What do you do when you notice Road kill on the road?

Damn Larry, that last answer was just wrong lol. I saw a dead coyote on the road the other day whilst driving in Texas and as I passed it my heart wrenched, it had no wounds on it or anything (it must have been hit and killed by sheer force) and was such a beautiful animal, kinda looked like a white wolf and to see it just strewn there was terrible.

Hitting animals on the road is called road kill? I thought it was only applied to hitting humans on the road.

No, we call that fun.

Man I got Like 150 Points on the way home today.... just kidding i don't even have a licence [img]tongue.gif[/img]

I remember a mate of mine running over, correction, into a Wombat once. It wrote his car off! Wombats are hard as nails! Their form of defence against preditors is to dig themselves into the ground with powereful clawed feet, and leave their back exposed. The muscles on their backs are like rock and can't be hurt. So when a wombat gets caught in the headlights of a car, he digs his claws into the tarmac and stands stockstill. It's like hitting a rock thats stands about a foot and a half high!
http://home.mira.net/~areadman/wombat%20nh2-watts.jpg

There used to be a prof at my graduate school who would go collect fresh roadkill for taxidermy purposes.

Last I recall... no scratch that, last I saw a Wombat, they were a "little" more than just a foot and a half high. ;)

Heh... I remember my Aunt in Australia accidentally reversing into one. There was a loud bump sound, then the Wombat padded off as though nothing had happened. :D

We were given this prompt the other day, in my creating writing class, to write in the perspective of someone else. I chose roadkill :D

I never finished the paper, but here's a little piece of what I wrote:

"One thing is for certain, they weren't sunbathing in a lounge chair when someone decided to run them over."

<font color=skyblue>Lol @ This answer!</font>

You don't want to run into a kangaroo if you're going anywhere from 80+kmh...it can do major damage to your car and to you. In the Northern Territory there are no speed limits so if you decide to take your car out and push it to 200+kmh you better hope that you don't run into a roo as neither of you will be walking away. :eek:

Quick way to take out all the windows in your vehicle... hit an adult deer riding along the expressway. The force of impact is... amazing.

BTW, it doesn't do much for the deer, either [img]smile.gif[/img]

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

<font color=deepskyblue> Too true, I’ve only once ridden my motorbike once past dark in the outback. It was near Texas (pop 7) in Queensland and we (my wife was riding pillion) hit a dead kangaroo at about 80kmh. Fresh dead as it turned out [img]tongue.gif[/img] by a truck that passed by in the opposite direction a moment before. The bike took off into the air, thankfully we landed straight and true [img]graemlins/wow.gif[/img] Two minutes later I’m pulled over at the side of the road shaking. You will not believe how high and far we traveled in the air. </font>

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.

Having seen real wild reticulated pythons in the jungle, I assure you, they cannot squeeze a truck, unless it was a very, very small truck. ;)

I don't mean around the entire truck just the wheel base

Well, you said the Chassis, not the Wheel Axle or such. No biggie though.

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.

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.

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...

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

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.

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>