Roadkill Thread?...

[S2_VR_]

hey guy's dunno if we're aloud topost this but im interesred in hearing peoples roadkill story's hahahaha (that sounds way F'ed up)

I hit the 4th fox in 6 weeks just before whilst coming home (and may have hit a rabbit too at the end of my driveway...


anyone got any they'd like to share?...maybe damage done to their car from it?...etc?...

[Philthy]

I don't have any standout stories (just the usual rabbits/foxes/birds that can't always be avoided)

But late last year I very nearly cleaned up a black kite that someone had clipped and left for dead, as it dragged itself across the road. Rang the local wildlife guru and he took it in and looked after it. Got a call about 6-8 weeks after to come and watch it be released into the wild again. He tells me that every now and then she still comes to visit.

[kane88]

It's nothing too flash but anyway here goes. Was coming through Barcaldine (where by the way, there is ZERO mobile phone reception) around 6:30 in the evening, and seeing as it was "that time of day" I decided to slow up a little incase of roo strike. Around 10 k's out of town I glance over the driver's side wing mirror to see a bloody tail disappearing under the front end of my car. *thump*

To my horror I looked in the rearview mirror to see various pieces of rather expensive looking plastic and metal bouncing all over the bitumen in my wake, thinking to myself "f**k me, I hope they're all optional extras..."

Made it back to Barcy at a crawl spewing radiator coolant and dragging most of the front end, but didn't get hurt, so that's a win I suppose..
Still slowly fixing the bloody damage though.

[M01ST]

Wasnt in my Car but coming down from up north in the old boys truck cleaned up a ****ing cow we stopped to see if it was still alive cos if it was dad usually shoots em to put them out of misery if their real messed up. But this one was smashed into about 3 pieces and there wasn one bit of white on the side of the truck all red.
Lets just say the dog at the truck yard had some enjoyment out of it when we got there.

[vicarious]

hit a cat in in the ve the dam thing ran back into the path of the car, hit a kangaroo in the work rodeo in my street at night, who of thought a kangaroo was hoping around a suburban street although im close to the foothills of adelaide.And almost hit an emu in the work vy ute the thing was standing in the middle of the road in the morning blinding sun in the adelaide hills, only just missed him by cms.

[Bax]

Just a little roo in my car. Only just clipped him and he scooted off, managed to do some good damage though.

The one I felt worse about was a little spiked lizard. I saw him baking in the middle of the road and it was too late for me to stop so I centered him up and went over the top. Poor fella must have put his head up or something because all I heard was a loud clunk.

Did a u-turn and he wasn't going anywhere in a hurry - poor little dude.

[S2_VR_]

haha you guy's make these sad stories funny.

i once came over a hump bridge (ya know the real quick steepish ones). anyway came ovr there and a fow was just standing on my side of the road.

i was doing 80km/h+ so iwasnt gonna stop in time. and yeah BANG... i turned around and it was standing u again......watched it for like a minute until it lay down in the middle of the road.... i thought wow...he might just sleep it off.......Nope: Next day i came through and there he was....kinda part of the road at this stage...(Busy road)


also another one that happened...

i was doing about 110km\h and a cat walked out in front of the car....it hit the drivers side wheel, flung up and hit the wheel arch (underneath), hit the ground again, then it got hit by the back tyre and hit the back wheel arch... needless to say it wasnt going anywhere...i think i killed all 9 of it's lives right there...... and it ended up about 10metres from where i first hit it, due to being picked up by the car

[MasterOfReality]

I cleaned up a decent sized roo at 100km/hr in Cobar, when I was driving to work in the morning.

Was in my company Landcruiser with huge bullbar, and I had to take it to the fitters workshop to get it pulled out straight.

It was company policy that if we hit something on the way to and from work, we had to kill it to put it out of its misery, usually with a wheel brace or driving over it again to finish it off. Christ I hated doing that, especially when you have nothing more than a wheel brace and you have a kangaroo thrashing around on the ground.

[badaz]

Anyone whohas been to Canberra will tell you about the Roo problem here, my office is in an old RAAF base and the owners like to keep the grass nice and green.

I have had 2 work mates have had roo's land on the back seat of the motor bikes. One roo did about $1000 worth of damage to a Hayabusa and the other Suzuki Katana he had roo snot on his helmut and a little tear in his seat.

I think in the last 2 years 4 of our work cars have hit a roo, the last one was our new commodore which had only done 950klm.

[Julie]

That would really suck MoR, I know its better than leaving the poor thing to suffer but theres no way I could do it

Only roadkill story I have is when my hubby hit a rabbit in our old vr it was a big bastard, its skull cracked the front skirt on the body kit. It was really messy.

Oh btw did anyone else automatically think of this fella with this thread?:

[calais_304]

roadkill makes good crab pot bait if anyone was wondering

[Rufus®]

roadkill makes good crab pot bait if anyone was wondering

And on that note, (last I read, which was a few years ago), picking up road kill is illegal. this is to stop people running animals down on purpose for fresh meat.

[calais_304]

And on that note, (last I read, which was a few years ago), picking up road kill is illegal. this is to stop people running animals down on purpose for fresh meat.

LMFAO!!! and here i was just trying to be funny.

[BecStar]

I've almost hit this annoying, fluffy white dog down the road from my house about 3 times now... I swear it's ****ed in the head, I'll be going about 40km/h (speed limit is 50 but I know this dog will always be there). It will sit there and watch me drive past and when it's lined up with the front of my car it will just dart out and bark at my car. I'm so tempted to just stop the car in the middle of the road, grab it by the scruff of its neck and throw it at the owners front door... or take it home for my dogs dinner :-)

Anyone ever been shat on by a bird while driving? Believe it or not I was in the passenger seat travelling out of town, had the window down as I was having a smoke and I felt this little splat on my arm and shoulder. I thought it must have started to rain or something but noooo.. a nice fresh bird turd on my arm.

[matty88]

So far (just over 1 year of having my licence)

3 birds
1 cat
1 rabbit

The standout one was where I was up at the Black Spur and a crow flew into my headlight, then bounced off the car smack into a road sign, feathers everywhere, the guys behind me that were cruising with me pissed themselves

[Kikki]

A Roo, about a month ago... Not happy Roo tho

[cinndaz044]

i clean up dead animals of the road its part of my job.

i plead with owners to at least have there phone numbers on the collar so we can at least call you when we scrape up your dead german shepard of the road and take it down to the local furnace to dispose of it. as we dispose of so many and i feel for the owners as they will never know what happened to them.

probley clean up 50 or so animals a week from cats to kangaroos .

[cinndaz044]

Anyone ever been shat on by a bird while driving? Believe it or not I was in the passenger seat travelling out of town, had the window down as I was having a smoke and I felt this little splat on my arm and shoulder. I thought it must have started to rain or something but noooo.. a nice fresh bird turd on my arm.[/QUOTE]

seen 1 beter than that poor old glen down at the dump a seagull shit in his mouth

[S2_VR_]

Anyone ever been shat on by a bird while driving? Believe it or not I was in the passenger seat travelling out of town, had the window down as I was having a smoke and I felt this little splat on my arm and shoulder. I thought it must have started to rain or something but noooo.. a nice fresh bird turd on my arm.

seen 1 beter than that poor old glen down at the dump a seagull shit in his mouth[/QUOTE]

HAHHAHAHA

[Tom_1569]

Suprised this thread is open as this subject is normaly very touchy.

I've lost count of the crap I've hit driving country roads every single day.

A different story, cause it cracks me up everytime my sister tells it.

She was driving through the bush (on her way home), she spotted a roo on the side of the gravel road, and decided she would slow down and give this one a change since the oppurtunity was there. Gets right up to it, and stops waiting for it to pounce. It pounces across the road, trips over itself and smacked its head on the road and died, smack in the middle of the road.
She ended up having to drive right around it, with her 5yr old son asking why it died when she didnt even hit it.

[HARVZ-6]

Wasnt me that hit it..

but about a month ago on the yacka road leaving clare theres a big guard rail..

a deer got hit on the left hand side of the road and got flung across the road and rapped around one of the poles for the guard rail

looked funny as haha

[S2_VR_]

Suprised this thread is open as this subject is normaly very touchy.

I've lost count of the crap I've hit driving country roads every single day.

A different story, cause it cracks me up everytime my sister tells it.

She was driving through the bush (on her way home), she spotted a roo on the side of the gravel road, and decided she would slow down and give this one a change since the oppurtunity was there. Gets right up to it, and stops waiting for it to pounce. It pounces across the road, trips over itself and smacked its head on the road and died, smack in the middle of the road.
She ended up having to drive right around it, with her 5yr old son asking why it died when she didnt even hit it.

HAHAHAHHAHAHAH holy shit.....thats gold...hahahaha **** thats good...lol..... still laughing hahaha tears in my eyes!!!!!!!!!!

[Hunter SS]

i haven't hit a roo for quite a while now, well a live one anyhow....... i almost hit a dead roo on my motorbike one morning a couple of years ago... on a sweeping right hand bend at about 120kph on my turbo Kawasaki... scared the tripe out of me!
Had a Galah hit the top of my helmet at 100 kph.... that made my butt hole pucker a bit! also, copped bird shit on my face on the highway.... that shit (pun intended) stings when it gets you in the eye! it splashed under my sunglasses
I partially ran over a dead roo this morning on the way to work...... enough to spray little bits of meat and crap up the side of my work ute

[LUMPY 8]

i collected a rabbit heading home from a mates house and found it wedged amongst my steering rack and stuff. I collected another rappit in my old vp and smashed 1 of my driving lights and i clipped a roo and made it do a 360 and fall over resulting in my headlight being smashed.

[S2_VR_]

"Tom_1569" that is one of the funniest things i've ever heard... haha