Bird in bonnet scoop (nz)

cobs wrote:
> Well this is a first for me, picked up a bird in the bonnet scoop at
> ~100km/h. Dusk, just north of Levin. Just a flash from the side and a
> muted thump. All we could see were tail feathers and feet poking over
> the top lip of the scoop.
> Stopped to see if the little guy was just stunned - probably was but the
> dismemberment from the impact with that grille under the scoop did for
> him. No idea what kind of bird, bigger than a sparrow, smaller than a
> blackbird, too small to roast.

So you'd have to go back to Levin to get some chips from KFC 'coz
there's no KFC at Foxton, Sanson, or Bulls.

> I have heard some horror stories about people hitting skunks, and not
> being able to get rid of the smell.((
>
> VF

Fella at work drove over a skunk in his wife's car a few years ago.
Everybody had a good laugh about it, including him, but he wasn't laughing
when she had him under the car with peroxide. For about a month after,
every time the exhaust heated up to running temperature, sure enough you
could smell it again! Oh, and I'm pretty sure he only scared the skunk.
(-;

~Brian

On 25 Dec, 23:14, "Brian" <strch...@m> wrote:
> > I have heard some horror stories about people hitting skunks, and not
> > being able to get rid of the smell.((
>
> > VF
>
> Fella at work drove over a skunk in his wife's car a few years ago.
> Everybody had a good laugh about it, including him, but he wasn't laughing
> when she had him under the car with peroxide. For about a month after,
> every time the exhaust heated up to running temperature, sure enough you
> could smell it again! Oh, and I'm pretty sure he only scared the skunk.
> (-;
>
> ~Brian

I try to listen to Car Talk on NPR, since they always interesting
calls, and some about animals being hit by or In cars, or chewing on
them. One about a rodent hidding kibble in the ventilation system, and
it spilling out ever time the driver hit the gas was pretty funny.
Another about trying to keep goats from climbing on the roof, the guy
left the hood and truck lid open, so they chewed on the wires under
the hood.((

A friends wife had a rat pop out from the cowling where the wipers
were hidden on an older GM car, and was driving with it running around
on the hood. She called her husband on her cell to tell him, and he
couldn't stop laughing.

VF

On 26 Dec, 03:44, cobs <c...@myrealbox.com> wrote:
> Bugalugs wrote:
> > cobs wrote:
> >> Well this is a first for me, picked up a bird in the bonnet scoop at
> >> ~100km/h. Dusk, just north of Levin. Just a flash from the side and a
> >> muted thump. All we could see were tail feathers and feet poking over
> >> the top lip of the scoop.
> >> Stopped to see if the little guy was just stunned - probably was but
> >> the dismemberment from the impact with that grille under the scoop
> >> did for him. No idea what kind of bird, bigger than a sparrow, smaller
> >> than a blackbird, too small to roast.
>
> > So you'd have to go back to Levin to get some chips from KFC 'coz
> > there's no KFC at Foxton, Sanson, or Bulls.
>
> Heh, I always feel guilty when I hit something that doesn't know any
> better. Interestingly enough, the strike was about 1km away from where I
> hit a pukeko or the like in an Impreza (it crossed, I had plenty of time
> and coasted/slowed, then it ran back and was wiped out).
>
> Within reason I'll try and avoid larger possums because of the damage
> they do, and I've gone to the nth degree without endangering people to
> avoid those (native?) hawks that like the fast food road kills. They
> need a running jump to get in the air.

Squirrels give me fits, and Always double back.

VF

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 01:47:51 -0500, houndman@phonom.net wrote
(in article
<72f63ce0-d992-456c-8a27-7757fff51289@i12g2000prf..com>):

> Squirrels give me fits, and Always double back.

I read somewhere that a frightened squirrel takes action intended to confuse
a predator, such as a hawk, but it doesn't work against automobiles.

--
John Varela
Trade NEW lamps for OLD for email.

> Hit two pigeons once while going 70 MPH on I-94 (legal speed in MI).

And you lived to tell about it?

I mean, driving that slow on I-94...

-John O
-80 mph is normal