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So how many of you have?

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Posted by: Adrenaline---------------------

Note: This is for fun and sharing our storys. If you do not like a story presented then please don't reply. Thank you.

Okay so how many of you have almost hit or hit an animal while riding or driving?

Here is a story I found on TT

"We were comin back in after a long day fishin offshore, doin a good 35, and hammerin the beers.
Well lo and behold 30 miles off shore are 2 off the biggest damn seabirds we have ever seen. Just sittin there in the water like a couple goofy ducks.

Yeh, you know I went right on after them. Well about 100' away they got the picture, holysh*t johnnie let's get outa here. So off they go, sorta. I said they were big, really big, at least a 10' wing span. Damned things looked goonie birds trying to take off. One veered off to the left, and one well he just did manage to lift off as I got up to him.
So here's this huge a$$ sea bird flying right in front of the boat at the same height as the bowrails. I just had to know, so up goes the throttle, did I mention my buddy over to my left?

Well here comes that birds big ole as$$into the boat and my buddy standing there frozen in fear LOL. Just as I nudged it a wee bit more so I could get contact, (I always wanted to see him kiss a ducks a$$ anyhow) well they touched. His scared a$$ face, and that huge sea birds scared a$$. So what happens?

My buddy let out this blood curdling scream just as that huge seabird sh*t itself right in his face as it hit hit turbo mode. It covered his head completely. Man I cried from laughing. We let him drink the most of the beer the rest of the way back in."

I think this is one of the funniest storys. Anyone have any?


Posted by: ride_red_15---------------------

oh man thats hilarious


Posted by: bluerider125---------------------

LOL!!! very funny, Adrenaline, i have a *cough* "few" stories about *cough cough* "almost" hitting some birds.......

well i was on the trail to one of my riding spots and i was going a little slow, like in 4th 1/4 throttle, looking for trails that go off to the side. then there comes a big ole roadrunner out of the bushes, running full tilt. i was bored, and i heard how fast those things can go, and so i chased it. he obviously didnt notice my engine noise as he just kept going at a jog. by now im at 3/4 throttle 4th. then he finally notices me and takes off flying, but still slow. i shift up to 5th, and get on the gas. by now hes right by my front fender, i mean RIGHT BY IT, about a foot up and to the left. it was so cool.

also there is numerous times cottontails and jackrabbits run out in front of me, causing me to slam on the brakes and crash. one particular time i was crossing a ravine/ditch thing, where you go down a steep hill about 15' high, a flat spot about 30'long, and a shallow incline about 12-13' tall. well i love topping the hill in 3rd and just gassing it all the way down and jumping the upside. well this particular day i didnt feel so agressive or whatever, and i went kinda slow, but still fast. (you know what i mean) anyway, as i was going up the side of the hill a cottontail just zipped right out in front of my front tire!!! i reacted fast and somehow managed to pull a wheelie and he ran under my front tire, and i was extremely proud of myself for the rest of the day

yeah there not so funny but there stories!! :confused:

-Rob


Posted by: Danman---------------------

About a 1 year ago I riding in a open field on a friends private property. The field had some pretty high grass. I was wippin along there just kind of practicing flat cornering. There was a big shaddy tree there in the field. I was buzzin by it when out of the grass about maybe 5 to 10 ft. or so off the left up a head of me I see this big black thing come shooting out from below the grass line. I just caught it out of the corner of my eye. I realy was not focusing on it but I realized what it was. It was headed in a diaganal direction right into my path. I backed of the gas and got on the brakes. It was a pretty good sized turkey trying its best to get out of my way. It grazed my visor when I ducked my head. Once I got closer I realized that a few more took off. I must have go right though the flock. If thats what you call it? That thing was big enough to knock me off my bike had it hit me in the chest.

Last may I ran over a pretty good sized rattler that was streched across the trail. I was going inbetween two ceder trees. Its head was under one tree and his tail under the other. By the time I saw him it was to late. I just gassed it. I road very hard for quite a ways jJust in case he decided to come along for a ride with me. I wanted him to be good and ground up before I saw him. The pucker factor for me was pretty high. I don't like snakes, let alone poisonous ones. Tis the season for them know. The days are getting warmer so they should be wakeing from the winter slumber and try to get some furry little bunnies for breakfast. On the same ride I cam upon a bunny frozen in the trail. Lucky for me I stalled it. I got hit lit up and the rabbit was still in the trail. I gave it some gas and the rabbit did not move. Something wrong with that picture? I did it again and as a looked I noticed a rattler coiled up there right next to the trail about the get that rabbit. That little rabbit took off. I was a good ways off from it so I got to watch the slimy bugger for a while and see if he was moving. I rerouted my path as it looked like the snake was not moving. I was out alone that day so I decided that I would call it day. Two encounters of the slithery kind was enough for me. I loaded up and went home all "ekked out".

My not so funny encounters.


Posted by: Wraith---------------------

Mine:

Skunk

CBR

4th gear

10-11 RPMs

in a corner.

Didn't feel, or smell good. People at the hospital looked funny holding their noses and throwing up


Posted by: BunduBasher---------------------

BMW 3 series, flying down an empty country road in Kwa-Zulu Natal, in the middle of nowhere - doing about 200kmh/125MPH, two wild turkey at the side of the road, no time to slow, aim for a gap between the two as they take off, the first one makes it, the second impacts the front of the car just above the left headlight, turkey explodes into a thousand pieces of turkey jerkey, stop the car a long way down the road to inspect the damage, blood all over the left side of the car, must have hit the poor bird on the sweet spot - no damage whatsoever !

The girl in the car with me a colleague I was giving a lift home for the weekend saw this bird come flying at her, driver sits on the right, kablam, blood and feather, the poor lass was screaming her head off - took quite a while to calm her down.

Chasing animals for the fun of it, or to run down and kill is not my idea of fun !


Posted by: RM_guy---------------------

When I was a kid I was riding with some friends. One of them had to head home and took off through this field. We listened to him shift up through the gears as he rode off. Suddenly the engine stopped and we worried that he crashed. As we started to get our helmets on to see what was up, we see him riding back through the field to us. He was riding with one hand on the throttle and with the other hand he had a pheasant by the feet that he had hit on the trail!

=====

Last year my son and I were riding in the trails behind my house. He was in 3rd or 4th winging down this one trail and about a dozen turkeys took off right in front of him. I thought for sure he was going down but he ducked and only hit one of them with the top of his helmet. We had to stop for a while for me to stop laughing and for him to change his pants :scream:


Posted by: a454elk---------------------

Let me start this by saying I love animals! But, working graveyards years ago, you run across alot of animals out there. We hit a possum once so we stopped and got out. I went over and found him standing and stagering around. When I shined my flashlight on him, I saw that we skined off the top of his hair, no blood though. I went closer to him to see if it was ok and then it attacked me. You've never seen to grown men running from a 25 pound animal like this!! We couldn't get into the car fast enough after figuring that the little possum was going to be just fine!

We've hit a few cats that tried to run the street race with its buddies in the middle of the night! You feel bad but I'm not going to toss a car into a pole to avoid a cat trying to play frogger! Now an adult deer or elk, I'm shootin for the bushes!! :D


Posted by: Ol'89r---------------------

Quote:
Originally posted by a454elk
, working graveyards years ago, D


Elk. Did they make you do that when you were working your way up to meter maid???? BAAAWWWWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Had a doe jump across the front of my bike once when out riding behind my house. Was riding by myself and came around a corner just in time to see a pretty good sized doe, in the air, about 3 feet in front of my nose.

We missed each other, but it was a very close call. If we would have hit each other, I'm sure I would have gotten the worst of it.

Around here, we see a lot of critters on the trail. Bob cats, mountain lions, rattlesnakes, deer and the occasional Elk. (Not the kind with antlers.)

Followed a big mountain lion once, but that's another story.


Posted by: dell30rb---------------------

All very good stories!

Once, i was riding my bicycle down a very steep, long hill. My friends and I would try to see who could get the fastest max. speed (We all had those little bike speedo thinghy's) I was going about 55 mph when I ran over a squirrel that ran out into the road. It just froze up right in front of me. I hit it, and heard a big crunching sound. The things body came up the front wheel, and got pinched in between the moving tire and the forks. The spokes ripped it to shreads, and blood was on me, on my bike... very nasty.

Another time we were on the highway, and a truck in front of us ( in the lane to our right, about 20 feet ahead of our car) nailed a big crow. The crow richocheted off of the truck's window and came and nailed our jeeps windshield, right on the passenger's side, and stuck there.
My mom was sitting in the passenger seat, and you will never hear a worse sound than sititng in a car with a woman screaming at the top of her lungs!


Posted by: a454elk---------------------

9er, I need to hide my posts!! You're gonna get it toothless wonder!!


Posted by: KtmRacer51---------------------

Well in the last three years I have seen two whitetails killed in a woods race. How anybody got up enough speed to kill a deer in tight Georgia woods is beyond me. Being in the red-neck infested area that I am, both dear were also loaded up in a truck and made some good eating later on.
A few years ago a friend of mine had just gotten a new bike and had to do some immediate roosting. He was at his girlfriends house and her father had warned him that one of his bulls was loose and to watck out. Well you can pretty much guese what happened after that. He tore off wide open through a field and the engine scared the bull and it stepped out from behind a **** and he plowed it. They found him knocked out cold next to the bull who was just sitting there munching on some grass. After a long lay-off and knee surgery he was back riding with an interesting story.
My own story envoles riding through some swamp land when I was a kid. I was tired so I stopped and put my left foot down to balance the bike and swung my right foot over the bike to get off. I reached down to unfold the kick stand and immediatly crapped myself and let the bike fall over and screamed like a girl!!! The whole time I had my foot down it was on a cottonmouth that was slithering under my boot. As far off I was in the woods I was very lucky I didn't get bite. I always watch were I put my foot down now.


Posted by: wizard69---------------------

I have hit 2 grouse and I just about hit a whitetail doe that scared me
It would hurt to hit an animal that has antlers too.


Posted by: dklink2000---------------------

Mine:

I was mountain biking, going downhill ba!!s to the wall, about 30-35mph and hit a woodchuck. Im not sure witch one of us was hurt more.


Posted by: grass-digger---------------------

well i was going 3 gear on my bike in tight woods and a cat came in my way my suspention absorbed the inpact but i'm not sure about how the cat is doing it just ran off creaming


Posted by: yzeater---------------------

My dad once nailed a duck with his tee shot (that's golf for those of you who don't play)...pretty sure he killed it


Posted by: BigBore---------------------

A couple years back, me and my brother were riding some old wipe open dirt roads. I'm clipping along pretty good in 4th, when I catch a glimpse of something jumping down of the embankment ot my right, turns out its a deer. It ran down off the bank, and ran beside me for a while. I was so dumbfounded, I kept my pace and just stared for a while, then decided I should stop in case it jumped in front of me. Weird.....


Posted by: Rattletrap'83CR480---------------------

Riding in my favorite little park one fine day, I dropped down into a wash and opened up the throttle and "Thu-Thump", hit something that looked like a small log. I whipped around and rode back to find a three foot Western Diamondback curled up and waiting for me. He took a couple of swipes at me, so I roosted him (just a little) and we each went our separate ways. The adrenaline was pumpin' that day I can tell you. :scream:


Posted by: motohead00---------------------

Back in high schoool I was riding a trail near the house on my RM 125 with some friends. I came over the crest of a small hill and this jack rabbit took off to my right along the fence line. I was in 4th about half throttle and the rabbit was all legs and ears trying to get out of there. Well, I guess he got to his spot in the fence and tried to make a hard right under it. Only problem was that he never slowed down, so he takes flight spinning round and round like a helicopter with ears and legs splayed out.

I almost fell off my bike laughing so hard and when my friends caught up and asked me what was going on I couldn't explain it because I was about to cry!

On another occasion, my friend and I were in his pickup going down the highway and a buzzard flew across the highway and into the windshield and like in one of the previous posts stuck in the windshield. As if that wasn't bad enough, one it was stuck in the windshield it threw up in the truck. If you have ever seen what buzzards eat, you can imagine what it was like in the cab. Anyway, I felt sorry for my bud trying to explain that one to the insurance company!


Posted by: David Trustrum---------------------

The old man was returning from rabbit shooting (unsuccessfully). & nailed a hippity hippity hop in the car. Was a bit dead but otherwise unmarked so brought it home, skinned it & cooked it.

I didn’t partake.

Talking of running over big dumb animals, a friend several months ago got used as traction in a MX race. Should have seen the bruising!

Harsh? Nah! some months before that he went straight over the top of me in a road race.


Posted by: TwinSpar---------------------

Quote:
Originally posted by a454elk
Let me start this by saying I love animals


Left coast Wacko!

That's WAY TOO much personal information.


Posted by: a454elk---------------------

Don't start Twinny, you got me in trouble last time!!

I mean I love to EAT them!


Posted by: TwinSpar---------------------

Quote:
Originally posted by a454elk
I mean I love to EAT them!


Boogers?


Posted by: Papakeith---------------------

Don't start that again!!!!


Posted by: a454elk---------------------

!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Posted by: jmics19067---------------------

Quote:
We've hit a few cats that tried to run the street race with its buddies in the middle of the night! You feel bad but I'm not going to toss a car into a pole to avoid a cat trying to play frogger!


When my parents lived in the city they used to have a tom cat that was pretty much the toughest in the neighborhood. Then they moved out to the country well this tomcat had the roughest time trying to deal with the wild cats. My father swears that one time our cat got clocked by a car once so he used his unfortunate mishap to his advantage. Typical night you would hear a cat fight , the bloody screams , the catterwahling. The next morning our cat would be home licking his wounds and you would drive out to the main road and see some fresh road kill. To this day my father just shakes his head at the disbelief of our cat getting in a fight and with timing just right make a dash in front of car with his opponent right behind.

So Elk you can think of it this way youare only helping the smarter of the species survive


Posted by: a454elk---------------------

:D


Posted by: GETMETOCA---------------------

When I was a little girl, I started this quirky habit of saying 10 Hail Marys every time I saw road kill (especially kittens :whiner: ). I still find myself saying one or two when I see something off to the side of the road.

I hit a chipmunk a couple of years ago, nothing dramatic, the poor little guy just shot out from some bushes and I ran over it. I said 12 HM's that time, 10 for the poor chipmunk and 2 for me. I hope it helps me later in life...


Posted by: OnAnySunday---------------------

Once when i was 9 years old, i was trying to keep up -w- some riding buddies.
I was riding a '70 Z50 minitrail, and they all had 80cc and bigger machines.
Coming down a long straightaway into a LH sweeper, a couple of kids on the side of the trail yelled: "Lookout! theres a snake on the trail!!"
Yea RIGHT! Your just trying to slow me down!!!
Continuing around the turn, what did i find but a big old Copperhead trying to get across the trail.
Was going too fast to turn or stop, so what else to do???
Give her hades and downshift to 2nd!!
Got past it, or so i thought...........
Looked back, and the *&^%% thing had somehow gotten tangled in my rear wheel! :scream:
It probably was pretty comical to see some kid on a pudgy tired 50cc Honda revving it out to about 10,000 or so rpm -w- a snake getting shredded in his rear wheel........ :confused:
Then i got home and my dad saw the bike...........
"What in the #@%% did you do NOW????"

Or the time that the animal almost got the better of me.
Was riding my mountain bike down one of those Pa. 'rails to trails' pathways.
Riding along at about 10 mph not really looking very far in front of me.
When i noticed something large moving beside the trail up ahead.....
Up out of the ditch and crossing the trail.
A black bear!
Yeesh, and i was about 20 feet from it!
Do i give 'er the brakes and swing around, or try to dodge it and give 'er hades???
Luckily 'smokey' had probably just ate, and simply sneered at me as i coasted (frozen in fear) by.
Although i think i mustve hit about 40 mph after getting around him.



Posted by: 70 marlin---------------------

old patches "the boat " see gallery. is faster than most water foul. so we race alot do to the amount of geese on the lake. NEVER CHASE GEESE! THEY WILL CRAP ON EVERY INCH OF YOU! plus it's illegal. but back to the story. crusing nexted to a large bird in flight is one of the most amazing sights you'll ever see. when trail riding I usaully see at least on or two deer's. so far knock on wood, no accidents! last week for the first time on the way to the gravel pit I seen a couple hen turkeys. boy there fast! never even got near them.


Posted by: Maru16---------------------

The things people do to try to avoid animals. No, scratch that. The things *I* do to avoid them!!!! Was driving home from work one day...going the usual 75 down the trail. (a road...we call it the trail. 2 lanes, narrow and curvy at times. river on right side. if yer heading south. which i was.) Had the music on..not really thinkin' about much...when i see this big round thing....a turtle!! Haven't seen one THAT big in a long time! Wow, i've never slammed on the brakes so fast in my life! Unfortunately i forgot that i still had my hands on the steering wheel...and that i had turned them to the left..all the way... I didn't do a 180,...but hey it was close! I ended up in the other lane...nearly crashed...just to save that turtle. (You have no idea how many of them get run over...thats why i made all that effort.) When i went out to put him to the other side... HE PEED ON ME!!!!!! On my feet....my shorts..all over..geeeez. At least i wasn't going to work. i don't know if my boss would've believed that one.


Posted by: GETMETOCA---------------------

Maru16 - your turtle reminded me of something I had forgotten all about. I was living in South Carolina back in '97 and I had moved into this subdivision that was still building houses. One morning as I was pulling out of the driveway I saw this huge turtle crawling across my lawn. We don't have them in CA like that, not that I know of, so I thought it was kind of cool! The lot next to my house was still woods and brush, so I took him out to the middle of it and "set him free" so to speak.

I got home from work that day, come to find out that lot next to my house was leveled to the ground, trees, brush, turtles and all! Poor little guy, I felt so bad....(Yes, I said the obligatory HM's for him too)


Posted by: hoosierf---------------------

I was laying on a ridge overlooking a corn field in old Indiana about ten years ago waiting for a buck to come sneaking out. It was mid November, but unseasonably warm, probably 65 degrees. After about 5 minutes on my stomach the ground under me starts to move. For about 5 seconds I didn't think much about it. Suddenly, I decided there was something under the oak leaves and nothing I want lounge upon hides under oak leaves on hardwood ridges. I jumped up and out slithers a copperhead. If it hadn't been so cool, I'd have been bitten multiple times for sure. Fortunately for me Copperheads are slow anyway and particularly lethargic in the cool weather. Most people who are bitten, step on them. He escaped and so did I. I haven't been back to that spot since.



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