Hit a bird while driving today..

[Dr Rick Daris]

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.

[Bloodfart]

  

[sonofdaxjones]

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.

[Mikeyis4dcats]

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^ but with a Honda.

[steve dave]

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

SOURCE:  I go to a very elite zoo pretty often

[Rage Against the McKee]

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.

[pissclams]

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.

[ChiComCat]

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

[pissclams]

omg do we still have the facepalm emoticon because i would rough ridin' use it right now.

[SdK]

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. :(

[sys]

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.

[wetwillie]

All the liars in this thread omitting drifters from things they have crushed on the road should bow their head in shame

[Bloodfart]

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  and zooom vehicle blows right overhead. 

I always glance at the rear view mirror and the little guy's tucked in his shell like .  I usually have a little giggle to myself.   

[pissclams]

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.

[TBL]

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^ 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!"

           (take your pick which is wifey or young'n)

[sys]

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.

 

[TBL]

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. 

[pissclams]

we would just find them, not kill them.

[TBL]

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.

[Testy Westy]

Can anyone confirm that cows explode when you hit them like in Cruis'n USA?

[Testy Westy]

Also, I was with someone who ran over a turtle once 

[TBL]

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.

[sys]

Can anyone confirm that cows explode when you hit them like in Cruis'n USA?

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

[Bloodfart]

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.   

[420seriouscat69]

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.