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Originally posted by shadowspecter:
Heh...I see so many roadkills everyday...I mostly see dears and elks. Some times a cat or dog. The most nastiest one I have ever seen was a dog with all his guts all over the highway.

Thank you so much for sharing that.

Roadkill, you don't really see that much around here where I live. The most you will see are usually birds, possums, or even mice (weird). There are those times though when I see a dog on the side of the road and I have to turn my head, considering I own one myself.

I always feel sad when I see animals that have been hit by cars on the road (I really hate the term roadkill - seems so flippant ;) ). I hate to see wildlife that has been killed; so much of their habitat has been destroyed already and the ones that still have homes get killed by cars. And I hate to see dogs and cats that have been killed because it is so easy to make sure your pet is secure and not able to get onto the road to be hit. There's a cat that lives up the street and it sleeps right in the middle of the road. I can't believe it hasn't been killed after all this time.

LOL once when my mum was a new driver she was waiting at a railway crossing and a sheep ran into her car, making a bit dent. The worst thing for her was, absolutely no one believed that was what had happened and they just assumed she'd run into something.

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Originally posted by Intrepid:
Many years ago now, back when my dad was in the brittish army, he was stationed in malasya.
Anyway as they were moving their trucks from base to base, if they ever came across a boa constrictor lying on the road they were not allowed to run over it, they had to wait for it to cross and if it didn't they waited longer. Because many vehichles had run over them in the past, and it seems the snake curl up and squeezes the vehichle, which actually bent the chassie.
Can you imagine a huge snake lying across the road, and if you run it over it squeeses your truck? kinda scary if you ask me, especially if you don't see it lying there.

On the outskirts of Las Vegas lies a beautiful state park called Red Rock canyon. I was driving through it in a rental car on an overcast day, taking in the amazingly beautiful scenery, when I saw a section of pink garden hose on the road ahead of me. I was amazingly pissed...after all, what kind of pig would leave trash in a national park? I started to complain about this to my wife as I drove closer. Ten feet from it, it started to move. As I drove past it, it reared up and struck at the driver's side door of the car. By the time I realized what had just happened, I was 20 feet past it and watching it disappear into the brush from my rear-view mirror...

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Originally posted by Sagramore:
Ever hit a moose? They're like deer, in the fact that they don't move out of the way, no matter what you do...except they weigh as muc has cows! We hit one coming home from Dartmoth college in New Hampshire and the collision knocked out half of our windshield...my mom was pretty freaked out too

Ahh .... a New Hampshire mini moose .... that explains it. In VT, they call the moose "over passes"! [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

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Originally posted by Cloudbringer:
A deer hit us once...yup, I meant that ...it ran right into the side of our car as we were slowly inching forward through traffic after a play, late one night. Took out the drivers side mirror and the winshield while denting up the side and hood of the car pretty badly.

Deer are down right viscious critters! When I was in school, someone I knew had just gotten a brand spankin new "Lieutenant Mobile" - convertable mustang. He was driving down I89 when a deer leaped off of a roadside cliff and INTO the car through the nice softtop!!! No, this isn't a scene from a Faraley Bros. movie .... this happened! [img]graemlins/wow.gif[/img] Shredded the inside and then ran off.

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Originally posted by quietman1920:
On the outskirts of Las Vegas lies a beautiful state park called Red Rock canyon. I was driving through it in a rental car on an overcast day, taking in the amazingly beautiful scenery, when I saw a section of pink garden hose on the road ahead of me. I was amazingly pissed...after all, what kind of pig would leave trash in a national park? I started to complain about this to my wife as I drove closer. Ten feet from it, it started to move. As I drove past it, it reared up and struck at the driver's side door of the car. By the time I realized what had just happened, I was 20 feet past it and watching it disappear into the brush from my rear-view mirror...

Did it damage the rental car?

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Back when I delivered appliances for Sears, I drove one of these. I hit a pheasant, or should I say it hit me, right in the center of this bubble windshield! Scared the living crap out of me and my partner, and put quite a set of cracks in the windshield. My boss was pissed. [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img] </font>