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Have you ever been driving and ALMOST hit something, a squirrel, bunny , dog , bird etc.



-This really made me mad, my girlfriend just called my cell-phone, and said today on the way back from up-north they had stopped to get a bite to eat, well another patrons puppy had gotten loose and ran into traffic, the guyF*&^%^!!!

didnt even slow down just kept going and plowed right over it , never stopped or anything, her lil girl saw the whole thing, shes is 3.

-She said there was plenty of time to swerve without causing danger to others.

-What do you do?

-Do you only break for cats/dogs

-ALSO once when I was about 10 my aunt drove right over a rooster, she had a lil chevette, I could feel it under my feet, I just started yelling what did you do that for, she was turning around, I thought to go and make restitution to the farmer, noooooooo, she put it in the back and cooked it for dinner.

-I am sooooo glad I am adopted

-Jas

I brake for a bird in the road, i dont even like running over animals

that have already been killed!

I Brake never swerve unless it was a child putting your car in a ditch or into an oncoming car is not smart. Knew one guy hit a seagull at high speed went through his grille and destroyed his radiator the total damage was about £500 even birds on the road I always sound my horn to make sure they know I am coming and get out the way. narrowly missed a red deer last weekend-I reckon I must have caught the movement in my peripehral vision as I braked before I realised what it was, it leapt right in frornt of my car from the right hand side. Both of us were lucky that would have wrecked my car. big beastie so it was, one leap to the middle of the road and the next over the fence at the side.

three deer dashed in my path one rainy night, and i swerved, then overcorrected...i rolled my car 3 times, landed on the roof upside-down.i could not find my mobile phone, i was too disoriented and confused after what had happened, and i was upside-down strapped in, i still don't know how i got out. i was driving my classic Jaguar XJ6---it was crushed and twisted like a beer can, steel frame and all. i do not know how i survived that one. but i sure mourned that car!

My room mate borrowed my car to go to work since I was off that day. When he got home he had a rabbit in his hand and a big smile on his face.



I said, "Mr. Fraley's been hunting again?" because Mr. Fraley always brought extra kill to work if he had too much for himself.

"No," says my roomie, "he ran out in front of me just a mile from home."

"Wow that was lucky," says I.

"Uh-uh," says roomie, "I just missed him. I had to turn back, but I got 'im!" He finishes this last with a thrust of his trophy.

I immediately ran outside to find the undercarriage of my car a mass of brush, bushes, and mud as a result of this %@%^#$^%$% running off the road to kill a 2-pound bunny!

"What did you do?!?" I asked politely.

"Aw I'll take care of that tomorrow. Do you know how to clean one of these?"



I have to say, it made a really good stew.

How awful, poor bunny!

Road kill isn't so much a problem here in San Diego as swerving to miss objects coming off the backs of broken down vehicles with bald tires, no mufflers, with junk stacked so high on the roof or the beds of truck they are leaning to the left or right headed back across the border with their daily load of stuff they have collected from people's trash outside their homes, or dumps.

It is such a huge dangerous problem on our road today. Of course they don't have insurance so if your car is damaged you have to pay.. I dodged a medicine cabinet one day for two lanes.. it eventually stopped rolling and went under my car.. did a little damage nothing major, but in its path were cars pulled over newer cars (mine is a 1973 Camaro solid metal) with bumpers pulled off, windows smashed, wheels flat, grills tore up. So dangerous but they keep letting them cross every day, and drive back with their load every night.. We all do our best to not be behind one ever.. but sometimes in traffic you have no choices.. makes me really angry.. We citizens can't drive a foot without insurance here in San Diego, or in Mexico for that matter. But they can cross the border daily without it, and drive cars that should never be on the road..:-5

Do cars in the States not have to have an annual MOT to stay on the road?

I cant honestly say what MOT stands for, anyone know?

Anyhoo here's a link to the things our testing stations look at........



http://www.motester.co.uk/cog.html

I´ve run over a few things now and again a dog which luckily was okay just a broken leg, a seagull that flew at the windscreen and with wings outstretched it was as wide as the car, and just as BTS said it makes a mess of the car, Oh and a lampost that got in the way when I was turning a corner.

If the law in Britain is still the same then you have to stop and report it if you run over a dog but not a cat.

abbey wrote: Do cars in the States not have to have an annual MOT to stay on the road?

I cant honestly say what MOT stands for, anyone know?

Anyhoo here's a link to the things our testing stations look at........



http://www.motester.co.uk/cog.html
MOT - Ministry of Transportation

MOP - Ministry of Police (gives a whole new spin on cleaning up this town, eh?)

MOD - Ministry of Defense



Some we may want to see:

MOM - Ministry of Money

MOO - Ministry of bOvines

MOB - Ministry of Burglary





I'll think of others if you wish.

I was clipping down the road one day and a seagull hit my windshield, I didnt see it coming it was just WHAP scared the hell out of me. After it hit I still wasnt sure what happened and I looked in my rearview and apparently it bounced off my window flew up and hit the guy behind me in the windshield.

The look on his face was probably like mine....kinda wide eyed !

Having an analytical mind (now failing) my first impulse is to blow the horn and at the same time check my rear view mirror, to see that there is no dufus 10 feet off my back bumper. Cause if I brake hard then whack. The second impulse is to instintainously assess the situation, the size of the animal, wheather Dog or Cat, Squirrel, Deer, then assess if it can get bye before I would hit it. Then if I felt it could not get out of the way & it was a Dog or Cat or Deer, I would "gently" swerve, trying not to hit it at least not head on. (Decisions made in 2 to 3 seconds) Myself & my family's safety comes first, & I would do what ever I had to do to make that priority ONE!

Far Rider wrote: MOO! hahahaha that was stretching it slightly! :wah:
Cows can take it. They're pretty thick-skinned.

CARLA wrote: We citizens can't drive a foot without insurance. But they can , and drive cars that should never be on the road..:-5


Sounds like the reservation by me. As for me, I'll always try to avoid an animal, especially a pet. If I see one on the road, I try to find the owner. If it's dead, I bury it with sadness in a nice place off the road.

Thank goodness I have anti-lock braking. With the light weight of my truck, it'll stop on a dime.

:o

I was driving on the highway doing about 60mph. About a half a mile ahead I could see two Great Danes playing alongside the highway. Suddenly one of them darted into traffic right in front of the car in front of me. The dog flew through the air and landed alongside the highway. I started breaking and looking for a place to pull over but by the time I got there both dogs were playing again like nothing had happened.

The moral of my story is that only Great Danes should be allowed to play in traffic.:wah: