Birds birds birds! (No, I don't mean the radiator kind)

[Hambone]

My car seems to *LOVE* to kill birds. I've had her on the road for a few days shy of 3 months, and I've already hit and killed 5 (that's right five) birds. One time I hit two different birds within a 1/4 mile stretch of road. I stopped counting near misses (5 feet or less) once I got to 30... I've even had a Great Blue Heron try to commit suicide on the front end of my car - man I'm glad I didn't hit that one... would've caused some serious damage

It seems like the birds just don't know the car is there until it's too late... the one I killed yesterday flew in across the front of the car and was going to be a near miss, but it swooped straight up when it was lined up with the hood emblem and stalled about 3 feet above the hood (just like a plane would stall), then fell straight down to be clobbered by my driver side fog light. The others have been an even split between foglight blasting and upper windshield pounding, often leaving feathers embedded in the windshield seal...

So anyway, does anyone else have a problem with this, or is my car just a blood-thirsty beast? Think it could be something to do with the aerodynamics of the car?

 

[MK3Brent]

That's funny.

Same thing here back in MD, we had (I killed them all) mourning doves. They'd walk on the ground... and they'd try to fly away in the last second, but then POW.... bumper gets em'.

 

[Hambone]

That's funny.

Same thing here back in MD, we had (I killed them all) mourning doves. They'd walk on the ground... and they'd try to fly away in the last second, but then POW.... bumper gets em'.

LOL I have no idea what kinds of birds I'm hitting... probably sparrows or robins... nothing TOO big fortunately All but one of my kills have been in-flight hits, where the birds will fly across the front of the car and not make it... I've only had one squish on take-off so far... I'm sure there will be more though

 

[crisp]

At speed, I have brought demise to numerous birds... once, even, a LARGE bird, perhaps SEAGULL, but I never got the chance to really look at it. Lotta blood on the windshield from that one. A DOVE got STUCK in my Toy 4x4 "sunvisor" trim. It was WEDGED and BLEEDING down onto the windshield as I drove... no chance to pull over for several miles, and the LEGS were FLOPPING around and feathers were FLYING. Worst part, it was "warm" when I removed it.:icon_conf


BETTER THAN BAMBI ANYDAY!!!!!:biglaugh:


-crisp

 

[JustAnotherVictim]

Bird killer.
Shame on you.

 

[EdgeSupra]

I hit a tom Turkey in my old Oldsmobile Regency. That FUCKED the front of the car up, LOL.

 

[CRE]

I've had two near misses, but that's it. Just make sure the little winged rats are good and dead.... I hate seeing animals suffer, even if they do get in the way of my joy riding.

 

[Hambone]

@ CRE: Oh I completely agree... I always feel bad when it happens, but, then again, there's not much I seem to be able to do about it... in a way, my car is like my cats... they're always bringing me "presents"... maybe Veronica is doing the same thing LOL

@ Edge: I believe that! Speaking of which, have you seen those videos where they test airplane cockpit windows by firing frozen turkeys out of a cannon? :biglaugh:

@ JAV: So THAT explains your name... you must've been a bird in a past life and had a run-in with my Supra hehehehe

@ crisp: Totally better than Bambi... fortunately, the car seems to have a built-in deer repellent... just like birds seem to be attracted, deer seem to notice and turn and run whenever I get near... believe me, I'm not complaining about that

 

[tlo86]

when i lived in texas i would drive to work at 1 am and there was a ton of animals... driving there for a couple of months i hit 3 cats 2 rabbits 1 bird came close to hitting a dog ...( i saw one dog torn open, huge dog mustve been hit with a big ass car blood everywhere)

but that was in my second mkiii

i can imagine watching hambone driving see a bird accelerate and smile rofl

 

[Poodles]

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: @ the stories

The squirels around my g/f's house like to try and get you to crash. I've always swerved (I know, you shouldn't swerve, but it's only 30mph on the road).

One day I was following a jacked up truck and a squirel tried his thing. Truck didn't swerve, but straddles the squirel. The damn squirel was doight this :runaway: underneath the truck until it was gone and I nearly hit it it was so dumbfounded.

I try and take out birds, haven't gotten any enough to kill em (well, the cars behind me probably finished the job) but I see it as payback for shitting on my freshly washed car.

 

[MK3Brent]

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: @ the stories

The squirels around my g/f's house like to try and get you to crash. I've always swerved (I know, you shouldn't swerve, but it's only 30mph on the road).

One day I was following a jacked up truck and a squirel tried his thing. Truck didn't swerve, but straddles the squirel. The damn squirel was doight this :runaway: underneath the truck until it was gone and I nearly hit it it was so dumbfounded.

I try and take out birds, haven't gotten any enough to kill em (well, the cars behind me probably finished the job) but I see it as payback for shitting on my freshly washed car.

You know, it probably sounds crazy... But it seems whenever you TRY to hit the bastards, you always miss.

Therefore, to avoid hitting anymore birds... aim for them.

 

[Poodles]

lol, so true

even worse is when you try and straddle some varmit running across the road...and you still feel a bump :3d_frown:

fucking varmits around here consist of damn near everything: rabbits, frogs, squirels, toads, moving speedbumps from hell (armadillos and turtles), deer, dogs, cats, coyotes...

 

[JustAnotherVictim]

My brother did it.

 

[Ckanderson]

Last thing I hit was a squirl on my motorcycle.... I hit its back end with my wheel and sent the thing spinning down the road...

 

[fiyota]

I've killed so many quail it's not even funny... my front lip is perfect head hight for those buggers.... they run accross the road in groups of sometimes 5 or more.. they wait untill a car comes and then book it across on foot... then bam I look back and see a cloud of feathers and several headless birds sitting on the ground flopping around..... I actually had one of the heads stick into the lower grill.. no body attatched...

 

[RazoE]

I remember I hit a pigeon once..

He thought he was a thug and stared down the Supra as I barreled down the road at 30 mph...

I thought he was going to fly away, but nope, BLAM-O, took his little feathered-head off...

I looked in the rear-view mirror and saw his body flapping around..

 

[GeneStarWindGSW]

Bird: 0
Supra: 57

 

[RacerXJ220]

I was driving to work one day, and I saw these two birds sparring in the road. They were farther down the road so I thought they would move. They did. I drove close to the spot they were fighting at (probably over some chick), and one bird flies onto the road right in front of me. Of course I don't stop, which is what I think the bird had planned all along.

You see, when I came to within 10 feet of the bird, it's rival swooped down for the attack, and landed where the other bird jumped out of the way to avoid me in the Supra. I look in my rear view mirror, see a cloud of feathers.

I often wonder by me eliminating the competition, if it's was really Darwinism.

 

[crisp]

I often wonder by me eliminating the competition, if it's was really Darwinism.

No. That was "UN-natural selection"...:biglaugh:


-crisp

 

[Doward]

Survival of the smartest, bitch!