok
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Coulpe weeks ago I had one of those arrogent Canada Geese play chicken with my work van.
You know the big ugly ones that actually EXPECT you to slow or stop for them or move out of their way.
Hit the gas and plowed right over the bastad :aok
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A deer totaled a CrownVic the day after I bought it, so that makes four deer, three birds, five cats, two dogs and two possums I've hit so far.
Does hitting an inmate trying to escape count?
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I have it on good authority that a bobcat can indeed puncture a radiator. :)
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Originally posted by BlueJ1
Animals should be outlawed from the roads SaburoS. Or put cow catchers on all cars. So when hit they are pushed aside into oncoming traffic. :aok
No, No, No! Get with the program!
Clearly one has to outlaw the car as well as sue the pants off the manufacturers!
It is their fault!
Listening to the anti-gun "arguments" from the various gun threads from the anti-gun crowd has convinced me. It is clearly the fault of the vehicle and the clearly evil manufacturers. These vehicles of mass destruction should now be known as assault vehicles.
We all know that it has to be because the US has more vehicle deaths than those in Europe, that we MUST ban all vehicle ownership in America!
Do it for the innocent animals! Just think of the children!!!!
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Originally posted by Xargos
A deer totaled a CrownVic the day after I bought it, so that makes four deer, three birds, five cats, two dogs and two possums I've hit so far.
Does hitting an inmate trying to escape count?
Same thing happened to a buddy of mine the day after he bought his new car.
Said he got out of the car and could head the deer crying and initially felt bad for it.
Then he said he saw the damage the deer cause and he felt like running it over 3 or 4 more times LOL
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I was riding my motorcycle (when I had it) home from a gig one night and hit a possum. Not with the bike, but the heel of my boot as I leaned into a curve. Kind of a sickening feeling. Not because he was dead, but because I touched a possum! :)
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I have more miles on a bike then in a car. I'm so glad that of all the animals I've hit, it was never while riding. :noid
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Up to this day, I've hit two deer, 1 skunk, countless squirrels, a bat, and a couple of pigeons. I work nites and spend a lot of time driving. Eight hours a night on average and sometimes at really good speeds.
I hate hitting the deer because the paperwork is brutal for me and I usually have to put them down if they are injured.
The worst I've seen was a beaver. I didn't hit it but I had to move it out of the road. They smell worse than the skunks! Big sucker too. Must have weighed around 35-40 lbs.
Does hitting an inmate trying to escape count?
Did this too and it should count. He wasn't an inmate but the guy started a 20 minute pursuit. After the guy crashed, he tried to carjack a pick up truck being driven by a teenage kid. I just hit the gas and sent the suspect over my hood. :D Amazingly, he landed on his feet and continued to run for the wood line. He was tackled by two female officers. The best pursuit I've been in since!:aok
Obie
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Had a deer run into the side of my friends Beretta back in High School. Coming home from the casino at 2AM one night a deer runs out in front of us. My moron room mate swerves, hits the deer, spins the car 270 degrees and ends up in the ditch. Went to a gas station to call the cops and the pony emblem off the front of the car was wedged under the passenger side windshield wiper. In my best friends Z28 we hit an already dead raccoon going about 100, it made the loudest most sickening thump when it flew up and hit the floorboards under my feet. Hit a hawk in a crown vic doin 65. But by far the grossest was when I was slowing down to turn into my drive way and the front drivers side wheel hit a squirrel that had already been squished. The brake locked up on the slippery lil bugger and dragged him about 10 ft, there was lots of nice chunks hanging from the tread on my tire.
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I ran over a gator once on the way back from Ft Myers on state road 84 in the middle of the glades. never saw it and it felt like a small speed bump, but I was doing 65mph so I spilled my coffee. the next day on the way back to Ft. Myers there he was, a head and a big greasy spot on the road. he must have been about a six footer. I have whacked plenty of coons, ducks, dogs, cats, turtles and crabs with no damages at all and only an occasional clean up.
I don't think I'd like to hit a deer though, they can mess up your trip in short order.
I have some high pitch whistles attached to my vehicles that supposedly cause critters to flee from you but I'm not sure they are effective or not.
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I whacked a squirrel not too long ago. The top half was pancaked on the road and the tail was still flopping around like crazy
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I'm 17 a knight of the road sitting bolt upright on my Kawasaki. A small flock of sparrows make a bolt from one side of the road to the other. Hedge to hedge. I'm doing around 65mph obsevering this little race across my path. The very last sparrow chickens out and I get a great view of the underside of said sparrow as it tries a 180 before, you guest it, smacks me full in the face.
Man, my hands were ripped off the bars and my head went that far back I was surprised my neck didn't brake. It was like giving Tyson a free shot. Thankfully I was wearing a full face with the lid down. I recovered control of my bike that had made a little no hands wobble then I got all vengeful. I went back to that sparrow determined to do a rear wheel burn out on it's carcass but when I picked it up, all limp, warm and dead my initiate thought went " aww poor thing". I put it to one side. My face was stinging and my nose felt broke it wasn't, just a bruise that came out next day....Rudolf-esk.
I'm in me truck coming back north from Southampton with me wife in the passenger seat. Not supposed to take passengers for insurance reasons but what the heck. Anyways the road I'm on is sunken between the adjacent fields. Cab is at field height. I'm chugging along at 55mph when all of a sudden a pheasant commits suicide right on the passenger side windscreen. Right in front of my wife's face. Thankfully as the screen shattered it actually held together although concaved.. My wife with lightening reaction had ducked when she seen the bird. I still have a " photographic still" type memory of the expression on the birds face 2/10th of a second before impact...... needless to say I leave the Mrs at home now.
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Being a city guy there are no racoons, deers, possums.
I've hit a bunch of pigeons though. Thump, poof, look back and see a cloud of feathers in the rearview.
I actually had a pigeon HO me once when i had my conversion van years ago. I saw it from about 200 feet in front and started honking so the stupid thing would turn, but nope. He didn't explode, but went tumbling over the roof and landed on the hood of a parked car.
Stupid birds.
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The first time I hit a dog he ran off with a limp. The next dog went under the car and died instantly.
The most memorable one was hitting an already dead dog though. My brother and I were driving his Honda on a divided freeway in the middle of nowhere AZ. It was early in the morning and the traffic was very light. We are going about 75. I’m looking at the map, my brother is driving. Pretty soon he’s looking at the map too (we were on an air museum tour and trying to locate the next one). After looking at the map for quite awhile, he looks up and exclaims, “Oh $%!”. He takes his foot off the gas as I look up and see a big dead Saint Bernard lying sideways across our lane, less than a second from impact, no time to evade. WHAM! The car, with pretty much no clearance, lurches back and up. My brother gets back on the gas (I think he was instinctively afraid of being rear-ended since he had no situational awareness after studying the map). The car is riding high and making a horrible rubbing sound. I turn around and look back; no doggy in the road. My brother is still cursing. I tell him that I don’t see the dog; he’s still under the car. My brother stays on the gas. After maybe five or ten seconds the car pops up a foot again as the rubbing sound stops. I’m still looking back; there’s Beethoven doing somersaults down the freeway at 65 mph. At the next exit we pulled over and accessed the damage: front air dam – mashed, exhaust – mashed, fuel tank – mashed – about two or three gallons less capacity now.
I can’t help but to wonder: if the tank had been full would it have held tight and not been beat in or would it have ruptured and spewed gas everywhere. Could you imagine the 911 call, “Yea, that’s right, there’s a fire on the freeway half a mile long with a burning dog at one end and a burning Honda at the other”.
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I go up this mountain side (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=-20.933785,55.434866&spn=0.061567,0.079994&t=h&z=14&om=1) from the coast every other morning at 5 am or so, watch the sunrise from the top, and race back down before the morning shifters clog the roads with their cars.
Two weeks ago, on my way down a steep section of the road (fast enough to dry out your eyes), a black splotch the size of a milk carton floated out of nowhere towards me and within a fraction of a second collided with my head with a soft, furry thump.
Luckily enough the bat hit in a way that it didn't get to flail its claws near my eyes.
Eskimo, that's a good one.. :D
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Originally posted by storch
I ran over a gator once on the way back from Ft Myers on state road 84 in the middle of the glades.
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storch, how far from Ft. Myers are you? I'm leaving on a vacation road trip Thursday, and that's my destination (mom-in-law visit ;))
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I've hit a few beavers in cars before.
:aok
Noone was injured and I think the beavers enjoyed it...I know I did.
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I hit a cat about 15 years ago. Apparently this cat was smart enough that it would wait for a car to pass, and then dart across the road. Unfortunately I was car #2 so as soon as the car in front of me passed the cat darted right out in front of me. I hit him square with one of my wheels. I look in the rear view mirror and see him flopping around in the road. I was about to pull over when I saw a little kid standing on the sidewalk screaming his head off. I just kept going. :(
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I hit a bear on my 4wheeler while on a hunting trip in British Columbia.
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Originally posted by moot
I go up this mountain side (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=-20.933785,55.434866&spn=0.061567,0.079994&t=h&z=14&om=1) from the coast every other morning at 5 am or so, watch the sunrise from the top, and race back down before the morning shifters clog the roads with their cars.
Two weeks ago, on my way down a steep section of the road (fast enough to dry out your eyes), a black splotch the size of a milk carton floated out of nowhere towards me and within a fraction of a second collided with my head with a soft, furry thump.
Luckily enough the bat hit in a way that it didn't get to flail its claws near my eyes.
Eskimo, that's a good one.. :D
You live in Le Tampon?
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Originally posted by culero
storch, how far from Ft. Myers are you? I'm leaving on a vacation road trip Thursday, and that's my destination (mom-in-law visit ;))
I'm in miami which is on the other side of the state, about two hours and one half if you are doing the speed limit.
we do some fair business in Ft. Myers so I have reason to be there quite often.
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Rabbidrabbit, downtown Saint Denis (northmost on the isle) about 500m from the coast. I'm moving to Quebec either this summer or at New Year's.
What do you know that's at Le Tampon?
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Growing up in Idaho, I had mallard fly up out of a canal as we were flying down the road. It came through the open passenger side window & slammed into the rear window. Feathers everywhere. Also loud thump. Almost caused loss of control of car doing 70.
My dad hit a moose outside of Jackson Hole. Totalled the car. The car came to rest right next to the injured moose which proceeded to kick holes in the side panel of the car with its hoofs until a rancher drove by & shot it.
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My last....squirrel in 1994.
On my radio show I read a poem similar to this:
ODE TO A SQUIRREL
Ode, to the squirrel beneath my wheels,
I heard not your squeeks or your squeels
You thought you could make it on one mad dash,
and in the process, became road-hash
Ode, to the squirrel below my car
You became one, with asphalt and tar
You though you could survive, if you went FULL GO..
But the last that you saw, was a Michelin Logo
Ode, to the squirrel who is now so flat....<>
Maybe, nextime, the neighborhood cat.
68Rocks
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Coming home one night down a country road as I hit a curve doing about 65 MPH. I had the brights on and noticed a Bunny in the middle of the road. I slowed down and it started to run as I approached it. It was gonna make it across no problem then outta nowhere "WHAMMMM" on the windshield.
The biggest Owl it ever seen with some serious Target Fixation on the Bunny. I don't know if it killed the Owl but I can remember the big eyes it had as it bounced off.
Somewhere in the edge of the road a Bunny crapped his fur laffin he's arse off.
:D
Mac
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nope, almost hit a fox just going into a fairly tight S curve, and another one just coming out of it...
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In my younger years my Sister called me on her Cell freaking out and screaming. Turns out she had run over a puppy. It wasn't dead and was makin' all sorts of terrible squashed puppy noises. (this is fairly late at night btw)
I was about 3-5 min. away, so I drove to the scene and sure 'nuff a cute little puppy was all squashed, but still alive and squeaking. Heart breaking really. It's back 1/2 was squashed, and it's guts were all over the road. Poor thing.
Was a crowd of about a dozen people gathered around this poor pup who was making quite the racket. Couple 3-4 guys, and @ 8 girls all crying and being hysterical.
I popped my trunk, grabbed a tire iron, walked over and stoved in the pup's skull. Killed it in one hit. It was the humane thing to do. I was kinda pissed that nobody had killed it yet.
You think the girls were hysterical before, you shoulda heard 'em after I put the puppy out of it's misery. TOTAL freak out.
There was NO WAY it was going to live, and they were just standing around watching/listening to it suffer. It's not easy killing a puppy, but I think it's ever worse just letting it sit there in pain.
Also on my Mom and Dad's 1st date, my Dad borred his soon to be Father in-law's car. While taking my Mom back home after the date my Dad hit a deer which totaled the car.
Quite the auspicios start. I'm lucky to even exist.
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By some odd twist of Providence, its my wife who generally does in the animals in our family, which is a shame because she always bursts into tears and feels terrible about for the rest of the day, whereas I've gotten over the Possum and Squirrel deaths my vehicle has caused in a few moments.
I actually saw my first animal meets vehicle death in broad daylight just a few days ago. Sadly I've seen two people killed by vehicles - bike messenger in NYC and a pedestrian with an I-Pod and no SA whatsoever, but never an animal hit by another motorist before last week. It was a squirrel that had run onto a four lane road and was running about in both directions at lightspeed. I didn't hit him, but eventually a pick-up behind me did. What was unusual was that he went right under one of the wheels and was literally shot up about 10-15 feet into the air behind the truck, his tail made him look a bit like a rocket, and the car behind the truck swerved like mad to avoid the incoming squirrel lawn-dart headed for his windshield.
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So far since arriving in US 13 years ago 2 deer and numerous coon and possum, my favorites are when I get a skunk I have no sense of smell but my wife and son normally rolling around choking on the smell.
First deer I hit I was in a cavalier doing about 60mph did around $2500 worth of damage. Second I was in Chevy Astro at about 70mph that was about $5000.
Glad it wasn't anything larger but these deer in Illinois are big enough for me.
I remember one time in Niarobi heading from airport to city there is a tight-ish bend in the round and large bushes just off the road, well half way around this bend a giraffe stepped out from behind the bushes. We avoided the collision but it was close enough I can tell you it was a male.
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It wasn't this one was it?
http://forums.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=208078
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I hit a turkey one morning on the way to school, way back in 1989. Anyway as I pulled into the parking lot everyone was looking at my truck and me like I was crazy or something. Got out and looked and the head and most of the neck of the turkey was hanging out of the grill and there was blood all over the front of my truck. It was pretty nasty.
Also killed my neighbors cat one evening. Guess it crawled up into the fan shroud of my truck when I got home from work to get warm. It was late November. Anyway I had to run up to the store for some stuff and when I started the truck I heard this awfull noise and a bunch of banging around under the hood. Opened the hood and all there was left was parts scattered all over the front of the motor. Even after I washed the motor down 3 or 4 times it still stunk when it warmed up for a couple of weeks. Hated that damn cat anyway and my neighbors where a bunch of ******s so I didn't feel to bad about it.
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Back when I did alot of MotorCycle riding offroad, I was buzzing along at about 50mph on my Yamaha XT down a little trail in Central Illinois. Up pops a smallish cotton tail rabbit that tries it's hardest to outpace my Yamaha. Seeing as I had the jump on him, I quickly overtook him and somehow he and my front wheel spokes tried to become one. Spokes and Rabbits do not mix. I watched as two pieces of rabbit cartwheeled forward and to each side of the bike and his insides straight up in front of me.
I spent the next 10 minutes cleaning the entrails from my helmet, chest, legs and motorcycle. I've dressed many a rabbit for dinner, but this mess was one of the most disgusting things I've ever had to cleanup.
Terror
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Originally posted by mentalguy
I hit a bear on my 4wheeler while on a hunting trip in British Columbia.
ow.
i saw a 1 ton dodge get hit in the front quarter by a black bear once, the bear bounced backwards, and the dodge almost hit the ditch, i'm certain the outer tire of the duals left pavement...
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I must be sick, but this is a great thread. I love the duck, owl and turkey stories the most so far.
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Originally posted by eskimo2
I must be sick, but this is a great thread. I love the duck, owl and turkey stories the most so far.
Heres one even better for you then. Right after I graduated from high school I was going to visit a buddy of mine that lived out north of town. Well just a few miles out is the slaughter house. At that time they were rebuilding the incinerator there so they were having to truck all the waste (entrails and such) a couple of miles over to the landfill where they had set up a temporary incinerator. Anyway as I'm heading out that way I see a truck off in the ditch, couple of firetrucks, and cops blocking the road. Seems one of the trucks made the turn onto the highway a little too sharp and ended up loosing control and rolled the truck off the other side of the road, in the process dumping several TONS of cow, and hog entrails, hoofs, ears, and noses onto the highway. That was a huge mess, but it did make the front page of the paper the following day.
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I was driving down a very straight stretch of highway in the country. Saw two little dots on the road ahead, some sort of critters with tails. Started slowing down (no brakes, just foot off gas). Honked a little bit. They didn't move. Got closer. Two squirrels that aparently lived on opposite sides of the road (blocked by the other squirrel) but didn't want to let the other pass so that they both could run to safety. Just kept staring each other in the eye. A 3-way game of chicken or something...
Ran right over both of them. Felt bad for 1 second, then decided they were too squealing stupid.
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My old '96 Camaro had 2 confirmed kills of birds in flight. A pigeon that was trying to cross my 12 was taken down by the right front corner as he tried a snap-shot and failed and a gackle that was HO'ing me met it's fate by flying into my antenna at WEP-like speeds.
2 confirmed kills of in flight birds.
Can your car claim that?
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I've got one kill and one assist of in flight birds.
KIA Sparrow that decided to try and fly through my windshield. Scarred the crap out of me.
Assist Red Tail Hawk that I clipped with the 102 inch steel CB antenna I had on my truck. My buddy that was behind me pulled over after I knocked it out of the air and shot it with his .22 since it was hurt so bad.
Man I loved growing up in SW Oklahoma!!!!!
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
My old '96 Camaro had 2 confirmed kills of birds in flight. A pigeon that was trying to cross my 12 was taken down by the right front corner as he tried a snap-shot and failed and a gackle that was HO'ing me met it's fate by flying into my antenna at WEP-like speeds.
2 confirmed kills of in flight birds.
Can your car claim that?
My brother (other one) "vulched" 8 in one pass! Mama duck was walking her babies accross a busy freeway and made it about 1/2 way into the first lane. My older brother wasn't about to risk the lives of his family and me, he kept straight in the lane and clobbered about 8. Mama and one baby made it into the second lane, not sure if they made it any further.
I should have painted 8 little yellow puff balls with red X's through them on the side of his car...
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A friend's wife hit an armadillo at 1am halfway between two small towns in TX. She wasn't about to stop so she kept driving until the engine quit. Which was about 10 minutes. Apparently armadillos will leap up when they think they're under attack and this one cleared the bumper and hit the soft grille, went through to the radiator, and pushed the radiator into the water pump which then poked a hole in the block. Teh suxors.
I nailed a skunk a couple months ago. Pretty sure he's dead but I didn't go back to find out. Even after a car wash with an underbody spray the car stunk until the next time it rained, and then I took the long way to and from work finding deep puddles to drive through as fast as possible. It worked... No more skunk perfume smell. But dang it smelled bad for a week.
My brother drove past about 30 doves splashing in a puddle near a road, and as he approached they all took off and flew right across the road at about 3 ft up. He hit at least 6 and counted 4 bodies in the road. He didn't stop either since doves were not in season at the time.
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I've got an old Chevy 1 ton, Dad bought it new. I've been hot rodding on the thing for years. Eventually it had an LT-1 350 Z-28 engine I hopped up in it. Dad had this thing for bumpers, and built a front bumper out of 1/4" wall 4" steel tubing, with 1/8" wall 2" tubing for a grille guard. I was on call for emergency repairs one night, but being around 21 years old, I decided to slip off and see my girlfriend, well out of my zone. It was about 1:00 AM when the pager went off, and it went off twice before I heard it. So after a 5 minute good bye kiss, I jump in my hot rod 1 ton truck, I take off down a highway I know well, just plain hauling ass, about 100-120 MPH. Just as I topped a little "whoop de doo", there was a huge Holstien cow. I hit the cow without having a chance to hit the brakes. I hit my forehead on the head liner, and both my thighs on the steering wheel. I bet the cow flew 20 feet. It didn't put a mark on the truck. Stunned the Hell out of me. I got out, looked the truck over, saw it was okay, the cow was dead in the ditch, and I needed to get gone.
No one claimed the cow, since they'd have been responsible for any damage done by their livestock in the road. But several people wondered openly what the Hell hit a cow and knocked it off the road and then drove away.
I was sure sore for three days. It was several weeks before any one put 2 and 2 together, another farmer I know and worked for said "you know, you've got about the only thing that could hit a cow like that and drive off".
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Originally posted by eagl
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But dang it smelled bad for a week.
LOL eagl :) I've BTDT, and thought it was about as bad as it could get. But I found out what's worse - I was riding in a friend's car when he ran over the bloated carcass of a medium-to-large dog.
My god, that was awful. and we had 150 miles to go to get home. The stench was so thick I ended up stuffing my nostrils with menthol cigarette filters and hanging my head out the window. I mean, we found strips of hide hanging off the rear bumper when we arrived home. He spread the whole bottom of his whoopee car with paste of rotten dog. It was beyond anything I could ever have imagined before I experienced it.
I never let Russell, the bastard, forget that :)
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There were a couple of drivers at work, I was one of them, who could, every so often, manage to hit a skunk just right and get him hung between the dual wheels. You have to catch a big enough skunk just right, they kind of pop in and there's not enough centrifugal force to make them pop out.
Out in Texas, I was rocking along a nice flat section that was windy. The guy in front of me had a little sway from the wind to begin with, and hit an armadillo just right. Here we are doing 75-80, and he hits the armadillo and just rolls onto his side, right in front of me, in slow motion.
I've seen armadillos get hit by big trucks and just roll up in a ball, unroll, and waddle off. We call them "possum on a 1/2 shell". Every so often, you see one here in Tennessee. Didn't use to though. I'm sure some clown thought it'd be cool to bring them in. Like the yo yo that brought us coyotes.
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Anyone ever take out a deer? I did... will post more later :)
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lets just say this there is a family of squirrels tonight that will be in mourning :rolleyes:
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Friend of mine, hit something, he thought it was a bird, at 60 miles per hour coming across Alligator Alley in Florida....in his truck...feathers go flying all over... not a big thump.. he figures, "hell it's dead, nothin I can do here..(no cell phone service on that side anyway), and keeps going the 30 miles or so to the end. So, he pulls over at the toll booth on the Miami side, to check the damage, walks up to the front grill... and there is the most pissed off hawk he could imagine, stuck in the grill. He calls FWC and they come out after half an hour or so, all the while this hawk screeching and clawing trying to get out of the grill of his truck. The pictures of it are funny as hell. Four FWC officers scratchin their heads, standing around this "Hell Hawk" trying to claw their eyes out from the grill of a F250.
(Hawk survived, and was rehab'd with a broken wing and a bruised ego...was released in March of 06, back to the everglades.)
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A friend hit a flock of ducks in his race boat. Blood and feathers covered the boat but no damage.
Clipped a skunk with the footpeg of the bike. Had to still travel 30mi with the stink. Took a week of washing and hard riding to get rid of the stench.
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My daughter about 20 years ago saw a deer take out a guy on a motorcycle, hitting him in the side and wiping him out. As she remembers it, the guy died.
Years later, as I was driving to the airport early one morning on an expressway, a deer appeared in my lane just standing there. Big ditch on one side, traffic in the other lane. I braked best as I could, then remembered to take my foot off the brake just before impact to minimize the chance of the deer coming through the windshield.
Managed to slow just enough and swerve just a little so hit the deer mainly with passenger side headlight and bumper, launching the deer high and past the side of the road. Was in a nice big safe Olds 88 with low hood, but still had to replace headlight and fender and fix hood and bumper.
Was not a safe place to stop, so I phoned the sheriff's office and reported the accident. Fairly routine occurence in Northern Virginia.
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I don't get why yall report them to the police, what, are they going to rescucitate the deers? I don't hit animals meself, I find swerving and brakes work.
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The critters are asking for it.
Tonight driving to buddy's house in middle of nowhere I found a young doe on the side of the road just looking at me. I slowed and it ran off into the woods. Leaving his house 30 minutes later the same deer was in the same spot in the road. I yelled some foul words at it for being so stupid. A couple of hours later after dark I was driving my buddy home. The street is marked at 45mph. I decided to play it safe for once and do 35. Came over top of a hill in the road and the same deer was in the same spot. If I had been doing 45 I would have hit her. I yelled again and honked the horn. She took off into the woods. Thank cod I was driving slower then normal.
Driving home on a highway a flock of sparrows flew in front of a large semi. One got caught in the draft and was sent right into my car. Caught it with the front left of the car. No damage. Just another KIA for critters.
Then driving down a major road that leads to my house a white cat ran across the street directly in front of me. I slowed and missed it. The car on my left didnt miss. Another KIA.
I feel like the Anti Dr. Doolittle. :lol
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Originally posted by McFarland
I don't get why yall report them to the police, what, are they going to rescucitate the deers? I don't hit animals meself, I find swerving and brakes work.
For insurance.
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Wouldn't it be cheaper on your insurance to not report them? If the insurance finds out you're prone to hit an animal and might cause an accident in that area, rates will go up. Or so it seems to me.
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A deer can do several thousand dollars worth of damage.
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Originally posted by McFarland
I don't get why yall report them to the police, what, are they going to rescucitate the deers? I don't hit animals meself, I find swerving and brakes work.
Because the dead deer attracks other animals. These could cause another accident. Remove the dead deer and there is no free meal for these other animals.
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Originally posted by McFarland
I don't get why yall report them to the police, what, are they going to rescucitate the deers? I don't hit animals meself, I find swerving and brakes work.
LOLZ, and this is the same guy that eschews wearing of seatbelts in case of that "one in a million" situation where the setbelt will get you killed.
Darwin is calling, oh yes, he's calling for you...
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
LOLZ, and this is the same guy that eschews wearing of seatbelts in case of that "one in a million" situation where the setbelt will get you killed.
Darwin is calling, oh yes, he's calling for you...
:rofl
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:mad:
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I haven’t hit anything as of yet but I have a sortof interesting story from someone that I know.
Maj. Scott Moore flew B-52's for SAC during the cold war; he was doing a training exercise up in Alaska. (I think, not really sure though) They were doing a practice bombing run, flying treetop level at night, they were about.. I wanna say 3 seconds to drop. Flying along fat dumb and happy, then.....
[SIZE=8]BAM[/SIZE]
something hits 'em right in the nose of the aircraft, in front of the co-pilot's position. They decide to abort the bomb run and rtb just to be safe, so they land and when the flight crew checks the damage...they find the remains of an owl, splattered all over the back of the copilots instrument panel.
that owl must have been suicidal.
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(http://www.tourismandtravel.ca/images/santa737.jpg)
look at what these pilots bagged....
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Darwin isn't calling for me. And yes, swerving and brakes work perfectly. And I have no use for a seatbelt because I miss them. So what if the guy in the other lane gives me the bird, I don't care aboot him. Too many people in this world anyways. Heck, you guys worry more aboot the damage to your car than the damage to the animal. Cars can be fixed, lives can't be given back. I'm not a PETA idiot, I just think unwarranted killing is wrong. If you guys ate the deers that you hit, then good. But most of you just leave it there to rot, wastefull Americans. Stupidity, laziness, and wastefullness are the most rampant diseases today. "A man should work by the sweat of his brow." And people think fast food is what is making America fat, what happened to the work we used to do? Sent overseas or done by machines. People used to eat well, they didn't get fat, they got strong, because they worked. They walked to work. They rode horses, which actually requires some skill. America aint America no more. It is no longer the great country it used to be, it is full of lazy idiots who think work is sitting at a desk all day, and then going home. Who think work is watching things go down the assembly line and hitting a button if they get a little sideways. Who think money is the whole point of life. Who no longer beleive in God. I think another Great Depression would do America some good. At least it would teach us not to be so wastefull.
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on my first driving lesson i saw a huge dead raccoon in the road which the instructor told me to just pass over. it cleared under the car but when the truck behind me hit its big bloated corpse it made a loud popping sound and splashes guts all over his truck.
somewhere i found a report of an alaskian airlines 737 hitting a salmon in flight. it said something lik the fish was dropped by an eagle that was scarred by the 737 taking off. must be weird hearing the captain say " attention passengers we will be returning to the airport due to a fish strike".
i saw a tour bus in florida hit a gator, messed up the bus, dont know how the gator fared
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Originally posted by hunter128
I haven’t hit anything as of yet but I have a sortof interesting story from someone that I know.
Maj. Scott Moore flew B-52's for SAC during the cold war; he was doing a training exercise up in Alaska. (I think, not really sure though) They were doing a practice bombing run, flying treetop level at night, they were about.. I wanna say 3 seconds to drop. Flying along fat dumb and happy, then.....
[SIZE=8]BAM[/SIZE]
something hits 'em right in the nose of the aircraft, in front of the co-pilot's position. They decide to abort the bomb run and rtb just to be safe, so they land and when the flight crew checks the damage...they find the remains of an owl, splattered all over the back of the copilots instrument panel.
that owl must have been suicidal.
Maybe a decade ago a flock of geese in Alaska took out an AWAC, plane destroyed crew killed. I was freeking out a bit because I knew an AWAC crew member and there's only son many of them.
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I just recalled another kill, wasn't by me but a golfing buddy of mine. We were at Pebble Beach golfing. On the 8th hole, it is a somewhat blind tee shot up over a little hill. The caddy told my buddy to aim at the seagull sitting near the top of the hill in the fairway. The tee shot hit the seagull in the head on the fly, died on the spot. Funny thing was as soon as he hit the ball you could see it was tracking dead on the seagull.
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on us 20 in indiana just east of mishawaka about 12:30 in the morning i hit a horse at about 45 mph. when 40 tons hits a horse dang it makes a bloody mess. and was that amish guy mad thought he was going to shave his beard off and kick my butt
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Originally posted by McFarland
Lots of really cool quotes and stuff.
Dude, this BBS wouldn't be the same without you. Don't ever leave!
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Originally posted by VOR
Dude, this BBS wouldn't be the same without you. Don't ever leave!
That ain't no lie.
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I was driving home one night when I came around a blind corner. As I got around I saw a groundhog in the middle of my lane. I didn't swerve at all. Just before he passed out of sight because of my hood, he stood up. I heard a good solid CLUNK as I put the force of the car solely onto this poor ****er's head doing 40.
What really pisses me off is that I actively try to kill the groundhogs on my property. They are very resourceful little buggers and are actually very hard to kill. But they seem to run in front of cars like it's the cool thing to do.
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I was up in Yosemite with the missus last Spring. We were following this guy in a Chevy Tahoe out of the park when a bear cub darted out of the trees right in front of him. He manged to slow down a bit, but still hit the cub which rolled once, got up and kept running.
All the while my missus is screaming at me to stop and check the cub is OK. I had to explain really slowly that where a bear cub was, a bear mum might not be too far off and facing down a maternally outraged brown bear was not in my plans for that morning.
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I was riding up front with the driver in one of these about 4am on the way back to Austin....
(http://www.prevosttrader.com/inventory/images/NW_97/Ward1_1.jpg)
Saw a flash greyish white - heard a big bump, and continuing bumps from the rear left side. The driver freaked out, but it happened so fast there wasn't even time to hit the brakes.
Anyway, we pull into this truckstop about 5am, and all the people are giving us horrid looks....
we get out and there some deer pelt and blood stuck to the front of the bus, and more bit's n piece as well as this huge streak of blood all the way down the left side of the bus.
We were doing around 75 when we hit it...never felt a thing other than the thuds. Nothing damaged on the besides the front bumper and a slight dent in the nose of it.
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Anyone hit a moose and lived to tell about it?
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Originally posted by MiloMorai
Anyone hit a moose and lived to tell about it?
Well there was this one girl I went out with once...
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Originally posted by Mickey1992
I hit a cat about 15 years ago. Apparently this cat was smart enough that it would wait for a car to pass, and then dart across the road. Unfortunately I was car #2 so as soon as the car in front of me passed the cat darted right out in front of me. I hit him square with one of my wheels. I look in the rear view mirror and see him flopping around in the road. I was about to pull over when I saw a little kid standing on the sidewalk screaming his head off. I just kept going. :(
I did pretty much the same to a cocker spaniel about 20 years ago. I've also hit birds, cats, squirrels, and probably the worst thing I ever ran over was a "HUGE" water moccasin that was crossing the road. I took some bad advice from my buddy (we were both drinking at the time) who said to just roll over it slowly. it up biting the tire on my jeep and got its fangs stuck and when I took off the snake went flying and almost ended up IN THE JEEP with me and my friend. :O
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Originally posted by MiloMorai
Anyone hit a moose and lived to tell about it?
My dad hit a moose outside of Jackson Hole. Totalled the car. The car came to rest right next to the injured moose which proceeded to kick holes in the side panel of the car with its hoofs until a rancher drove by & shot it.
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Last animal I hit was a bobcat... was about 6 years ago. He lived at least long enough to run off.
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I just killed a robin about 15 minutes ago. He landed in the road in front of me for about 1 second then took off right into my front letf headlight. What was he thinking?
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Originally posted by eskimo2
I just killed a robin about 15 minutes ago. He landed in the road in front of me for about 1 second then took off right into my front letf headlight. What was he thinking?
"ouch"