Road Kill

I was traveling through the mountains last week to do some work for a Ford dealership. When I rounded a curve there were 2 crows and a buzzard in the road. They were working on a armadillo that didn't make it....Anyway, I layed on the horn, the 2 crows took to the air and said "KAR KAR!" But the buzzard was slow to get off the ground and flew right in front of me....BAM! I hit him right on the a-pillar and it broke my windsheild. I saw him hit the ground behind me in the rearveiw mirror. I don't know if it killed him or not but I sent him home hoppin' just the same.
The good news is I was in the company truck and not my Duster....plus, I work for a windsheild shop and got a new windsheild for my trouble.

Has anyone had any close-calls with the critters out there?

C-ya

i once owned a 1882 dodge van that was the bird eatingist vechicle i ever owned. showed a particular fondness for robins but would eat anything that flew. ya know how once in a while a bird gets close then you notice it out of the corner of your eye just escaping? nothing got away from that van. should of bought it a hunting licence but it would never pass hunter saftey.

I hit a whitetail fawn. Mom made it by OK. Threw bambie in the trunk and we BBQ`ed it a couple of days later. It was delicious. I was driving a 1960 Falcon.

i once owned a 1882 dodge van

Damn, that's an old van you've got there! :cheers: :cheers:

I had a '65 Skylark years ago that used to generate a vacuum when the front vent windows were open... It was the strangest thing, you'd open both of them and you'd feel this breeze blowing on you, even if the car wasn't moving.

It'd suck all sorts of stuff in - papers, leaves, dirt, etc. Even a beer can once. But never any animals.

Damn, that's an old van you've got there! :cheers: :cheers:

I had a '65 Skylark years ago that used to generate a vacuum when the front vent windows were open... It was the strangest thing, you'd open both of them and you'd feel this breeze blowing on you, even if the car wasn't moving.

It'd suck all sorts of stuff in - papers, leaves, dirt, etc. Even a beer can once. But never any animals.

too bad the beer can was empty eh.:drinkers::drinkers:

2 deer, a dog, a couple cats a few birds and countless squirrels. I don't try to hit them as I like animals and love my dogs but people should take care of their pets better.

earlier this summer I sucked a bird into my hood scoop (breakfast for the cuda) never seen him come out anywhere but I swear I heard the cuda burp when we got home ....LOL

I ran over a pigeon in my Dart one time, haha.

i was driving my 68 mustang down a curvy country road one day and there was a rooster running the opposite direction in the other lane......running just as fast as he could.
when i got almost even with him, still in a slight state of confusion, he jumped right towards my driver's side headlight. don't know if it died or not, but it definitely had to hurt, as i was going 40.

guess he was playing chicken?????

One time me and my dad were drivin his 440 dodge d100 to a car show on the way we hit som big white bird at the show we were pickin feathers out of the grill and wipin blood off.

one night i was driving my parents 87 jeep cherokee i had to go to the auto parts store to get headlights for my ram i was driving along on my road a deer jumps out and steals the jeeps headlight saw the same deeer a couple of days later still laying in the ditch wondering what to do with the headlight that she stole from me 87 cherokees and 84 rams have the same headlight

another night i was creeping allong about 5mph looking at deer on one side of the road and one runs right infront of me and left some fur in the lisenceplate light

also hit a deer with my neon

the first roadkill in my duster was a cat i wanted it to be the baby racoons but no

U know your a redneck when you stop and throw the truck in reverse to try again when you missed the varmit (didnt hit the possum either attempt :( )

I was driving my dads 87 dakota going to check out a couple of plymouth furys see this ground hog in the middle of the lane i figured he was dead but no it stood up at the last second and thud right on the crome bumper all my dad and i could do was laugh as i saw the groundhog flopping in the rearveiw mirror as my mom was calling me killer

Little off the subject, but at TWA we had a 757 that ate a few canadian geese on descent into STL. One went through the composite radome up front and almost made it through the pressure bulkhead into the cockpit. (box office if females are flying it). Smashed goose smells BAD. The other one went through the left engine. Nothing but a blood smear in the fan discharge duct. Another one, or a part of the one that went through the radome left a smear on the tail, 25 feet up on the vertical, right across the "W" in TWA. Those pilots were definitely a little rattled. I wish I could feel sorry for those geese, but they're the nastiest creatures when they're taking over the nearest park. Winged poop machines.

I haven't hit a thing in 35 yrs. of driving but now my wife, that's a different story. One owl=one grill=$800, ran over a beaver (no joke) bent the radiator mount, took off the valance and a wheel alignment $1000, one hawk=one grill=one air conditioning cooling core=are you ready $1800, one cat=no cost and who cares. This was all with 4 different vehicles.:notworth:

When I used to live in Texas I hit a balled-up armadillo with the left front tire. I was driving a `74 T-Bird that had 255-60-R15`s all the way around. I must have caught him with the outer edge of the tire because he went rocketing off into the field on the far side of the road. I was laughing so hard I had to pull over!! That was in `83. A few years before that, I had a dog run into the driver`s door when he decided to chase the car. I guess he was faster than he thought he was. He wasn`t hurt, but he sure seemed confused!

Little off the subject, but at TWA we had a 757 that ate a few canadian geese on descent into STL. One went through the composite radome up front and almost made it through the pressure bulkhead into the cockpit. (box office if females are flying it). Smashed goose smells BAD. The other one went through the left engine. Nothing but a blood smear in the fan discharge duct. Another one, or a part of the one that went through the radome left a smear on the tail, 25 feet up on the vertical, right across the "W" in TWA. Those pilots were definitely a little rattled. I wish I could feel sorry for those geese, but they're the nastiest creatures when they're taking over the nearest park. Winged poop machines.

TWA? Let's bow our heads in remembrance. I see you worked at their hub in STL. The days of flying non-rev. Now, those were the days. :cheers:

Anyway, many years go when I was in college, I commuted from my parent's house the first year. After school, I worked at a new night club in San Jose until 2:30am-3am every night and then proceeded to drive home (about a 45 minute drive) on Highway 280. I hate to admit it but most of the time, I was half asleep (school from 10am-4pm and work from 5pm -2:30am). One night, I just remember a huge thud and the feeling that the front of the car (a '77 Olds Cutlass Salon) was rising up. This was a three lane highway so I decided to just continue home. When I got there there was blood and deer hair on the front passenger side corner but no damage. I don't know if I hit something square on or just ran over something that had all ready been hit. Either way, I felt bad.

While driving a Dodge Caravan around dusk, I spotted an OWL on the power line. As I got closer the OWL took off and smacked into the driver side window. I was looking eye to eye at that OWL. He just bounced off the window and flew back to the power line and just sat there shaking his head. I am glad my window was rolled up!

When I was a motorcycle mechanic we used to get the "My bike starts to miss at 120 mph" complaint every now and again as well as the "I get get a bog when I hit the nitrous at 75 mph". Well, I had a special little stretch of frontage road outside an industrial complex that I used for these "special test rides".

Anyway, guy brings in a ZX-1000 with a nitrous problem. I go to my test road, hit the button (instant wheelie to over a 100 then the front end starts to come down) and WHAM, I get hit in the neck/chest with a robin. Left bird crap stripes all over my leather.

Another time I was driving up to Idaho from Denver for my uncles funeral. While I driving through Wy, I had my CB on to keep me from falling asleep. I was BSing with a truck driver when he said "Roadkill, right lane". It was a full size mule deer. I was driving a '97 Dakota. That driver probably saved my life.

Well I sucked a bird right in my snorkel scoop. Took a little chip out of it. Got home and my wife and I took the hood off. OMG There was blood and guts covering the whole top of the motor. She wouldn't help me clean it! She did look a little green. I don't want to go though that again.

Fred B

First off, german hunting!

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Secondly, not quite roadkill, but i do believe the most redneck thing i've done, and quite possibly heard of, we were in a friends field a few hours from home, just gotten back from a gun auction, and we were trying out the new rifles, all just .22's. well after maing our way down to the otherside of this field just covered in gophers, prolly took 3hrs, and a fair few rounds, we were tired, and short on ammo. so just as we decided to make a quick trip back to the vehicle, a buddy drove up in his pick-up, of couse the three of us just piled in the back. on the way back, he drove downa side we hadn't hit that day, absolutely crawling. so every ten feet or so we'd call a stop, count to three, and get about ten gophers from the back of this pick-up. of course they run from ppl, but vehicles...well its hard to miss from 6 feet. lol

6 blacktails, once a doe and fawn at the same time. that sucked.
1 turkey that took out my windsheild. anyone want to come hunt turkey?
2 skunks
8 coon
1 bobcat
as many cats as possible. all the city folk like to dump thier cats out here. they taste just like chicken!!!

A cop was following me when that buzzard flew up, caught the top of the windshield and front edge of the roof, went cartwheeling over the back of the car and square into the grill of GSP.

Yep, got a ticket - flipping him the bird!!!
C

clhyer, you ain't right son.:cheers:
I was pulling trailer loaded with a Shriners dunebuggy I had bought.
It was just dark and I was rolling along at 55mph when this buck ran
right up to the side of the road and stopped just as I passed,
as soon as my truck passed he stepped into my trailer.
I watched in the right mirror as the buggy and trailer hit his head
and spun him around.
It was an explosion of shit, hair and guts.
I had shit and hair on everything!
To this day I still find bits of hair when I service the trailer.

I think that is why buzzards are so "leary" of letting things get close to them.
Takes them a while to get airborn.
But when they do they can really get up there.
A trade off, as most things are.

Several years ago, I had a Mazda 626, 5 door touring sedan. One morning, on the way to work, I was travelling down a country road at about 55mph. Suddenly a huge 10+ point buck came out of the roadside brush at a full run. His left front shoulder hit my front fender in front of the tire, his hind quarters hit the passenger side window and door, showering me with glass. The impact was so great that it spun my car around sideways. I slid to a stop and the buck jumped up and ran full speed into the woods across the street. A week later, on the way to work, I came over a rise in the road (at the same place) and there stood that same buck in the middle of the road. This time I had plenty of time to stop before hitting him.

Ive hit a few birds,nailed a skunk in my 70 Challenger R/T it stunk for about a week,that was the worst.