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No one going to say the pheasant should have been plucked off 
A friend of mine hit a Labrador some years ago at 60mph on a main A road, wrote off the car (capri 2.8i). The dog owner had called the animal from the other side of the road and ended up paying for the car.
Andi.
A friend of mine hit a Labrador some years ago at 60mph on a main A road, wrote off the car (capri 2.8i). The dog owner had called the animal from the other side of the road and ended up paying for the car.
Andi.
I did think about cutting the head off and mounting it on the nose of the bonnet, like the phantom rolls, just to wind the wife up and call it the phantom pheasant but she won't of found it funny! :?
She blamed me in the first place like all the other people were, who looked on 2 + 2 = 5 and all that, fancy sports car must of been going like a bat out hell, fancy b**t**d. Plane brought down by floc of birds, ''bloody menace those birds''
You just carn't win
She blamed me in the first place like all the other people were, who looked on 2 + 2 = 5 and all that, fancy sports car must of been going like a bat out hell, fancy b**t**d. Plane brought down by floc of birds, ''bloody menace those birds''
You just carn't win
A deer wrote off my 3yr old saab. Then got up and leaped over a huge hedge. 
it was a dear do too.
it was a dear do too.
kaya said:
He got off lightly...
I hit a badger in my 2 month old Yaris. Took out both headlights, front bumper, fog lights, bonnet, slam panel, front wing, radiator and part of the A/c system.
Bill to the tune of £3.5K by the time it came back from the shop. I was not impressed!
bigdog said:
Heading out to Switzerland this Autumn and you've just reminded me of how expensive it is, better start getting some over time in!! Less of the coffee's in Whitby every time the sun puts his hat on
But you've got to admit the Z4 does that to you,
don't you think 
Glorious North Wales next weekend HOPE those pheasants are wearing their high viz jackets
A friend hit a pheasant in his Imprezza. All that was visible was its feet sticking out of the grill and the rest was nicely part-cooked on the radiator. I wish I had a pic of the car and the green coloured owner picking out the bits of roasted roadkill to share 
Hey bumpy from Canada,
I was once kayaking in Norway driving along 30 mile dead straight road not a bird in site, then from out of nowhere a bloody great big and when I say big I mean BIG moose they are huge! came gilding out of the bush in front of us, big swerve our 4 x 4 with 6 kayaks on top went up onto 2 wheels bounced back down did a bit of a widdle and off into the under growth, catapulted the kayaks, 2 going over into a ravine took us all morning
to retrive them. Lost our insurance waiver :thumbsdown:
I was once kayaking in Norway driving along 30 mile dead straight road not a bird in site, then from out of nowhere a bloody great big and when I say big I mean BIG moose they are huge! came gilding out of the bush in front of us, big swerve our 4 x 4 with 6 kayaks on top went up onto 2 wheels bounced back down did a bit of a widdle and off into the under growth, catapulted the kayaks, 2 going over into a ravine took us all morning
to retrive them. Lost our insurance waiver :thumbsdown:
I hit (on my windscreen) a pigeon in my old E34 M5 when I was doing about 120mph. For me, it was all over very quickly, but a friend of mine who was driving right behind me told me that his view was of a very spectacular explosion of feathers! Car wasn't damaged either.
You wouldn't want this to happen with a pheasant: http://photocarsonline.com/blog/2007/10/25/porsche-crashes-bird-goes-through-windsheild/
If that caught you in the face, could be "curtains".
If that caught you in the face, could be "curtains".
I have hit a pheasant twice. Once in an old Simca ( anyone remember those?) at 50 mph. Took the whole wing off along with the headlight. Scrapped the car. :thumbsdown:
Second time doing 70 mph on a motorbike. Hit my shoulder and almost threw me off the bike. Gave up riding the bike for a while after that!
Second time doing 70 mph on a motorbike. Hit my shoulder and almost threw me off the bike. Gave up riding the bike for a while after that!
I had the very unpleasant experience of hitting a big white tail deer in my Kenworth FedEx tractor-trailer. I was doing 75MPH in the middle of the night in Wyoming and this deer bolts out onto the interstate highway and stops right in front of me. What a terrible mess. There was blood and deer parts clear up on top of the sleeper compartment. As my truck was white. I had to get to a wash bay post haste as the blood will stain. No visible damage to the truck though. As I had an Australian Kangaroo bumper mounted for just such an occasion. But what I didn't know was that the force of the dead on impact had pushed one frame rail back by 1/64th of an inch. Boy did it start to eat tyres. Had to have the truck mounted to what looked like a medieval stretch rack device and have the frame pulled back to spec and susp. geometry fixed. All from a 100-150 Kg critter vs a 13,600 Kg truck (I had very few packages on board). I suppose if one did the math. 150kg going from 0 to 75MPH in a fraction of a second. Equals a hell of a lot of kinetic energy. In the end the deer lost.