Z_Spool

Okay, so the other day me and my fiancée had the day off so I decided to take her to San Diego on a date. Driving down the 15 sucks though, so I took some back roads to PCH then went down from there. It was a nice drive, pretty relaxing and the weather was gorgeous. Passed a group of Evo’s playing and actually had a couple guys in a bugeye WRX pass me running REALLY hard. Kind of made me happy to see some others out having a spirited drive since we were in her PT rather than the S13. All was good till a squirrel decided the nut he had just acquired wasn‘t enough motivation to come home to Mrs. Squirrel. Hitting animals of an size sucks, but even more so when your fiancée who loves anything even remotely cute and/or cuddly, is right there with you. So yeah, that kind of killed the mood for the next couple of miles. Luckily she’s a forgiving girl who knew there was nothing I could do and the drive was far from over. This wasn’t my only animal encounter as many late night jaunts in the hills have been interrupted by shadowed creatures with glowing eyes skimming across the asphalt. But it’s not always an animal that tends to ruin the drive… sometimes you’ll come around a turn to find a fallen tree branch or rocks, or worse… a nimrod n00b on the on the wrong side of the DY. So we all go out on drives that are meant to relax us and remind us of why we’ve spent so much time/money/effort on our cars in the first place… but what have you come across in your ‘excursions’ that ruined it?

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Nachtmensch

already dead roadkill in the middle of the lane when i cant swerve (and my lip was < 1" front the ground.

i dragged it for a little and it left a gooey mess to powerwash off when i got home....

IIIXziuR

oh man thats gross hahaha. Animal Gook

SiI40sx

Ive ran over a bunny before.... i think it rolled under my car and rolled out, i didnt see any blood or anything, and yeah I was with a lady friend of mine too, this was at angelest crest.

ThatGuy

While driving on the Turnpike in Pennsylvania, I was coming up on an overpass that my lane wen tunder. I saw a group of pigeons sitting on the road below the overpass. I expected them to move before I got there.

3 of them didn't. Luckily this was when I was a teenager and I had a 1978 Dodge Van (Down by the river!). All I saw in my rearview mirror was a cloud of feathers. The grill was a different story. No damage, but the remians took some scrubbing to get rid of.

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exitspeed

HA, I JUST took a pic on my cell phone this morning of a dead bird in the grill of a Blazer. The birds whole head and wings were in tact but the body was completely gone.

Looked really funny.

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Mr.S14

I hit a dog with my bros s13 once, man i felt so bad that i turned the block and went back,to see if it was ok, to bring him home to take to the vet, trying to see where it was i accidentally hit it again, man i felt like shit for next 3 weeks, i didnt even want to drive, im a dog person.

SiI40sx

LOL now that shit is funny......

WilloW

I sent a cat flying one night, stopped the car to check and the cat was gone. Those thing make the wickedest noise.

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ManoNegra

I've seen dogs go flying off the road and get a good 3-4 meters of airtime. Being in a car when a college friend run over a possum - nasty.
Which also reminds me: the neighbors across the street have a couple of aging chihuahuas that are going senile and have taken to wandering on the street at all times of the day. They don't even get scared by cars. Wouldn't be the least bit surprised if one of these days I come home and there's a chihuahua rug on my street.

S14DB

I was behind a SN95 in my fox body mustang before I sold it for the 240. Cruising down a country road where a bird was feasting on some road kill. It did a pop jump to clear the SN95 but then decided to go back after the food again. Popped in the air a little to late and smacked into my grill. Last I saw was a slow mo bird going over the car.

Went to my moms to glue the grill back together. She thought I hit someone till I started pulling bird feathers from behind the grill.


On the main drag in my neighborhood these squirrels would play chicken with the cars to get the rush of them zooming over. I guess he didn't know how low I was cause after I went over him he flew up in the air from the draft. Then walked around in a daze. He played this game for a couple days till I came home and he was part of the pavement.

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LigouriRd

I was on my way to the track one time and a Squirrel/chipmunk/some kinda small rodent ran out into the road in front of me. I wasn't doing more than 10-15 miles but it was still too close to stop, plus I was leading a caravan so I didn't want my bumper reshaped like a dodge stealth.

I moved over in my lane a little bit so at least the animal would go under the car. Right under my seat I felt it clang its something against my exhaust. I looked behind me, my buddy slammed on his brakes and I see the little guy stumbling all over the place in the road. At the time I thought it was pretty funny, practically saw a halo of cartoon stars dancing around its head. Poor thing finally fell over unconscious.

To this day I haven't heard the end of it "You've got blood on your hands, why don't you pay attention to whats in front of you?" I do, just not two feet in front of me.

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Mr.S14

messed up i felt like shit

DRavenS13

I hit a possum once on my way home from work. I thought it was a cat, and I felt the *thump" and I stopped to check on it. I go around to the back of my car and it's an ugly, stinky, gross possum. All I thought was, "Ugh, die then" and went back to the car and went home. All I had was some gunk under the fender and on the side of the tire.

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wingsnthangs

The one night i wasnt even sure what I hit. Looked back but didnt see anything. But when I got home, there was some fur and blood on the underside of my rear bumper. Cleanup wasn't fun.

Also, big bugs that explode in guts on your visor while riding a motorcycle = huge buzzkill.

MavericStephenc

so redevilrps13,my friend hunter and myself were doing a touge run in one of our surrounding towns. at first everything was good joe(devil)was up front I was in the middle and hunter was at the rear. we were moving at a brisk pace when at the last 1/4 of the run joe and I are comming around the corner and nearly on our side of the road was what looked to be an impreza wagon, Joe and I avoided this oncoming car, but hunter had no choice but to get out of the way by slowing down and swirving on an already narrow street. in closing his brakes locked up and he ended up learning what crumple zones are for.

he's alright car was sold and he bought an s13.

last winter the one day I decided to drive my car to school, while Pulling into the parking lot I was hit by a speeding accord.He broke his headligh and bent his fender a little bit. my s13 was bent in half. saint patricks day I bought an s14. 2 months later I did and s14 sr swap and have been happy since.

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S13-Silvia

Couple of days ago leaving my neighborhood in my truck there was a squirrel on the side of the road just sitting there, I'm going about 10 MPH and just going straight when he decides to run out in front to of me, he made it across and I didn't even slow down, but he decided he could make it back across so he went for it and all i felt was a very small thump. When I was on my way home I saw the squirrel, laying on his back, body in perfect condition with no head....I completely squashed his head. Looked like someone put an M80 in his mouth.

Tops*

I was drifting last evening and I spun out on one of my runs. I hit a curb with the bottom of my intercooler, knocking one of the couplings loose off the piping. Of course I had taken out all my tools out of my car a few days before the evening of, so I had to walk all the way home then all the way back. By the time I got my car running, it was already dark. No big deal? Well, one of my ballasts is fried. Killed my evening...

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ThatGuy

Wow, what track has curbs and doesn't have someone around with tools?
At least the track is within walking distance of your house though.

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airsoft

Roadkill list:

1. deer - survived
2. cat - died
3. dog - injured
4. bird (sparrows)- died
5. squirrel - died
6. possum - died
7. little rat - died

To Hit List:

1. skunk
2. raccoon
3. anything else living in So Cali.

soreballz

I've had several deer attempt suicide in front of me on mountain roads. Even a small bear once. Lucky for me, I've managed to avoid all of these crazed bastards thus far.

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Dirty Habit

Drilled a pheasant on the way to see Roger Waters in Detroit a few years ago.

We arrived late without a front bumper and missing a headlight. Those things do massive damage.

OurOnePassion

A friend and I hit a rooster one, back when I drove a 2g eclipse. We heard it tumble underneath the car... but when we looked back, it was still walking in the middle of the road like it'd never been hit. It still makes me wonder... did it spin so fast that it did some sort of time travel and...

Though, that didn't ruin the day... watching my ankle completely fold under itself and swelling up to the size of a softball ruined my day. That bastard of a step...


I hit my dad once. On purpose.

2ilvia

if you value your fresh air, DO NOT HIT A SKUNK! their smelly juice will splash all over your underside and nobody will get in your car

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HalveBlue

When I used to do OPFOR missions I hit a sparrow driving one of our HMMWVs.

The thing was lodged in the grill in a way that made it look like it was in midflight.

We kept it there as our unofficial mascot of death for a good two weeks.

Too bad I don't have any photos of it because it was awesome.

tacotacotaco

me and my gf were driving angeles crest. I always tell her if any animals pop out its best to just hit it rather than swerving and maybe causing some other events (animals like cats raccoons not dears cows or horses) So yeah a squirrel pops out im like watch out buddy even honked and slowed down but sucker decided to play juke em with my front tires so i swerved to avoid him but i guess he juked right under the tire. My gf was like why the fuck you swerve just kill it. Also i was in a taxi once lookin out the window only to see a cat running full speed into the back tire. Oh yeah driving to mammoth thru camp manzanar this huge crow flys off the power lines straight into the windshield at like 90+mph. Huge thud everyone woke up but the bird stuck to the windshield intact spread eagle. Turned on the windshield wipers but they just added comedy to the fact i couldnt see. We had to peel the bird off. And it left an outline in the glass.

wrapmeup2005

Living in the desert I've hit too many rabbits to count. They will hear you coming and run into the street, stop, then run under the car. Some make it, some don't. One time my mom and I were leaving the house and one rabbit runs in the street and the other runs behind it, they start doing the dirty and then run to the other side.

Ive ran over a couple of snakes but they never die

Hit a bird dead on when I was driving a brand new car from Cali and damn those guts smelled!!

When I was on a date I almost hit a deer that ran across the road and I know both of our assholes puckered up

OurOnePassion

What the hell?!? I had a pic up there of a puckered ass hole. Dammit. I can't see it... Maybe I'm blind?

LongGrain

there was some baby ducks following their mom duck across the road single file, like in the cartoons. it was really cute actually.

i ran them over....