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26-02-2007, 12:07 PM
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Ride: 2x VS
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 2,145
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Flippin Roo's !!!
Anyone here hit one before ?
I had my first experience with one last night on the freeway of all places !!!
Someone else had all of the bad luck infront of me and knocked skippy over, but I couldn't avoid hitting the carcass as I was changing lanes at the time I saw it and any swerving to avoid it would have sent me off the verge of the road... all I could do was hang on and hit it. Man did it thump when I hit it... I thought there goes my front end, bumper and sill panel.
Doing 110 on 2 wheels with the passenger side airborne wasn't much fun... but it was better than swerving and lossing it sideways on the median strip and rolling it.
Luckily I escaped unscathed with no damage thanks to the good ol 4wd Calais suspension !  ... But poor skippy!!!! he would have been a mess after I jumped over him... I saw the bloke that hit him parked further down the road as I was doing my Dukes of Hazzard 2 wheel airborne impersonation manuveour passed him. I think he was walking back to check it out...
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26-02-2007, 12:14 PM
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Ride: vt ex cop car
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: my foot is gray
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my old man cliped one with his vs statesman, the whold side of the car looked like a crinkle cut chip!! the roo kept spinning and ***ed it bumper to bumper..
insurance didnt beleve him, even with the roo blood and fur stuck in the panels..
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26-02-2007, 12:57 PM
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3Y3 K4N 5P33K 1337.
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Ride: Suspended till 11/9/08
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Perth, Clarkson
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worst i've done is flatten a ****ie, and because i tend to ' feel ' each wheel i felt the thump in my left leg for ages afterward was a group of three, two flew the last on kind of stood there on the narrow back sticks road, i wasn't going to swerve and i so it bit the bullet... or tire. was lucky it didn't go flat on me.
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26-02-2007, 01:07 PM
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Ride: 1989 VN SS (Auto)
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: a**-end of Tasmania
Posts: 63
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I haven't hit anything yet, but a friend of mine hit a roo at 80 and wrecked his bike
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26-02-2007, 01:10 PM
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2002 VX II S
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Ride: Commodore VX II S - Manual!
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 316
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My old man hit one with his '72 XY Falcon at about 103 km/h quite a few years back now while we were driving through country Victoria about 2am on the way to South Australia. Keeping in mind these cars are built like tanks, he kept on driving for about 10 mins after the incident as it didnt feel like it did any damage at all till the car started to over heat and we pulled over. It didnt do alot of damage but it did enough and lucky for us it was on its way down from a jump otherwise it would have ended up in the back seat.
Dented the bonnet downwards, bent the bumper which in turn cracked the grille and busted up the radiator... Needless to say his old man wasnt happy when he got the phone call at that time of the morning to organise a mate of his to bring a tow truck to pull us in to town which was 100km out
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26-02-2007, 01:33 PM
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Carbon Neutral -Screw It!
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Ride: VT SS 5.7
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 392
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kasem
my old man cliped one with his vs statesman, the whold side of the car looked like a crinkle cut chip!! the roo kept spinning and ***ed it bumper to bumper..
insurance didnt beleve him, even with the roo blood and fur stuck in the panels..
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I would have gone and gotten the carcass and walked into their head office and slammed the thing down on the front desk along with claim form...probabaly wouldnt work but you'd be giving the girl behind the desk a story to tell for the rest of her life
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26-02-2007, 05:24 PM
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Ride: Black 2005 VZ S Ute
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Canberra, ACT
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yeah, hit one once. not much damage but enough to **** me off
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26-02-2007, 05:32 PM
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Ride: MY08 Outlander XLS
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Bunbury, WA
Posts: 4,248
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Had one bounce right at the rh headlight then over the bonnet and his legs clipped the roof. No damage, I saw him and slowed right down. He even had the good sense to wait for the 2 cars that were in front of me. If I was going faster he would have bounced off the roof I reckon.
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26-02-2007, 05:37 PM
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Ride: 96 ef2 fairmont
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: glenelg
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I got pretty lucky when i hit a little roo at about 90-100 missed all the lights and bent up the panel beneath the bumper in my old '91 lancer which i pulled off the front tyre and finished my trip then belted it back into shape with a rubber mallet and you could hardly see the evidence and the lill bugger kept going
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26-02-2007, 05:56 PM
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WTF?!?!
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Ride: VS Acclaim V6
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 1,527
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I never hit one but I really can't imagine how scary it would be. I mean a kangaroo is quite a big animal!!
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26-02-2007, 06:17 PM
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yep.....
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Ride: VR EXEC
Join Date: Dec 2005
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I hit a walaby going about 80km/h in a borrowed madaz 626 with the owner in the passenger seat, he screamed at me (calling my name just so I knew who I was) i did a 4wheel skid (from 100km/h) and hit just centre of the lh headlight. no major damage but pushed the radiator back onto the fan
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26-02-2007, 07:34 PM
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Ride: VX Acclaim Wagon S1 2001
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Birdwood SA. Adelaide Hills
Posts: 34
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I've hit plenty. The best one i've seen though was my old man in his xf ute with a stock crate on the back, got the roo on the hop clipped the top of the roo bar , over the windscreen, into the crate with two broken legs. It took a long time to get rid of all that dog meat.
Here's a couple that my mum and sister have done in the last couple of weeks.
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26-02-2007, 08:05 PM
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Ride: VL Turbo
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 799
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Not a roo, but I remember as a kid coming home from Cowra to Sydney after visiting my nana during the early 80's when they were having the huge mouse plagues we came over a crest and it looked like the road was moving, but it was mice.
My brother and I were picking dead mice out from under the car for days!
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26-02-2007, 08:52 PM
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Choose your weapon...
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Ride: VPSS M5/Ducati SS/LC 2 Door
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Adelaide
Posts: 486
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Nearly hit a cow in my brothers ex cop VH 5litre at a great rate of knots round some twisty stuff, then consequently nearly rear ended by a gsxr, quite a few years ago.
Hit a ****y little ****atoo at 110kph out the north side of town in the SS, which totally obliterated the grille and broke the section beween the headlights on the top of the bumper.
That was annoying enough...Feathers are a bastard to get out of the radiator fins.
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