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Old 08-30-2006, 07:51 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Have you ever run over a small animal?

Up until today I had never run over and animal of any type, but that all changed on my way to the store as I ran over (Well, not so much ran over as hit) a squirrel. It wasn't intentional by any means, but I swear that squirrel tried to purposely get run over; It just darted out in front of my car.

Anyway, seeing as how I'd never run over anything ever, I felt bad for it so stopped my car on the side and examined the squirrel. It wasn't dead, but it was acting as if it was having a seizure (Probably caused by trauma). I felt sorry for it, but didn't know what to do. So I left it there to die.

So that's my story of the day I ran over a small animal. Anyone else ran over something (Squirrels, cats, dogs, turtles, snakes, opposums, raccoons, armadillos and all rodents apply).
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Old 08-30-2006, 07:56 AM   #2 (permalink)
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I hit a squirrel once back in 1986.....I cried for weeks, I still get teary if I think about it....thankfully I havent hit anything else to my knowledge

I did have several squirrels commit suicide in my above ground swimming pool (during the fall when there was only 6 inches of water in it) does that count for anything? (I dont feel bad about those, that was THEIR fault lol)
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Old 08-30-2006, 08:03 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Ran over bunch of prairie dog and cats. I don't give a shit about either one since where I live, gophers are a pest and as for cats, owners should put a leash on them if they don't want them being run over.
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Old 08-30-2006, 08:05 AM   #4 (permalink)
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I ran over my own dog a couple of weeks ago. Yes, my own dog.

He's an idiot.

We don't let Skip out, mostly because he chases cars/people/other dogs etc. He's been hit by 2 cars and has lived to bark about it.

A couple of weeks ago I was backing my car out the gate before I left for work. I usually just open the gate, shout his name loudly (code for Get Back!) and reverse through the gate. This particular morning, however, he decided to run in behind the car as I was going through the gate. I felt a bump accompanied by a yelp and saw him running off on three legs.

He was ok when I checked on him later that day. No breaks or anything.

Like I said, he's an idiot.
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Old 08-30-2006, 08:06 AM   #5 (permalink)
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I did have several squirrels commit suicide in my above ground swimming pool (during the fall when there was only 6 inches of water in it) does that count for anything? (I dont feel bad about those, that was THEIR fault lol)
.....can't type......laughing......too hard.........


Ok I've had a sip of water and I'm much better now. DAMN that was funny.


Grancey has this unGodly squirrel radar system that operates from the passenger seat of our car, and it goes something like this:

Grancey: EEEEK!!! STOPSTOPSTOPSTOPSTOPSTOP!!!
Me: What? What? What is it?
Grancey: Don't you see that squirrel?
Me: What squirrel?
Grancey: That one way up there near those people's porch. It could've run across their yard and right out in front of you. Next time, don't say anything, just STOP when I say STOP!

The woman is Olympic-caliber when it comes to gasping at things I didn't hit but could have.
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Old 08-30-2006, 08:11 AM   #6 (permalink)
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go ahead and laugh....I swear it was like a cult thing....I KNOW they were not there the day before....I come home from work and go to the back of the property where the pool was and look in....no less than 6 bloated squirrels laying face down in literally 6 inches of water....not like they couldnt have gotten out....

Grancey and I would get along very well Im thinking....she sounds just like me hehehehe
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Old 08-30-2006, 08:44 AM   #7 (permalink)
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More squirrels that I can recall
a groundhog
2 raccoons
1 whitetail deer
a pheasant
(I used to live in a very rural area. )
a pronghorn antelope...with a 6 ton armored personnel carrier. Definately chopped up a bit.
and...the only one that I feel bad about was a little black dog, that darted into the street one night. We tried to get him to a 24 hour vet clinic, but didn't make it in time. Poor little dog.
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Old 08-30-2006, 08:58 AM   #8 (permalink)
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I had a pigeon fly in front of my car a few weeks ago, and I hit the fucker square with my grill. Given the amount of feathers stuck in my grill when I got to where I was going, I'm pretty sure it died on impact. It was a pigeon, so it deserved death explicitely.
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Old 08-30-2006, 09:13 AM   #9 (permalink)
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I've run over many frogs. They're almost impossible to see at night, and they make a really cool squishing sound if you have your windows open.
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Old 08-30-2006, 09:13 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Never. I almost hit a rabbit once heading South on 680, but I swirved my car at over 80 mph, hit the outside guard rail, spun around about 4 times, and ended up in the center divide. My car was ruined, but the rabbit was okay.

The odd part is that I love rabbit stew.
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Old 08-30-2006, 09:14 AM   #11 (permalink)
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I've hit a few birds and a couple of rabbits. I don't worry about it.

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Never. I almost hit a rabbit once heading South on 680, but I swirved my car at over 80 mph, hit the outside guard rail, spun around about 4 times, and ended up in the center divide. My car was ruined, but the rabbit was okay.

The odd part is that I love rabbit stew.
Wow, that's crazy. I'm not going to swerve and risk my life unless the animal is large enough to damage the car.

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Old 08-30-2006, 09:23 AM   #12 (permalink)
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A raccoon. I ran over it on the county road. Was in a hurry so couldn't really stop. I saw it flop/roll into the ditch and made a note of where it landed. On the way home that same way I stopped to look for it. Could not find it anywhere. I found some matted grass and fur on the road so I know I was in the right place. Didn't see any blood anywhere and no body. The thing as almost as big as a small dog. I'm assuming it survived. Or at least did for long enough to go elseware to kick the bucket.

I've been in the car when my husband had a bird fly into the windshield and another time when my mom hit and ran over a deer.

We stopped to see to the deer because it ended up in the middle of the highway, sitting up, on a dark night. We wanted to see if we could shoo, or skoot the critter off the highway. Another person stopped their car just before the deer and angled their car so that their lights hit the deer and alerted other drivers to the danger sooner. Still another person almost hit the deer soon after (stupid driver). Before we could actually try to shoo the deer or move it (it was looking around dazedly) it got up and limped the rest of the way across the road. Nothing looked mangled maybe hairline fractures but no bones sticking out or anything. It was amazing. Mom actually ran over the thing and it spun behind us. I don't know how it survived.

In all cases I had this sick feeling in the pit of my stomach and felt badly for the critters. It's life. Death is normal and in all of those cases it was unavoidable.
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Old 08-30-2006, 09:24 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Wow, that's crazy. I'm not going to swerve and risk my life unless the animal is large enough to damage the car.
If I had more than a split second to think about it, my own self preservation would have probably won out over my pity of a defensless animal.
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Old 08-30-2006, 09:33 AM   #14 (permalink)
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I had a rabbit commit suicide in front of my car on my way to Phoenix one night.

Saw him about half a mile up, sitting about in line with my driver's side tires. He took four hops to the right and I was about a quarter mile away, took four hops to the left and was right in front of my tire again. About 100 yards away my passenger pipes up, "That's a bunny." Thump. . . my reply - "Was a bunny." And thus the term wuzbunny was born.

My ex tried to kill us several times by suddenly slamming on the brakes, swerving erratically, heading into oncoming traffic, etc. in an effort to "not hit the _____" which was normally still several hundred feet from the car, personally if hitting it isn't going to break my car I leave it up to the animal to get out of the way!
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Old 08-30-2006, 09:35 AM   #15 (permalink)
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frogs are incredibly loud when you smush them.
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Old 08-30-2006, 09:52 AM   #16 (permalink)
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A racoon once.

We've also clipped a deer and found a sparrow lodged in the grill of the car.

While driving alone once, my wife got hit by a deer. It rammed the rear side of the car and tore off the loaded bike rack. Somehow it survived and ran of into the woods by the side of the road.

I always find this sort of thing traumatic.
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Old 08-30-2006, 10:08 AM   #17 (permalink)
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A few rabbits and several prairie dogs.

Once ran over three prairie dogs at once. There was one that had been run over and the 3 were eating it. As I got closer I slowed down and eased to the right of the road to avoid them. At the last second all three darted in front of my car. I felt the bumps but didn't know the damage till I looked in the rear view mirror and saw three new prairie dog corpses in the road. I was too amazed at the group suicide to feel bad about it.
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Old 08-30-2006, 10:13 AM   #18 (permalink)
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I hit one of the neighbor’s (I didn’t really know) cat once. I felt awful, but never said anything to them. I went the long way to work for a few days cause I didn’t want the possibility of seeing the cat as roadkill.

I hit a possum once. I didn’t even kill it! It just scampered off like nuttin happen. I felt no remorse for that, I hate them sonsofbitches.
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Old 08-30-2006, 10:14 AM   #19 (permalink)
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A cat. Suicide by car.

Saw the stupid shit sitting on the side of the road from about as far away as my vision allowed (long, straight, flat road). Took a good 20 or 30 seconds to reach it. Damn thing was looking right at the car- not around, not in another direction- right at me and my car. Two seconds before I cross his threshold, he darts out in front of me. There was other traffic around, and I'll be damned if I'm going to 1. crash into another car full of PEOPLE or 2. lose control of my car to try and avoid a stupid cat.

I just drove on after the thump. I glanced in my rearview mirror and it seemed to wriggle for a moment, and then just stopped moving. It was either seriously trying to die, or chalk it up to Darwin. Buzzards need to eat, too.
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Old 08-30-2006, 12:42 PM   #20 (permalink)
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My art teacher was driving to school one day in his F-150 truck. A deer came galloping out into the road like it's only purpose in life was to fucking obliterate sheet metal and actually RAMMED his truck while he was driving down the highway. It's head and antlers busted out the side glass and its head got stuck in the passenger side window. It started going deershit (a la Tommy Boy) and bucking and shit to get itself out of the truck (still traveling at a high rate of speed) and yelling at my art teacher to hit the brakes. It finally pryed itself free and went tumbling out into the brush on the side of the road. I can't remember if it lived or not. Hahahahaha. It actually dented his door pretty badly also.

I ran over a rabbit one time. I cried for like 20 minutes. I felt like a huge pussy.
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Old 08-30-2006, 02:06 PM   #21 (permalink)
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While cutting through the neighboring subdivision the other morning, I spotted a pigeon standing directly in the path of on-coming traffic. Pigeons are like squirrels and other tiny vermin, they always seem to scamper to safety at the last mament. This one tried... and flew straight under my wheels. The only evidence of impact was a snow-flurry of feathers in my wake. Stupid sum-bitch pigeon.

A co-worker's wife had a goose fly headlong into the side of their two-week-old HHR. Killed itself right behind the front passenger wheel well.
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Old 08-30-2006, 02:37 PM   #22 (permalink)
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Squirrels, armadillos, a deer, cats, several birds, rabbits, turtles and likely a few others that I can't recall. Didn't do any of them on purpose, but I'm not taking my family into the ditch to protect a critter no matter how many Disney movies they've been in.

Although I have seen someone take one for the animals. I saw a baby rabbit crossing a busy road one day and I told my wife it was going to get killed. About that time the car I thought was going to hit it slammed on the brakes and three cars piled up. Thumper made it on across the road unharmed.
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Old 08-30-2006, 02:53 PM   #23 (permalink)
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I've never hit an animal, but I have run over a squirrel once. I was going about 60 mph down a two lane road when the squirrel shot out in front of me. There wasn't anything I could do without risking wrecking my car, so I watched helplessly as the squirrel went under my car. I didn't feel a thump, I looked in the rearview mirror to see the squirrel turn around an run back to the side of the road. My car had enough ground clearance and the squirrel was lucky enough to miss my tires.
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Old 08-30-2006, 02:58 PM   #24 (permalink)
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When I was dating a girl in high school I'd spend almost every night with her until midnight or so, and one night when I was driving home (about 15 minutes late) there was a rabbit who was sitting in front of me in the alley way, and I saw this rabbit everytime I drove home. He always walked in front of my car. Well, tonight I was trying to get home after an irate call from my mom and I had no choice but to roll over the little fuzzy retard.
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Old 08-30-2006, 03:05 PM   #25 (permalink)
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My wife got a kitten once. That really sucked.

I've found birds on my grill. Didn't keep me up nights.

Snakes whenever I can manage to hit them.

A tip: If you swerve to miss an animal, and mess your car up, it counts against you more (with your auto insurance company) than if you hit the animal.
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Old 08-30-2006, 03:06 PM   #26 (permalink)
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Up until today I had never run over and animal of any type, but that all changed on my way to the store as I ran over (Well, not so much ran over as hit) a squirrel. It wasn't intentional by any means, but I swear that squirrel tried to purposely get run over; It just darted out in front of my car.

Anyway, seeing as how I'd never run over anything ever, I felt bad for it so stopped my car on the side and examined the squirrel. It wasn't dead, but it was acting as if it was having a seizure (Probably caused by trauma). I felt sorry for it, but didn't know what to do. So I left it there to die.

So that's my story of the day I ran over a small animal. Anyone else ran over something (Squirrels, cats, dogs, turtles, snakes, opposums, raccoons, armadillos and all rodents apply).
yup...a few times...
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Old 08-30-2006, 03:11 PM   #27 (permalink)
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Squirrel: He just ran in front of the car. Looked in the rearview mirror to see his squashed head with a body thrashing behind it.

Squirrel: Ran under the wheel of my bicycle when I was about 8.

Dog: Girl on the side of the road with a dog on a long leash. The dog suddenly darts into traffic and bounces of the rear dog of our car. Dog was fine. We were shaken. Stopped to see if the dog was okay, "Oh... he does this all time." Maybe it's time to get a shorter leash moron.

Frogs: Driving back to the cottage on a dirt road at night. "Does the road look like it's moving?" Stop the car, get out and look. Massive frog migration. Look beind the car, there are two tracks of squished frogs leading back as far as my taillights can illuminate. Wife insists on me driving slow, with her on the road in front, "shooing the frogs out of the way". I just wish I'd had the foresight to install frog lights for such a froggy night.
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Old 08-30-2006, 03:28 PM   #28 (permalink)
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I just wish I'd had the foresight to install frog lights for such a froggy night.
HAHAHAHA

a few spring breaks ago my buddy and I were driving back from big bend national park... I musta hit 20 or 30 rabbits... they were everywhere...and were all over the highway... I couldnt believe that there were so many of them, and they just kept coming... felt em under the wheels, heard em bouncing off the undercarriage...

I felt bad for it... but not bad enough to slow down... and I didnt lose any sleep over it.


I drive a 93 ford explorer... If I'm going highway speeds I'm not swerving for anything untill it starts to get deer size... I'd rather kill an animal then try to survive a highspeed rollover...
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Old 08-30-2006, 04:45 PM   #29 (permalink)
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A bird once killed itself while flying directly into my windshield...
I ran over a frog.... noticed it when I got out of my car and walked around the back to go inside and thought aww what a cute lil froggie! but it didnt hop away then I noticed all of its insides had been (sorry its gross) barfed up and he poped back into his usual shape...
Other than that I have seen small animals hit and screamed MURDERER out my window before I could stop myself, then again I have also seen people swerve into another lane TO hit them...
Alas, accidents do happen.
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Old 08-30-2006, 04:56 PM   #30 (permalink)
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I avoided a California Condor once.

plenty of bugs have met their fate on my windshield.
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Old 08-30-2006, 05:18 PM   #31 (permalink)
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Old 08-30-2006, 06:50 PM   #32 (permalink)
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I had a pigeon fly in front of my car a few weeks ago, and I hit the fucker square with my grill. Given the amount of feathers stuck in my grill when I got to where I was going, I'm pretty sure it died on impact. It was a pigeon, so it deserved death explicitely.
I saw a small, fast bird fly in front of another car once. There was just this sudden explosion of feathers. Quite amazing, actually.
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Old 08-30-2006, 08:37 PM   #33 (permalink)
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One cat, a few birds smack into the windshield and two skunks. One of managed to spray the car as a parting gift. I can't say I blame it though.
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Old 08-31-2006, 03:40 AM   #34 (permalink)
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I hit a bird last week, luckily didn't hurt my car. Other than that, a few other birds in my van years ago, a couple rabbits in my car (they were chasing eachother around in the middle of the street, i missed them on my way to drop off a friend, but hit one on the way back through)
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Old 08-31-2006, 05:37 AM   #35 (permalink)
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I've never killed an animal with my car; I've only knocked them around a bit.

I nudged a bull with my mother's VW Fox; He gave the car a kick, denting the fender--for which I got into a buttload of trouble--and gave me a really nasty look before making his way to the side of the dirt road.

I hit a big bugger of a buzzard. He was munching on a possum in the road. He gave me a look and tried to sneak in one last bite before taking off. I guess I was going faster than he thought because he clipped the hood and spun (like in the action movies) over the cab, hit the bed of the truck and slid out the open tailgate on to the road. I stopped to collect myself and watched the bird get to his feet, shake his wings out, give me a dirty look, squawk and take off.

I've hit quite a few animals and all of them kind end with the animal stumbling away (after giving me a dirty look, of course).
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Old 08-31-2006, 05:46 AM   #36 (permalink)
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I just remembered that once when driving to the cottage I saw a big turtle in the middle of the road. I swerved and missed it. About 10 to 15 seconds later screeched to halt and went back to help it off the road.

Traffic was very light and I only saw two other cars while on my way back to the turtle. I quickly ran up to it, keeping an eye out for more vehicles, and made to pick it up. It was a big snapping turtle. Someone had clearly hit it. It was alive (I had seen it's head come up in the rearview mirror... it's what spurred me to go back for it) but it's shell had a crack just behind it's head. It didn't look too bad.

Of course, as I started to reach for the turtle, the little bugger lunged (if I can use the verb lunge in conjuntion with describing a turtle's movement) to bite me. Here I am in the middle of the road, saving her stupid ass and she want's to bite me. How's that for gratitude?

In the end, I picked it up and put down on the side closest to water (a nearby lake). I have no idea if that was the direction it wanted to go. I did what I could for it. It thanked me with a flash of beak and nasty hiss.
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Old 08-31-2006, 05:49 AM   #37 (permalink)
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My "worst" road kill experience was a few years ago in Missouri, near Hannibal along the Mississippi River. I was working at a pesticide/herbicide plant for a few days checking some of our valves and work ended late afternoon so I went for a drive in my rentacar to explore the area. I turned down a few unmarked dirt roads that looked like they would lead toward the river and eventually hit on one that went miles in, across farmlands, then after a few miles over a high dirt mound levy, you could see the river while parked on top of it, the orange sun was setting on this warm Summer day and I felt sort of a mystical aura of being in the "heartland" of America, a few minutes later as I'm kinda spaced out absorbing it all a young boy and girl, both barefoot came walking out of the woods toward the levy and I thought I was in a time warp back into a Mark Twain setting. After I left that spot, it was getting kind of dusky and I was driving down a local road pretty fast and came over the crest of a hill when suddenly I see a "herd" of racoons crossing the road, it was too late for me to stop without loosing control so all I could do was grit my teeth and hold on, I heard quite a few clunks under the car as I hit a few of them; looking in my rear view mirror I saw three laying in the road, but I just kept going figuring there was nothing I could do anyway. Later that evening, it was dark by now and I was heading back to my motel on that same road, I didn't really recognize that I was nearing that same spot again, when suddenly in my headlights I see a big fat racoon laying in the road, I'm sure it was one of the ones I hit before, and just as I get near it and just before it passes under my car, !!!it raises its head again and this time I can hear his head hit really hard under my car ...I sure hope it died that time

The suicidal drowning squirrel story reminded me of the one a couple weeks ago I found in the plastic trash can in my driveway, it had rained all night and a few inches of water had collected in it, I hadn't put the cover on yet after trash collection, so when I went out to cover it, there was a stupid dead squirrel floating in 4 to 6 inches of water. I don't know why he would go into it, but I can see how he couldn't get out once he did ...way too many squirrels around here anyway which reminds me that when I used to hunt and pheasant were lying low in the afternoon and we'd shoot a few squirrels, they are quite tasty, at least the ones that grew up around farmland and ate mostly corn and nuts. I think they taste better than rabbit, but I also like duck more than chicken.

When I was about 6yo driving with my uncle down Delaware Ave in Philadelphia in his big old '56 Buick, he ran over a turtle and when I got out to look at it, strangely enough it was a box turtle and still looked OK; so I took it home and that guy was my pet for about 6 more years before it died.

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Old 08-31-2006, 05:55 AM   #38 (permalink)
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I've run over a few rabbits, and squirrels, oh and something I think was a possum.

The first thing I ever hit was a rabbit, and I was on the way to church (running late as usual), and it darted out too fast, couldn't help but hit it.

Then while driving the church van, filled with kids, I hit the possum (or what I think to be a possum). One kid laughed like no tomorrow, but the rest didn't know what the bump was.
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Old 08-31-2006, 06:06 AM   #39 (permalink)
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One time whilst driving to the movies with some friends, an owl flew into the drivers side window of my truck. We drove for about five more seconds, then decided to turn around and see if it was okay. We we got back to the owl, another car had stopped there also. The owl was laying in the street and was turning its head completely around. It kept turning its head all around, which was really crazy looking.

The other car that stopped was full of three stoners, and they suggested backing over it to put it out of its misery. I said fuck no, and that it was probably just dazed. So one of the stoners took off his shirt, picked the owl up with it and put it down on the side of the road. After about five more minutes of head turning the thing stood up and kinda started moving around and looking at us. A few minutes after that it flew away like nothing had happened.
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Old 08-31-2006, 06:18 AM   #40 (permalink)
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Rabitts, Squirells, Raccoons, Skunks, Frogs, and many many mice.

And a deer ran into me once. First thing I ever hit was a rabbit. Felt bad. Got over it. The rest of them didn't phase me. No way I'm moving my car for a small animal. I'll slow down a little, given time, and maybe gently swerve to one side of my lane or the other... But thats it.

Watched a girl I know serve to miss a turkey, and ended up rolling the car. And killing the turkey.
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