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SC7 said:
I drove past what I thought was a freshly deaded baby rabbit a few months ago, but as I passed it I realised it was moving.
I went back and saw that the poor little thing seemed fine apart from not being able to move it's back legs. It was trying to pull itself along with it's little front ones.
I took it home in the van, and dropped it at the local vets, hoping it had just broken it's legs. I asked them to let me know what happens and they called later that day to say it had a broken back so they had put it to sleep.
Spoiled my week
I guess you didn't grow up out in the country........I went back and saw that the poor little thing seemed fine apart from not being able to move it's back legs. It was trying to pull itself along with it's little front ones.
I took it home in the van, and dropped it at the local vets, hoping it had just broken it's legs. I asked them to let me know what happens and they called later that day to say it had a broken back so they had put it to sleep.
Spoiled my week
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Did anyone else see this article, damn scary what a badger can do to a mildly low car.
Did anyone else see this article, damn scary what a badger can do to a mildly low car.
Lets just say that pheasants and I don't get on.
Driving home down a country road one of the little feckers jumped out right infront of me, scared the bejesus out of me. I over-reacted, braked hard and swerved (oops), ending up heading toward a field, but there was a dip in the verge which caught the front of the car which went arse over and ended up on the roof. The only damage to me was a bump on the head where i had to undo the seat belt, then had to crawl out of the rear windscreen.
Driving home down a country road one of the little feckers jumped out right infront of me, scared the bejesus out of me. I over-reacted, braked hard and swerved (oops), ending up heading toward a field, but there was a dip in the verge which caught the front of the car which went arse over and ended up on the roof. The only damage to me was a bump on the head where i had to undo the seat belt, then had to crawl out of the rear windscreen.
Oh no
You are a lucky one
I hope I react in a selfish way if something ever jumped out on the car,
I hit a pheasant once who ran out and flew towards the car when it realised it was facing death, left a grimy mark on the windscreen, I don't recall breaking, but you never know how you would react til it gets to it...
You are a lucky one
I hope I react in a selfish way if something ever jumped out on the car,
I hit a pheasant once who ran out and flew towards the car when it realised it was facing death, left a grimy mark on the windscreen, I don't recall breaking, but you never know how you would react til it gets to it...
SC7 said:
Kind of actually. Live in quite a rural area and always been around wildlife and understood life and death, but I just can't help being a real animal person.
I'm just a bit soft :|
When it comes to people, however, I tend to have a lot less sympathy
A true product of Blair's Britannia!I'm just a bit soft :|
When it comes to people, however, I tend to have a lot less sympathy
I always do my best to avoid rabbits and pheasants (means more of the little feckers to shoot) though trying to avoid a pheasant is quite hard. They tend to run 3/4 of the width of the road when they see you coming then all of a sudden they decide its a bad idea so run back the way they came. 
I did see a peacock dead by the side of the road the other week. By the time I came home it had gone. So people, be on the lookout for a zombie peacock.
I did see a peacock dead by the side of the road the other week. By the time I came home it had gone. So people, be on the lookout for a zombie peacock.
poo at Paul's said:
My school mate, an excellent rally driver, was killed 20 years ago avoiding a rabbit that ran out.
DONT swerve to avoid an animal, (even a big one) just brake as hard as you can safely do so to give it a chance and hope.
Yes it is just the anchors on hard action I take in the main, I do if slow enough and the road is clear make a correction on the steering though, but I don't do it too hard - I still recall a mate when he was 20 taking action to avoid a fox, which resulted in him going straight over a roundabout which tore his front axel off........ AT least, he told us he was dodging a fox........DONT swerve to avoid an animal, (even a big one) just brake as hard as you can safely do so to give it a chance and hope.
SC7 said:
Kind of actually. Live in quite a rural area and always been around wildlife and understood life and death, but I just can't help being a real animal person.
I'm just a bit soft :|
When it comes to people, however, I tend to have a lot less sympathy
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh sweet I'm just a bit soft :|
When it comes to people, however, I tend to have a lot less sympathy
and agree about the people thing!
I hit a pheasant at about 70 in the Zed. It ran out from a hedge and I didn't flinch. it was literally obliterated, when I looked back in the rear view mirror there was just a cloud of feathers. Like something from a cartoon. Not so much as a mark on the car. If it had been the OH driving we'd probably have ended up in a ditch.
Hit a deer a couple of winter's back near Audley End, had no chance of even hitting the brakes as it just appeared on the driver's side. BANG! Stopped immediately as did another driver who helped me get the stricken creature out of the road and saw a bone sticking out of its back leg at a horrible angle.
Went over to get my phone from the car to call police/vets and the deer just leapt over a fence with its broken leg.
Proper freaked me right out and caused £1400 worth of damage to the Polo.
Went over to get my phone from the car to call police/vets and the deer just leapt over a fence with its broken leg.
Proper freaked me right out and caused £1400 worth of damage to the Polo.
I hit a deer, at 60, 6 years ago, in my 1994 1.1 Fiesta. It broke the numberplate and put a slight crease in the radiator and crossmember, then went under both left-hand wheels - suffice to say, it wasn't worth picking up. was very surprised it didn't do more damage.
Hit a badger 3 weeks ago, coming home late after a trip to the cinema; was going steadily was well, as I was tired, no time to react when it ran out, straight under the driver's side front wheel. Knocked the tracking out, and shook the filament out a foglight bulb, no other damage though. Badger was dead, I went back for a look. I'd hit a polecat / ferret about 3 miles before then as well.
Run over more rabbits than I can remember, doesn't bother me though to be brutally honest, as they're a right pest around here, and I've shot a hell of a lot in the last 8 years. Don't like seeing dead badgers, deer, or foxes, but s
t happens, and seeing as humans have removed all the top predators, cars sort of replace them for animal population control...
Hit a badger 3 weeks ago, coming home late after a trip to the cinema; was going steadily was well, as I was tired, no time to react when it ran out, straight under the driver's side front wheel. Knocked the tracking out, and shook the filament out a foglight bulb, no other damage though. Badger was dead, I went back for a look. I'd hit a polecat / ferret about 3 miles before then as well.
Run over more rabbits than I can remember, doesn't bother me though to be brutally honest, as they're a right pest around here, and I've shot a hell of a lot in the last 8 years. Don't like seeing dead badgers, deer, or foxes, but s
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