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I just obliterated a baby rabbit

Baroquemantic said:
Thump, you say? All I can think of is Thumper from Bambi now.

Anyway, no. I've fortunately never hit an animal while driving. Hope I never do.
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Agreed. Sad seeing how common it must be even just by looking at this thread. Obviously most people don't mean to but it still sucks. The closest I've gotten is having to slow and swerve because some teenager with a smug smile decided to walk into 5 lanes of traffic at night and just stand there looking at us (all of the oncoming traffic).
 
I almost hit a bald eagle with my dad's car once. I was driving to a friend's when I saw the eagle flying next to my car and then, all of a sudden it dives in front of my car, I breaked and I saw it fly off with a squirrel.
I guess the eagle saved the squirrel from being hit by my car, then he ate it.
 
I had a deer essentially hit my car. I refuse to take full responsibility. It ran off afterwards, but I doubt it lived. Really sad. I don't like unnecessary suffering or death, and hold myself to a pretty high standard. I only kill mosquitos otherwise.
 
Fairly certain I deleted a groundhog while driving 70 on the highway. It was early night and getting dark so other than knowing I hit some low to the ground animal that darted out in front of me, I'll never know exactly what it was.
 
About 10 or so years ago I hit a (thankfully) not very big bird in the middle of my windshield while going something above 200km/h. I don't think it felt much pain.
There was literally nothing left except a big red splash and I was glad that windshields are quite strong.

Since then no more kills except a couple thousands of bugs.
 
I was in a golf cart when my dad slowly ran over a baby bird. We totally thought it was going to move. Just the other day I saw a squirrel run under my vehicle on the highway, but I didn't see anything in the mirror.

I'm totally afraid of that scenario of trying to avoid hitting an animal and causing a terrible accident. I think I could tough it out and do what is safe to do (run straight over them) but I'm sure my wife couldn't. :/
 
I've come close, but I never swerve unless it's a human in the road. I'll slow down, but I value my own life and safety more than potentially taking out another car and myself by trying to avoid an animal.
 
I popped a turtle with my horse trailer. I managed to miss him with the truck, but the trailer is wider and rolled over him. I was really upset.
I didn't see him until the last second because it was Fall and there were leaves all over the road he was crossing. RIP little dude.
 
once i was driving along the sea during the rain and basically genocided frogs.

there were hundreds of thousands, couldn't do a thing.
 
Benzychenz said:
When my mum was little she dropped a brick on her pet kittens head.
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Staccat0 said:
I had a deer essentially hit my car. I refuse to take full responsibility. It ran off afterwards, but I doubt it lived. Really sad. I don't like unnecessary suffering or death, and hold myself to a pretty high standard. I only kill mosquitos otherwise.
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My husband hit and deer and it basically exploded. Answered the question: What happens to a Jeep Wrangler, doing 60 mph, when you hit a deer.
The answer is not much. He lost the plastic bumper cap and had a small dent in one fender. The steel bumper took the brunt of it.
 
timetokill said:
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.
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My family rescued a stray cat after she lost her tail this way. One of the best cats we ever had.
 
My ex boyfriend and I were driving down a quiet residential street back to my house and noticed a small little turtle in the road. He swerved around it, then pulled off to the side of the road so he could get out and move it. Right as he stops the car, we look behind us and sure enough, another car comes and swerves to move around us, hitting the turtle. The little guy bounced feet in the air from the impact. My boyfriend and I sat there in shock. He felt so bad.

I've also hit a rabbit. I remember looking in my rearview mirror and it was just spinning from the impact. Like a top. I felt so bad I ended up turning around to see if I should do something about it's suffering, but it was gone. I like to think I just knocked it silly and it went on about it's day.

I've also hit a bird but in truth, the bird hit me. I don't feel bad about that one because the bird wanted to die; it flew RIGHT at my windshield.
 
Jzero said:
:(
At least you didn't create a bloodbath with a lawnmower + bunny nest

Thankfully I haven't killed any animals yet.
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this happened to me once. dead baby bunny parts everywhere.


Ive hit tons of animal in my car., dogs, cats, squirrel, possum, birds, coyotes. Safe to say I'm not the "swerve out of the way" type.
 
Just hit something with my car for the first time the other day actually.

I was on my way to drop my girlfriend off at her house at around 11pm. It was really dark and I had an hour and fifteen minute drive in front of me. So we're talking, trying to get as much time in as possible before I drop her off in a couple minutes. We start joking around, and something I say makes her jokingly reach over and grab my crotch, and I laughed and was like "WOAHHH, easy killer," quickly glanced over at her and then I just see her look at the road and yell. Looked back and SMASH, hit a big raccoon square with my car. It made the worst noise. So I was rattled, and she started crying because a) she thought it was a cat at first and then b) she realized it was a raccoon and still felt bad.

So yeah. Now every time we're in the car, she'll say something that should arouse me and then follow it up with "wait no, don't kill any raccoons."
 
Rolanderson said:
I almost hit a bald eagle with my dad's car once. I was driving to a friend's when I saw the eagle flying next to my car and then, all of a sudden it dives in front of my car, I breaked and I saw it fly off with a squirrel.
I guess the eagle saved the squirrel from being hit by my car, then he ate it.
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Weird I forgot this happened to me. We were traveling at the same speed and he just turned, went in front of me, and slowed down. I tried to break but he ended up hitting the windshield. He tucked his wings and tumbled over my car. I pulled over freaking out but he just got up and flew away. I mean he hit at almost the exact speed I was traveling so other than the fall off the back he couldn't have got hurt. Still felt bad.
 
My car's lights are awful. I try to avoid driving at night. Hitting some animal would be a terrible thing for me. I wouldn't be able to get over it easily.
 
I had a rabbit crawl under a fence into my mower and it decapitated itsef. Not too smart.
 
I ran over a squirrel once, I tried to stop but it just darted right under the wheels

There was a kid on his bike going by who saw it, like we needed more trauma in that situation
 
shawnbuddy said:
I looked it up. This is a gallah.

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It's so cute. How can you live with yourself?
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They're migratory birds that show up in large numbers where I live around spring to feed & breed. They strip the shit out of trees, crops and lawn. At the time I believe they were being culled by the state government to prevent overpopulation.

So it was pretty easy not to feel too bad at the time.
 
i've only ever hit bugs but unfortunately i've seen 2 cats get run over. i had a close call with a deer once while driving on mulholland in LA. had no idea there were even deers there. thing just darted in front of the van i was driving and thankfully i was going slow because of the curves.
 
Hit a dog last year, I felt depressed for months about it. It was 2 dogs wrestling on the grass and right when I was passing buy one of them bolted onto the road and right under my tire.
 
I live in florida and ride my bike to work every day. There are always crazy lizards trying to suicide on my tire.
 
DrSlek said:
They're migratory birds that show up in large numbers where I live around spring to feed & breed. They strip the shit out of trees, crops and lawn. At the time I believe they were being culled by the state government to prevent overpopulation.

So it was pretty easy not to feel too bad at the time.
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Ahem. Be that as it may, I offer this counterpoint:

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Look how cute! It's even pink and shit.

You're a monster. :)
 
I've taken out a few rabbits as well. A place I lived in (sort of) country Australia, had a dark, semi windy, 100km/h road leading to the house, where rabbits would often run across. At night, you'd often see 4 or 5 bolt out onto the road. Sometimes they stupidly turn and start running up the road instead of across it, and well, not much you can do. I remember a girlfriend at the time getting really sad when I hit one when she was in the car as well. I had kinda got used to it by that point...

A little further up the same road after I turned off, I'd often see Kangaroos as well. Those things you really don't want to hit. My parents often used to speak of the time in the 70's when they hit a roo on a cross country trip that wrote their car off, and stuffed up all their holiday plans
 
Pankratous said:
GAF, what animals have you decimated? And how long does it take to stop feeling terrible?
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I live in Kansas, so I hit animals on a pretty frequent basis. Birds, armadillos, foxes, deer, quail, turkey, and other assorted woodland creatures.

The most amusing incident involved a hawk swooping down to grab a rabbit. It flew into the middle of the road where I then promptly hit both of them with my minivan.
 
I've somehow never managed to hit anything, even the stupid pigeons here that wait in the middle of the road until the last second. Cat's dart along the street at night too.
 
I've hit around fifteen rabbits, a flock of birds, and a massive raccoon. I also ran over a rattle snake's head with my bike when I was a teenager. It sucks but I just go on with life.
 
The birds around my neighborhood are all suicidal. Luckily, so far I have been able to catch their shenanigans out of the corner of my eye before I drove over them.
 
Hit a deer the other day. Was only going about 35 mph and was able to swerve to avoid a head on collision, but I still hit it on the edge of my bumper and killed it.

Considering it broke my right blinker and how slow I was going, that must have been one SAWFT deer so I feel no remorse!
 
A number of months ago I was driving down a road in a residential neighborhood where the road crosses right between two tiny ponds. It had started raining a little bit, a light drizzle, and the roads were wet. I was just driving along, approaching the pond area, and noticed the road ahead looked weird. Right when I got up to the weird-looking area, I noticed that it looked 'off' because there were dozens of frogs crossing the road, just the mass of them migrating from one pond to the other. I can't even imagine how many I ran over but I did feel a bit bad about it. I didn't set out on that trip with the intention of snuffing out that much life, but shit happens I guess.
 
Poor baby rabbit. T_T

As far as I know, I've never killed an animal while driving. I've almost hit an animal a couple times, but swerved out of the way.
 
Friend of mine was riding his motorbike with no helmet once and got a bumble bee right in the eye, which apparently hurt mightily. Also the same guy hit a duck whilst riding at speed on the same bike, hit him in the chest and broke 2 ribs. So yeah, sometimes the animals strike back.
 
An early childhood memory I have is going on a walk my family and my neighbors family. They had a dog with them and he ran out in front of us, I decided to run after him and realized he was going after a rabbit. I caught up just in time to see him grab the rabbit, puncture its body with its teeth, and see guts just come spilling out.

It was very gross and kind of disturbing at such a young age.
 
A skunk in USA, poor little fella, that car stank for months.

A magpie in AUS, you know how they always move when in the road way off in the distance...this one just stayed there, staring us down in its last game of chicken.

A wombat in AUS, a school bus trip, nearly an entire bus of kids balling at the driver. Poor bats and poor driver, he didn't mean it.
 
Not that I obliterated any animals but sort of related.

One time my buddy and I were going to play ice hockey outside at our school and his new kitten was following us be we didnt notice. Once we crossed the street by our school we heard tires screech and a thud and we turned around and saw the kitty jumping all over the place. We were like WTF OMG thats your kitty! The car didnt stop, it drove off. I ran up to the the kitty that was still jumping everywhere and caught it it in my arms and just started running down the street with it in my arms. My buddy sean was like stop man! Hes dead!

So I stopped running and put it down on the gound and its eyes were popped out of its head and all its teeth were gone. I just started crying and ran home into my house and my parents were like WTF is going on!?. I had the cats teeth all over my face and I was covered in blood. I cried for like 2 days.

Pretty traumatic. The kitten was a cat from my cats litter that we gave to my friend about a month earlier.
 
I had to put a rabbit down at a work I had. Summer work during college. Cutting grass at power stations.
There were rabbits hiding in the grass and my younger coworker injured one. Hit the eye. It was not gonna make it and it was suffering. So I killed it. It would have died but felt terrible anyway.
 
I hit a small deer on the motorway (interstate type road). Was on my way to the airport early morning. I was doing about 80 and I saw it running ahead of me. I was in the fast lane . I slowed to about 50 and moved to slow lane. Fucking thing turned around when it reached the central reservation and ran straight back in front of me. When I hit it, it flew about 30 feet in the air over an embankment. I'll never forget it's tongue sticking out as it sailed through the air. Car was messed up and I was lucky it didn't hit the windscreen.
 
Paertan said:
I had to put a rabbit down at a work I had. Summer work during college. Cutting grass at power stations.
There were rabbits hiding in the grass and my younger coworker injured one. Hit the eye. It was not gonna make it and it was suffering. So I killed it. It would have died but felt terrible anyway.
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You did the right thing.
 
I once nearly crushed a kitten that was darting across the road. I had a horrible sinking feeling in my stomach as I approached because from my angle, it looked like it wasn't going to make it. I couldn't sharply brake all of a sudden because some tosser was tailgating me and we were moving at 50mph.
 
I noticed a rabbit hopping towards the road while driving home from a mate's place one night and just assumed it'd stop. It didn't. Cue bump. :(
 
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