Whats The Weirdest Wildlife You've Managed To Hit By Car?

[Raven]

Here goes my story.

 

Tonight I decided to go out for a cruise with my best friend Renee. So, we decide to head down to Glenelg and we went the back way through a suburb called West Beach.

 

Well, i'm driving along and see something on the road and think "oh, its just a paper bag or something so it wont matter if i hit it".

 

Well, I was damn wrong on that decision.

 

I hit this so called paper bag at 60km/h and i hear a massive thud under the car, like a rock had hit under the car.

 

So I pull over and check out the car and everything seemed fine and then went back to check on what I'd hit. To my suprise I'd just had my first encounter with a Tortoise that had been previously hit by someone else but I managed to clean it up fairly well this time. We'll call the Tortoise, Koopa (Koopa Troopa from Mario Kart :ninja:)

 

At this point there is some drunk guy trying to get me to stop my car so I leave, head into Glenelg and then turn around and come back 10 mins later, and there it is, sitting upside down where i left it.

 

So I stop the car, put my parkers on (as its near a corner) and walk over to the Tortoise. It's retracted into its shell and gone into protective mode. I attempt to pickup the Tortoise and it hisses at me, so at this point I know its alive.

 

I gently kick/tap the shell to the side of the road and wonder what the hell I'm going to do with this Tortoise. I had no rags to pick it up with and nothing in my car to put it in, so I suss out which part of the shell houses his head and pick him up and place him in the boot on my boot carpet.

 

Then I drive to a service station and get a box to put him in. Renee is already freaked out by lizards and anything reptilian, so I had to force her to have this box with her on the floor in the front seat with Koopa inside.

 

Anyway, I'm like 20km from home and I only know of one 24 hour Vet that is open up my way, so we make the trip to the Vet. On the way there, Koopa decides that he wants to get a little active and starts moving around in the box, Renee starts to stress and I pull over and have a look.

 

So by this time, we know Koopa is alive and well but his shell has a big gouge in it from where i hit him in the KE25, but other than that, everything looked fine and his shell didnt seem cracked or anything.

 

So we get to the Vet and tell him what happened and he has a laugh and says that a Tortoise shell is pretty indestructable and that he would check over Koopa and then pass him on to the Fauna Rescue people to keep an eye on him and then they'll release him back into the wild.

 

And in all the ruckus, I happened to leave my fuel cap at a service station on the way there, as I was smelling fuel, so I drove back without any sudden turns and got the cap and took Renee home and that was my adventurous night.

 

Anyone else hit anything unusual in their car?

Edited December 21, 2006 by Raven

[Des]

Driving on Ripley rd at night out here with my mate we spotted a "lizard" on the road so i drove on the opposite side of the road and the "lizard" ran across the road and went under my right hand side tires, So i stopped got out and went to have a look at the "lizard" and it flew away. I got back in the car and thought WTF was that and because we were in the middle of nowhere and not a house for 15km i locked my door and left.

 

The next day i was thinking about it for a while and ive come to the conclusion that the so called lizard must have been a weird lookin bird. :ninja:

Edited December 22, 2006 by too quick

[7shades]

I'm up here in the tropics so I runover all sorts of small furry endangered things with disturbing frequency... Took out a wallaby in the AE92 the other week... bandicoots are common... on the roads heading west into the rainforest, cassowaries are a very real threat, and you wouldn't wanna take out one of those big bastards in anything smaller than a kenworth...

 

Many moons ago I was running a TG gemini and I managed to collect a toy poodle. Fluffy little miserable excuse for a dog went straight through my grille, aircon consenser, radiator (I was hooting along at considerable speed) and then, as if destroying my front end wasn't enough, the filthy shit had the audacity to cook various bits of itself on the engine after being eviscerated by the fan.

 

mmm..... the smell of cooking dog.... reminds me of thailand :ninja:

[Des]

mmm..... the smell of cooking dog.... reminds me of thailand :hmm:

:ninja: mmmmmm yum.

[st.nick]

I think everyone knows that I hit a rogue DEER here in Tassie in my KE36. All the impact was above bumper height, but it did much damage to the radiator support, bonnet etc. Should be getting it fixed in about 2 weeks (accident was in april...)

[MRMOPARMAN]

once on my L's in me dads gutlux we were travelling down the highway through woodend, and i hit a galah right on its arse. yeah i know hitting galahs isnt uncommon, but this little bastard left a GIGANTIC TURD on the windscreen, which wouldnt even come off with a pressure washer... i had to use a paint scraper to peel the shit off.

 

i reckon it took a drink at a glue factory before deciding it liked the windscreen method of wiping bums. :ninja:

[Dan]

Hit an echidna in a hire Territory lol, bastards are made of muscle and all the spikes went into two tyres... at 5am late for a plane flight

 

Still find it funny that my old man managed to hit a roo in a XF ute, and the roo went straight up over the roo bar and over the car, landing behind it on the road (at 120 clicks) and did no damage to the car... full on GTA spec hahaha

 

My uncle hit a emu on his bike. Messed him up pretty bad...

 

I wouldn't want to hit a cassowarie though. Was good fun stirring one up at Australia Zoo though haha, fark..

[hotmr2]

hmm interesting stories here guys.

few yrs back i parked my car on my front lawn i noticed a very small bird similier to sparrow stuck on front bar as i try to take it off. it wouldnt then i realise its leg caught in between two plastic bars next to radiator!!!. i had to lift one bar off abit to get its leg out. and i was thinking my god it has been stuck there for 3 days or so when me driving around!!!! yeah it kinda stink so it must have been there for a while!! jeez

[anastasios]

i hit one of those evil gutter monkeys once

[SoulSearcher]

I've hit a kangaroo, it didn't survive my car almost didn't. I hit a rabbit, no damage to anything ... except the rabbit!. I've hit a possum (one less to pee in my garden). I mowed down a koala on the freeway spoiler damage - that was a stupid accident though, there was a guy parked in the emergency stopping lane with his hazards on just after the crafers bridge bend), and he was standing on the inside lane waving his arms around, (I was in the inside lane and had slowed down when I saw the car but then I had to swerve to miss the guy and I hit the koala). It died :hmm: I was on an MR2 cruise and the lead car hit an owl on the drivers side pillar and the owl went catapoulting over and over (it looked a bit funny thinking back...) and then the fourth car in the convoy hit it and it exploded in a feathery puff. My brother hit a wombat in his ute. Oh, and I had a magpie fly straight into the back quarterpanel of my old car.

 

ahhh reading that ^^^ I'm such a nusiance to wildlife.

 

 

Lesley :ninja:

[crazy_bunny]

Been passenger when we hit a what i think was a cassowarie in a mack.. good fun, sprayed blood and crap up the side and coverd the control panel for the pump. Great fun picking bits of flesh off a switch to use it. Same night had a 8ish foot snake land on the roof/bonnet of the unimog i was in, where it promtly fell under the wheels.

 

And about 6 weeks ago I hit a bloody huge roo on my dirtbike at 80ish.. I went flying one way, bike the other way and got myself a few weeks in hospitle from that.. and once i got out i was driving along and collected myself another roo. No damage this time but still crappy luck.

[love ke70]

havnt hit a thing yet :ninja:

keep your eyes open folks

[JiP]

I hit something. In my old car i use to aim for toads on the road. Had good aim too. I once hit an owl, it too wouldn't move off the road.

[mikeys toy[RL]]

I hit a big ass possum with my '77 V-8 Mustang II at 120mph; it was like hitting a brick wall

Hit a bird with the stereo antenna of Kristy's Neon; cut its wing right off!

COUNTLESS rabbits

then of course there was the 8 point buck that killed Bubba.....;

[thomo]

some fool was standing in front of the bowser having a smoke, and i wanted fuel, he was in my way... so i hit him

 

does that count?