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Pankratous

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god damn I was driving 60mph on a little single track road and the baby rabbit ran out from the bushes at the side and I absolutely demolished it, there was no chance to slow down or swerve, it was over before I knew it was happening

thump!!!!

rearview mirror. squished rabbit.

i feel terrible. my first roadkill in 3 years of driving

GAF, what animals have you decimated? And how long does it take to stop feeling terrible?
 
I don't drive but the closest I've every come to dying was when my mum was speeding down an empty road listening to music and then tried to swerve out of the way of a squirrel (which she still ended up destroying.) She nearly swerved off the road and killed us both, it was pretty hilarious/terrifying.
 
:(
At least you didn't create a bloodbath with a lawnmower + bunny nest

Thankfully I haven't killed any animals yet.
 
1 day into owning my first car, which was brand new, I hit a pigeon which literally exploded in a cloud of feathers.
 
Don't feel too bad, stuff happens. I had a pretty clean no-kill streak until I picked up a job driving a van at night in a national park and murdered probably a couple hundred frogs over the course of a summer.
 
I've run over a cat and a rabbit. I'm positive the cat was suicidal. It was walking on the sidewalk and as I was about to pass by it, it suddenly darted in front of me and under my tires. That sucked.

The rabbit was me driving on a back road going 50 and it just sprang from the bush. I went back to see what the hell I hit and it wasn't pretty.
 
backslashbunny said:
You... what....?

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*melts*
 
Ran over a possum once. Turned back to make sure it wasn't a cat because it darted out from behind a parked car and I only just saw it. Nothing I could do for it unfortunately, ran over its head. Felt bad for like 2 days.
 
Hit pheasants a few times.

One time I didn't see it in the rear view. Thought nothing of it until a bit of a smell started coming from my front off-side wheel arch.

I hate roadkill - it's completely unjustifiable. But for some reason I have less empathy for those dumbasses.
 
Pretty sure my girlfriend killed a bunny with the lawnmower last week. Discovered the next day so can't be sure. But yeah...looked... mowed.
 
The other year I was driving and saw two crows having a squabble by the site of the road. As I got close, on lurched and they both went into the road. THUMP. I felt really bad. My only road kill in 17 years of driving. But it wasn't my fault. just nature being dumn. You will get over it. I know people who swerve at animals to hit them. At least your not one of those.
 
Orbis said:
1 day into owning my first car, which was brand new, I hit a pigeon which literally exploded in a cloud of feathers.
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Birds are sucj fragile creatures. There's a gif of a baseball pitcher hitting a bird with the ball in a MLB game and just like in your case the thing exploded into a cloud of feathers.

OT:
No roadkill yet, but I saw a cat running right into a car and the vaguely cat shaped mush remaining on the asphalt. Kid of the owner saw it as well, so you can probably imagine how that situation continued :(
 
When I was a kid, my Dad and I were going on some errand in his VW van, when suddenly we heard a big *thwack* and saw a cloud of feathers. We got out to find that apparently one of those big Muscovy ducks had flown right into the front of the van. It left a huge crater where it impacted, but the damn thing just looked kinda dazed for a minute and then waddled away. My Dad coddled that van like it was his fourth child, and to this day if anyone dares to bring up the kamikaze duck he still goes off on an expletive-laced tirade.
 
I once saw a bird get caught by a car as it was trying to fly away. I was walking and the car was coming towards me.

It was quite the scene. It's eyes were popped out of its skull.
 
None thankfully, closest would be a duck with her little ducklings wandering onto the highway and almost causing a massive collision with everyone swerving to avoid them. I've never seen a semi stop so fast.
 
I accidentally broke a baby duck's neck while holding it, feels ptsd man.

A month ago before dropping somebody off at their house, I seen a cat, a few minutes later, I seen that cat as road kill..... :(
 
I was hunting grouse and quail with my dad when I was younger and shot a quail from about 6 feet away with a shotgun. Let's just say there wasn't much left to eat. :/

I thankfully haven't accidentally run over any animals, but there are so many insane deer in and around my town that it's only a matter of time.

dopplr said:
None thankfully, closest would be a duck with her little ducklings wandering onto the highway and almost causing a massive collision with everyone swerving to avoid them. I've never seen a semi stop so fast.
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Oh I forgot one. A few weeks ago I saw a squirrel get run over on its lower half. It was a gonner. The poor thing was still trying desperately to scramble away, though.

I was following the car that had hit it, so I hit it on purpose to put it out of its misery.

That stuck with me for a few days.
 
You think you feel bad? I wrecked a beaver once. (Insert your own joke)

I was driving on a wooded road, turned a curve and there was a beaver in the middle of the road, I couldn't swerve or stop in time.
 
I injured myself a couple of weeks ago by bailing on a mountain bike jump at the last moment because a little bunny rabbit was sitting on my landing patch. Took a big tumble over the bars.

The rabbit was unharmed.
 
Pankratous said:
god damn I was driving 60mph on a little single track road and the baby rabbit ran out from the bushes at the side and I absolutely demolished it, there was no chance to slow down or swerve, it was over before I knew it was happening

thump!!!!

rearview mirror. squished rabbit.

i feel terrible. my first roadkill in 3 years of driving

GAF, what animals have you decimated? And how long does it take to stop feeling terrible?
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news just in from colleague who drove down same road after me

magpies are enjoying a delicious rabbit meal

circle of life I suppose
 
Yeah, rabbits are some crazy mother fuckers. There were times in the summer where I live when I would have two dozen run right in front of my car during a few mile drive. Luckily I was never going that fast so I could slow down in time. There were a few that I were pretty close calls, but I don't think I killed any.

I swear though, sometimes, I think they meant to kill themselves. Like. I'm going 5 mph being slow because I see the rabbit, knowing it's going to cross. It waits, waits, waits, and then at the last god damn second, runs the fuck in front of my car. And this would happen daily! Insane.
 
Protome said:
I don't drive but the closest I've every come to dying was when my mum was speeding down an empty road listening to music and then tried to swerve out of the way of a squirrel (which she still ended up destroying.) She nearly swerved off the road and killed us both, it was pretty hilarious/terrifying.
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I did this in highschool and totalled a car I had only owned for a couple months! I liked that car. Hit a tree dead center and the headlights shot out on both sides.
 
nekkid said:
Oh I forgot one. A few weeks ago I saw a squirrel get run over on its lower half. It was a gonner. The poor thing was still trying desperately to scramble away, though.

I was following the car that had hit it, so I hit it on purpose to put it out of its misery.

That stuck with me for a few days.
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I'm proud of you. A half squished squirrel sounds like it would be in terrible agony.
 
I killed a dog. I really need a church basement and a 12-step group full of meth-heads to talk about it, like Jesse from Breaking Bad.
 
I ran over little squirrel once. Bunch of them was crossing some wire cable with I assumed the mother. Suddenly one of the litter fell, quickly tried to run to the side which then lines up perfectly with my tyre and "thupppp"... :(

Hugged my cat when I got back home.
 
Protome said:
I don't drive but the closest I've every come to dying was when my mum was speeding down an empty road listening to music and then tried to swerve out of the way of a squirrel (which she still ended up destroying.) She nearly swerved off the road and killed us both, it was pretty hilarious/terrifying.
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I know it's instinct, but you (or in this case, your mom) shouldn't swerve out of the way of animals, especially to the point of nearly killing yourselves. Squirrels, rabbits, dogs, cats, you should not swerve out of the way uncontrollably. Brake, yes. Swerve no.

It's tragic when you kill a dog or w/e, but ultimately sometimes there's nothing that can be done, and it's simply not worth your life. The exception to the rule are big animals like deer and shit, because those can and will kill you if you hit them.
 
Wasn't me, but I remember when I was growing up our next door neighbor once had blood and fur sprayed all over his driveway one morning.

Turned out a cat liked to climb up behind the tires and sleep near/on/in the warm engine, and didn't wake up before the guy turned the key this time.

Anyway, the thing was completely shredded. Blood was sprayed out everywhere along with tufts of fur everywhere like a pillow had been torn open.
 
I pwned a rabbit once, that creature was totally rekt.

Car: 1
Rabbit: 0

Flawless victory.

Fatality.
 
I destroyed a squirrel last summer, exactly the same way.

The thing had almost crossed the road (that point I was like "cool, the little guy made it") but then it suddenly decided to turn around and ran right under my car. Felt the bump, under both front-and back wheels. :/

I actually yelled "NO!!!" when I saw it turn around. I had no chance to stop. Such a trivial thing, but damn it hurt.
 
Last year I almost ran over a cat. It was late, dark road, I'm driving in the the speed limit then all of a sudden I just see a pair of glowing eyes in the middle of the road. It was a black cat.

I only had the time to steer the wheel so that I could pass over the cat without hitting it. I hit the brakes hard and listen to a light tud below the car.

My wife, who was with me was screaming and crying. I pulled over in the emergency lane and then spent almost an hour trying to find the cat and if it was injured. Me and my wife walked up and down that road with no luck.

I think the cat survived and ran away but I must have hit its tail, hence the light tud that we listen below the car. I still went to that road the next day in the morning but besides the skid marks from the tires I didn't find the cat.

Now everytime I'm in a dark road I pay extra attention to the sides of the road and still remember that encounter.
 
It happened a few years ago, but it was a skunk. A skunk kept making the alarm go off and every time it goes off we had to investigate it. This was like the fourth time we had to go out there and it was well below freezing. We tried to get it away from the site, but it kept coming back. So we just ran the fucker over.
 
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