Roadkill

xzanti

I hit a bird this morning horrible feeling, he was pecking happily in the road with his pal, they started flapping for take off and I was full sure he was going to make it, but he was too slow.. *POOOFFF* feathers everywhere, I felt sick after it, has been playing on my mind all day.. RIP little buddy

Anyone else ever kill anything on the road?

It's strange cause I had just seen a dead badger a few miles back and was thinking how awful it would be to hit something, then, 10 minutes later, my first fatality :eek:

Strange Loop

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Roadkill-Cookbook-B-R-Peterson/dp/0898152003

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xzanti wrote: »

It's strange cause I had just seen a dead badger a few miles back and was thinking how awful it would be to hit something, then, 10 minutes later, my first fatality :eek:

Should've kept your eyes on the road.

xzanti

They were, I came around a bend, it was a winding road..

alwaysadub

Hit a bird myself. Got stuck in the grille, didn't realise till later that evening.
Think i ran over a field mouse too,but might have missed it.

xzanti

alwaysadub wrote: »

Hit a bird myself. Got stuck in the grille, didn't realise till later that evening.
Think i ran over a field mouse too,but might have missed it.

Yeah I was convinced I was going to find him welded to my front bumper when I got home but there was just a few feathers stuck in the corner of the bonnet, must have hit the very corner..

Nearly hit a sheep last night, only animal to walk out when a car is coming.

Saw a few dead rabbits, hedgehogs and rats aswell.

Liam Byrne

I was cutting the lawn during the week and a suicidal small frog jumped straight into the spot I was pushing the lawnmower into ...... about an inch in front; no time to stop it! :P

Cue strange looking lump of gloopy guts in the newly-cut grass.

galwayrush

One of the subbies working on our house had a Polish lad working for him, one morning ,there was a dead goat on the side of the road , Polish lad puts it in a bag and brings it home, says he'll hang it up for a week or so, and it will be beautiful to eat then.

Micky Dolenz

Was the bird too slow or were you too fast?

Speed Kills.

xzanti

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Was the bird too slow or were you too fast?

Speed Kills.

I was under the speed limit..

thetonynator

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Was the bird too slow or were you too fast?

Speed Kills.

And in this case it wasnt the sudden lack of it!!! but a bird doesnt really matter . . .

Pretty_Pistol

Similar thing happened to me a few weeks ago when we were driving on the motorway and a disorientated pigeon, who had probably just been hit already, waddled across the road and bang. It's a horrible sound and feeling.

Micky Dolenz

xzanti wrote: »

I was under the speed limit..

Tell it to the Animal Police :P

I've done it a few times and it's a horrible feeling. But you can't avoid them.

galwayrush

When i was a kid, i witnessed a guy actually driving his car towards a dog trying to hit it, the dog escaped and the asshole made a **** of his car after it skidded into a wall.:D

johngalway

xzanti wrote: »

I was under the speed limit..

Ah, but were you driving according to the road conditions with the ability to stop in the length of road you could see....

Abi

I hit a rat about a month ago, first thing I thought was 'he better not be all over my tyre'.

Liam Byrne

Abigayle wrote: »

I hit a rat about a month ago, first thing I thought was 'he better not be all over my tyre'.

He didn't get out of your way ?

Must have been one tyred rat!

Abi

Liam Byrne wrote: »

He didn't get out of your way ?

Must have been one tyred rat!

He was fast, I was faster :pac:

Minstrel27

I have killed some rats and birds. The sound of a rat slamming off the underside of a car is satisfying.

owenc

Hit a bird in mums car one time and was coming around a corner one time and we nearly banged into a cow in the middle of night it was scary!

Lurching

Ive been unlucky, but its mostly because im regularly on a crappy country road.

Cat, dog, pheasant, rabbits, birds.
The one I felt really bad about was the dog.

445279.ie

Happended me too a couple of years ago with a bird. Horrible to see the feathers in the rear view mirror

Hit a cat once, spotted him at the last second in my peripheral vision. Gave him a nice whack. Pulled in and as I was about to get out of the car he jumped up and ran away

ScumLord

I've hit a good few birds, it's like they wait till the last minute to burst across the road for some kind of thrill seeker buzz.

I was getting a lift off a farmer once that ran over a badger because "the ****ers spread TB".

WIZE

A rat ran into the spokes of my Motorbike wheel .

My legs were covered in blood and there was a smell of a bbq as rat meat cooked on the exhaust

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xzanti wrote: »

it was a winding road..

Was it a long road too?


Touch wood, I have only ever had a crow slam into my windscreen. Still makes me sick when I think about it.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Was driving down a country road one night and there was a fox carcass in the middle of the road. So I went to drive pver him, as in wheels either side, and just as I was going over he lifted his head up and thump!

But I'm sure he was bad at that stage anyway or he wouldnt have been lying there

Kasabian

I killed a rabbit once. He was having a sneezing fit at the side of the road and just collapsed into my path. He must have missed the rock.

galwayrush

galwayrush wrote: »

When i was a kid, i witnessed a guy actually driving his car towards a dog trying to hit it, the dog escaped and the asshole made a **** of his car after it skidded into a wall.:D

Many years ago BC (Before cars,when we all had mopeds) me and a couple of mates were going down a steep hill, this suicidal mutt ran out in front of me, just missed it! It then did the same thing to both of my mates!

Three near misses, it must have suceeded shortly afterwards as we never saw that dog again.

Abigayle

Abigayle wrote: »

He was fast, I was faster :pac:

Rats, the only thing I wouldn't try to avoid!

Driving home one evening and the car aerial hit an Owl up the arse, two-wit-twoooooo!

Ann22

Garrett Worried Winery wrote: »

Was driving down a country road one night and there was a fox carcass in the middle of the road. So I went to drive pver him, as in wheels either side, and just as I was going over he lifted his head up and thump!

But I'm sure he was bad at that stage anyway or he wouldnt have been lying there

Haha! Maybe he was having a nap, chilling out, heard you approaching and curiously looked up..Wham! Gone. Poor fox:(..now i feel bad for laughing.

I saw a crow stupidly flying low around with his mates in the middle o fthe road once. I was walking along on the footpath thinking 'one of them birds is going to be flattened' when a lorry went by and caught one of them on the leg. The injured bird fluttered to the crownd and was squirming around like Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot.

I had mere seconds to decide on whether to lift him up out of harm's way, carry him home and nurse him back to health in a cotton wool filled shoebox with a lolly pop stick splint but I shuddered at the thoughts of touching him! He was big, black and shiney and his feathers were all over the place...Yeaauck!!

Then as I dithered and fretted with my hands clasped to the sides of my face cr-aack!!! Another lorry came along and splattered him all over the road in front of my eyes. The noise of his skull crushing was mad loud, like a gunshot! I was shaking for ages after that.:(

VinnyTGM

Going to work a few weeks back in the early hours of the morning doing about 100 kph, a main road so I couldn't be slamming on the brakes, a rabbit jumped out in front of my car I tried to avoid it but he kept jumping around the road, I made a few choice moves and I think I missed him.

Then about 10 seconds later I come across another one in the middle of the road, again I tried to avoid and hope that I did .

epgc3fyqirnbsx

I'll never forget driving home last year on the second sunday if July, I had just turned a corner, and if I'm honest I was a little worse for wear on account of the demon drink and copious amounts of ecstacy that I ingested the evening before when bam!, right across my windscreen there was blood and guts and I nearly ramped my car up the ditch and into the field.
Broke my heart what happened to that poor creature and I dont know whether it would have happenned had I not been in such a state of mind and I try not to feel guilty but then I just think that this little moth probably had kids at home etc. Chills me tbh

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Deleted User wrote: »

Driving home one evening and the car aerial hit an Owl up the arse, two-wit-twoooooo!

How did you know? Did it die?

Wazdakka

I hit a bird tonight on the way home

Bitch was asking for it tho :mad:

WIZE

Wazdakka wrote: »

I hit a bird tonight on the way home

Bitch was asking for it tho :mad:

Thats no way to treat your mother

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

How did you know? Did it die?

full moon and I was going slow enough to stop and look back at it flying away, hooting!

Optimalprimerib

I hate hitting anything i always think about the day the animal was having and what it was planning to do. About its young now not getting fed and how they must feel when they hear the news

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xzanti wrote: »

I was under the speed limit..

That was your problem,

If you had have been travelling at the speed limit, you probably would never have even seen the bird on your journey,

Basically you kind of time travelled and killed a bird,

Find the Prof and fix it.

Can't wait to see the movie

Carstuck

A few months ago I was driving on a narrow road when a dog came out from a house running after the car, next thing all I heard was his head hitting of the back. He was ok, but serves him right

candy-gal1

PattheMetaller

I was walking down the road one day years ago and there was a sheep carcass. An artic truck came along and had to cut out to pass me and the trailer's wheels went over the carcass. After the tha-dump of the wheels on carcass, it rained sheep guts for about five seconds. :eek:

A wee bird hit the front of my car once and later when i stopped, its legs and arse were sticking out of the radiator grill

Speculator

I was driving on one of those old country roads in Offaly and a little bird flew out in front of me, I did'nt see him appear on the other side but assumed he had escaped as he was flying very low.

When I arrived in Tullamore, I went to a meeting, on the way back, I seen the bird on the front grill of my car chirping away and flapping his wing. Felt so guilty and had absolutely no idea what to do, as half his body looked mangled on the grill.

I wanted to put him out of his misery but did'nt have the heart to do it. So I picked up a lollypop stick to ease him out of the grill, I was hoping his injuries looked worse then they actually were.

Anyway while I was tyring to get the lollypop stick around his body the small bird was looking directly at me with his little eyes, I finally got him lose, he fell to the ground flapped his one working wing and flew into a road drain. I panicked and jumped up,the last image of the bird was him flapping furiously hitting the side of the drain and being washed away.

RIP little bird.