Road Kill(ers)

30-12-2012 04:04PM #1

http://dsc.discovery.com/cars-bikes/study-finds-6-percent-of-drivers-go-out-of-their-way-to-run-over-animals.html

If 1,000 drivers see an animal on the shoulder of the road, how many of them will go out of their way to kill them?
Employing the scientific method, NASA’s Mark Rober found 94 percent of drivers continued on their way. The remaining 6 percent? Rober called them cold-blooded rubber animal killers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-Fp7flAWMA

Are you a road killer? I try to dodge animals but I don't always succeed!

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 30-12-2012 04:10PM

Isn't there a points system for this? Is a granny not 10 points?

Sauve · 30-12-2012 04:12PM

Stealth Recce wrote: »

Isn't there a points system for this? Is a granny not 10 points?

Grannies are 50.
Kids are 100 (theyre more nimble)
Hippies are 500
Hipsters get you some ironic points.

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 30-12-2012 04:14PM

Sauve wrote: »

Grannies are 50.
Kids are 100 (theyre more nimble)
Hippies are 500
Hipsters get you some ironic points.

Hhmmm, pfft hipsters are dead inside anyway!

Hippies! · 30-12-2012 04:18PM

Sauve wrote: »

Grannies are 50.
Kids are 100 (theyre more nimble)
Hippies are 500
Hipsters get you some ironic points.

I dunno whether to be flattered or what

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 30-12-2012 04:18PM

Hippies! wrote: »

I dunno whether to be flattered or what

Flattened methinks!

jimthemental · 30-12-2012 04:22PM

I'd try and stay going, I'd only try to dodge them if there was a significant chance of damage to the car, like a bullock. Rabbits and the like can cause you to crash trying to dodge them.

UCDVet · 30-12-2012 04:54PM

The only way to stop these killers is to ban vehicles.

30-12-2012 05:00PM

UCDVet wrote: »

The only way to stop these killers is to ban vehicles.

Just ban animals from crossing the road. :pac:

Froyo · 30-12-2012 05:29PM

If I witnessed someone deliberately killing an animal I would hunt them down and probably just give out to them.

LivelineDipso · 30-12-2012 05:34PM

Typical idiotic American video.

"Dude I love science...dude...we reduce it to the level of a five year old...dude..."

LivelineDipso · 30-12-2012 05:35PM

If the guy in the video stood in the road I would run him down.

im invisible · 30-12-2012 05:38PM

GOURANGA!!

maglite · 30-12-2012 05:39PM

Have gone for rats on the road in the past....

Have also on occasion chosen to hit a crow instead of taking evasive action, chance i would have ploughed into an on coming car or got rear ended.

Conmaicne Mara · 30-12-2012 05:47PM

If it's likely to damage my car I'll try to safely avoid it. Otherwise splat, say goodnight bugs, charles, brock. I know of one or two drivers who've crashed trying to avoid animals on the road. I won't intentionally try to run something over but I'm not risking my safety or car to avoid them.

NegativeCreep · 30-12-2012 05:55PM

If you're doing your driving test and an animal runs out in front of you you're supposed to run it over. Anything else could cause a crash.

dxhound2005 · 30-12-2012 06:47PM

Some people eat roadkill. But if you have certain food allergies be careful of eating squirrels as they may contain nuts.

Galwayguy35 · 30-12-2012 06:56PM

It's a lot more dangerous living in a rural area because the chances of a cow or horse being on the road are a lot higher. I nearly hit both of these on occasions and to say it gave me a fright is putting it mildly.

I would try not to hit an animal if I could but obviously if there is oncoming traffic then you have no choice.

The biggest animal I have hit is a badger, the stories about them being tough critters are true, he took the front fender clean off the car.

Ava_e · 30-12-2012 07:01PM

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Some people eat roadkill. But if you have certain food allergies be careful of eating squirrels as they may contain nuts.

They are both nuts, so they cancel each other out.

Local-womanizer · 30-12-2012 07:04PM

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

It's a lot more dangerous living in a rural area because the chances of a cow or horse being on the road are a lot higher. I nearly hit both of these on occasions and to say it gave me a fright is putting it mildly.

I would try not to hit an animal if I could but obviously if there is oncoming traffic then you have no choice.

The biggest animal I have hit is a badger, the stories about them being tough critters are true, he took the front fender clean off the car.

I hit a badger myself, I was going about 30mph, 2 wheels went over him, it felt like I hit a speed ramp.

Turned around to see the damage I left behind and he was nowhere to be seen!

Now I am feared that there is a badger out there looking for revenge

Amalgam · 30-12-2012 07:12PM

My grandfather (farmer) hit a pheasant going to market one morning. Car stopped and him almost sprinting to squirrel it away in the back, thoroughly pleased with himself. It may have ended up on the dining room table, minus feathers and very well cooked..

Galwayguy35 · 30-12-2012 07:17PM

Local-womanizer wrote: »

I hit a badger myself, I was going about 30mph, 2 wheels went over him, it felt like I hit a speed ramp.

Turned around to see the damage I left behind and he was nowhere to be seen!

Now I am feared that there is a badger out there looking for revenge

I was on the motorway when the one I hit decided to cross so his chances of surviving were zero.

Galwayguy35 · 30-12-2012 07:20PM

Amalgam wrote: »

My grandfather (farmer) hit a pheasant going to market one morning. Car stopped and him almost sprinting to squirrel it away in the back, thoroughly pleased with himself. It may have ended up on the dining room table, minus feathers and very well cooked..

There is a strong flavour off the meat but it's very nice, my brother is a farmer and the lads who ask for permission to shoot on his land always give him one of the pheasants they kill.

FanadMan · 30-12-2012 08:12PM

im invisible wrote: »

GOURANGA!!

You need a line of Hare Krishnas in the road for that

Pottler · 30-12-2012 08:24PM

Amalgam wrote: »

My grandfather (farmer) hit a pheasant going to market one morning. Car stopped and him almost sprinting to squirrel it away in the back, thoroughly pleased with himself. It may have ended up on the dining room table, minus feathers and very well cooked..

I waited at that Pheasants stall for four hours. I wondered what happened to him. He used to sell lovely feathers. RIP Mr Pheasy.

Ficheall · 30-12-2012 08:25PM

The guy in the video could do with a crash course in statistics...
Though I prefer a previous poster's suggestion of just hitting him with a car.

Wattle · 30-12-2012 08:33PM

NegativeCreep wrote: »

If you're doing your driving test and an animal runs out in front of you you're supposed to run it over. Anything else could cause a crash.

Are you supposed to speed up and make sure of a clean kill? Could it be the difference between a pass and a fail?

Ihatecuddles-old · 30-12-2012 08:41PM

My ex's mum was driving out of her driveway and there was a dead fox on the road, she carried on and went off to lunch.
Came back an hour later and it was gone. She got out of the car and someone had put it in her bush!

NegativeCreep · 30-12-2012 08:57PM

Wattle wrote: »

Are you supposed to speed up and make sure of a clean kill? Could it be the difference between a pass and a fail?

I don't know the ins and outs but I'm pretty sure the rule is you just have to keep going at the speed limit and run the thing over.

Pottler · 30-12-2012 08:58PM

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

My ex's mum was driving out of her driveway and there was a dead fox on the road, she carried on and went off to lunch.
Came back an hour later and it was gone. She got out of the car and someone had put it in her bush!

Must resist, must resist...:D

Fr_Dougal · 30-12-2012 09:01PM

NegativeCreep wrote: »

If you're doing your driving test and an animal runs out in front of you you're supposed to run it over. Anything else could cause a crash.

What if the animal was Lassie and he was running out on the road to stop a child getting knocked down, what do you do then?

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