Roadkill

Ann22 · 02-08-2010 12:08AM

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 · 02-08-2010 12:24AM

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

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epgc3fyqirnbsx · 02-08-2010 12:54AM

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

02-08-2010 01:12AM

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 · 02-08-2010 04:09AM

I hit a bird tonight on the way home

Bitch was asking for it tho :mad:

WIZE · 02-08-2010 06:59AM

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

02-08-2010 10:06AM

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 · 02-08-2010 10:13AM

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

ctrl-alt-delete · 02-08-2010 11:57AM

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 · 02-08-2010 02:09PM

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 · 02-08-2010 02:12PM

PattheMetaller · 02-08-2010 02:22PM

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 · 02-08-2010 03:25PM

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.

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