badger, big cat, fox I don't know as it was a blur as it ran out in front of me. Managed to swerve a touch but not enough and I hit it it. Whatever it was was hefty enough to bend my valance back.
I was fearing I'd brought it to work with me too.
Feel like crap now though :o(
It happens, just bad luck
the circle of life encompasses roadkill as well
just be glad it wasn't a badger stuck in your wheel arch.
you should have stopped....there good of been some good eating with that. You kill it, you eat it....simples
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Look on the brightside - you could've swerved into a cyclist or a car coming the other way.
Look on the brightside - you could've swerved into a cyclist or a car coming the other way.
...but the soon to be culled badger would have been safe, which is the important thing.
it'd have meant going through a barrier on the central reservation prince john. I think the damage would've been a bit worse then!
I killed Bambi just outside Braemar a year or so ago, that wasn't good.
Being veggie I didn't get a free meal, not being militant veggie I did regret not picking it up and supplying it to those that would have appreciated it.
I'm sure it fed something in the end though
I hit a deer (just an ickle one) on the way to work some years ago now. I was pretty upset about it as I'd watched it die while I was waiting for the RSPCA to come out.
Anyway, I got to work, and told the lads that were helping me out - I think they found it hilarious that I cared at all. We were all sitting outside having a cup of tea at mid-morning and they were giggling away. They'd been into the kids' toy cupboard, found the biggest toy horse they could find and strapped it to the bonnet of my car. Har de har.
BADGER MURDERER
I once nailed a pheasant near skipton years ago. Stopped, in the boot, plucked and hung for 2 weeks in the shed. Man, was it tasty.
dd- you reminded me of the time some friends and I eviscerated a cuddly toy camel, placed it into the middle of a country lane with a good basting of ketchup and took to a vantage point to watch drivers brake and swerve. happy days of adolescent annoyance.
Someone on another forum posted about his brother hitting a deer one night. Unfortunatly he didn't stop to make sure. Turns out it was probably a cyclist 🙁
A fair few insects have come to their end on the front of my car God rest their souls.
Wait..... has anyone seen pooks wife?
😛 😉
[quote=piemonster ]I killed Bambi just outside Braemar a year or so ago, that wasn't good.
Being veggie I didn't get a free meal, not being militant veggie I did regret not picking it up and supplying it to those that would have appreciated it.
I'm sure it fed something in the end though
Technically you're not allowed to take home something *you've* hit in the car and killed, though you can take home something that someone else has hit and killed. This is to stop you deliberately driving over things and taking them home, as that would be poaching
There's two things I worry about running over in Australia (other than people) and they're Kangaroo's, they make a massive mess to your car and the other is snakes! they don't always die and wait in the wheel arch so when you pull up at your destination they drop out and bite you back. Karma I guess!
In my driving history I have run over...
A fox
A Labrador, felt really bad about this one but I don't think walking it in the middle of the night with no lead down a country lane was the smartest of moves.
A pheasant shock wrecked the front end of my XR2
A teenager.
Reminds me of the time in a NSL - straight road in summer, the only car infront of me suddenly slams on hard as I couldn't see anything I drove round them- a ickle bunny hopped out from around the front of their car and bump bump bump bump under mine..
In the rear view mirror I could see a couple looking shocked and hurt.
I kit a monkjack (muntjak?) deer on the way to work once. Killed it instantly and had to get bits of it out of the front grille. Initially I though I had hit a dog and then felt shook up for a few hours. Fortunately I was in a courtesy car and the damage wasn't noticed.
I ran over a squirrel, properly smeared it into the road leaving it in a horrific mangled state but still moving. I reversed over it to finish it off.
This in itself is no big deal but the c8 year old girl who witnessed the whole thing is probably still in therapy.
Think the only thing I've ever hit terminally was a rabbit. Being a [s]soft shite[/s] card-carrying veggie treehugger, I'd to pull into a layby a bit further on for a quick gibber.
Not so long ago I swerved to run over a Magpie in the middle of the road. I got it 
Technically you're not allowed to take home something *you've* hit in the car and killed, though you can take home something that someone else has hit and killed. This is to stop you deliberately driving over things and taking them home, as that would be poaching
That's a myth, you can take stuff that you've hit and killed. Having killed a fair number of pheasant in the past I'm not sure I'd want to eat any of them after their guts have exploded inside them.
I hit a fox years ago, not long after I started driving. Was pretty upset. Stopped, checked - it had gone.
Saw a woman a couple of days ago, stop and pick up an injured pigeon. A pigeon! Didn't see what she did with it, but thought it a bit strange.
[quote=gonefishin ]That's a myth, you can take stuff that you've hit and killed.
Having had five mnutes on google, it looks like I was indeed mistaken. But maybe better safe than sorry, looking at this: http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Animals-and-Nature/Question397084.html#answer-1805903
Here's a sad story :'(
Driving to work one morning there was a bit of a heat haze and the road must have looked like a pond.
Anyway, two ducks swooped down in front of my car, I hit the female duck, the male duck then swooped round in a circle and landed next to her and I watched him nudge her body in my mirror.
Drove back home that evening and he'd been run over next to her, dunno how long he'd sat there before a car got him.
I was watching one of those police camera programs on Dave, they were investigating a cyclist who had been killed in a hit and run in the dark, with only a few bits of headlight to trace the car by, when they got a call from a driver's parent saying they had hit a deer on the same bit of road...
My kill count so far:
1 human being
3 badgers
Countless pheasants, pigeons and other small birds
Several ducks
2 tawny owls
(train driver BTW)
A mate of mine hit a dog one night last week, stopped his train to check what it was and when he went back it was still alive, but obviously in a bit if a mess, and trying to pull itself up over the rail with its good front legs. It obviously wasn't going to survive but he couldn't bring himself to finish it off. He continued the journey, reported it asap and asked if someone could be sent to sort/move it (no point ringing the RSPCA, they can't go on the operational railway).
He's devastated and it's really shaken him up, I can understand why - hitting a person who is there intentionally ie to end their life is bad enough but animals like dogs will be frightened and unable to escape. There are loads of dead dogs on the railway at this time of year, maybe from owners walking them near the railway letting them off their leads / gaps in fences or foot crossings etc / loads of squirrels this time of year taking advantage of the trees lining railway lines etc, but whatever, people need educating that if their dog ends up on the railway it's almost certainly not going to get off again alive. I'd hazard a guess that the majority of dogs that go missing in the vicinity of railway lines are probably gonners, but people just don't put 2 and 2 together.
Anyway, enough on that cheery subject...!
I ran over a squirrel, properly smeared it into the road leaving it in a horrific mangled state but still moving. I reversed over it to finish it off.
You did the right thing.
I'm sick of having to kill rabbits around here who's eyes are rotting out of their heads because rail company (sorry mods, [u]allegedly[/u]) like to introduce disease every now and then to keep their numbers down. Poor little things.
My dad ran over a nun on a bike a few years ago in Germany.
Recently he got run over by a cop in the states!
Karma..
OK here's mine:
Driving up the A1 fairly quickly, pheasant flies out from bushes at side of road straight towards my windscreen, then at the last minute realises the danger and pulls up to clear the top of the car. You lucky bastard, I think, shortly before remembering that there are four bikes on the roofrack and hearing a load thump.
When we stopped at the next services there were feathers everywhere and our spokes were covered in thin strips of pheasant flesh - on reaching our destination a couple of hours of air-drying later we had a large supply of DIY pheasant biltong.
Taken out a few lizardy things in French Guiana. They bask in the middle of the road, so you swerve to avoid them. They get up and run straight for the wheels!
Loads of frogs too (amphibians, not French) in the road driving at night. Could hit one every few seconds on the main road from Surinam to Cayenne. Most jump into the underside of the car.
I was on a night ride one time waiting to cross a country road when a bunny hopped out in front of a car which ran over its back legs. bunny was still alive and trying to drag itself off the road but clearly not in a good way. I said to my mate that there's no way we could leave it like that and he agredd - and offered to hold my bike while i did it.
So i picked it up, intending to wring its neck and then realised I had never done it before and had no idea what to do / how hard to pull. And was left with the thought that the next car along the road might be witness to the sight of a fat man in lycra covered in blood and holding two halves of rabbit! "'Ere sarge, we've just had a report of some sort of pervy devil worshipping sacrifice cult thing!"
So i smacked its head hard on a fence post instead. poor little bunny.
Coyote .. and real men apparently dont kill coyote's.
Driving medium RV towards Grand Canyon, came out of bushes, bang. Stopped, and went back to see if there was anything to do and it had vanished. So left the forest and kept smoking the pot listening to the Doors... ok, the pots a lie, but it was a long drive across desert that day.
... fade to Riders on the Storm...
theotherjonv me and a roadie had the same dilemma in the lakes- he wanged it as hard as he could against a flat road sign. It looked comical bouncing off with its front paws out in the air 😳
cheburashka - serial killer!
I'd hardly count them as your kills - as you say many of them are the victim of their own plans. Still can't be a pleasant thing to experience!
being a veggie presumably you're against unnecessary suffering of poor fluffy animals. Seeing as how you'd already dished out the pain wouldn't the right thing to do have been to cook and eat it so it wasn't all in vain?piemonster - MemberI killed Bambi just outside Braemar...Being veggie I didn't get a free meal,
Dad used to bring home stuff he'd hit, seem to recall he nearly rolled a car trying to clip a pheasant 🙂
Hit a Badger that was dragging a small haystack across the road, at about 60mph, couldnt find it post impact, but the bastard cracked my bumper and burst the radiator.
Feel like crap now though :o(
I think that most well adjusted humans would. Not your fault, just unfortunate. Circle of life applies.
I once nailed a pheasant near skipton years ago. Stopped, in the boot, plucked and hung for 2 weeks in the shed. Man, was it tasty.
My dad hit a pheasant once and put it in the boot to take home. Suffice to say, it wasn't dead and when he opened the boot it tried to claw his face off!
I hit one of these once in the outside lane of the A1 doing about 75mph
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No chance of a pigeon pie with the left overs!!
Damn. My wireless Pigeon missed.
I hit one of these once in the outside lane of the A1 doing about 75mph
That's a fast pigeon.
75 on an A road?
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There was a swan sitting in the outside lane of the M90 on Saturday. The driver in front of me braked so I had an idea something was up, fortunately I was in the inside lane though so didn't have to avoid.
It was definitely alive and looking around so I suspect it mistook the road for water (young one with grey feathers) and crash landed.
Doubt it would have lasted until the police arrived.
Glad it wasn't going faster, put a right dent in my window!! 😉
My boss's mate hit a seagull head on. Went straight through the grill and put its head right through the radiator. Not happy.
Speeds you can only dream of Hora!! 😆
badger, big cat, fox
In that order?
Sniff, I've been a passenger in a car driven at that speed once.
It seems that NASA and the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have a unique device for testing the strength of windshields on airplanes. The device is a gun that launches a dead chicken at a plane’s windshield at approximately the speed the plane flies.The theory is that if the windshield doesn’t crack from the carcass impact, it’ll survive a real collision with a bird during flight. It seems the British were very interested in this and wanted to test a windshield on a brand new, speedy locomotive they’re developing.
They borrowed the FAA’s chicken launcher, loaded the chicken and fired. The ballistic chicken shattered the windshield, went through the engineer’s chair, broke an instrument panel and embedded itself in the back wall of the engine cab. The British were stunned and asked the FAA to recheck the test to see if everything was done correctly.
The FAA reviewed the test thoroughly and had one recommendation: “Defrost the chicken first.”
My kill count so far:
1 human being
3 badgers
Countless pheasants, pigeons and other small birds
Several ducks
2 tawny owls
Is it true then, that if you kill three people they retire you and give you a massive payout?
LOLing @ Hora
I hit a squirrel one time on the motorbike. No bother, but it somehow got caught in the exhaust and nicely roasted at one end on the rest of my ride to work, while the other end dragged along the ground til it fell apart. Mmmmmmmm.
and the other is snakes! they don't always die and wait in the wheel arch so when you pull up at your destination they drop out and bite you back. Karma I guess!
Nah, they radio in a drop-bear to eat your face off 🙄
I hit a rabbit in my old landrover which somehow got thrown up uderneath and wrapped around the propshaft.
by the time I found somewhere to pull over all that was left were a few strips of fur.
I also hit a barn owl - it came up out of a drainage ditch like a ghost, bounced of the widscreen then whacked the lightbar/roofrack.
I hate hitting stuff, but I'll not swerve to avoid any animal - i swerved to avaoid a deer a few years back and hit a tree stump which was obscured buy grass on the roadside ;o(
i can relate to the op , once i hit something in my car and felt crap afterwards too, midway through an involuntary doughnut i hit a wall and it felt a bit crap !!
jacksonwwirl - Membermidway through an involuntary doughnut
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This thread reminds me of a girl who I worked with years ago. She arrived at work in floods of tears as she'd hit a rabbit on the way to work. She was distraught that it might still be alive and in pain.
A colleague said he'd go back with her to check it was dead and if not to despatch it humanely. On the way back to the scene she drove over another rabbit ..........
Hit a cow late at night in Australia years ago...bloody thing was laying on the tarmac cos it was nice and warm from the day. managed to swerve a little and winged it, drove away with some hide on the front of the van.....didnt stop to put it out of its misery aka Jim Carey style.
Took out a pigeon a couple of months ago - feathers everywhere. Forgot about it until an hour later when we pulled up at our destination and someone shouted 'is that for your tea'?
It was still lodged between the roof and roofbox.
Still haven't got all the congealed blood and guts off the roof properly.
[quote Is it true then, that if you kill three people they retire you and give you a massive payout?
Unfortunately not, I count lots of serial killers among my colleagues...!
I have hit 2 deer . Killed them both outright .
Also managed to hit a lorry undertray , which in term smashed my sump.
Hit loads of rabbits, stupid bloody things, start to run away from the car, then suddenly double back straight under the car! Ba-dump ba-dump...
Hit a hare once that suddenly ran out from a field gateway, that really upset me, I think they're lovely creatures, and rather rare. Always wondered what happened to the pheasant I hit with my split-screen Minor. Hit the grill, there was a hell of a bang, and feathers everywhere, like someone had kicked a pillow around. Stopped, and spent fifteen minutes looking around the hedges and fields either side of the road, but to no avail. I was doing about 50 at the time, and fortunately Moggies are solidly built cars...
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one full sized deer through a very small hole in the front of a bmw