Things we have runned over

[Kalmairn]

Corolla:
- Hit a raccoon at 40, heard it roll under the car, hitting 3 times before it came out the back and rolled into the bushes. No damage.
- A squirrel at ~30. Blah.

Neon:
- Hit a turkey at 50, glancing blow off the passenger corner, no damage, but a LOT of feathers. (Yes, a wild turkey.)
- Dove hit the windshield as I was doing 80mph on a country road. Scared the sh.t out of me! Left a blood smear on the windshield that I had to pressure-wash off.

I also hit an armadillo in a rental truck - a full-box 28' Penske rental - tagged it with the real wheels after managing to miss with the front. That was the first (only) wild living armadillo I've ever seen, and I killed it.



Kal.

[GZire]

Did you go back for the turkey? It had already been tenderized.

[Gardiner]

I almost ran over a kid playing in the road one time.

[Rocket65C]

Living in a rural area gives you all kind of misses and near misses. I pegged a turkey vulture a couple of weeks ago in my truck going about 60. I saw him take off and thought there was no way he could go fast enough to get me. Trouble was, my front end cleared but he then flew right into me and I hit him flush with my passenger's side mirror. Shattered into a million pieces. Before that, I was following my wife home and watched her barely clip a deer at about 60 mph. It looked as though it barely grazed its rear haunches, but it was deader than a door knob the next a.m. Besides those, I've hit dogs, cats, squirrels, birds, oppossum, armidillo, rabbits, etc. No havelina, though. We've got a couple of hundred pound wild hogs that would do a number on a front end. Fortunately, most things die quickly when hit.

[Gardiner]

My brother hit a skunk once, that left a sweet reminder for him.

[GZire]

How does one get the scent-o-skunk out?

Rocket where are you living that you come across all the wildlife? Luckily my big problem is only with doves (there's a lease law down here so technically we shouldn't have dog/cat problems), almost got another one.

[Gardiner]

He had a guy pressure wash with some special solvent.

[Rocket65C]

Until a few weeks ago, we lived in "Deep East Texas", which is on the Louisiana border, halfway between Dallas and Houston. But it wasn't near the interstate to either one. Mainly just a bunch of timber land, especially pine trees. In fact, it was in the main town of 30,000 people where the space shuttle Columbia debris landed. We heard it coming apart that Sat. morning for about 90 seconds-continous roar of many sonic booms of all the little shuttle pieces coming apart. I thought someone was on my back wooden deck rolling a barrel or a dolly. The remote area is what made retrieval so difficult. It's beautiful country, though-that is, if you like trees.

[Ru_G36c]

the other day I ran over something that made me very sad. Thankfully it wasn't in my car so the damage done (which was a lot) wasn't to the G. Going about 40 mpg I killed a keg of Yuengling and case of Everclear. Sadly they fell off the pickup in front of me and I had no choice but to run them over. The keg pretty much destroyed my friend's bumper and right headlight. The case of Everclear managed to splash onto the underbody of the car where it caught fire from the sparks that the keg was producing. Fortunately no one but the keg and case were hurt.

[GZire]

Everclear could've sent you into orbit. That stuff is nasty.

[partyman66]

Here is my list of random things I've run over. Keep in mind that I live in an area that is almost all swamp and woods..so we have tons and tons of wildlife(I'm not a masochist, and didn't do any of these on purpose).

On my BMX Bike as a kid:
-A squirrel which fell out of a tree directly in front of me while my friends and I were racing our bikes down a hill

On my 50CC dirtbike as a kid:
-A Black Racer snake

With my lawnmower
-A small snake
-Several Frogs

In my Nissan 240SX(This car sucked for hitting stuff, because if the object you hit were to go under the car and pass between the rear wheels...for some reason, the car would chop it up like a blender.....which is what happened to the diaper and the rabbit mentioned below):
-Several Squirrels
-A Robin(I believe he survived)
-A Rabbit
-A Used Baby's Diaper on the Highway(Made a big mess on my car)
-A Poland Springs Water Cooler Tank that fell off a truck on the highway
-A yard rake, which a neighbor threw at my car for speeding down my street when I was late for work one day(The guy is an asshole)
-Frogs.....At certain times of the year, my entire street surface will become covered with baby frogs and there is no way to get to where you are going without driving over them(Yeah, it sucks...but there is no way around it).

My G:
-No significant wildlife has actually been hit yet...although I have had several close calls with Possums, squirrels, cats, a dog, chipmunks, a turtle, mice and 2 or 3 not too close calls with Deer.
-A paintball...shot at my car by some local punks as I drove home from a Softball game one night.

[GZire]

Originally Posted by partyman66

Here is my list of random things I've run over. [edited]

In my Nissan 240SX.......[edited]
-A Used Baby's Diaper on the Highway(Made a big mess on my car)
-Frogs.....At certain times of the year....[edited]

Dirty diaper is bad news. Hopefully you were able to just blast the remains off the bottom of your car after it had been "blenderized."

As for the frogs, I must claim responsibility for some of that (similar) stuff. As a kid, when I visited my cousins' house one night, we gathered up several 5 gallon pails full of toads. It being a dark night, we'd hide in the shadows until we saw a car approaching. We would then dump the contents of the buckets on the road, run away and hide. You can imagine what happened next. Then we'd run out gather up the survivors and wait for the next car.

Not proud of it, but at least I wasn't a true juvenile delinquent.

[Hohenzollern]

Grey Rooster doing 40-50-ish in a Chevy Beauville Van. Was a "cloud o' feathers" in the rearview.

Pidgeon/Dove doing 60-ish on S. Claiborne Ave at Erato in my Accord. (Dat's in New Orleans, next to the "Thou Shalt Not Kill" Billboard. If irony was steak I would have eaten well that day.)
Wing broke off and lodged in the wipers -- rest of it went off to the curb.
Stupid pidgeon, was too fat to take off before I nailed it. Got it on the rise.

Almost nailed a squirrel here in San Antonio with my G...but was on Contour Drive...and was doing about 20 (you almost have to, the name speaks for itself) so easily avoided it. It seemed dullwitted, and would have gotten it had I been going faster. I wont stop for small animals and risk a wreck or losing control. Deer are another matter, luckily encounter very few of those. Never saw one until I moved to Texas, they are like rats here, even in the burbs.

[DOHCtor Dan]

in my brand new baby G35....

it totally pissed the living crap out of me. I was driving home one night and a trailer's tire burst right in front of me. the trailer was caring some cardboard or whatever boxes full of some shit and it spilled onto the freeway. i swerved to avoid it but the dumbass trailer lost control and his boxes spewed all over the goddamn place. so i ran over one of the boxes and it scratched my underbody from my front bumper all the way down to my muffler. its not a very noticable but if u look underneath u'll see the scratches and if u stare long enough at my bumper u'll see that the lower portion of the bumper/lip is slightly warped.

[GZire]

Just ran over another bird. This time it was a mynah, only the 2nd I've ever hit. I find out if my bumper is chipped the next time I wash my car. [sigh]