I ran over the Easter Bunny!!!! (not for the squeamish)

[Jamie_Taylor]

Sorry to resurrect this thread…but I had been reading this yesterday and had never actually run over an animal in the two and a half years I’d been driving. Then today, I was driving to the LA horse show and a bird dropped down in front of my car. It was quite strange, he just kind of plopped to the ground…I didn’t have time to stop or swerve but he was right in the middle so I figured everything would be ok, my car would go over him but he wouldnt be hurt. Of course, I am just going over him and I hear a THUMP and a teensy jolt…The dang bird must have realized my car was going over him and taken off, right into the bottom of my car…! What a dumb animal! I felt SO BAD, but it was his own darn fault, he would have been just fine too. I just found it strange that I’d never harmed an animal, then I read this thread and BAM, dead bird on the bottom of my car…so not ok.

“Don’t take life too seriously, you’ll never get out alive.” - Van Wilder
“You can pick your nose and pick your friends, but you can’t wipe your friends on the couch.”

[AMom]

Yeah, those little turtles are speedy rascals aren’t they?

[Flashy_Gray]

I can’t breathe. I am just laughing too hard. After my awful week with an animal on the verge of death I don’t know why I am laughing at this but it’s just so … bizarre and funny.

God bless this thread!!!

[PaisleyRioux]

I once nailed TWO raccoons at the same time. I was taking a curve very fast in the middle of the night. A whole herd of 'em were in the middle of the road. Some went this way; some went that way. Some went under the wheels. Ugh. Horrible!

[Goodyfourshoes]

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I’m more worried about the still-twitching deer. The cop asks if I want it. Yeah, I’ll just grab my knife in my teeth and wade in dressed in my skirt and heels and field dress it. .<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

HEE heee heee Ho Ho Ho…I have this bizarre mental picture…oh dear it must be Friday…

[brilyntrip]

on the bunny slattered across the headlights is gross thank you !!!
BUt i sympathize with you about having hysterics after!!
I ran over a dog a long time ago he just ran out in front of me .I was weeping etc took him to nearest vet . jeez that was awful!1

[ProzacPuppy]

I saw the aftermath of a horse/Corvette accident one night on the way home from the barn. Happened at a stoplight and I’m not sure who had the right of way. The horse was dead in the road and the Corvette was definitely close to death.

This is an unfortunate thing about the areas outside of Houston - people keep these “house horses” and they keep getting out of the yard and onto the roads. I’ve stopped twice to catch loose horses grazing on the side of the highway (I always have spare lead ropes, halters and horse cookies in the back of the Suburban). And unlike with dogs the darn horses never have name tags or rabies tags to tell you who to call to come get them. And you can’t load them in the car and drive around with them. (I did that with a golden retriever once- found her on a busy highway and spent the next 16 hours in the car with her, calling various vets and rescues and hoping she’d react to some neighborhood with a little recognition.) So people, if you are going to let your horse roam free, make sure it is wearing identification tags…

[LJD]

Thing about where I live that perplexes me the most… you can sit in a tree stand for 12 hours and not hit a single deer… then hop in your car and take out ten of 'em! The deer in Hunterdon county want to die.

My favorite example of this… I’m sitting in study hall and I hear from behind me, “Lindsay… I can see you…” I turn around and one of my friends who is a senior is holding his mirror. He has his back to my table and is watching me with it. Curious about what happened, he said that he was driving to his house the night before and he sees a deer. He has no choice but to keep driving and the thing bounds down the hill… He didn’t hit it, it ran into the car. You can’t hit a deer when it runs into the SIDE of the car!!! The deer took of the mirror and demolished the driver side door… My best friend’s mom had the same thing happen where the deer ran down and into the side of the car… that happened twice to her in a month.

[Showhorse]

I’m only 16 (well 17 in two months) and I’ve already had my share of incidents with roadkill.

Once I was about 12-13 and my brother was about 16-17 and he was driving his little red ranger home from somewhere with my dad. A deer comes flying out of the woods, hits the the truck at the point where the windsheild joins the driver window. Shatters the windshield, shatters the window, dents the fender and door to pieces, but they drive home with the deer on the hood (they were about a mile away). So they get home, Lon (my bro) gets out of the driver-seat and he has glass in his shirt, in his pants, in his boxers. He takes off his shoes and there is glass stuck in them. We had to replace the whole left front of the vehicle.

Once on the way to districts with my old horse we were going down a hill when this hunting dog ran out into the middle of the road. We couldn’t stop. Then of course, all four tires hit it and there is this sickening crunch.

Once when we were out camping we got in the car to leave. Well there were these stray kittens around the cabin and one of them had crawled up into the car and was sleeping there. Well, Mom was the only one in the car and she started it up - nothing. Then she backed up slowly and the kitten fell out of the car RIGHT behind the front right tire. WE were waving our arms and screaming but of course she didn’t hear us until she had the poor thing wedged half under the wheel, still twitching. My dad had to break its neck and throw it into the woods. It was horrible.

Once I was cutting grass out front and this woman in a van hit a dog right in front of my house. It was a hunting dog and she had broken its leg and it was in shock. So I had to drive the lawnmower up to the house and get my dad, who went down with the shotgun and killed the poor animal. I cried for days.
Besides that, I have hit a couple birds, a couple squirrels, and a german shepard. HOrrible, All of them.

And speaking out STUPID animals, there is this stupid red bird outside of my window as I type that returns EVERY year so that he can fly repeatedly into the window, daze himself, and repeat the idiot behavior. Every 10 minutes I hear this THUMP and there he is again - attacking the window. Stupid stupid stupid.

[LJD]

This is my most favorite thread ever!

Pony Rock

[Goodyfourshoes]

Actually, ErinB, someone did pass me. Now I’m slow, and my car is crappy, but there was NO reason for that passenger to look back at me and burst out laughing! I was very offended until I found Bugs peeled across the grill.

I kid you not.

[AHC]

Oh, Worthy, so sorry to hear about your bunny incident. Like VTrider, don’t mean to giggle, but it is amusing.

[fleur]

It flew right into the horse’s chest. The horse spooked a little, but no other harm done.

EMMA

[HeyYouNags]

Yuck - it really does ruin your day, doesn’t it?
I once accidentally ran over a snake, thinking it was just a stick in the road, and had nightmares about it later.

Ahem, then there was the time a bat flew in front of the truck. I could have sworn I hit it, but never felt a bump.

A week or two later, I happened to walk around the front of the truck, and there, plastered across the grill, was…

I think I made someone else pry it off.

[headcat16]

Every time I read this thread I crack up…this from someone who cried when she ran over a possum. (My boyfriend calling my car a Possum Pancake Maker for months afterwards didn’t help.)

“There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.” – Anonymous

[OnyxThePony]

Well, thank GOD someone thought to get rid of that pesky little twitchy-nosed menace! Little obnoxious hopping fluffy tailed brat, bringing chocolate and appealing coloured candy around just in time to break any remaining resolve of sugarless NewYears!!! What is he, really, satan of the sweets?? C’mon, everybody knows a bunny is the universal symbol of temptation!!!
And the Armadillos…LOLOL too funny, but whoever did that (obvioulsy purposely) to the bunny on easter was one major sicko, I don’t see the humour in that one…

[mwalshe]

A family friend of ours was at school the other day (I’m guessing he’s about 2nd grade) and some kid had brought in his dad’s favourite homing pigeon for Show and Tell.

So the class goes outside and releases the pigeon whereupon a red-tailed hawk comes swooping down and just nails the thing right in fornt of the horrified group of kids, then proceeds to sit on the front of the school and eat it. Blood and feathers everywhere. Major freakout…

There was a lot of coughing and lip-biting when the parents were informed (and out and out laughter later behind closed doors) and the kids, being kids, will probably forget all about it in a week, the poor teacher on the other hand may never recover…

[Sweet_Pea]

Once I threw a bale of hay down from the hay loft, and it landed on top of a kitten!! It was terrible! I was only about 12 or so, which made it even worse. The kitten flopped around on the floor for a while, but eventually recovered. It was promptly named ‘Miracle’.

[RodeoHunter]

This thread is hilarious (although, somewhat sickening)!

I hit a bunny last summer on the way to the barn; it ran so fast in front of me that I couldn’t even brake. I shrieked, looked in the rearview mirror, and saw that it’s leg was up in the air doing a little dance. It was awful, I got to the barn in hysterics… “hicc-Ijust-sobhicc-kill-hic-BUNNNNYYYYY!!”

[system]

LOL @ dublin!!

Ph gosh, the poor thing got hit then painted. I wonder who the heck did that!! tut tut

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