Luck strikes again & again & ...

Maybe we should be buying Russian made windshields? Idk...hello Mr. Putin, got any windshields?

 

Note to self:
Buy stock in windshield manufacturing outfit!

 

I thought of this thread today. I was headed eastbound through OKC on I-40. As I went over the bridge at the I-44 interchange a pigeon flew up over the concrete guardrail, hit my windshield with a glancing blow and then lodged headfirst under my exterior visor right at the driver's side left edge.

I had nowhere to stop and kept going. The pigeon was pinned by the force of the wind, with his butt and tailed feathers right above my line of sight.

Eventually he stopped struggling. I thought maybe he had died.

Finally I stopped east of town at a truck stop, made a two point turn to back into a parking spot, set the brakes, and then prepared to don a pair of rubber gloves to extricate the mess.

Suddenly the butt wiggled, the pigeon dropped down to the ground, and then he flew off.

I hope he was a homing pigeon.

 

To all you pigeon killers - All the statues thank you!

 

I've certainly eaten my share of that over the years.....and some of it right here on the forum.....

 

To bad they can't make a clear thin hardened plastic that you lay on the front of the windshield and it be like the OTTER box I use to protect my smartphone. Hmm new idea....on another note I got a 2016 KW truck from the company back around Christmas and yep you guessed it some dang flat bedder went by and threw a rock up...dinged me...now I'm gonna get the company to get me to the chip filler....is this thread cursed....lol