Another perfectly good pair of underpants ruined!

[brand]

I was coming back from a camping/touring trip with all the base-camp kit in the trailer when a Badger ran out right in front of the bike I was doing over 20 mph at the time (downhill) so had no chance of stopping all that. Definitely had to stop for a fag after that.
First one I'd ever seen in the wild, big bu**ers ain't they

Very solidly built. If you hit one at that speed, put one arm out in front and pretend your superman!

 

[stephec]

We hit a Roe Deer in Scotland. We had an Isuzu trooper and the deer lost. Actually we skinned and filleted him and he went in our freezer. Yum.
Years ago I was knocked off my horse by a pheasant to the head. He flew up and clocked me on the side of the head. Pheasants are harder than you think. The horse wasn't best happy either.

We did hit a pigeon the other day. It flew right at the car and into the windscreen. What a bang! I thought that the windscreen would go for sure as we'd picked up a good sized chip in it earlier in the day. The screen didn't go. Then 2 days later the head gasket went so it's a good job that we didn't have to replace the screen. I'd have been less happy than I was when the car died.

By coincidence I've got some venison steaks defrosting for tea, you can't beat a nice bit of Bambi.

 

[fimm]

Friend of mine, many years ago, was driving along with a bike or bikes on top of his Land Rover. He says he was vaguely aware of seeing a white thing disappearing up out of the beam of the headlights, but didn't really think much of it. However when they got to where they were going, and went to get the bikes down, they found that there was a dead owl up there, which had obviously been taken out by the bicycle.

 

[Crackle]

When I lived in the highlands deer were a constant problem. I saw something out the corner of my eye once and slammed on hard, so hard everything in the car that was loose ended up in the front but I missed the deer, a big stag leaping at speed across the road who would have written the car off. More than one person in the area had written a car off with a deer collision.

There was one story when the ferry disgorged it's load, which is the only time the normally empty road is full, when the person at the front slammed on for a deer. Just about half the ferry traffic all went into the back of each other. I bet that made an interesting insurance claim.

 

[smokeysmoo]

I've heard of people doing the half brick thing but was hoping it was more urban myth rather it actually happening. Glad you were ok!

Sadly NOT, and HERE as well,or if you really want to depress yourself ET just Google brick thrown off motorway bridge

I can't understand the mentality of doing this. I'll admit that in my younger days I wasn't always whiter than white, in the words of Axel Foley, "I fractured the occasional law as a kid", but this sort of thing wouldn't have, and indeed never did enter or heads

 

[byegad]

Hit a few in over 45 years of riding motorbikes and driving cars. The worst was a blackbird that came out of a hedgerow as I passed on my motorbike. The bird's head hit the edge of my headlight and I ended up covered in brains and the contents of its guts. Not a pretty site and really bad luck on the poor blackbird.

 

[gavgav]

Hit one when driving a coach once. It took off and clobbered the top right of the windscreen, was an old coach aswell and was surprised there was no damage......to the coach anyway!

Also ran over one on the A14 on way back from football match at Peterborough, in the car. Didn't even have chance to brake as it wobbled out into the road when I was doing 70mph. Looked in mirror and a cloud of feathers was dropping back to the ground but pheasant was a gonna. Bent the plastic bumper at the very bottom!

 

[brand]

Someone told me they were passing a sign warning of deer on the road. She said to her husband that is rubbish in all the years we have driven this road we have never seen a deer. As they went around the corner an entire heard of deer were crossing the road, escaping from deer farm.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Like the OP I've had one bounce off the windscreen, no damage to the screen itself but bits of pigeon scattered over a fair area. Numerous small birds have come to grief either under the wheels or on the radiator grill, plus a baby badger a few years ago. When I was a young rookie and out on a club run one of the older members had a dove try and fly between the spokes of his front wheel, without success I might add.

 

[Dave 123]

I hit a couple of sheep on the road between Mold and Northop when I was a student in the Welsh college of horticulture. The sheep were a write off and the bonnet of my mk1 Capri was stoved in by about 2 foot. I was doing around 60mph at the time.
It could have ended a lot worse.

 

[Retribution03]

Bats pigeons and other small birds when driving country roads in a truck but the biggest was a bloody big owl

 

[Hyslop]

Some years ago around Penrith,Culgaith area I think,cyclists were warned to beware a bird of prey which, when in a particularly bad humour would swoop upon cyclists from behind,talons bared.At first I assumed this to be another rural myth,however it proved not to be when a tourist,unaware of the story,fell victim.Quite a mess by all accounts.Now,flippantly,you might say this an argument for helmets as all the victims seem to have baldies[like me] however it must have been a scary experience to say the least,middle of nowhere,blood running down your face,and who on earth is going to believe you?Thankfully the attacks ended as abruptly as they began.Now all we worry about are big cats and The Great Bat Of Renwick.[Google it]

 

[up hill struggle]

I've had a 1/2 brick deliberately thrown off a motorway bridge by kids hit the car windscreen. Amazingly it did not go through it, but it did break it beyond me being able to continue. Needless to say the kids scarpered the moment they realised they had finally hit something... that was not pleasant.

a truck driver died after kids did this on him a few years back, remember seeing it on tv, happened late at night, kids chucked a brick of a motorway bridge & it came through his windscreen, he was injured but managed to keep control of the truck & got it onto the hard shoulder & stopped. Sadly died when the shock kicked in from injuries & suffered a heart attack, police came across him parked on the hard shoulder & stopped to check what was wrong.

 

[steve292]

Many years ago, when I lived in Pembroke I had a ford sierra. I used to put the dog in the boot(it was a hatchback) with the parcel shelf out. I had been to kilpaison beach with the dog, & decided to go to freshwater west for a look on the way home. Barrelling round a corner I knocked over 4 young pheasants out of a huge group that must had been just released.
Being a shooting fishing person I leaped out of the car, swiftly chucked them in the boot, & continued on my way, happy in my good fortune.
You guessed it, halfway down the hill to freshwater west, two of the buggers came round & started barrelling round the inside of the car, with a springer spaniel joining in the fun......

 

[vernon]

Some years ago around Penrith,Culgaith area I think,cyclists were warned to beware a bird of prey which, when in a particularly bad humour would swoop upon cyclists from behind,talons bared.At first I assumed this to be another rural myth,however it proved not to be when a tourist,unaware of the story,fell victim.Quite a mess by all accounts.Now,flippantly,you might say this an argument for helmets as all the victims seem to have baldies[like me] however it must have been a scary experience to say the least,middle of nowhere,blood running down your face,and who on earth is going to believe you?Thankfully the attacks ended as abruptly as they began.Now all we worry about are big cats and The Great Bat Of Renwick.[Google it]

Something similar happened around Holsworthy. A buzzard took a dislike to cyclists and attacked them over a three year period.