Anyone hit an animal? :-(

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I hit a sparrow! It got sucked into my air scoop for the radiator at about 60mph through some country lanes, wasn't going to swerve for a sparrow so it got it. Wish I had because clearing out all the bloody feathers took hours!

At least it died instantly when it hit my radiator!

Reply 21

Melanie-v

Original post by RoshniDiya

In India the stupid driver hit a buffalo. :frown:

It fell, got up and walked away..

That's one tough buffalo :tongue:

Was the car dented?

Reply 22

gbduo

Original post by Melanie-v

That's one tough buffalo :tongue:

Was the car dented?

Maybe the Indian chap was trying to replicate this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50A9wjJ40Dk

Reply 23

Landie_Man

Original post by gbduo

Maybe the Indian chap was trying to replicate this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50A9wjJ40Dk

LOL nice commerical, though Peugeot made an EPIC advert some years before! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g4F6FMJkiw

Reply 24

CurlyBen

I've taken out a couple of partridges before, and had a fair few close calls with pheasants (I was working on a farm with a shoot). Also nearly impaled a hare on a spring tine.. I was only doing about 6mph..
They're all bloody stupid animals though

Reply 25

Jellybean91

Nearly hit a kitten once... i was traumatised!

Reply 26

Motorbiker

I've taken out a bird of some kind on the old 50cc motorbike before...

It ran to the other side of the road then flew diagonally up towards my face... It hit the top part of my bike then flipped into my helmet as i ducked and just caught my helmet..

considering the amount of blood/feather attached to my bike/helmet afterwards i'd say it died.....

Also, the people that annoy me the most are the ones that endanger human lives by swerving over the road and almost causing collisions to try and avoid hitting a squirrel or tiny bird...
They'll move 99% of the time and if they don't it's their fault for standing in the road...
I raged at my mum once for almost killing us in a head on collision once because she swerved to the other side of the road to avoid some tiny rabbit on the road... FFs...

Reply 27

iainthegreat

Original post by Lewroll

My mom hit a pigeon once. Well the pigeon hit us. It flew into the wind shield and its chest ripped open. I have no idea why it was flying so low.

It was a terrorist pigeon. Your Mum is a hero. :yep:

Reply 28

LizzayBT

i once found a dying bird by my house and took it in to try and heal it. but it just got worse. to ease its suffering, i snapped its neck. i can still feel its struggling in my hands when i think back on it. what a haunting moment.

Reply 29

The Patriot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4gDU8dNV-o

skip to 45 seconds. absolute BLEURGH!

Reply 30

M1F2R3

I squashed a rat once, poor bastard.

Reply 31

lyrical_lie

I hit a turtle with a jetskii once...:/

Reply 32

M1F2R3

Original post by lyrical_lie

I hit a turtle with a jetskii once...:/

Sicko

Reply 33

lyrical_lie

Original post by M1F2R3

Sicko

Not intentionally I was sad, because I had just seen finding nemo... :frown:

Reply 34

Nymthae

A pheasant when I was learning (at about 60mph). The bloody things have a death wish though, you can make every attempt to get around them but generally they just love walking right into the path of your car ( or certainly the ones around here anyway).

Reply 35

dreamyeyed

I've lightly hit a deer before. I kind of saw it coming and stopped but just managed to tap it. It ran off and seemed to be fine.

Although around where i live hitting rabbits is considered sport! There are so many of them!

Reply 36

M1F2R3

Original post by lyrical_lie

Not intentionally I was sad, because I had just seen finding nemo... :frown:

That's what they all say :colonhash:

FYI:

Reply 37

Joinedup

I hit a bat once - it left a perfect bat shaped dust print on the screen

Reply 38

Casshern1456

Original post by RoshniDiya

In India the stupid driver hit a buffalo. :frown:

It fell, got up and walked away..

They always walk off to die, always. :colonhash:

Reply 39

VeeBelle

I hit a pigeon a while ago, and when I looked in the rear view mirror there was this huge cloud of grey and white feathers.
The car behind me had to drive through it. Bet they thought I was a horrible person! Either that or they thought it was awesome having to drive through the feather cloud!