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Title: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: I_have_purplewood on March 11, 2012, 03:04:02 PM
Has anyone else done this?  :driving: (ftp://:driving:)I felt bad but also thought it must have been a pretty dumb bird.  I guess the rain could have have been a factor though so it might have not been a real Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) bird.  I mean I didn't feel as bad as I would if it was a dog or cat but still thought about it's bird family it won't be going back too. :cry: (ftp://:cry:)  I've never hit a dog or a cat thank god.  Ran the eff over several rabbits.  That made me feel real shitty.  Also hit a squirrel or two but that didn't bother me one bit.  I guess a bird would be 4th on my list when feeling bad about hitting an animal with a car...

1) Dog
2) Cat (would make #1 if it's a cute cat)
3) Rabbit
4) Bird
5) Human
6) Squirrel
7) Possum
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: steve dave on March 11, 2012, 03:09:50 PM
things I have hit

deer
badger
turkey
vulture
small bird
cow
snake
bugs
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: nicname on March 11, 2012, 03:15:26 PM
Possums get alot of unwarranted hate.  Very misunderstood creature the opossum.  It's a shame really.
Title: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: LickNeckey on March 11, 2012, 03:34:06 PM
What is the misunderstanding?

Are they not ugly overgrown rodents with little tangible value?
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: nicname on March 11, 2012, 03:39:06 PM
They are marsupials. 

http://erthfrend.hubpages.com/hub/The-OpossumAn-Intriguing-Animal-So-Misunderstood

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=14215353

(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Furl%3Fsource%3Dimglanding%26amp%3Bct%3Dimg%26amp%3Bq%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-RK9W4VqU-8c%2FTZCQ117tknI%2FAAAAAAAAEbo%2Ffa7wjKGRDCw%2Fs1600%2Fbaby-opossum.jpg%26amp%3Bsa%3DX%26amp%3Bei%3DUg1dT_z9KoSDsgKwl-nkDQ%26amp%3Bved%3D0CAoQ8wc%26amp%3Busg%3DAFQjCNGS6WUM9GX9fGvpSDaWW_f9rEGDwg&hash=7bb731f0c76ee764287e2ef17e01c024e4d6e4b2)
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: EMAWgeddon on March 11, 2012, 03:52:34 PM
This Opossum broke into a bakery and ate so many pastries he couldn't move.

Love this little guy.

(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi72.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fi195%2Fjnm8888%2Fopposum.jpg&hash=de71065301c7530ff7bbc9bd51290d8f32a2fcb3)
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: FP TC etc. on March 11, 2012, 04:16:53 PM
When I was in drivers ED in HS we got a brand new drivers ed car. I was the first one to take it out.

Hit a deer and totaled it  :driving:
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on March 11, 2012, 04:30:16 PM
I hit some big bird once (vulture maybe). It left long scratch marks all across my hood, so I didn't feel bad for the bird. I was pissed about my car.
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: Stevesie60 on March 11, 2012, 04:57:24 PM
One time I hit a opossum and laughed. Which is basically the opposite of what happened the time I hit a cat (with a pink collar).
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: Bloodfart on March 11, 2012, 07:07:28 PM
 Deer x2, wooping crane, pheasant, turkey, various small birds, an owl, dog x3, squirels, coyote, etc.

Skunks suck.  Felt bad about the crane (not really sure if wooping or just sand crane) shattered my windsheild.   

When I lived in KC I saw the remnants of a deer on a 6 lane interchange.  Blood was smeared for what looked like an area the size of a football field.  There were just big bones left and nobody could dodge cause of all the traffic.  I wonder what the begining of that carnage looked like.   
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: hemmy on March 11, 2012, 07:08:57 PM
I hit a bird back during drivers ed.
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: Dugout DickStone on March 11, 2012, 08:10:11 PM
You guys are bad drivers.
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: FP TC etc. on March 11, 2012, 08:32:52 PM
You guys are bad drivers.

I don't think hitting an animal makes someone a bad driver.  :dunno:
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: Dugout DickStone on March 11, 2012, 08:50:23 PM
You guys are bad drivers.

I don't think hitting an animal makes someone a bad driver.  :dunno:

Sure as hell doesn't make them a good one.


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Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: FP TC etc. on March 11, 2012, 08:56:17 PM
You guys are bad drivers.

I don't think hitting an animal makes someone a bad driver.  :dunno:

Sure as hell make them a good one.

 :confused:
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: ben ji on March 11, 2012, 09:16:33 PM
things I have hit

deer
badger
turkey
vulture
small bird
cowsnake
bugs

How the hell do you hit a cow? Its not like it will just pop out in front of you like a deer.

Did you pull a beems?  :cheers: :drink: :driving:
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: Cire on March 11, 2012, 09:33:40 PM
I hit a dog (survived) once.  Also a hawk, no idea what happened to it.  That's it.
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: sys on March 11, 2012, 09:57:33 PM
This Opossum broke into a bakery and ate so many pastries he couldn't move.

Love this little guy.

(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi72.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fi195%2Fjnm8888%2Fopposum.jpg&hash=de71065301c7530ff7bbc9bd51290d8f32a2fcb3)

that's a sugar glider (no wonder you can't keep a man).



i hit a cow once too.  pretty rough.
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: kim carnes on March 11, 2012, 10:04:09 PM
This Opossum broke into a bakery and ate so many pastries he couldn't move.

Love this little guy.

(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi72.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fi195%2Fjnm8888%2Fopposum.jpg&hash=de71065301c7530ff7bbc9bd51290d8f32a2fcb3)

that's a sugar glider (no wonder you can't keep a man).



i hit a cow once too.  pretty rough.

I knew a guy who had a sugar glider for a pet.
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: bennettfingershake on March 11, 2012, 10:14:11 PM
True story.  Back in my college years we were at a friends house on Anderson enjoying a bbq and a opposum crossed the road with all of us watching and a car just rolls right over this opposum and it gets up and runs off like nothing happened.  Tough roddents.  On another note i'm terrified of trash bags on the road more than hitting an animal
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: EMAWgeddon on March 11, 2012, 10:15:43 PM
This Opossum broke into a bakery and ate so many pastries he couldn't move.

Love this little guy.

(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi72.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fi195%2Fjnm8888%2Fopposum.jpg&hash=de71065301c7530ff7bbc9bd51290d8f32a2fcb3)

that's a sugar glider (no wonder you can't keep a man).



i hit a cow once too.  pretty rough.

Welp.  Good thing we cleared that up.  I should probably spend some time in the zoo thread.
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: Bloodfart on March 11, 2012, 10:22:27 PM
You guys are bad drivers.

I don't think hitting an animal makes someone a bad driver.  :dunno:

Sure as hell doesn't make them a good one.


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Will not swerve.  Thats how you die over a freakin' squirel.  I mean I've dodged quite a few critters but some times conditions do not permitt evasive action.
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: sys on March 11, 2012, 10:22:57 PM
Welp.  Good thing we cleared that up.  I should probably spend some time in the zoo thread.

maybe just try to hide the sick little fuzzy fetish till people get to know you better.
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: pissclams on March 11, 2012, 10:28:09 PM
This Opossum broke into a bakery and ate so many pastries he couldn't move.

Love this little guy.

(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi72.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fi195%2Fjnm8888%2Fopposum.jpg&hash=de71065301c7530ff7bbc9bd51290d8f32a2fcb3)

that's a sugar glider (no wonder you can't keep a man).



i hit a cow once too.  pretty rough.

Welp.  Good thing we cleared that up.  I should probably spend some time in the zoo thread.

the good news is that sugar gliders are a type of possum, so you were rough ridin' right in the first place.
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: sys on March 11, 2012, 10:34:25 PM
the good news is that sugar gliders are a type of possum, so you were rough ridin' right in the first place.

oh wow.  i can't tell if you are stupider about etymology or zoology, but if it's not one, it's the other.  what a great day.
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: Dr Rick Daris on March 11, 2012, 10:43:32 PM
the good news is that sugar gliders are a type of possum, so you were rough ridin' right in the first place.

oh wow.  i can't tell if you are stupider about etymology or zoology, but if it's not one, it's the other.  what a great day.

you really couldn't throw a random object into the air without it hitting something that clams is just extremely stupid about, so really every day is a great day.
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: Bloodfart on March 11, 2012, 10:52:40 PM
 :sdeek:  :lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: sonofdaxjones on March 12, 2012, 10:16:34 AM
Hit a quail driving from Manhattan to KC.  Thing laid on the bumper the whole way home, didn't know it until I got home.

A falcon slammed into my office window a few years ago, it was chasing a blackbird, the blackbird died, but the falcon shook it off and flew away.   All the other songbirds were going nuts . . . it was like a scene from the Birds.

Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: Mikeyis4dcats on March 12, 2012, 10:24:18 AM
http://maloneypachanga.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/image0011.jpg


^ but with a Honda.
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: steve dave on March 12, 2012, 10:28:41 AM
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi72.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fi195%2Fjnm8888%2Fopposum.jpg&hash=de71065301c7530ff7bbc9bd51290d8f32a2fcb3)

that's a common bushtail opposum native to australia.  sys knows nothing about animals. 

SOURCE:  I go to a very elite zoo pretty often
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on March 12, 2012, 10:50:34 AM
Deer x2, wooping crane, pheasant, turkey, various small birds, an owl, dog x3, squirels, coyote, etc.

Skunks suck.  Felt bad about the crane (not really sure if wooping or just sand crane) shattered my windsheild.   

When I lived in KC I saw the remnants of a deer on a 6 lane interchange.  Blood was smeared for what looked like an area the size of a football field.  There were just big bones left and nobody could dodge cause of all the traffic.  I wonder what the begining of that carnage looked like.

There are less than 300 wild whooping cranes on this planet. If you hit a whooping crane, you should feel horrible. A sand crane would be no big deal, though.
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: pissclams on March 12, 2012, 10:53:31 AM
oh man, my bad.  i didn't see she called it an opossum.  i'm a rough ridin' idiot. color me embarrassed.

my apologies go out to phalangeriformes everywhere.

thx for pointing that out sys, before someone else did.  argh.

Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: ChiComCat on March 12, 2012, 11:15:52 AM
Oh man, that common bushtail opossum probably had a good run there for awhile.  What a windfall for that little guy.  Looks like he has quite the tummy ache right there
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: pissclams on March 12, 2012, 02:31:16 PM
omg do we still have the facepalm emoticon because i would rough ridin' use it right now.
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: SdK on March 12, 2012, 03:22:53 PM
I once hit a 14 point buck in my 1980 Mercury Zephyr. It rolled over twice, tried to get up, fell down, tried again and ran way. The biggest dear I've ever seen. Team Zephyr just needed a new radiator though.

I hit a doe in a 1993 Honda Civic Hatchback, but due to the radiator being so small and only on one side, I escaped with a lost bumper and crumpled hood. Four months later I was driving home from work, and there were 5 deer spread across the two lane highway. So...I knew my car was done either way, so I sped up to 75 and well that deer went for a long flight through the air.

Never hit a bird, hit an opossum once though. Pretty sure I've run over a snake or two.

I once saw a turtle crossing the highway, so I pulled over to go help him out, and as I was getting out of my car a diesel ford toughing a motorboat crushed the little guy. :(
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: sys on March 12, 2012, 08:43:30 PM
omg do we still have the facepalm emoticon because i would rough ridin' use it right now.

like a typo but a reado, i feel for you.


and you all hit snakes, you rough ridin' dicks.
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: wetwillie on March 12, 2012, 09:05:05 PM
All the liars in this thread omitting drifters from things they have crushed on the road should bow their head in shame
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: Bloodfart on March 12, 2012, 09:28:41 PM
I once saw a turtle crossing the highway, so I pulled over to go help him out, and as I was getting out of my car a diesel ford toughing a motorboat crushed the little guy. :(

I love buzzing turtles with a vehicle with enough clearance.  You see the little dude chuggin along as fast as they can  :runaway: and zooom vehicle blows right overhead. 

I always glance at the rear view mirror and the little guy's tucked in his shell like :peek: .  I usually have a little giggle to myself.   :driving:
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: pissclams on March 12, 2012, 09:36:45 PM
i'm surprised to find out that the broadhead skink is on kansas's T&E list.  used to see them everywhere while out snake hunting.
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: TBL on March 12, 2012, 09:50:44 PM
http://maloneypachanga.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/image0011.jpg


^ but with a Honda.

Imagine pulling into the driveway, with wifey and young'n standing there, waiting on you to get home. "Honey, I'm home!"

 :horrorsurprise:    :runaway:      (take your pick which is wifey or young'n)
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: sys on March 12, 2012, 09:57:33 PM
i'm surprised to find out that the broadhead skink is on kansas's T&E list.  used to see them everywhere while out snake hunting.

 :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: TBL on March 12, 2012, 10:05:45 PM
i'm surprised to find out that the broadhead skink is on kansas's T&E list.  used to see them everywhere while out snake hunting.

Glad you brought up the snake hunting. Many great memories of doing this. I currently love that show, Rattlesnake Republic. Love to see them clean up Texas of those evil creatures. Just. Love. It.  :excited:
Title: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: pissclams on March 12, 2012, 10:39:25 PM
we would just find them, not kill them.
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: TBL on March 12, 2012, 11:40:49 PM
we would just find them, not kill them.

They don't kill them in Texas either. They just kinda round them up and take them in for money. Sounds like a good deal. Except the getting bit part.
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: Testy Westy on March 12, 2012, 11:47:37 PM
Can anyone confirm that cows explode when you hit them like in Cruis'n USA?
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: Testy Westy on March 12, 2012, 11:49:34 PM
Also, I was with someone who ran over a turtle once  :frown:
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: TBL on March 12, 2012, 11:50:04 PM
Can anyone confirm that cows explode when you hit them like in Cruis'n USA?

The vehicle that hits them does the 'splodin. Unless you're driving a tank.
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: sys on March 12, 2012, 11:54:20 PM
Can anyone confirm that cows explode when you hit them like in Cruis'n USA?

no, they just die.  it's pretty awful.
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: Bloodfart on March 13, 2012, 11:57:16 AM
Can anyone confirm that cows explode when you hit them like in Cruis'n USA?

no, they just die.  it's pretty awful.

I think it usually ends like the scene in the movie Me Myself and Irene.   :dunno:
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on March 13, 2012, 12:07:31 PM
When I worked out in Western Kansas a Pheasant would fly into my car about every 3 miles from garden city to scott city. Since I was living off of a poor mans radio budget, I would throw the birds in the trunk and eat them for dinner.  :lick:
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: I_have_purplewood on April 09, 2012, 12:52:17 PM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2126985/The-Ferrari-hedgehog-Supercar-ploughs-barrier-30-000-smash-swerving-avoid-creature-road.html  (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2126985/The-Ferrari-hedgehog-Supercar-ploughs-barrier-30-000-smash-swerving-avoid-creature-road.html)

It is a pretty adorable hedgehog.
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: OK_Cat on April 09, 2012, 12:55:10 PM
things I have hit

deer
badger
turkey
vulture
small bird
cow
snake
bugs

probably need to put this in the sw kansas elite thread, imo
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: wes mantooth on April 09, 2012, 01:05:52 PM
a snake (probably 2 to 3 feet long) was about a foot away from me last night before i noticed it while mowing.  rough ridin' hate snakes.  instincts took over and i put the mower over the snake.  made a lot of noises, kind of like a lawn mower chewing up a snake.  anyway, i pulled the mower away, and sure enough, there was a dead snake underneath.  take that you stupid snake.
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: pissclams on April 09, 2012, 01:08:50 PM
what kind of snake was it?
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: wes mantooth on April 09, 2012, 01:11:17 PM
don't know (lsiq), but it had black and brown stripes going down the long way of its back.  well, that was until it had a bunch of pinkish red guts coming out everywhere  :gocho:
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: steve dave on April 09, 2012, 01:16:02 PM
don't know (lsiq), but it had black and brown stripes going down the long way of its back.  well, that was until it had a bunch of pinkish red guts coming out everywhere  :gocho:

sys is probably going to run his mower over you now you know
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: wes mantooth on April 09, 2012, 01:20:26 PM
don't know (lsiq), but it had black and brown stripes going down the long way of its back.  well, that was until it had a bunch of pinkish red guts coming out everywhere  :gocho:

sys is probably going to run his mower over you now you know

if i'm on sys' property, then i fully expect it.
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: dmartin on April 10, 2012, 09:43:10 AM
... On another note i'm terrified of trash bags on the road more than hitting an animal

This. If i see a small furry animal in the street I know it's a small furry animal. But a trash bag (or other bag?). As my father always said, "could be a bag of nails, or a bag of kittens. do you really want to hit it and find out?"
Title: Re: Hit a bird while driving today..
Post by: sys on April 12, 2012, 04:20:31 PM
if i'm on sys' property, then i fully expect it.

you'd deserve it too.