what's your road kill record???

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WuGahCha

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Originally posted by: redly
Top this...one night, in my youth, I was driving through a neighborhood and I saw two cats...uhh...getting it on...in the middle of the street. So I floored it and smashed them both. To top that, one of them was Siamese, and I later found out it belonged to a girl who I worked with

..oh man, so u killed her cats, she must have been pissed! (if she found out it was u)
 

BigJ

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Originally posted by: redly
Top this...one night, in my youth, I was driving through a neighborhood and I saw two cats...uhh...getting it on...in the middle of the street. So I floored it and smashed them both. To top that, one of them was Siamese, and I later found out it belonged to a girl who I worked with

Dude...that's just cruel and sadistic :|
 

redly

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Originally posted by: BigJ
Originally posted by: redly
Top this...one night, in my youth, I was driving through a neighborhood and I saw two cats...uhh...getting it on...in the middle of the street. So I floored it and smashed them both. To top that, one of them was Siamese, and I later found out it belonged to a girl who I worked with

Dude...that's just cruel and sadistic :|


it was pretty damn funny at the time...I mean, there were cats doing it in the middle of the road...I was just playing the "hand of Darwin"
 

WuGahCha

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Originally posted by: redly

it was pretty damn funny at the time...I mean, there were cats doing it in the middle of the road...I was just playing the "hand of Darwin"

u could have at least wait for them to finish before squashing them :disgust:
 

Argo

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Originally posted by: AdamSnow
Few cats... (Home owned cats too... little collars with bells on them)
Squirrels
Racoon
Many birds

Edit : Ever wonder what happens to a bird when it runs into your windsheild going 200+Km/h ?
hahaha

It explodes leaving a nasty poop mark on your windshield..... Had it happen to me.
 

MX2

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Deer...dead
Camaro...$2500 dollars sustained damage

I will never forget that night. It was like something weird in a movie. I sat there on the side of a lonely desolate road for hours at 2 in the morning until someone finally came along:(
 

Unheard

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2 squirrels. One had what look to be an apple in his mouth when he ran across the road, when I looked back in the rearview all I saw was the apple tumbling down the road.

1 my excellent compatriot. I thought he was road kill already, so I guided him between my tires, right before I got to him, he stood up, turned around, and looked right at me. Thump

2 rabbits. Nothing intresting here, they just died.
 

Robor

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Originally posted by: redly
Top this...one night, in my youth, I was driving through a neighborhood and I saw two cats...uhh...getting it on...in the middle of the street. So I floored it and smashed them both. To top that, one of them was Siamese, and I later found out it belonged to a girl who I worked with
You ran over 2 cats with your car? Wow, I'm impressed because you are so manly and cool. I'm sure your parents are proud to have raised such a fine person.

I hope you are on the receiving end of that situation someday. :disgust:
 

cavemanmoron

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Hit a dog,that died. :( No collar/tags on the dog,and was 1/4 mile from any houses. :(

Called the local sherrifs dept when I got home,and told them where the dog was.

Just stopped in time to avoid 2 Moose in the road,missed by less than a foot!
Was June 1976 in Grand Tetons.

 

rezinn

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I've never hit any animals that I know of. One time I stopped in the middle of the road to not hit a bunny though. Had some close calls with cats.

My brother has some bad luck - he's hit at least six possums, and last week he hit two racooons at once.
 

Kitkat13

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Ive gotten a few frogs... you just dont see them until they jump into your headlights.... and once I hit an armadillo... I tried to dodge it and it did actually go between the two front wheels... then it hit the oil pan... PANK!!! I still get the willies when I think about it. hahaha:shocked:
 

skyking

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Nov 21, 2001
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I've hit a couple of crows trying to get greedy with other roadkill.
One pheasant, that is pretty scary.
One tweety bird of some sort, I got him with the lift strut of the banner plane as I was picking up a banner.
One canadian goose, I got him with the grapple hook on a pick up approach. That was an unlucky shot for that bird, the hook is not very big.
 

gistech1978

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the only animal ive ever not made an attempt to dodge was a rattlesnake, though i still feel guilty about doing it.

i think ive hit a rat once. couple of birds.

if i can help it, im not going to kill the wildlife.



 

raanemaan

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Feb 14, 2004
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4 deer
1 turkey
rabbits
possums
birds
squirrels
pheasant
snakes
skunks
dogs
cats
1 snapping turtle
 

stonecold3169

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lets see...
1 deer, which actually hit me... I saw 1 in the road, stopped, honked my horn at it, spooked one in the woods to my left and it ran head first into my fron fender, snapped it's neck. Lucky it was a doe, a buck would put it's antlers through my window and killed me. Got to keep the deer and enjoy eating every bit of it.

2 bunnies.

As far as moose go, I was in VT once and saw one crossing the road. Even if you stop before hitting them, I guess they have a tendancy to be agresssive and flip cars over with their antlers... wouldn't wann amess with that
 

g8wayrebel

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I personally haven't managed a deer, but have been in the vehicle for several(one on the road and a couple in the ditch). Me personally, many many ground hogs(on the road,in the ditch, and once even in someones yard), one cat(oops) a couple of birds ( must be diseased they just stood there) and a rabbit.
 

CraigRT

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killed quite a few in my time

wrote off a car by hitting a deer
hit a family of raccoons (3) and other raccoons by themselves other times
few squirrels
NO birds surprisingly
2 cats (must have been field cats)
2 rabbits

none of which I wanted to hit :(