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F... me those deer are huge!
Xtreme Kermit - 19/4/11 at 08:33 PM

SWMBO was using the tin top today so I had a good excuse to drive Kermit to work up MK way.

Had a cool journey to work, but a great drive back home including a short(ish) cut through Woburn park.

Those deer look quite small from the comfort of your tin top, but viewed from the driving position of your average se7en with nothing between you and them except the visor of your crash hat, believe me, they are flippin HUGE

MakeEverything - 19/4/11 at 08:38 PM

In comparison to you?? they must be big!!

Glad you managed to get the skip out of the way.

Take it easy mate.

owelly - 19/4/11 at 08:51 PM

I took a rather large deer on a very short road trip many years ago. I was dashing off to college in my Cavalier and took the shortest route through Cropton Forest. I deer ran out in front of me and just as I started to look for the second one, (they always seem to run around in pairs!) it jumped on the bonnet, came trough the windscreen and landed upside down in the passenger seat. It then spent the next 40 seconds kicking the crap out ofmy left hand side until I stopped the car, got out, ran around to the passenger side, opened the door and dragged it out the the car by it's ears. I ended up scrapping the car because it stunk of deer poo.

Xtreme Kermit - 19/4/11 at 08:53 PM

Lol

Fortunately there is no chance of creeping up on them with a nice noisy exhaust and they politely moved out of the way... I really wouldn't want one of those things sitting on my bonnet (ooh err missus)

Xtreme Kermit - 19/4/11 at 08:57 PM

quote:
Originally posted by owelly
I took a rather large deer on a very short road trip many years ago. I was dashing off to college in my Cavalier and took the shortest route through Cropton Forest. I deer ran out in front of me and just as I started to look for the second one, (they always seem to run around in pairs!) it jumped on the bonnet, came trough the windscreen and landed upside down in the passenger seat. It then spent the next 40 seconds kicking the crap out ofmy left hand side until I stopped the car, got out, ran around to the passenger side, opened the door and dragged it out the the car by it's ears. I ended up scrapping the car because it stunk of deer poo.


And my best story about an animal collection up to that point was a pheasant getting sucked into the bonnet scoop on a friend of my sons scooby

MakeEverything - 19/4/11 at 09:14 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Xtreme Kermit
quote:
Originally posted by owelly
I took a rather large deer on a very short road trip many years ago. I was dashing off to college in my Cavalier and took the shortest route through Cropton Forest. I deer ran out in front of me and just as I started to look for the second one, (they always seem to run around in pairs!) it jumped on the bonnet, came trough the windscreen and landed upside down in the passenger seat. It then spent the next 40 seconds kicking the crap out ofmy left hand side until I stopped the car, got out, ran around to the passenger side, opened the door and dragged it out the the car by it's ears. I ended up scrapping the car because it stunk of deer poo.


And my best story about an animal collection up to that point was a pheasant getting sucked into the bonnet scoop on a friend of my sons scooby


I hit a pheasant with my head at 90...er 70ish on a motorbike once. That hurt, and i had to stop for the pain.

Xtreme Kermit - 19/4/11 at 09:24 PM

Eeeewwwwww messy

Not so easy to claim for whiplash either...

Guinness - 19/4/11 at 09:28 PM

Don't let Terry see this thread.

I'm sure some of us remember the photo's of his Dax after he hit a deer in Germany. Not nice at all!

clairetoo - 19/4/11 at 09:52 PM

I once had a bird fly right into the front (spoked) wheel of a motorbike at around a ton (which those following said was spectacularly messy....) , by the time I got home , some two days later from the trip to the coast.... , it had dried all over the wheel...........and spokes............and hub............

I never did get it clean again

se7en - 20/4/11 at 12:07 AM

Deer can make a bit of a mess



and so can kangaroos

blakep82 - 20/4/11 at 12:35 AM

quote:
Originally posted by se7en
and so can kangaroos



yeah, but you ave to ask why there's a coke can in his broken headlight
looks a bit photoshop (tail shadow looks a bit too thin), but yes, they can make a lot of mess

[Edited on 20/4/11 by blakep82]

Agriv8 - 20/4/11 at 07:11 AM

cant remeber the stats but car / dearcrashes cause 40 deths a year IIRC.

Not helped on medern cars that sweep the animal up the Bonnet and througn the screen.

Regards

Agriv8

se7en - 20/4/11 at 10:06 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Agriv8
cant remeber the stats but car / dearcrashes cause 40 deths a year IIRC.

Not helped on medern cars that sweep the animal up the Bonnet and througn the screen.

Regards

Agriv8


A bit like these




or these (man killed in the one below)

Full story here

@blakep82

I see what you mean about the shadow but from other pictures of damage by kangaroo, I would not doubt that this picture is true.

Tom

Agriv8 - 20/4/11 at 11:01 AM

Yup just like that

regards

Agriv8

Xtreme Kermit - 20/4/11 at 09:02 PM

Think I'll stay indoors for a while...

matt_gsxr - 20/4/11 at 09:23 PM

Not as dramatic, but.

I cycled over a recent fox road-kill on my bike and it squirted fox goop over my bare legs.

Not nice in any way.

se7en - 20/4/11 at 09:34 PM

quote:
Originally posted by matt_gsxr
Not as dramatic, but.

I cycled over a recent fox road-kill on my bike and it squirted fox goop over my bare legs.

Not nice in any way.


Was it this one . . .



Tom