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bigjim

bigjim

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I hit two pheasants at 70mph in my poor old tank W124!

One has taken out the headlight and the other one travelled through the grill, bent the aircon pipe and dented the radiator. Nothing a pint of radweld didn't cure, but its still left me with a massive hole in the front of my car!! :doh:

Incidentally, why do birds dive out of trees and appear to 'surf' over the front of the car.......death wish, adrenaline, genuine mistake or deliberate mischievous! :bannana:
 
At least you get to have pheasant for tea.
Don't forget to leave it to hang for a couple of days.
 
But only if you know the bloke travelling behind you..!! I believe it is still illegal to keep such road kill according to ancient laws.:(
 
I don't know what year your car is but if it's any help I've got a facelift grille & both headlights.
 
Ths story makes me smile.....i was on call many years ago hoofing down a long straight road...i noticed the car in front slowing to a complete stop!!!!! baffled...i wondered what the driver was playing at..it was a straight road with no oncoming traffic!!! i thought sod you to my self and indicated to overtake the stationary car when all of a sudden WHACK.. the guy had slowed to let a pheasant cross the road...and i mowed the thing to bits....i was ever so glad it was a company car
:bannana:
 
Driving the Jeep today... a pidgeon in road wandering about... made no attempt to fly off..... went staright over it between the wheels...... waited for the feathers but "no" looked in mirror to see pidgeon wandering along the road still.....
 
bigjim said:
I hit two pheasants at 70mph in my poor old tank W124!

One has taken out the headlight and the other one travelled through the grill, bent the aircon pipe and dented the radiator. Nothing a pint of radweld didn't cure, but its still left me with a massive hole in the front of my car!! :doh:

Incidentally, why do birds dive out of trees and appear to 'surf' over the front of the car.......death wish, adrenaline, genuine mistake or deliberate mischievous! :bannana:
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Bloody ell!!!! Imagine what would have happened if you had been on a motorcycle :eek:
 
Neilos said:
Bloody ell!!!! Imagine what would have happened if you had been on a motorcycle :eek:
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Many years ago I hit a cat while riding my old Z650. I had just pulled away from a set of lights and was only doing about 25-30 mph. It was like driving over a lump of concrete. The front wheel came a foot off the ground and the bars almost dislocated my shoulder.

Soft and cuddly they aren't.
 
A couple of years ago I was driving somewhere near Penshurst in Kent and a tall long-legged bird came out of the bushes quite far ahead of me, so I slowed down checked it was safe to do so and swerved around it - only for it to follow my movements...

Deathwish? I thinkso.

Luckily it didn't make too much mess of the car, but my wife was a bit hysterical and of course blamed me.
 
I once took a rabbit out with my wife's new MR2 which I was driving home for her after we'd bought it. The road was a high-hedged rural road, and the rabbit ran out from the other side on an oblique course which would have been fine if it had simply kept going. I would have just missed it. But at the last moment it suddenly changed its course to follow the road - its last mistake. :(

Fortunately there was no damage to the new car, which surprised me.
 
In my Beemer I hit a badger.....they are tough as old boots as the front spoiler will testify.
I Had only had my E320 for a week when the missus came back from the school run and told me she had hit a deer, Thoughts went through my head of a caved in bonnet and insurance shenanigans. When I looked at the car the bonnet was covered in deer hair, but the only damage was a cracked number plate holder, tough things these 211's.
 
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Stratman said:
Many years ago I hit a cat while riding my old Z650. I had just pulled away from a set of lights and was only doing about 25-30 mph. It was like driving over a lump of concrete. The front wheel came a foot off the ground and the bars almost dislocated my shoulder.

Soft and cuddly they aren't.
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And look what happend to that Z650 ;)

 
the a52 from derby to ashborne is a winding single carrideg way. i once hit a badger in a vauxall caviler, wrote the front off.

many years later, whilst allowing a girlfriend to drive the widebody along the same road, she slammed the brakes on to avoid hitting a phesent, wich had been releced for the local shoot and would be dead in days any way, luckly the following car skidded past rathe than colliding with the rear!!
 
nick.ged said:
the a52 from derby to ashborne is a winding single carrideg way. i once hit a badger in a vauxall caviler, wrote the front off.

many years later, whilst allowing a girlfriend to drive the widebody along the same road, she slammed the brakes on to avoid hitting a phesent, wich had been releced for the local shoot and would be dead in days any way, luckly the following car skidded past rathe than colliding with the rear!!
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Afraid I outdumbed your girlfriend :crazy:
When I had only been on the road a few months (30 odd years ago) I swerved to avoid a baby rabbit, and went off a 20ft drop, ended up suspended in trees/bushy stuff. Had to get a crane to lift my dads almost new van out, with 2 MX bikes on the trailer, :doh::doh:
 
Neilos said:
Afraid I outdumbed your girlfriend :crazy:
When I had only been on the road a few months (30 odd years ago) I swerved to avoid a baby rabbit, and went off a 20ft drop, ended up suspended in trees/bushy stuff. Had to get a crane to lift my dads almost new van out, with 2 MX bikes on the trailer, :doh::doh:
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I think we have a winner!
 
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