1 less squirrel

[bosoxfan]

On my way to work this morning a squirrel ran out from under a parked car and I ran it over. In 15 years of driving this is the first animal I've ever hit. It kind of sucked.

[BreakfastBurrito]

I hit a dog the other day. Damned thing was in the middle of a dark road just staring at me. It didn't help that only one headlight works on my POS car. I slammed on my breaks, left some rubber on the road and knocked it backwards, but I guess I slowed down enough that I just stunned it and it quickly rolled onto its feet and ran off. I have to say that not killing it was one of the best feelings I've had in a while.

[jakethebake]

I've hit a few but the worst was when I lived in S.D. I had a rommate that drove a pick-up truck. One day he was dropping me off at the apartment and going someplace else. I got out of the truck and started walking toward our door.

He pulled up a little bit and stopped while he did something in the truck. I heard this horrible noise. I turn around and he's just parked on top of the back half of a cat, and he doesn't even realize it.

This poor cat has a truck tire on his back half and his front half is just squirming around while he makes these horrible yowling, grunting, moaning noises. It still gives me chills to remember, and I don't even like cats.

[BiffMan]

Yeah, weird how that doesn't seem like a big deal until it actually happens.

Thus far, I've got several stamps on my car in 20 years of driving:

1 squirrel (swerved 3 times... bugger was determined to die)
1 road runner (ironically my old high school mascot)
1 cat (that really sucked)
1 bird (more like he hit me, but one of us suffered worse injuries, so we'll put that one on me)

[Matty]

Once a bird flew in the passenger window while I was doing 45, hit my friend in the chest, and somehow made it back out of of the car within three seconds.

My worst experience was having to crush the head of a little rabbit after fatally injuring him one foggy morning. =[

[jack spade23]

Yea, i did the rabbit thing, but it was really awful. I was using a push lawn mower and i looked down and realized I had run over like 3 baby rabbits. There was blood everywhere and I ran inside and shot them with a BB gun, cause at age 10, i thought i could put them out of their misery

[fsuplayer]

thats really gross.

[CieloAzor]

I hit a raccoon or something once. It was dark and I didn't actually stop to have a look at it. Don't worry; it wasn't a person. I caught a glimpse of it about half a second before it dove under my tire.

I remember when I was younger, my girlfriend's cat got hit by a car. It was pretty gruesome...some guy bashed its head in with a tire iron to put it out of its misery. The image of the cats eyes bulging out of his head sticks with me even today. /images/graemlins/frown.gif

[kerssens]

I hit a possum once...crunchy little animals.

[Sponger15SB]

I once accidentally ran over my neighbors dog.


Actually, replace "accidentally" with "repeatedly", and replace "dog" with "son".

[jakethebake]

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I once accidentally ran over my neighbors dog.


Actually, replace "accidentally" with "repeatedly", and replace "dog" with "son".

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...and replace "ran over" with "cornholed".

[2planka]

I hit a possum. I was doing 80 on the highway in my truck. The critter ran in front of me and I couldn't avoid it. Worst part was seeing the guy in the car behind me using the windshield wipers to clean the glop off of his car. Looked like a red water balloon nailed his windshield.

[etgryphon]

Reminds me of this story a coworker of mine told me.

He was on his way to work on this backroad and it was backed up. He comes around the bend to see what the deal is and sees two guys stopped in the middle of the road after hitting a deer. So the guy figure it is best to put it out of its misery, but all they have is a shovel. So they each take turns beating the deer in the head with the shovel. It doesn't do anything but piss the deer off but it still can't get up because it is too badly injured. So by the time my friend gets up to the scene, the two guy have decided to choke the deer with the shovel. My friend pulls up and rolls the window down to see these two grown men after having beat this deer 20 times or so crying in the middle of the street while they try to choke the deer to death.

My friend says, "You can just call the police and they'll shoot it so you can stop beating the deer." and then drives off.

I know I'm insensative, but I thought it was pretty funny.

-Gryph

[Porcupine]

Never hit a squirrel, but have hit:

1 rabbit
1 bat
1 bird

The last 2 basically ran into the front of my car. I can say I know many other people that have hit and killed a bat.
The rabbit shot under my car from the side of the road and I couldn't really do anything in time.

[offTopic]

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Yeah, weird how that doesn't seem like a big deal until it actually happens.

Thus far, I've got several stamps on my car in 20 years of driving:

1 road runner (ironically my old high school mascot)


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You obviously don't drive an ACME car.

[2005]

Hmm, my old high school mascot was a roadrunner...

One of my 2 best high school friends ran over the other one's dog, there was some tension for a while.

[miajag81]

I nailed a bird about two weeks after getting my license. I was driving along probably at about 35 or 40 and this bird comes flying out from behind this bush and smacks right into my grille. I didn't even know what it was at first until I looked in the rearview and saw a cloud of feathers.

The worst thing I've ever seen was a squirrel getting hit by a car in front of me. It was flopping around in the road spraying blood everywhere. I intentionally ran it over to put it out of its misery. I felt sick for the rest of the day.

[fluff]

I don't recall ever hitting an animal with a car. However I did chop the head of a bird clean with a Cherokee 140 once.

One second the bird was infront of me on take-off, the next thing I hear a thud and some blood splatter on the windshield. Aborted take-off, and the airport crew retrieved a headless bird from the runway.

[LALDAAS]

My best friend has you all beat.

On his way to his senior prom, After he has already picked up is date.

WHAM! Hits a skunk.

Date obviously ended quickly

[TStoneMBD]

i hit a fox going 75mph on the highway one night. it tore up some of my under carrage. nothing some duct tape couldnt fix though. i swear to god, i had a tail stuck to my bumper for the whole ride up until i peeled it off.

[Blarg]

I actually hit a salmon once.

I was driving over this low bridge over a creek in Montana during spawning season I guess, and I suddenly see this fish fly up from the side of the road, and...

Nah. Fake out! That didn't happen. I actually don't have any good animal-smashing stories. We did get a cat torn to pieces in our car's fan belt once. They love to crawl inside warm engines. Started 'er up, and man that was a nasty sound. We really lovd that cat too. This is supposedly not uncommon, actually. And I did have to throw away a kitten my mom backed over once.

[YourFoxyGrandma]

I was driving along some country roads near my house in the middle of the day when I hear this huge bang out of nowhere. I slam on the brakes and I'm like, "What the [censored] was that?!" My friend was who was sitting in the passenger seat said that a deer had slammed into the side of my car. I checked behind me just in time to see the deer stand up and run off. The deer's face actually hit his window. He said it scared the [censored] out of him.

[Yobz]

I once drove my car into a group of bald eagles...they were in my way

[Shajen]

I think I still win.

[TBag]

I used to have a summer job at the San Diego Zoo. Sometimes we would use a forklift to bring out a shallow tray of soupy food for the bigger exhibits (it's easier to sneak vitamins and minerals into an animals food if it's not solid). So I'm chugging along in my forklift about to come out of the narrow door built into the wall of the cage, then a fuzzy critter runs right out in front of me. TOP SPEED. Poor panda bastard caught a metal rod to the jugular.

Moral of the story - don't teach your kids lessons.

[touchfaith]

In most cases, I do not hit the breaks when an animals pops out in front of me...

I hit the gas.

Hitting the breaks is not only dangerous for you, but also everyone around you.

Hitting the gas, much like you should at the last second when crossing train-tracks, tourques the engine which provides stability to the chassis of the vehicle you are driving.

It is sad, but once, I was driving my full-size 74 Blazer when a large dog jumped out into the road. I hit the gas and took him out.

Why?

For one, I had the right-of-way /images/graemlins/shocked.gif but moreover, I had a pregnent lady in the car and 2 kids (both in carseats of course). Second...Slamming on your breaks or swirving causes accidents. Why do I want to jeopordize the lifes of people...people in my car, people behind me, people on the side...anyone...over the life of an animal?

Hit the gas. (Ummmm, then stop of course and take care of business)

Hate away.

[etgryphon]

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In most cases, I do not hit the breaks when an animals pops out in front of me...

I hit the gas.

Hitting the breaks is not only dangerous for you, but also everyone around you.

Hitting the gas, much like you should at the last second when crossing train-tracks, tourques the engine which provides stability to the chassis of the vehicle you are driving.

It is sad, but once, I was driving my full-size 74 Blazer when a large dog jumped out into the road. I hit the gas and took him out.

Why?

For one, I had the right-of-way /images/graemlins/shocked.gif but moreover, I had a pregnent lady in the car and 2 kids (both in carseats of course). Second...Slamming on your breaks or swirving causes accidents. Why do I want to jeopordize the lifes of people...people in my car, people behind me, people on the side...anyone...over the life of an animal?

Hit the gas. (Ummmm, then stop of course and take care of business)

Hate away.

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100% agree...

-Gryph

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

I ran over a squirrel on my dirtbike once when I was a kid. How awesome is that?

[Victor]

killed a bunny one day. only animal i ever hit. i was delivering pizzas and it was on the main road. saw it the rest of the night and for 2 more nights. its body got more and more mangled hourly.

[PhatTBoll]

During Christmas break of my senior year of high school, I went out of town to visit a girl I knew who had moved away. She was driving us over to pick up one of her friends who lived in the country, when I saw ahead of us a small animal running on the road, with traffic. Just before impact, it turned its head to look at us. I heard a muffled yelp as we plowed over it.

Her: Holy [censored], what was that?
Me: I'm not sure
Her: Well I think it was just a possum, so I'm not going to worry about it.
(15 second pause)
Me: Actually, I think it was a puppy.

Needless to say, she freaked out. We continued on to her friend's house just down the road, picked up the friend, then went back to the scene. Sure enough, there was a dead little puppy by the side of the road, with a brand new tag on it.

It was pretty obvious we had just slaughtered some little kid's Christmas present.

So, instead of spending the night hanging out with two attractive girls, I dug a grave for a random puppy while they cried and watched. Then I drove home.

[2005]

wow, that was the worst idea ever... you should have just let her believe it was a possum

[PhatTBoll]

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wow, that was the worst idea ever... you should have just let her believe it was a possum

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Clearly. But in retrospect, she would have found out regardless. We were driving back that way anyway.

[Wozza]

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i hit a fox going 75mph on the highway one night.

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That's bollocks - no way can a fox run that fast...

Ran over a cat onetime backing out of my office car park. Got out and me and one of the guys from work watched as the damn thing flipped and flopped about for a minute or so. Just nerves, I guess as I'd run over its head. When it had stopped twitching I had to get rid of it somehow, so I put it in a plastic bag and left it outside the house next door next to the garbage.

Trouble was, no-one moved the thing for about 4 or 5 days and being mid-summer, things got pretty ripe around there. That bag had a life of its own.

[Piz0wn0reD!!!!!!]

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I once accidentally ran over my neighbors dog.


Actually, replace "accidentally" with "repeatedly", and replace "dog" with "son".

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vn

[Blarg]

That was a funny anecdote.

Actually, replace "anecdote" with "line from a Simpsons episode."

[Talk2BigSteve]

Last July I was on my way home from the casino. It was about 4AM and I had a Semi hauling gasoline behind me and a semi coming toward me in the other lane and a big ass golden retriver ran out in front of me. With the gas truck behind me I flinched but did not hit my breaks and I nailed the dog at 60+mph. I just about [censored] my pants in the process. It dragged for about a 1/2 mile before finally falling off and rolling under the car.

New pair of Underware: $6
Car Repairs: $2670
Seeing the Last Minute look of hope in the ole dog's eyes:PRICELESS

Big Steve /images/graemlins/cool.gif

[Blarg]

The dog is about to get rammed by a car and he has a look of HOPE?

Talk about natural selection.

[ripdog]

I was driving with my gf at 3am, totally zoned out, zip through a green light, gf starts freaking out. "stop stop stop!" bump bump. I check the rear view and see a motionless
cat sized animal in the road behind me. I hate cats, but the thought of killing some little kid's pet really makes me feel bad. Several hours later she tells me it was an opossum. Whew! What a load off!

[Jazza]

i hit a squirrel once, but i just thought "meh, what are you gonna do?"

am i a bad person?