What animals have you killed on the road?
Apr 26, 2006 at 2:36 AM Post #31 of 45
seagull
 
Apr 26, 2006 at 3:49 AM Post #33 of 45
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Originally Posted by Homeless
The best thing that has ever happend though was when I was in the car with a friend of mine. He was driving and it was a really hot day so both windows were rolled down. I was sitting in the passenger seat and I saw a bird out of the corner of my eye and before I knew it it came right through my window and went instantly out his drivers side window. I remember my buddy screaming like a 12 year old girl...lol...out of curiosity, has that ever happend to anyone else?


Whoa! This actually happened to me twice
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The first time I was riding in the passenger seat with my mom driving. We were only going about 15-20 down the street in front of our house, but it was quite alarming. The second time I was actually in the driveway waiting for my brother I think, and the bird flew in the driver side window and perched onto the passenger side window sill for a second before flying off.
 
Apr 26, 2006 at 3:51 AM Post #34 of 45
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Originally Posted by Thaddy
Whoa! This actually happened to me twice
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The first time I was riding in the passenger seat with my mom driving. We were only going about 15-20 down the street in front of our house, but it was quite alarming. The second time I was actually in the driveway waiting for my brother I think, and the bird flew in the driver side window and perched onto the passenger side window sill for a second before flying off.



That's crazy, I've never heard of it happening to anyone else...but twice?
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Apr 26, 2006 at 4:09 AM Post #35 of 45
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Originally Posted by JahJahBinks
We should confess about our killings now!


If you will permit me to list those run over while at work....................

Cows; Elk; Deer; more cows; dogs; cats; Opossum; Turkeys; Raccoons; Pheasant; one Blue Herron; 2 Horses; more deer; Sheep; and one Owl.

Not so much death if I can only count killings while driving my car.
One cat; and a few jack Rabbits. (one of which caused $1,000 damage to my car) I had an owl hit me, and I have hit one owl. One I know survived, the other I never found. I have my doubts about that one. I'm saddened just thinking about it.










[size=xx-small]Oh, while I'm at work, I'm on a train.[/size]
 
Apr 26, 2006 at 4:21 AM Post #36 of 45
Just a whole lot of bugs for me. I do them all...

My brother told me of a time when he was driving to college on the freeway in his 4-door spec of an Escort (~'92.. paper thin doors..etc.) and he hit a small bird. There was blood all up on the hood and windshield so he stopped at a gas station to clean it it. Well he pulled up next to another vehicle (I think van with a few small kids in it) got out and then realized that the bird was still stuck in between the hood and the grill. He looked over and saw the shocked look on the kids' faces as he was cleaning the mess.
 
Apr 26, 2006 at 5:29 AM Post #37 of 45
Apr 26, 2006 at 7:12 AM Post #39 of 45
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Originally Posted by ShaftedTwice
Not me, but

[size=medium]DEER GOD[/size] is right..

Uhm, "Due to some graphic images, Viewer Discretion Advised"
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http://www.pbnation.com/showthread.p...hreadid=777869






Holy ****!!!
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That was gross. I've never seen anything like that. Man, I was just about to go to bed. I'm prob. going to have a dream that I'm bambi running across the road about to go visit my friend thumper and... BAM!!!
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Apr 26, 2006 at 8:20 AM Post #41 of 45
Only killed a **** till now.Damn thing was pretty badly torn up and stuck in the front grilles when i got out of the car.

Have also narrowly escaped from hitting a couple of buffaloes and dogs.Swerved pretty wildly.
 
Apr 26, 2006 at 8:33 AM Post #42 of 45
Havn't hit anything yet, but have had a few close calls. Most of the time it's the squirrels that seem to stay in the street and decide not to move or decide to run towards my car..... but one time a neighbor's dog ran out in front of my car from behind another parked car and I swerved, slammed on the brakes, and missed him by a couple inches..... I'm actually pretty annoyed that people would let their dogs run out on the street like that.
 
Apr 27, 2006 at 12:39 AM Post #44 of 45
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Originally Posted by Ingo
I have a long history of bludgeoning animals with automobiles, so I'll just let you all have the most memorable ones.

2/14/1998 Driving home with my family on a forest highway in N. Arizona:

10:45PM - Hit one female Rocky Mountain Elk ~800lbs with a 1/2 ton, extended cab, 4x4 pick-up truck.

Totals the truck. Obviously it fatally wounds the elk. Sheriff's deputy and tow truck arrive. We field dress the elk, load it into the back of our totalled pick-up, and load the pick-up onto the wrecker. I hop in with the tow truck driver (a family friend, actually) The rest of my family rides back in the Sheriff deputy's SUV.

2/15/1998 1:45AM - tow truck hits a ~700lb Male Rocky Mountain Elk.

Barely made a mark on the very large wrecker. Cracked the fiberglass hood a little-bit. We could not find the elk that night, but two or three days later I drove by the same spot and could smell the carrion, so I stopped to see if it was the same elk we had hit. Sure enough only about 15 yards off of the highway in some tall grass was the carcass.

This is only 12 miles down the highway from where the first elk was hit. Crazy night.



...that Elk #2 was the mate of Elk #1. Animal mate's devotion to each other often puts us humans to shame.

My own score takes in insects, cats, dogs, racoons, opossums, squirrels, frogs, rabbits, and (CRUNCH!) an armadillo. I have hit a deer, or it hit me, it was night and I don't know if it died, but there was just a dent in the wheel cover, so it was probably OK. BTW, deer whistles do work.

Laz
 
Apr 27, 2006 at 5:34 AM Post #45 of 45
Notches in my grill:
-2 Squirrels (they practically run over themselves.)
-1 Possum (and I didn't feel the least bit guilty.)
-1 Rabbit (I actually hit this one on the highway, while I had "In The Kingdom #19" playing on my car stereo, in the middle of the night... sort of freaked me out.)
 

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