Ever ran anything over?

Gone Drinking

I hit a red squirrel the other day, gutted because i haven't even seen a red squirrel in years and they're fairly uncommon these days afaik.

Didn't even realise i'd hit it till i was told later that day. My little brother happened to be walking down the road when i hit it. He said a bus had clipped the squirrel a second before but he was still making his way across and i finished him off.

I've been driving 4 and a half years and i've managed to safely avoid a rake of dogs, cats and even pigeons during that time.

smash

you killed an endangered animal... tut tut.

And it was probably on it's way home to feed it's kids too... :P

damagegt

I hit a pheasant on the m50 doing about 90.................I looked like I hit a fancy pillow.

Redsquigy

I ran over a rat one eve a few years back he just sat in the middle of the road obviously blinded by my lights and then I felt the bump. I can still feel that bump to this day. Yugh!

vandriver

I ran over a little white dog.I thought it was a plastic bag blowing across the road.I now wear glasses.

djimi

I ran over a frog once which was hopping across the bog road near where I live.

McCrack

Deer, ****** cost me a good few hundred in repairs.

Bodhan

I ran over a rabbit once, he went right under the drivers wheel and got slapped around the wheel arch, the car looked like death on wheels, there was blood all over the place. Of course I didn't know that till I was on the motorway and this woman was staring at the side of my car!

EPM

Hit a pigeon on the Fermoy bypass a couple of years ago. Was cruising along and saw the fattest pigeon ever on the partition, obviously had his belly full of grain and then some. As I was getting closer he looked like he was going to take flight and I remember thinking to myself that would be a seriously bad idea but he didnt. Got a little closer again and he went for it in a very, very casual manner in absolutely no rush. Just before I hit him he turned his head, saw the car, probably crapped himself and started flapping like mad.

Next thing he hit's the windscreen and there's a trail of feathers in the rear view mirror. Haven't a clue where he wound up tbh. My wipers stop in a vertical position and he'd smashed the wiper arm. Still I could only laugh as it was genuinely funny when he turned his head and suddenly paniced.

Also ran over of the non flying rats too. Satisfying crunch under the wheels:D

corktina

labrador in a truck...wasnt funny...bent the front suspension....dog a bit bent too....


(explanation: I was in the truck NOT the Labrador...)

aksaxovtr

i ran over a black cat one night, obviously it being black it was hard to see, heard the two thuds of my wheels hitting it then looked in my mirror to see it get up and run off! its true what they say they do have 9 lives

furtzy

Several rabbits, a chicken and a pigeon. Once after hitting a rabbit I went to get the car washed the next day in Terenure. The guy was power washing around the wheel arches when the back half of the rabbit I hit fell out. He was digusted and muttered something about bleedin culchies

MetzgerMeister

On my way back to work from Galway one day I was driving along when I saw a big fooken pig's head in the middle of the road! Had no choice but to go over it and drive through blood, guts etc. Further up the road was the rest of his body :eek:

I thought it was just a dead pig that had fallen out of one of those trucks that transport animal carcasses. Nope! It turned out that it was a pig which had strayed from a local farm and was plowed down by some 4x4, was decapitated, his innards left all over the road and his body a few hundred yards up the road!



My car stank for quite some time even after 5 washes

metalgear2k2

I hit a rabbit at speed, hit it with the front of the car and it actually went up and over the car, watched it hit the ground in the rear view mirror as I was coming to a stop. Looked like a broken back as the front legs were moving but not the back legs, was about to reverse back to finish the job when it stopped moving, got out and went back to check it, was dead so kicked it inot the ditch and carried on.

Stink on the inside

Reminds me of this

darragh o meara

Hit a hare doing 120mph in the rallycar, took out the bumper and the rad Day over!! (nobody would believe me, instead thinking I ran out of road until I showed them the blood and guts stuck in the rad!!

Hit a sheep in the fog one day doing about 30-40mph and damaged the bonnet!

Few rabbits and a few pigeons here and there...

I know a fella who hit a cow one night and the cow ended up with its feet coming htrough the windscreen, not funny when the cow woke up and yer mand trying to get out of the car, he ended up with 42 stitches to hold back on his scalp and a written off car!!!

Gone Drinking

steve06 wrote: »

you killed an endangered animal... tut tut.

And it was probably on it's way home to feed it's kids too... :P

You bastard :pac:

A friend of mine ran over a few ducklings that were crossing the road in single file behind their mother. It was on a back road and just after a bend so he didn't see them till the last second.

RobertM

Almost wiped a group of crows having a spot of dinner on the M8 a while back.:(

DonJose

I hit a vulture while in Mexico!!! There was a bunch of them feeding on road kill, drove straight over them in a Ford F150.

smash

Gone Drinking wrote: »

A friend of mine ran over a few ducklings that were crossing the road in single file behind their mother. It was on a back road and just after a bend so he didn't see them till the last second.

I watched a whole family getting wiped out on the M50. I swerved and avoided but what I saw in my rear view wasn't nice. A mother and around 10 ducklings getting ploughed over and over.

StompToWork

Hit a cat scurring across the Naas DC a couple of years back. Bastard thing threw my tracking out, and managed to knock the balance weight off my wheel, so I was vibrating the whole way home.

Effin cats. I CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGER me hole.

omb0wyn5ehpij9

I had a cat jump out under my wheels a couple of years ago.....felt the bump as I drove over it, then watched as it got up and ran off.

Also got hit on the helmet by a bird a few years ago on a motorbike. Thankfully was only doing about 30 miles an hour.

DonJose

steve06 wrote: »

I swerved and avoided but what I saw in my rear view wasn't nice. A mother and around 10 ducklings getting ploughed over and over.

I saw a German documentary on the number of road deaths caused by people swerving to avoid animals, one unlucky gal swerved to avoid a deer and ended up wrapped around a tree, their advice was never to swerve when going at speed.

smash

I saw them coming as the guy in front of me swerved. He was a fair distance in front of me and I checked my mirrors etc. and saw there was a decent distance between me and the car behind so I moved to avoid them too. Unfortunately for the ducks there wasn't enough distance between the woman behind me and the cars behind her to avoid them.

omb0wyn5ehpij9

DonJose wrote: »

I saw a German documentary on the number of road deaths caused by people swerving to avoid animals, one unlucky gal swerved to avoid a deer and ended up wrapped around a tree, their advice was never to swerve when going at speed.

And chances are that if she had hit the deer, she would have done as much if not more damage, as there is more chance of the deer coming through the windscreen or landing on the bonnet/roof and trapping the driver.

Oh and "their" advice is to swerve if it bigger than a dog

losthorizon

I was in a car with my friend - he ran over a barn owl. He was very upset. Fairly rare bird. It was at night and the owl just swopped down onto the road right in front of us. The last thing it did was turn its head and stared directly at us. Ild say the car lights lit up a mouse or something..

DonJose

Bryn wrote: »

And chances are that if she had hit the deer, she would have done as much if not more damage, as there is more chance of the deer coming through the windscreen or landing on the bonnet/roof and trapping the driver.

Well she died when she hit the tree, I don't think she could have done more damage.

Chriscl1

I've hit loads of pidgeons and pheasants but not many crows. Hit a massive stag at about 60mph, more of a glancing blow, it made a big bang but o think it lived, a really big dog, loads of rabbits. Probably more stuff I've forgot about. These were all while driving a train though

smash

DonJose wrote: »

Well she died when she hit the tree, I don't think she could have done more damage.

She could have ended up paralysed from the neck down or a vegetable... I'd rather be dead.

Chriscl1 wrote: »

These were all while driving a train though

I know a train driver who hit a flock of sheep, said it was like popcorn popping.

Chriscl1

steve06 wrote: »

I know a train driver who hit a flock of cheep, said it was like popcorn popping.

LoL

folan

never swerve to miss an animal, but slow down for god sake.

ive hit a couple of grey squirrels and a few rats, and a decapitated a few birds.

corktina

Bryn wrote: »

Also got hit on the helmet by a bird a few years ago on a motorbike. Thankfully was only doing about 30 miles an hour.

effin birds should be allowed have motorbikes...do you think wearing a cricket box would have helped you?

furtzy

Friend of a friend hit a cow and pinned it against a ditch with relatively minor damage. He left the car & cow in the same position and went to find help. He returned with a farmer to find the cow had freed itself by scrambling over his bonnet, windscreen and door causing severe damage and was happily munching grass beside the car. Don't know why he left the cow as he did

af_thefragile

Never hit anything...

Ran over an empty beer can a couple of days ago. I thought it was a squirel but my friend assured me it was just am empty beer can.

I usually slow down if I see a bird or any animal on the road and let them get away before I drive off...

Wile E. Coyote

Have hit a few cats, pigeons, rats, mice, squirells, rabbits, frogs, phesants...haven't gotten that roadrunner yet though...

A friend once ran over a dead dog doing about 50mph and the head popped off and landed on the bonnet. To say she was traumatised is an understatement.

whyulittle

Had a bird arc out of a field straight into my windscreen once. Saw it coming all the way, but there was nothing I could do. Watched it hit the ground in my rear view mirror.

Ran straight over a small little bird on the motorway. Again saw it all the way, but it only started to hop away when I was right on top of it. Could feel a small bump on the nearside as I went over it.

Had a near-moment with a pigeon one morning. It really struggled to get off the ground, and just cleared the windscreen in time.

Used to have to run the guantlet of a country boreen covered in baby rabbits around dawn every morning. Don't know how I never hit any of them.

Voodoomelon

I remember I was a passenger in a car a few years back with this girl, and she swerved to avoid a butterfly coming towards the windscreen, and let out a yelp as it approached.

Never again...

Mr Benevolent

Wile E. Coyote wrote: »

Have hit a few cats, pigeons, rats, mice, squirells, rabbits, frogs, phesants...haven't gotten that roadrunner yet though...

A friend once ran over a dead dog doing about 50mph and the head popped off and landed on the bonnet. To say she was traumatised is an understatement.

Sounds like a scene from Father Ted!

metalgear2k2

That reminds me, I was driving out of a town up a hill and there was a small van coming down against me, i'd say I was about 30 yeards away from the van when this pure white cat came bolting out of the ditch at an angle to the van so the driver never actually saw the cat. It ran at full speed into the side of the van, bounced off it, id a 180 turn mid air and tore off back into the ditch.

I nearly pissed myself laughing at the look on the van drivers face as we passed, he just couldnt figure out where the hell the bang came from!

NewApproach

A cat. I hate cats.

Few rats too I think.

einheisserschre

einheisserschre wrote: »

On my way back to work from Galway one day I was driving along when I saw a big fooken pig's head in the middle of the road! Had no choice but to go over it and drive through blood, guts etc. Further up the road was the rest of his body :eek:

Any sign of his motorbike ?

corktina

did whatever the pig was fooken get away?


Isn't it funny how we will drive around dead animals on the road....well, maybe its just me?

Anan1

RoverJames wrote: »

Any sign of his motorbike ?

Not for here.

Anan1

corktina wrote: »

Isn't it funny how we will drive around dead animals on the road....well, maybe its just me?

I also drive around the living ones...looks like it's just me?;)

losthorizon

Bryn wrote: »

Also got hit on the helmet by a bird a few years ago on a motorbike. Thankfully was only doing about 30 miles an hour.

Wear some clothes you knob end

Anan1

losthorizon wrote: »

Wear some clothes you knob end

AH ==>

corktina

Anan1 wrote: »

AH ==>

at least I was a teeny bit subtle about it....:rolleyes:

Davidth88

Two dogs and a cat. ( in three seperate incidents all in London)

The first dog was at 2 am , quite a large dog came running out of a alleyway right into the front of my car .. then ran off yelping , scared the living daylights out of me ! Dented my car , I stopped but he had disappeared .

The second one was a little scotty thing , ran out from under a parked car straight under my wheels , no chance .

The cat was a similar one.

Hate thinking about it to be honest.

dirtydiesel

I hit a badger, ripped the front bumper off with it.

itac

Driving home late (early?) from work at 5am one morning, was rather tired, and trying to keep me eyes open. Saw a whiteish looking plastic bag ahead, but couldn't be bothered trying to avoid it. Just as I was about to drive over it, it suddenly flew up, and met my bumper. bye bye pigeon, bye bye...


First time I'd hit anything, and I always figured I'd be horrified at killing something, but I was soo tired, and when I looked in the mirror, all I could see was this puffball of white feathers gently floating down the road, and I couldn't stop laughing, as the theme tune from Dastardly & Muttley was in my head....still makes me smile now, evil woman that I am

ottostreet

Killed a few cats and a rabbit.

Friend of mine killed a cat while I was alongside in a different lane, the cat bounced off the tyre and into the middle of the road, it looked really strange. I had a car full of girls and they all screamed. It was horrible to watch!