Birds birds birds! (No, I don't mean the radiator kind)
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Thats when the owls come out.mdr40z said:
I hit a owl in my wifes tracker , coming back from the store. So i stopped and put it in a plastic bag ,but a car was coming so i jumped in the car and put the bag between my legs. About 1/2 mile down the road i looked and the owl was sitting on the shifter. I almost had the car stopped and my wife is screaming and jumps out of the car. By this time the owl is sitting on the dash looking at me eye to eye. My wife left the passenger door open so i reached up and pushed it out the door.
lol, what type of owl was this? Around here we have greathorned owls, bloody huge things... I wouldn't want to be in a car with one... 44" wingspan and they weigh about 4lbs on average.
Thanks for confirming that I'm not the only one guys - love the stories, keep 'em coming!
No need to apologize for the threadjack JetJock - it's actually somewhat in line with the topic anyway (you'll notice I had indirectly mentioned bird strikes earlier in the thread)... oh and that 171HP pic had me laughing for a good 5 minutes
I've got one more bird tale (tail?) but not from my Supra... actually it's the only other time I've been in a vehicle that hit a bird... we were driving to Buffalo on I-90 in my parents' '92 Corsica when a rather large black crow kamikazed directly into the windshield... hit about 2 inches in from the passenger side directly in the center... the impact spot looked like a bullet hole, only with a black beak embedded in it... no idea what happened to the rest of the bird Scared the crap out of everyone in the car though hehehe
No need to apologize for the threadjack JetJock - it's actually somewhat in line with the topic anyway (you'll notice I had indirectly mentioned bird strikes earlier in the thread)... oh and that 171HP pic had me laughing for a good 5 minutes
I've got one more bird tale (tail?) but not from my Supra... actually it's the only other time I've been in a vehicle that hit a bird... we were driving to Buffalo on I-90 in my parents' '92 Corsica when a rather large black crow kamikazed directly into the windshield... hit about 2 inches in from the passenger side directly in the center... the impact spot looked like a bullet hole, only with a black beak embedded in it... no idea what happened to the rest of the bird
Scared the crap out of everyone in the car though hehehe
Ckanderson said:
Yup... rather freaky actually... inside, the beak protruded about 1/8 inch from the inner surface of the glass... imagine taking an inch long nail and driving it into your windshield then leaving it there. One of the strangest things I've ever seen, considering it didn't shatter the windshield. Although, a crack DID develop horizontally across the middle of the glass over the course of the next few hours...
Which reminds me of another non-animal related windshield break I had one time... company car, blizzard conditions (I *am* near Buffalo after all
)... I went out and started the car, put the heat on high but was too lazy to brush off the 2 feet of snow off the car... came back out 10ish minutes later only to find a clean break horizontally all the way across the middle of the windshield... I guess the glass couldn't handle the difference between the 95+ degree temps inside the car and the -10 degree outside temperature (plus the weight of the snow)
Yea happened to a friend of mine. its was like 40 degrees outside, and he turned on the defroster before he drove away.. windshield shattered.
Damn acura's
Damn acura's
It can't possibly be as bad as what I'm currently doing. Plus I can guarantee your making like 4-5X as much as I am, lol.jetjock said:
My bud hit a skunk with his GTI a few years back and the damn thing got up and ran away, but not before releasing a bomb on us. Brand new car and the thing reeked like skunk ass for days.
I was driving one day in my 83 going about 45 and noticed a lil bird on the side of the road 100 yards ahead, the lil guy turns his head toward my way sees me coming and starts flying straight at me a foot above the road. Im like wtf is going on is he trying to play chicken or something and then I noticed hes not pulling up and all of a sudden THUD! he smacks my front bumper.
Im thinking oh crap he chipped/cracked my front bumper since its fibreglass so I pull into the next parking lot to view the damage and not a scratch scuff crack or anything. Bird was no where to be found either. No harm no foul.
Im thinking oh crap he chipped/cracked my front bumper since its fibreglass so I pull into the next parking lot to view the damage and not a scratch scuff crack or anything. Bird was no where to be found either. No harm no foul.
killed my first bird not too long ago. At first i thought it only hit the windshield and died but when i later parked my car the bird slid from the front of my hood all the way back to the windshield:nono:
There was a bunch of vultures chewing up a road kill. I thought it would be pretty funny to disperse the bunch of them. So I sped up, took aim and they all took off in different directions. All except one, that SOB decided to fly right down the travel lane in the direction I was driving. He quickly became VERY BIG in the windshield and I nailed the brakes. My coffee went flying. I got soaked and burnt, and the freaking birds still laugh about it today.
i had a lifted 85 4runner i had just cut the fenders on (very sharp!) and ran over a squirrel. Since i had rockcrawling tires they grabbed that little fucker and shot him right into my freshly cut fender. Cut the little guy right in half. I was not "low" at the time so i almost crashed from laughing to hard. This was going like 25 in a residential, but i dont swerve for animals unless they will do damage to me!
i ran over a spider when i pushed my car to get something i dropped under it...the sucker was big, like the body was the size of a quarter...didnt stand a chance to the tank
I ran over a racoon late one night in my old 2G elcipse. I was cruising down a back raod, maybe 25-30. The fucker runs out right in front of me all squirrel like and I hit his ass dead on, right in the middle of my front bumper, gotta love urethane
I heard the THUD BATHUMPA BUMP A BUMP and rolled his ass all the way down the entire length of the car, big fuckin coon, the car wasn't lowered either.
I stopped real quick like to asses the damage. the driver's side turn signal came out of its place and was dangling by the wires, snapped that back in, no probs, no cracks to the bumper (again, gotta love urethane). Look under the car, no visible damage seen. So I turn around to see how big the bastard was.... The damn thing got back up and ran off! He was already booking it across a field by that time!
Oh, and I've have my fair share of squirrels loose thier nuts against me. They get in the middle of the road, then they can't decide which way to run, they dart left and right, then finally when you're right on them, they give up and lay down under your tire.
I heard the THUD BATHUMPA BUMP A BUMP and rolled his ass all the way down the entire length of the car, big fuckin coon, the car wasn't lowered either.
I stopped real quick like to asses the damage. the driver's side turn signal came out of its place and was dangling by the wires, snapped that back in, no probs, no cracks to the bumper (again, gotta love urethane). Look under the car, no visible damage seen. So I turn around to see how big the bastard was.... The damn thing got back up and ran off! He was already booking it across a field by that time!
Oh, and I've have my fair share of squirrels loose thier nuts against me. They get in the middle of the road, then they can't decide which way to run, they dart left and right, then finally when you're right on them, they give up and lay down under your tire.