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Old Jul 22, 2008 | 09:20 AM
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1996 fairfax vermont,north american wolf, sad site to see actually,i called animal control they came out and told me....i was thinking somebodys large house dog...estimated at 130lbs
 
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Old Jul 22, 2008 | 12:31 PM
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I was riding with my Dad in his exceedingly ugly '66 Dodge D-100 when a pheasant bounced off the windshield. He and I weren't paying attention because neither of us saw where it had come from, and he hardly braked before it plunked us. It flipped over the cab and landed in the bed, where an extremely grateful St. Bernard promptly started eating it. That dog was always hungry.
 
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Old Jul 22, 2008 | 12:37 PM
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So many miles, so many things to hit.

Once driving near Kingman early in the morning, I was sleepy and didn't see this big lizard until after I hit it. Looked in the rear view mirror just intime to see his body explode.

Driving in Mojave desert one midnight. Ran over thousand and thousands of white mice. They were all over the higway for many miles. Could not miss them since there were so many of them you could not swerve. Pop pop squish pop.

Hit a crow kind of weird. He had just lifted off and he kind of slid along the top of my hood and slid up and over my windshield. Didn't kill him but he seemed mad.

Hit a barrel hoop once on my cycle, cracked the fairing, good thing or elese it would have hit my knee.

Almost hit an eagle on my cycle. Was coming up the grapevine and the eagle was on the side of the road. He took off just as I was coming near. I kind of heard or felt the swoosh as he went over my head as I ducked. I think the truck in the next lane splattered him.

Once in the Calif central valley on my bike, I ran into thousands of butterflies. What a gooey mess.

My brother keeps a tally on animals he hits, should keep a rubber stamp of the animals so he can put a silouette on his door.

Jim Henderson
 
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Old Jul 22, 2008 | 03:05 PM
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I had a coworker hit a great horned owl on his way in to work one morning. Broke its neck. Called the conservation dept and they came and picked it up. Said it was in such a good shape that they had it stuffed and put on display.
 
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Old Jul 22, 2008 | 05:25 PM
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When I was younger I found a small bird skeliton between the bumper and the radiator of my Taurus. Last thing was a goose with my CB whip, really makes a person made when a goose breaks their brand new Francis whip.
 
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Old Jul 22, 2008 | 05:43 PM
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yeah i bet i hate gettin new antennas
 
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Old Jul 22, 2008 | 07:59 PM
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last year when i was camping in florida my girlfriend and i were getting into my truck to go shopping, as i was backing up she said out of nowhere "i hope that cute little lizard climbed off the top of the tire" i kind of chuckled when i pulled out of the spot, but she almost cried when we got back and there was a squashed lizard on the ground that was about the size of a silver dollar
 
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Old Jul 22, 2008 | 08:23 PM
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i think we were going to the liquor store actually...
 
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Old Jul 23, 2008 | 01:58 AM
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I hit a buzzard at like 60+ in my old F-100. that bird had to of heard me a coming because i was reving my engine tryin to scare it off and i was going to slow down either. just before i got to the that dead rabbit(i killed it also) that it was eating, it started flying up and i nailed it right in the middle of my windsheild. i threw it in the back of my pickup and took into town to show off and someone chewed me out about hittin it. Then i guess my cousin runs over all kinds of same wild life in the hyrdo swing. Like one time he plugged it up and went to look and he got a little fawn. Then my great uncle has cut off serval deers legs with the mower before i guess.
 
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Old Jul 23, 2008 | 10:47 AM
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Just wondering Iverson-fords, what situation would exist that would cause a deer to get its legs cut off by a lawnmower? The deer I have always been around would be long gone before a lawnmower got near them.
 
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Old Jul 23, 2008 | 10:58 AM
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Maybe that lawnmower goes 55 mph? Like it came out of the Monster Garage?
 
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Old Jul 23, 2008 | 11:01 AM
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I hit a deer in a 93 Hyundai once. Not a great story except that the deer was frozen to the road. I can only assume that it had already been hit some hours before, and it had formed a nice soft looking snowdrift. I saw that this snowdrift had eyes far too late to swerve or slow down. I was only driving about 70 kmph (~45 mph) due to the bad weather, and as far as I could tell, nothing was broken on the car. Took me a while to regain my composure though.
 
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Old Jul 23, 2008 | 11:46 AM
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Originally Posted by seventyseven250
I hit a deer in a 93 Hyundai once. Not a great story except that the deer was frozen to the road. I can only assume that it had already been hit some hours before, and it had formed a nice soft looking snowdrift. I saw that this snowdrift had eyes far too late to swerve or slow down. I was only driving about 70 kmph (~45 mph) due to the bad weather, and as far as I could tell, nothing was broken on the car. Took me a while to regain my composure though.
i hate it when those damn snow drifts look at me funny
 
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Old Jul 26, 2008 | 03:16 PM
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i had just got my suzuki DR650 and was riding it down some back road when a robin thought it try and fly through my front spoked wheel! when i got back home my dad and sister thought i might have fallen bad on account of all the blood on my shirt!
 
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Old Jul 26, 2008 | 09:23 PM
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i just hit a recap the other day and i didnt see it till it was too late didnt hardly feel it but after i was over it the guy behind me in a izuzu swerved hard to miss it hes lucky he did cuse i flippped it up a few feet in the air
 
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