martyrobertsdj

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Inspired by another thread:
http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showthread.php?t=339838

I would think a few of us have tales to tell of unwanted animal/vehicle impacts, so I'm going to start the ball rolling:

1. Ford capri 2.8i Special versus large crow........

I was doing about 110mph, having a blast around a dual carriageway when I see this crow on the central reservation (grass). Anyway, to cut a long story short...it took off just in time to make a perfect intercept course with my drivers door mirror!!!!
BANG!!!!!
The mirrors on the Capri fold back, so have a nice joint at the base for a crows wing to slide into...this it did!!
I now have half a crow hanging from my door mirror at about 110mph, flailing in the breeze and spreading the internal pieces of the crow up and down my drivers door!!! NICE!!!!
Being that there was nowhere to stop, had to drive for about 3 miles with some strange looks at the two or three roundabouts I had to negotiate.
Eventually pulled over and released the hlaf-crow from my mirror, went home and washed the car! No damage at all!!!!! (Except to the crow)

2. Vauxhall Cavalier Sri versus "quite large" hare:

Out in the car, deserted moor road, down hill, superb visibility and weather, no junctions, gateways, etc, etc, so decided to "thrash it"!!!
Got to about 120mph and this hare just "popped out" from the bushes and gave me time to think "oh ****"......BANG!!!
Looks in my mirror to see a red "vapour trail" emerge from my car.
Pulled over, turned round and went back to see what was left.........No large pieces, just a red fan shaped mark on the road, about 10 metres long.
Bent front panel/spoiler of car under, but no other real damage.
looked under car to find "bits" of hare wrapped around suspension components and hanging from fuel filter.
Drove to nearest jet wash and blasted the car!!!!

3. Another Cavalier Sri versus a West Highland White terrier:

About 50mph (honest!!!!) minding my own business and a Westy jumps out of the bushes! Yup...you guessed it.....BANG!!! And a Westy goes spiralling out of view to my left. Girlfriend & her mate in the car with me now hysterical!!!!
Petrol station about half a mile away, so I go there to survey the damage.
Police car in petrol station, so I tell them what happened.
Smashed spoiler and fog light.
Don't know what happened to the dog....police never got in touch.

Sorry if this post upset some people, but I am truly an animal lover and would have preferred not to have the lives of these critters taken in such a way.
Damage to cars is inevitable when paths cross like this. I have lost a couple of cats to traffic, so know how it feels for the owners too.

Come on.....you know you want to!!!!!!!!! Get posting!!!!!!

BedHog

Pheasant on the M40 - in a Capri too.

Through the grill and burst the radiator and smashed the number plate off. Luckily the good old metal bumper survived.

I limped off the motorway to a garage to check the damage - and got some very strange looks of some old folks while inspecting a damaged front end covered in blood

A week later I was with the missus locally and she hit one in her Fiesta and put a nice dent in the bonnet.

The worst I saw was a horse hit by a car - killed the horse (riderless - obviously escaped from somewhere) and wrote the car off - but the driver was unhurt luckily. It was a cold morning and I'll never forget the horse lying in the road steaming.....

Funniest (but not for the badger) was my mate in a Escort MK2 who wrecked a very expensive and impressive bodykit after hitting a badger. It had only been on the car a few days.

p@ul

Pigeon on the A52,i was flogging my mother in laws sierra 4x4 back from the airport lol,i hit it doing 120 ish hit the top of the windscreen and just exploded,feathers everywhere.needless to say i sh@t myself and thought it must have bent the roof/top windscreen trim but fortunately not,i just had pigeon guts to clean up

To the dearly departed pigeon i apologise but you really should have watched where you were flying

andypugh2000

3.5 litre rover powered capri, trundling along the country lanes at 11pm at night, rabbit pops out for a ****, bang!! rabbit goes under both n/s wheels, stopped the car and the wife gets out and throws up poor bunny wabbit

_Meridian_

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1) Family of partridges somewhere off the B600 in my old Peugeot. Mother and five chicks ambling along the road, chicks old enough to have feathers and be capable of flight. I'm doing a sedate 65 and start to slow down. Birds take no notice until I'm twenty feet away and down to 55mph before finally attempting to become airborne. Smack. One took out the left indicator, and another left a bird-wing pattern imprint on the bumper, but I didn't stop.

2) Pedestrian in Cambridge with a Sherpa van. No blood, so you can keep reading... Going up Magdelane Street over the bridge towards Castle Hill when some student steps into the road without looking. I'm ten yards short of him doing thirty so I just had time to swing the wheel over. Bang. I screech to a halt and look in the passenger mirror expecting to see a corpse somewhere behind me. I can't see anything, principly 'cos the mirror seems to be missing. Get out to look and then spot student talking to the passenger while holding my (detached) wing-mirror and rubbing his elbow. he even apologised for getting in my way. I was impressed by the fact that the impact broke the heavy-duty (by BL standards anyway) arm of the mirror.


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vulnax999

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Do badgers give performance enhancement? How long since he had fitted the badger. You need to go to www.badgerbadgerbadger.com for therapy.

ProperCharlie

one time i was driving along with the old man, and he sees a fox lying by the side of the road. he decides that he could make it into something (eg hat or pair of gloves) so gets out and puts it in the back of the truck (flat bed). turns out it was fresh, so by the time we got to where we were going, it had bled all over the back of the truck. we got some extremely funny looks from a group of ramblers that walked passed.

another time, this time driving a panel van, we hit a pheasant. decided that we could have it for dinner, so got out and put it in the back. when we opened the back doors later, the poxy thing flew away! it had only suffered a glancing blow, and had evidently recovered.

andrewdelvard

A deer. A 'kin deer.

About ten years ago went to Scotland with my brother for a short holiday. Driving along this road, looking through the new set of binoculers I'd just bought when I spotted this deer in the distance. "Deer ahead" I told my bro. "Glad it's not a rhino" he joked (Steves not very funny but he's got a good heart) I laughed in a forced, polite kind of way. The deer seemed to spot us. I put the knocks down because we where getting very much closer to it and it seemed...Yep no dought about it, it was galloping full force right at us. Made it onto the tarmac in a skidding kind of way and carried on coming for us. We laughed but I'm not sure to this day if it was out of fear, shock or whatever. Deer-car-deer-car-deercar-cardeer...splat-kakaboom-fart. The dear is now dead on a very dented bonnet. We are now 'parked' in a ditch as Steve tried to take (too) late avoiding action.
We removed the dear, well kind of pushed it off actually, made sure it was dead which was confirmed by dears lack of movement but more so by lack of eyes.
We didn't report it because, well we didn't think anyone would believe us. We carried on to Aberdeen as best we could and found a mechanic. Told him what happened. He didn't even blink. "Happens all the time" Was his only comment...