Roadkill

xzanti · 01-08-2010 07:43PM #1

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 · 01-08-2010 07:45PM

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4zn76tysfajdxp · 01-08-2010 07:50PM

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 · 01-08-2010 07:51PM

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

alwaysadub · 01-08-2010 07:52PM

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 · 01-08-2010 07:55PM

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..

01-08-2010 07:55PM

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 · 01-08-2010 07:56PM

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 · 01-08-2010 07:56PM

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 · 01-08-2010 07:59PM

Was the bird too slow or were you too fast?

Speed Kills.

xzanti · 01-08-2010 08:02PM

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Was the bird too slow or were you too fast?

Speed Kills.

I was under the speed limit..

thetonynator · 01-08-2010 08:02PM

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 · 01-08-2010 08:04PM

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 · 01-08-2010 08:06PM

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 · 01-08-2010 08:08PM

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 · 01-08-2010 08:09PM

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 · 01-08-2010 08:23PM

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

Liam Byrne · 01-08-2010 08:33PM

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 · 01-08-2010 08:56PM

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 · 01-08-2010 08:56PM

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

owenc · 01-08-2010 09:00PM

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 · 01-08-2010 09:02PM

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 · 01-08-2010 09:05PM

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 · 01-08-2010 09:08PM

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 · 01-08-2010 09:09PM

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

up for anything · 01-08-2010 09:48PM

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 · 01-08-2010 10:12PM

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 · 01-08-2010 10:52PM

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.

01-08-2010 10:59PM

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.

01-08-2010 11:01PM

Abigayle wrote: »

He was fast, I was faster :pac:

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

01-08-2010 11:03PM

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

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