I was driving down the road doing about 60mph. I see this damn dove just sitting there not moving. I told my date not to worry because he was just playing chicken with me or something. Then I thought to myself this bird isn't going to move. The bird try to make a get a way, but instead of flying to the side it flew straight. He made it about five feet before he hit the hood then the hood scoop. His feathers just exploded everywhere. My date just gasped and covered her eyes. I looked in the rear mirror to see him hit the windshield of the car behind me then roll off. My date started to get pisst at me cause I couldn't help but laugh. I told her a little white lie and said that the bird was all right. I said that it flew off after it hit my car. Well it did kinda' :lol:


mike...

My hood scoop consumed most of a newspaper at 65mph one windy afternoon on the highway. I ended up pulling over at the next exit and surgically removing it from the scoop. Luckily my scoop was closed at the time, and home made it into the engine compartment.

~Loki

I heard some other guy actually sucked a bird into the scoop while driving! :lol:

Haig

My date started to get pisst at me cause I couldn't help but laugh. I told her a little white lie and said that the bird was all right. I said that it flew off after it hit my car. Well it did kinda'
LMAO:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

At least feathers are that bad. Was that blood? :p

Sickest thing is getting big ass moths and bugs...all squashed and gooey and bloody...on my intake, and tower bar...yuck. I still have to clean that out. Bleah :(

ahhh haha damn doves. they do that here too man. doesnt that make you mad. cleaning bird off your car.
Brat

ha my car doesn't have a hood scoop =P

Brian

so they hit your windshield dead on huh...that must suck

tapper neons dont have hoodscoops :P
Brat

ahaha i was waiting for that =P

ha my car is still faster...no scoops or vents or big wing slowing my car down =P

brian

you think so dont ya. come to colorado i have roads we can race on. and rally on. midnight crew street racing.
Brat

Originally posted by Keiho
Sickest thing is getting big ass moths and bugs...all squashed and gooey and bloody...on my intake, and tower bar...yuck. I still have to clean that out. Bleah :(

Eww, I'm gonna leave mine closed! I did get a pink plastic bag stuck to my v5 spoiler for quite a while. It stayed on till I made a dead stop. That was pretty embarassing!

Mike

I finally washed my car today. There was a big streak of feather dust on the hood and two small faint scratches. It also did a very tiny chip to the scoop. I don't care too much for that though. The bird paid the ultimate price I think. Now if I can get the other three that ate through my clear coat with their poop. :mad:


mike...

I've hit a bird once, but it didn't get into the scoop. It must be a pain to clean that mess up.

My Fiance and I were going down the freeway today at about 75. It's dark out and I see the a bunch of geese flying over the trees. By the time I look back at the road there is no time to respond, there is a lone Canadian Goose flying head on toward me! Both my Fiance and I jumped as we realized how low this thing was. It passed less than 5 feet over my car!! I checked to see if there was maybe an Excursion or something behind me, but it was all clear...

When I saw that big black head smiling at me and closing fast, the look of grim suicidal determination in his eyes, those two little feet tucked back to allow for the highest possible speed, all I could think was how that thing was trying to kill us.

In the end I suppose I was lucky it didn't crap on us, at that speed and angle it would have probably shattered the windshield.

-Silas

That is some funny stuff...I needed that man ...thanks

Don't worry Silas, that same damn goose succeeded on my mum's car (Acura Legend).:( New hood, grill, headlight, lines, & valve cover, oil filler cap.:mad:

That damn bastard weighed 47lbs. It took us two weeks to finish him off. Damned straight. He had it coming. Blasted Goose! But he did go well with stuffing. :D

No goose weighs 47lbs.! A huge Turkey is 20lbs., bigger than a goose and can't fly!

You actually ate a goose that did that much damage to a car with it's body? It must have been pulped. What did you do, drink it? ;)

he meant 4.7 pounds...
--Adam

I've had a number of problems with flying things hitting my car. A couple weeks ago, my friend and i were cruising along and a freakin bat smacked into my windshield. like wings spread and everything. scared the crap out of me! those things are ugly....i've never seen one so close up before...and i hope i don't have to again!

then just a couple days later i hit a bird. i was doing a little over 100mph on the freeway, and this thing just went *splat* right on my windshield. feathers exploded everywhere, and there was a big smear half way up the windshield where the rest of the goo slid off and over. that really scared the crap out of me because it felt like a missle hit my car or something. i swerved across into the next lane, i'm glad no one else was there next to me! :confused:

I was in my Suzuki Swift GT once and had my girlfriend in the car and we hit a dove.

It was sitting in a left turn lane and I needed to turn. I figured it would fly off, but it sat right there staring at me. It got hit .. HARD .. and I could NOT stop laughing. I felt the 'thump' on my floorboard as we drove over it, and as I looked in my rear-view all I saw was feathers.

It looked like someone cut open a down pillow. I almost wrecked I was laughing so hard, and my GF was yelling at me (damn liberal animal right's whiner).

I still laugh every time I think of that cloud of feathers.

I thought we (people) had a deal with the pigeons and doves.

Seinfeld anyone?

LOL :lol: :lol: :lol:
Greg

Well it did kinda'........ :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

That's just too good.

Doves have got to be the absolute dumbest birds in the world. Notice how small their head is in relation to their body size? Geez, their brain must be no bigger than an M & M (Plain).

What is it with doves? Must be very unhappy and suicidal birds...same thing happened to me. Like it was waiting for someone to drive by. It flew up and bounced off the top of my windshield...in my rearview I just saw feathers floating down.
And just yesterday morning a small bird like a sparrow or something landed on the road in front of me - I thought I'd driven over it til I felt a little bump:eek:

Hey the guy that sucked a bird into there scoop was me! I was in my 70 Nova and I sucked a sparrow right into the blower and down into the carb! what a freaking mess.:D

I was riding in my girls ford escort when we hit this dove or some other flying wildlife. It hit us while we were turning left at about 25mph. The damn thing hit the center of the windshield and slid right and over the car into a ditch on the side of the road. Then all of a sudden my girl looked over at me and yelled at me to quit. I was like ?what? She thought that I was hitting her dashboard with my fist. I asked her if she saw the bird and she said no. I told her what had happened and still to this day she doesn't beleive me. The freakin bird has made my life a living hell. HAHA. Anyways

Hey all got a question. I have a my00. I took the hood scoop off and did that cheap little guttergaurd mod to it. Now I am having a problem with getting the sides of the scoop down. You know those little black clips. I can get them to go down and clip. Anyone got any ideas??

Bird + Scoop = Mess

I still have no idea how the bird got caught in there. It's a closed scoop!

Really sick experience I assumed :)

Anyway, I never had a bird stuck on my hood scoop before, well besides that baby deer jumped on my car on highway.

Hmmm, made me think about that stupid wild black cat at my apartment area...damn thing jumped on my car at night from the hood to hood scoope to the roof and slept for the night. Next morning jumped to the trunk then my Prodrive spoiler, then top of my rear bumper then off it went. luckily no scratches (just dirts of paws marks) or else I will BBQ that damn thing for certain.

Sorry off topic, but that incident starts bugging me again... :mad:

Don't leave your car there not moving too long, or birds will build a nest in the hood scoop :)

-Alan (another MY98 owner)

that a great story

oh man these great, I'm having a ball reading them!

I managed to scoop one up in the radiator You know that big low sucker one under the bumper. He didn't stand a chance. Put his beak right into it. had to straiten all the little fins after i hosed him out. Was really hoping to see feathers come out the tail pipe, but I ain't that lucky.

LOL Later fellow bird killers
Mike;)

i have you all beat. doves, turkeys, geese . . . that's nothing.

i hit Big Bird.

well, a blue heron to be exact. not a heavy bird, but a 4-foot tall water bird that wades through swamps and eats seafood all the time.

i was driving home from a bar night in Delaware (whoooo!) and i decided to take the backroads to avoid any "imperial entaglements." i was driving in my MY98 RS with my friend Keith, a kid from Manhattan that had very little experience with nature, let alone the backwater swamps of south Jersey.

so we're driving on a poorly-lit backroad when we both see a cop with someone pulled over up ahead. just as i start to slow down, i see out of the corner of my eye a shape in the road. i jammed on the brakes, and by the time the shape came into view in my headlights, it had crossed the street and was even with my passenger-side headlight. and there it is, staring in at us, eye to eye. Keith, having never seen anything like this, yells "what the hell is that?!" as he screams, i clipped the bird and my car was instantly covered in white stuff. no feathers, no blood. just poop.

i keep driving, not wanting to stop near the cop, and we eventually found a WaWa convienience store. we got out of the car, and i'm staring at it in disbelief. from the front bumper to the back wing, the right side of the car is covered (i mean COVERED) in white bird poo. so, i'm staring in disbelief, Keith is calling his friends and telling them that we killed Big Bird, and a cop car pulls up. "be cool" i repeat as a mantra. "you can explain this without seeming insane."

cop one: jesus, son, what you hit?!?
me: a, ummm . . . a blue heron
keith: big bird!
cop two: weird, no blood or feathers or anything . . .
cop one: nope, but you sure did hit the ***** out of him!
keith: big effin' bird! we killed big bird! hahahaha!

i didn't get arrested. they didn't even look twice. to this day, Keith refers to the incident at the Muppet Murder.

I hate this story, but...

Tearing out of Crater Lake, Oregon, 90 mph, my buddy and I with friends in a pair of rented Taurus's, I'm driving the one in back.

I see something swoop across the road in front of my friend's car (he saw it flash over his windshield). It goes over his car without hitting it, but it gets caught in the draft behind his car and gets slammed to the ground by the turbulence. I had just enough to see a very large owl turn its head towards my headlights before "wham." No chance to avoid it. Dang. :(

blue herons - aren't those critters an endangered species or something??

well lets see
i had a plastic bag get stuck on the radio ant.
i got hit by a HUGE block of ice right on my windshield that fell off a cube van at 100k
i hit a wabbit up north at 130k (lucky just the tire)
ran over a couple of frogs up north too.
hit a small bird (think it was a robin were not sure)
and finaly an acura integra muffler fell off and hit my fender.

i laughed each time right after. its still funny now that its okay but wheni hit them i was scary

I can't believe no one mentioned the dove that got sliced up by an Audi at Sebring
http://www.fastdetails.com/wallpaper/index2.htm
It shows before pic with the bird sitting and the Audi approaching, and then the aftermath.... lol

I had a friend who hit a goose on the highway at high speed with one of those old american cars with flat front grills. It happened really fast and all he remembered was a lot of feathers. He pulled off at the next rest stop about 10 miles further. When he got out of the car, he and his friends rolled over laughing when they saw that the goose was stuck on the grill...butt first!

I thought it was amusing because I pictured a cartoon duck attached to the front of a car like a new ornament!:lol:

Sadly, the goose didn't make it.:rolleyes:

This story reminds me of when Randy Johnson hit a bird with a pitch.

Originally posted by wieger54
My date started to get pisst at me cause I couldn't help but laugh. I told her a little white lie and said that the bird was all right. I said that it flew off after it hit my car. Well it did kinda' :lol:


mike...
I'm with Austin.......:lol: :lol: :lol:

I smacked a bird once...:eek: It hit my windshield went straight up and got some serious hang time. I was doing about 60mph.
I actully saw it come down in my rear view mirror about 8-10 seconds after impact. :confused:

This bird didn't get hit but was in the right place at the right time. (http://home.vicnet.net.au/~tco/html/bird.htm)

What a Cheeky devil!

edit innappropriate material....


mike...

A friend of mine ran over a seagull with a ride on mower once. Feathers went every where and you could hear the beak and feet knocking around on the blade.

pair of nice H4 hyperwhite lights $80.

clear corners for the MY00 $55

Version 5 wing $400

Getting to see a bird blown up by an Audi $PRICELESS$

I was driving MY98 RS around town and saw a squirrel in the road I thought it made it because after I went by I looked in the rear view and didnt see anything. I continued onto where i was going and when I parked and walked in front of my car there it was stuck in the front bumper. I guess he tried to jump out of the way instead of ducking :(


Also in my thungerbird I was going down the highway at 75-80 (was dark out) out of the corner of my eye I see a large white bird (owl) fly across infront of me and TWANG, he got my antenna up the arse. I dont know if he made it or not but there was feathers and some blood on the antenna. I can only laugh when I imagine this stupid thing flying around and all of a sudden it gets a body cavity search by a 80 mph antenna.

First Owl turns to the second one and asks "What's up your butt?" :lol: :lol: :lol:
With lack of sleep that would be funny to you also. :rolleyes: I'll shut up now. ;)



mike...

Dove hunting season doesn't open 'til Sep. 1 - bunch of poachers!!

It looks like I can leave the shot-gun and shells at home this year. :lol:

They say that laughter is a defense mechanism and a way to relieve tension, I hope that is true when I see that everyone thinks that killing animals with a car is funny.
I personally get sick to my stomach when I think of poor little wildlife dying in a tragic way. I was driving to work just a month ago when an Acura 3.2 took out a squirrel right in front of me, I swerved slightly to avoid it and looked right into its big wide open eyes as I drove past, I was thinking, well at least it didn't suffer, boy was I wrong, when I looked in my rear view it was twitching and flopping 3-6 inches in the air, it ruined my whole week :(
Not to mention its little squirrel friend was watching from the side of the road just feet away as his best friend died an agonizing death. Birds are a little different, they dont have tails and big expressive eyes, but it is still a little morbid that everyone is LTAO
about death. Where does it stop being funny? Dogs, cats small children? Speaking of which I did see a kid get smacked by a subaru once, I heard the screech of tires and looked up just in time to see this boy of about 9 get smacked by the windshield, fly 15-20 feet in the air and land in the middle of the intersection, a bunch of people yelled including my self and rushed over, but just a few seconds after he hit the ground he POPPED up and ran for the corner as fast as I have seen anything move in my life, he was ok except for a bunch of scrapes. The poor lady who hit him was a mess though, even after she found out he was ok she was nearly inconsolable. PS the kid ran against the light and was hidden by the car waiting to turn left, good thing the driver wasn't speeding....

closing per request / reported post

there are some who find your giggling at the innocent cremation of cute n fuzzies completely offensive and out of line...

if a few are offended and speak up... i know there are more who are NOT voicing an opinion...

anyway... this is done with.

j.
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