Just killed a fox and...
Discussion
In the last 6 years since I started driving/riding I have:
Hit a badger which just made a thud under my wheels.
Hit a deer and broke its rear legs, cracked bumper.
Hit 2x birds which went under it so may have lived.
Hit a pheasant(?) when driving my moped at 16. Hit me square in the chest - it f
king hurt. Bird seemed fine though.
Gone over 3x rabbits/hares
Living in the countryside in the Highlands there is just alot more wildlife. Single track lanes so cars are infrequent so they are found on them often.
Hit a badger which just made a thud under my wheels.
Hit a deer and broke its rear legs, cracked bumper.
Hit 2x birds which went under it so may have lived.
Hit a pheasant(?) when driving my moped at 16. Hit me square in the chest - it f
king hurt. Bird seemed fine though.Gone over 3x rabbits/hares
Living in the countryside in the Highlands there is just alot more wildlife. Single track lanes so cars are infrequent so they are found on them often.
Pheasants up the ying-yang here, taken a few home for scoffage. Mind you, got the fright of my life when the frau brought this home:
Twas a Muntjac that had she found lying in the road. The thing had been hit by a car and was stunned and shocked but otherwise unharmed. It basically stood like that in our garden for 20 minutes before it came to its senses and facked off into the woods.
Twas a Muntjac that had she found lying in the road. The thing had been hit by a car and was stunned and shocked but otherwise unharmed. It basically stood like that in our garden for 20 minutes before it came to its senses and facked off into the woods.
Edited by Osinjak on Tuesday 24th January 22:13
Stickyfinger said:
Happy to offer my name to anyone....all the 100's of posters on those threads are the same are they ?
I note:
You: No car listed:Me: Cars listed
You: No region listed : Me: Region Listed
Names: You or me would be daft on the internet
Who hides again ??
fI note:
You: No car listed:Me: Cars listed
You: No region listed : Me: Region Listed
Names: You or me would be daft on the internet
Who hides again ??
Edited by Stickyfinger on Tuesday 24th January 18:42
king hell this is tragic. When I was at primary school a classmates dad swerved to avoid a cat, into the oncoming tragic and was killed headon.
40 years later this still is in my memory. When things, or rather animals' jump out at you you did well not to swerve and avoid it leading to a worse, human collision. We've all done a quick reaction swerve, but in the back of my mind I have that memory of school...I think it still reflects in my thought process on those occasions. Me first. Freddy the fox, Doris the deer, come second.
40 years later this still is in my memory. When things, or rather animals' jump out at you you did well not to swerve and avoid it leading to a worse, human collision. We've all done a quick reaction swerve, but in the back of my mind I have that memory of school...I think it still reflects in my thought process on those occasions. Me first. Freddy the fox, Doris the deer, come second.
Many years ago I worked on Motorway and accident recovery and have seen more fatalities than I like to remember where drivers have swerved to avoid wildlife and pets.
You don't tend to see too many in built up areas but out of town too many have taken action which has led to their death, or as a previous poster said possibly others when you cross a road.
Over the years I have killed two deer's, one on the M4 by Swindon which took out the whole front and nearside on a 405 Peugeot estate. The second on a fast A road, this time with less damage.
Many Pheasants and rabbits, which living in the country is an occupational hazard.
I got no pleasure but no sadness either. It is the way it goes but I would never deliberately kill anything whilst driving but neither will I put human lives at risk avoiding them
You don't tend to see too many in built up areas but out of town too many have taken action which has led to their death, or as a previous poster said possibly others when you cross a road.
Over the years I have killed two deer's, one on the M4 by Swindon which took out the whole front and nearside on a 405 Peugeot estate. The second on a fast A road, this time with less damage.
Many Pheasants and rabbits, which living in the country is an occupational hazard.
I got no pleasure but no sadness either. It is the way it goes but I would never deliberately kill anything whilst driving but neither will I put human lives at risk avoiding them
I few years ago on a country road I ran over a cat on the home from work. I tried to avoid it but there was nothing I could do. I managed to stop a little bit up the road and walked back to where I hit the poor wee thing. There it was at the side road, rolling about on it's back. Absolutely horrible.
I went back to the car, got the car jack and put the little fluff ball out its misery. Doing that is something I'll never forget.
When I got home I walked round the front of the car and realised there was a dead cat stuck under the bumper.
I went back to the car, got the car jack and put the little fluff ball out its misery. Doing that is something I'll never forget.
When I got home I walked round the front of the car and realised there was a dead cat stuck under the bumper.
Marti99 said:
I few years ago on a country road I ran over a cat on the home from work. I tried to avoid it but there was nothing I could do. I managed to stop a little bit up the road and walked back to where I hit the poor wee thing. There it was at the side road, rolling about on it's back. Absolutely horrible.
I went back to the car, got the car jack and put the little fluff ball out its misery. Doing that is something I'll never forget.
When I got home I walked round the front of the car and realised there was a dead cat stuck under the bumper.
There's often two... I went back to the car, got the car jack and put the little fluff ball out its misery. Doing that is something I'll never forget.
When I got home I walked round the front of the car and realised there was a dead cat stuck under the bumper.
Marti99 said:
I few years ago on a country road I ran over a cat on the home from work. I tried to avoid it but there was nothing I could do. I managed to stop a little bit up the road and walked back to where I hit the poor wee thing. There it was at the side road, rolling about on it's back. Absolutely horrible.
I went back to the car, got the car jack and put the little fluff ball out its misery. Doing that is something I'll never forget.
When I got home I walked round the front of the car and realised there was a dead cat stuck under the bumper.
Did you 'Decat' it?I went back to the car, got the car jack and put the little fluff ball out its misery. Doing that is something I'll never forget.
When I got home I walked round the front of the car and realised there was a dead cat stuck under the bumper.
So far I've killed several pheasants, couple of smaller birds, a fox, a cat, and probably a few other things.
The worst killing spree was in a trip up Hartside one night. I have no idea what was causing all the rabbits to be out, but the road was absolutely filled with them for miles on end. I hit one after another. All I could hear was thump, thump, thump, thump for a good 10 minutes or so. It was fairly brutal.
The worst killing spree was in a trip up Hartside one night. I have no idea what was causing all the rabbits to be out, but the road was absolutely filled with them for miles on end. I hit one after another. All I could hear was thump, thump, thump, thump for a good 10 minutes or so. It was fairly brutal.
A few years ago I was accelerating away from a roundabout and had got to about 40mph when a crow (or a rook, I didn't get that good a look) flew out of a hedge straight into my windscreen. It made a hell of a thud and left an oily imprint of one wing on the glass. Looking in my rear view expecting to see a corpse plummeting to earth, I saw the bloody thing flying off as if nothing had happened.
V8RX7 said:
WTF is wrong with people on here ?
Insufficient manhood probably 
clarkmagpie said:
I wrote off my mint N reg Mini Cooper off avoiding a fox many years ago.
Swerved, clipped the verge, shot me across the road, into a ditch which flipped me into a field.
I got away with a cut on the knee and a bit of a headache.
The fox got away.
I'd try not to swerve in future but sometimes it's just instinct.
I did a similar thing for a rabbit on A1065 a few miles south of Swaffham. It was getting dark, starting to rain, a downhill bend and I was doing about 60-65mph. I swerved round the stupid animal, the car started swinging like a pendulum, and just as I thought I was getting it under control, I hit the mud bank, the car flipped into the air and then rolled down into the field below. Rolled 4 times in total and finished upside down with me being held tight to the seat by the seatbelt. It was a 1995 Volvo 440 and I came out without a scratch but it was a right off. The policeman took one look at me and said "you're not from round here are you?" which of course was true, and he followed it up with "only townies swerve for cute animals!" He told me never to swerve for anything that wasn't large enough to go over the bonnet, e.g. a cow, and just to run it over. I've heeded his advice since, I now live in the country and have a fair few kills to my name.Swerved, clipped the verge, shot me across the road, into a ditch which flipped me into a field.
I got away with a cut on the knee and a bit of a headache.
The fox got away.
I'd try not to swerve in future but sometimes it's just instinct.
I hit a badger at 70mph in my C70 on A508 and thought I had done some serious damage to the car; it was a decent sized bugger and made one hell of a thump. When I got out to inspect the consequences, the only thing out of place was that the tow eye cover had come off; nothing else. Badger had obviously been killed instantly.
Also had a bit of a head on with a horse on a single lane track. I wasn't going fast and when I saw the horse without the rider running at me at full pelt I did slam the brakes on and stopped but with trees on either side, no room to go anywhere, I couldn't go anywhere so I just instinctively ducked (I had seen the horse through Ford Focus photo in one of the posts above). The stupid animal did see the car, luckily an X-trail, at the last second and instead of going through the car, slammed his brakes on and stopped by stamping on the bonnet and turned round to go back. I then had the pleasure of calling my wife and telling her I'd bent her car...
I've hit a fair few pheasants, rabbits and a few other things since that first one which nearly killed me and I don't feel bad about it to be honest. I don't go out of my way to kill the animals, don't get pleasure out of killing them, but it's just a bit meh.
The only things I would like to kill are two Siamese cats which belong to our neighbours; the evil little s
ts. They're absolutely fugly, poo all over the garden and they've even had the audacity to not only come into my house, but the fkers got on to my kitchen worktops 
(I might be a bit OCD about hygiene, but that's just a no-no). Even after getting soaked with cold water they still try to come in If they jump in front of my car, I'm definitely going for the kill. The only reason to swerve would be to chase them down...Edited for spelling error.
Edited by QuickQuack on Tuesday 24th January 23:24
The Crack Fox said:
You selfish, heartless bds. It's people like you, callously mowing down member of my family, that turned me to class A drugs.
Is that you Vince ?ds. It's people like you, callously mowing down member of my family, that turned me to class A drugs.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qUNFnjmP4o
The Crack Fox said:
My family ask that, at this difficult time, you don't hang around outside our home taking photos.
He hadn't posted for a while anyway, but... see also? http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...The entire thread is worth a read, in my view, but it may depend on your sense of humour.
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