Ivan
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| posted on 12/3/09 at 06:40 AM |
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I'm a murderer - no I'm not.
The scene - road between Murraysburg and Beaufort West in the Karoo.
Speed - 120 kph +
Victims - 2 finches
What happened - they flew accross my bows - one just made it accross the other vanished below the centre of my bonnet line on a downward tragectory
My thoghts - Oh sh1t - I'm a murderer.
The outcome - Check my rear view mirror for feathers and there she is - casualy sitting in the road, spreads wings and flies on.   
Must of been deliberate as if the downdraft had blown her into the road she would have been tumbling and she was sitting there so composed - never
seen that before.
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 12/3/09 at 06:54 AM |
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I had a white cavalier that some reason small birds always flew in front off, they weren't so lucky
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AndyGT
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| posted on 12/3/09 at 07:11 AM |
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My only road kill I know of is a bat that lay spreadeagled accross my Opel Manta front panel for 2 or 3 days. It looked awesome...
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Guinness
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| posted on 12/3/09 at 07:31 AM |
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I hit a pigeon at high speed once. It just landed on the road in front of me, went under the car and must have got clipped by the exhaust or
something.
Looked out the rear view mirror to see a perfect twin vortex of feathers in the middle of the road.
Oops.
Mike
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paul the 6th
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| posted on 12/3/09 at 07:38 AM |
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I was doing 115mph through Germany about 2 years ago when a small deer ran across the motorway. Slammed on but my front left wing just clipped one of
it's back legs at about 80ish...
Looked in the mirror to see it spinning around in the middle of the road before running off into the woods! The little bugger ripped some kind of
plastic debris guard off the bottom of my engine...
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scootz
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| posted on 12/3/09 at 08:14 AM |
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I've whacked deer three times. Two were DOA's and the third was walking wounded... although I suspect that it was on borrowed time!
Also squished a badger, smacked a buzzard and minced dozens of rabbits. Ran over a snake once when in Croatia too.
Oh the horror (of living in rural Scotland).
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blakep82
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| posted on 12/3/09 at 08:30 AM |
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i was driving off a roundabout late one night, and a rabbit ran out in front of me, nothing i could do.... heard it bounce 2 or 3 times along the
bottom of the car, looked in my mirror, he got up and ran off. don't think he'd live much longer after that though
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 12/3/09 at 08:36 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by scootz
I've whacked deer three times. Two were DOA's and the third was walking wounded... although I suspect that it was on borrowed time!
Also squished a badger, smacked a buzzard and minced dozens of rabbits. Ran over a snake once when in Croatia too.
Oh the horror (of living in rural Scotland).
Tell me about it, when I stayed in Inverness the worst one was hitting a dear in the Allegro, smashed the whole front in, had the SOAB for dinner
I also lowered my cortina so much the bottom hit the ground when I braked hard, needless to say 0 rabbits ever survived walking out in front of that,
much to my squeamish friends horror. You could hear the thump…thump…thump...
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Dangle_kt
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| posted on 12/3/09 at 08:40 AM |
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I killed two dogs in one weekend once I couldn;t beleive it.
One was a gypsy dog that was chasing someone on a push bike, from a distance I thought it was some numpty taking his dog for a walk on his bike - but
just as I went to overtake (duel carriageway) the guy on the bike lashed out and booted the dog under my front wheel!
second one was about 3am, a Black Staff ran out like a scolded cat between a row of parked cars - massive bang, as I didn;t have time to break from
30mph, if fact I barely saw it. Tried to run after it as it legged it off, but in ran into some bushes/parkland, and as it wasn;t a nice area, and it
was 3am, I had to get back in the car.
I was so paranoid for the rest of that year, maybe longer, even dogs on leads I crept past.
The car got named K7 (Canine minus 2)
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 12/3/09 at 08:42 AM |
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Round my way it's pheasants - they are SO DUMB!
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cd.thomson
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| posted on 12/3/09 at 08:55 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Dangle_kt
I killed two dogs in one weekend once I couldn;t beleive it.
One was a gypsy dog that was chasing someone on a push bike, from a distance I thought it was some numpty taking his dog for a walk on his bike - but
just as I went to overtake (duel carriageway) the guy on the bike lashed out and booted the dog under my front wheel!
second one was about 3am, a Black Staff ran out like a scolded cat between a row of parked cars - massive bang, as I didn;t have time to break from
30mph, if fact I barely saw it. Tried to run after it as it legged it off, but in ran into some bushes/parkland, and as it wasn;t a nice area, and it
was 3am, I had to get back in the car.
I was so paranoid for the rest of that year, maybe longer, even dogs on leads I crept past.
The car got named K7 (Canine minus 2)
I hope you stopped, its a legal requirement when you hit somebodies dog . The law doesnt apply to pesky cats though! Haha.
I killed about 10 rabbits on one night when driving near ashbourne. There were tens of them in the road, most got out of the way. Some didnt.
The first one i tried braking - no chance. The second one i swerved right - it dashed right at the last second. The third one i swerved left - it
dashed left. After that I just turned the radio up and tried to ignore the thudthudthuds!
Craig
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jake_truck
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| posted on 12/3/09 at 09:03 AM |
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About 10 years ago travelling south on the A1 a car in front of me clipped a rabbit. I guess it damaged its spine cos it was trying to run but its
hind legs were dragging along behind.
I did the decent thing with 38 tonnes of volvo artic. I'm not a murderer, I'm a friend to small animals in need........
john
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UncleFista
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| posted on 12/3/09 at 09:04 AM |
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I've "done" two dogs too, first one ran across the road, I hit it, it bounced off using the momentum of the car and rocketed off ! A
few minutes later I could smell sh**. After looking at the grille, the dog had crapped on the front grill as revenge ?
The second was a DOA, I slammed my mates Yorkshire Terriers head in the car door, "crack", accidentally of course 
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 12/3/09 at 09:07 AM |
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The squeamish friend I mentioned in the earlier post later swerved to avoid a rabbit and ended up slamming into a railway bridge in his Jetta, the
passenger side just caved in. Fortunately he was the only one in the car and wasn't hurt (front wheel ended up in the passenger footwell!), but
he sure felt stupid
[Edited on 12/3/09 by Mr Whippy]
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JeffHs
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| posted on 12/3/09 at 09:11 AM |
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I hit a small flock of swallows at 70mph in my open Citroen Special. Killed several but luckily none hit my head. They swooped down at the last
moment, no time to react - very frightening.
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Paul TigerB6
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| posted on 12/3/09 at 09:25 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Dangle_kt
One was a gypsy dog that was chasing someone on a push bike, from a distance I thought it was some numpty taking his dog for a walk on his bike - but
just as I went to overtake (duel carriageway) the guy on the bike lashed out and booted the dog under my front wheel!
Excellent bit of teamwork there!!  I've had a dog go after me on my bike (i was on the bike - not the dog ) and it biting at my ankle
nearly had me fall under a car!!!!
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hughpinder
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| posted on 12/3/09 at 09:36 AM |
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I hit a squirrel once on my motorbike when mid way through a fast z bend. I swerved a couple of times to try to avoid it, but it kept changing its
mind! I was all over the road after I hit it, so lucky nothing was coming the other way! I don't swerve now....
I also took out a very wet pigeon in the pouring rain at '70 officier' - split the screen of my car from side to side.
Hugh
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mcerd1
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| posted on 12/3/09 at 09:41 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by scootz
I've whacked deer three times. Two were DOA's and the third was walking wounded... although I suspect that it was on borrowed time!
Also squished a badger, smacked a buzzard and minced dozens of rabbits. Ran over a snake once when in Croatia too.
Oh the horror (of living in rural Scotland).
I've lived here (just down the road from you) all my life and so far I've only killed 1 sparrow and 1 rabbit, but I've had hundreds
on near misses (inc rabbits, pheasants, deer, a kestrel and a budgie!)
twice I've had a pigeon fly out of a hedge while I was doing close to 60 and end up spread across the windscreen for a few seconds, slide off
and fly away
all they left was a greasy pigeon print on the windscreen
[Edited on 12/3/09 by mcerd1]
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contaminated
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| posted on 12/3/09 at 10:11 AM |
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I once hit a load of rabbits in the middle of the night that made a bit of a mess. Also had a seagull fly into my Hilux Surf on the M25. A mate of
mine hit a cow at about 60mph. It wrote his 205 off and the cow walked away!
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Daddylonglegs
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| posted on 12/3/09 at 10:18 AM |
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Took a pheasant out on the bike a few years ago (no, not as a pillion ), doing about .... legal mph and it made the decision at just the right time
Head down, wait for the bang........it jus clipped the edge of the fairing and vapourised!!
Must have looked pretty impressive from behind
It looks like the Midget is winning at the moment......
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coozer
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| posted on 12/3/09 at 10:36 AM |
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Going to work 4 am one morning cam around the corner (mk2 escort) and ran into a seagull. Broken bumper, smashed headlight and the bloody thing flew
away.
Once saw one of them fly off a bin with a pizza box in its beak. Rock hard they are!
Nearly forget the sheep! Going down a road towards Pickering two up on a Z550 about 80 mph one ran across the road and got caught up under the engine.
legs of lamb all ower the place
[Edited on 12/3/09 by coozer]
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 12/3/09 at 10:38 AM |
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I hit and killed a fox a few years ago in my Civic. Made every effort to avoid the poor thing but it changed it's mind halfway across the road
and darted back again. Stopped and checked it was dead and dragged it off the road into a field, would be pretty nasty to hit something like that on
a bike.
I'm a bit of a softy when it comes to animals so I was a quite upset about it, only saving grace was that by some miracle the car survived with
barely a scratch on it.
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Ivan
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| posted on 12/3/09 at 11:04 AM |
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It's been my experience that if you are travelling at less than 120 kph you very seldom hit birds, they normally have time to swerve out of the
way - the kill rate goes up significantly over 120 kph - just goes to show - speed realy does kill.
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SteveWalker
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| posted on 12/3/09 at 11:15 AM |
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A guy I once worked with arrived with a very dead fox impaled on his front towing eye - he'd wondered why people seemed to be giving him odd
looks on the way in. It had to be prised off with a spade. One of the other employees took it, as his hobby was taxidermy.
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chrisg
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| posted on 12/3/09 at 12:13 PM |
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Pigeons "pop" in quite an amusing fashion if you manage to get them RIGHT under the front tire.
I wouldn't swerve to miss a dumb animal (and I include cyclists in that)
Cheers
Chris
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