i hit my first animal last week
i was on a city street pulling a '53....saw a goose standing in the road from about a hundred yards away....i keep getting closer, he stands his ground...i keep thinking surely he will move
well he didnt....he just stood there as i went right over him about 40 mph....i think he caught my driveshaft....all i saw was feathers flying everywhere![]()
animals you have hit
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I've gotten a couple of squirrels, a couple of chipmunks, and a few birds. The biggest was a pheasant that took off from the median and hit the top edge of the windshield of my car.
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Okay I have to add this: mind you I post this with some sarcasm as it involves my scum bucket soon to be ex spouse
He was driving for USX last year- 5 months and he was leaving the yard and had just crossed the railroad tracks (so lets say 5mph??? for arguements sake) and he ''saw'' a dog ''out of the corner of his eye'' and sweared to miss this ''said'' dog (mind you I think it was a pink polka a dotta dog....) and hit a pole...........
needless to say he lost his job after causing some damage to the tractor and to the utility pole he hit and still doesn't quit get why he was fired.........
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1 bird so far, right in the windshield...I was moving at 65, he was flying slower...I own over 40 birds(ducks and silkie chickens) so I wasn't happy about it...
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hit a deer in 95 with a 379 pete sounded like a bomb went off $4500 worth of damage. hit a turkey on I-80 pa took my left headlight viser and left mirror off and got a ear full of turkey guts scared the #*%$ out of me!

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A few dogs, cats, lots'a birds, lots'a rabbits and a couple'a skunks!
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hahaha, I hit a skunk once at 4 am.
Asked the trucker that caught up with me if he smells a skunk. "yup" he says, "and it won't go away"
I told him I had hit one.
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rabbits, squirles, coons, opossums and a bunch of bugs
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I've hit a couple of skunks in the last few years....The first one I hit I thought, "Oh great! Now my truck's gonna stink for a week!"
By the end of the day it was pretty much gone and you could only smell it a little if you were right next to the left front wheel that squished him.
By the next day it was completely gone so when I hit the second skunk a year or so later....I wasn't too concerned. -
Porcupines are the worst....I was pulling quills out for days.....
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