Damn animals

[ttaw2]

Sunday night - hit a badger, tried to miss it, missed missing it and smacked it with my splitter.. The little sod must've tried to fight back, because it managed to spin up my sill and door, putting a pin dent in the sill (my car has no skirts) and scratching the door..Oh, and due to the fact that Badgers seem to be denser than lead my tracking is out

Monday night - hit a rabbit, after the night before i tried to miss it even more energetically, still hit it in exactly the same bit of my splitter, little sod must've got thrown into the wheel arch because the liner's split and the foglight plug is smashed to bits (both of which i'd checked the night before)

Total damage
1 Splitter (bits missing) - new part ordered
1 Wheel arch liner - new part ordered
1 plug - scrappy
1 Badger (Dead - might salvage if anyone fancies stuffing it) - see taxidery in the yellow pages
1 Rabbit (Broken beyond repair - maybe usable as red paint/dye and or frisbee?) - see kebab shop

[mikegti]

remember all animals are stupid and will run randomly when scared so in fact i think its best to aim at them when you firt see them!

shame about the damage though...

[jon_poloV]

Sunday night - hit a badger, tried to miss it, missed missing it and smacked it with my splitter.. The little sod must've tried to fight back, because it managed to spin up my sill and door, putting a pin dent in the sill (my car has no skirts) and scratching the door..Oh, and due to the fact that Badgers seem to be denser than lead my tracking is out

Monday night - hit a rabbit, after the night before i tried to miss it even more energetically, still hit it in exactly the same bit of my splitter, little sod must've got thrown into the wheel arch because the liner's split and the foglight plug is smashed to bits (both of which i'd checked the night before)

Total damage
1 Splitter (bits missing) - new part ordered
1 Wheel arch liner - new part ordered
1 plug - scrappy
1 Badger (Dead - might salvage if anyone fancies stuffing it) - see taxidery in the yellow pages
1 Rabbit (Broken beyond repair - maybe usable as red paint/dye and or frisbee?) - see kebab shop

sorry mate but thats one of the funyest posts ive read.
hope your car gets sorted soon!
jon

[morrismen]

Well, I hit a Crow once in my previous car and it bounced off my windscreen - made a 12 inch crack in the glass.

And I hit a Fox once too in another previous car and it smashed my front plastic bumber into small pieces!

Good job there'e no Whales that cross the roads Saying that, I'll probably run into one tonight

[Si_GTi]

A colleague of mine here hit a pheasant on th eway out to a client, down a back road. Cleared a small hump in the road and there it was - *WHAM* - the client had it off him for supper

He suffered a cracked front bumper and a few feathers and gore around the front of the car - sturdy things those SEAT Leons! I myslef have been quite lucky so far, haven't hit anything major at all. Better luck next time ttaw2! Hope its not too expensive!

[carmadaaron]

where do u live man?


rabbt....kebab?

tracking.. whats that like now? turning left when u want to go straight?

u were lucky... well in a way... cus my uncle swerved out the way of a rabbit... and wrote his Pug 306 off..... now faces sky high insurnace premiums.

[ttaw2]

A colleague of mine here hit a pheasant on th eway out to a client, down a back road. Cleared a small hump in the road and there it was - *WHAM* - the client had it off him for supper

If you fancy badger for tea i can scrape it up and post it if you want...


I've had a few good road kills thinking about it - i once hit a pheasant in my old corsa and speared it with my windscreen wiper - ripped the bugger off but I swear it must've gone straight through it. Worst of all my old dear was in the passanger seat.

Mind you, she killed my mates chicken outside his farm one morning in the same car, so she shouldn't have been too shocked (god that sounds seriously random)

Hope its not too expensive!

Car's gonna be about £60 in parts, and i'll fit them myself so it's not too bad

[ttaw2]

where do u live man?


rabbt....kebab?

First rule of making kebabs, use anything you can find on the road. You eat a kebab, you have to be prepared for anything. Eat one sober and you'll see what I mean

u were lucky... well in a way... cus my uncle swerved out the way of a rabbit... and wrote his Pug 306 off..... now faces sky high insurnace premiums.

You always have that choice of which is going to make more damage, ditch or annimal - to swerve or not to swerve that is the question. I live out in the sticks, so every now and then I'll come screaming around a corner to find a heard of sheep/cows in the middle of the road.... Mmmmm messy

[bstardchild]

A colleague of mine here hit a pheasant on th eway out to a client, down a back road. Cleared a small hump in the road and there it was - *WHAM* - the client had it off him for supper

Wildlife......... hmmmm I've got 22 years of driving history so he's the highlights

Hit a pheasant in a austin 1300 (pre laminated windscreens) - I wasn't hanging around at the time so hit it at some speed - it punched its way thro the glass and flew thro the car smashing its way thro the back window and onto freedom...... I still swear to this day the bugger kept on flying

Hit a munkjack (small dear) in a pug 205 GTI and it ripped the front spoiler including the fogs clean off went under the car and kicked the door skin in on the passenger side as it went under the car - blood and guts up to window level down the whole of the passenger side of the car

Hit another pheasant many years later in a carlton - it came out of a hedge low like an excocet missile and I thought it had hit the bumper so didn't slow down much till my turn off - at this point it crawled it's sorry arse out of the headlight slid accross the bonnet with large chunchs of glass burried in it and tried to take off hiting the windscreen just below the roofline - putting a dirty great crack in the screen - bugger!

Hit a pigeon whilst on a 1000cc motorbike - again at some speed - and dislocated my collar bone - had to carry on riding to A&E - damm that hurt

Hit another pigeon in the senny a while ago and thought I'd got real lucky when I stopped to inspect the damage - none just lots of feathers and clarret on the bumper - but for some reason for a while after there was a funny smell around the front of the car - the well imbedded pigeon managed to get all the way along the ducting to the oil cooler and was pretty well cooked by the time I found it - most of the smell had gone by then......

but save the best till last - riding back from a day out with a few mates on mid sized motobikes a mate decided he would take a series of bends as fast as he could - a lot faster than the rest of us we came round the last bend to find a z650 reduced to a cube shapped block os scrap - rider was unconscious 50 yrds down the road - when he came too all he kept screaming was f'ing cow - thats what he hit "a cow" when found the farmer who check all his animals and declared them all happy and well chewing on grass - the insurance company had a laugh with that claim

[ttaw2]

I feel humbled!

You're gonna have to go some to beat a cow, bar coming round the corner to meet a rhino. I'm surprised the bloke didn't die. A few years back a local woman hit a horse, and it killed three of the four people in the car!

Thinking about it, i've remembered a few more...

My brother hit a pheasant in his renault 19 16v at about 90, taking out bumper, grille and bonnet (is it me or are pheasants made out of tungsten?). This was a week after swapping the bumper and grille due to an ice + downward slope + salt bin = bump incident!

The best one I can remember has to be my mate at college who hit his girlfriends dog doing about 90mph (that's one fast dog i hear you say), aparantly the garage wouldn't look at it till he'd fished all the guts and bone out of his engine bay..

Needless to say the car didn't do too well being a renault 5, loosing bumper, grille, radiator, front cossmember and exhaust manifold! Still, it came off better than the dog...

[cyhliu]

Jeez, I've been lucky so far. touch wood nothing like that has happened, I would feel guilty as hell if I even killed anything, however the Highway Code, iirc states that you can kill anything smaller than a dog if it is in your way...not sure if that is correct.

The closest thing I've seen to anything of the above is once, while in Brum I was following a car, somewhere near Gravelly Hill(?) for those who know Brum, just before the Spaghetti Junction. I saw at the corner of my eye a cat looking like it was going to make a run across the road and I was thinking, god hope not! Just as I was thinking that and slowed down the cat made a run for it right in front of the car in front of me, now what I saw wasn't blood or guts of anydamage to the car, I don't even think the driver knew...the cat went under the call and whilst under it rolled sideways a couple times and then ran out the other side whilst the car was still in motion, I was think, damn that was one of it's nine lives and was thinking lucky it wasn't my car after it had been lowered, think it would have knocked itself out on my sill! ha ha ha, poor pussy, damn lucky pussy!