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I just obliterated a baby rabbit

All those critters scurrying back and forth on the road are actually just being controlled by some divine entity playing their version of Frogger and also really sucks at it.
 
The week I bought my first car I was driving down a road at about 60 km/hr when a seagull swooped down in my path with no opportunity to stop or swerve. All I saw in the rear view mirror was an explosion of feathers.

A few years ago I was driving on a small road at about 40 km/hr when a raccoon darted across the road between my front and rear tires and got knocked silly as it hit the underside of my SUV. I'm not sure if the rear tires clipped it as well. At least it was able to shrug it off and continue on its merry way.
 
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I accidentally ran over a puppy. It was at night and the lights are only my head lights enterring the garage. I saw his body afterwards. Fuck.
 
Don't feel bad, if rabbits could drive, they'd run us over in a heartbeat.. And their hearts beat much faster, so that's even worse I guess.
What kind of road was it? Like, the location, somewhere with many animals? It'll probably be sustinance for some other creature.
 
Westbahnhof said:
Don't feel bad, if rabbits could drive, they'd run us over in a heartbeat.. And their hearts beat much faster, so that's even worse I guess.
What kind of road was it? Like, the location, somewhere with many animals? It'll probably be sustinance for some other creature.
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Single track 'country' (in the middle of a built up town) road with fields/forest on either side, so probably quite a lot of life yeah.
 
Pankratous said:
Single track 'country' (in the middle of a built up town) road with fields/forest on either side, so probably quite a lot of life yeah.
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See, it's all good.
You supported the circle of life, plus there is the free rush of taking a life, if that's secretly your thing.
 
once when I was driving a car going in the opposite direction hit something* and it flew into the front of my car and exploded. There were bits of hair and gore coming through the air vents for a while *boak*


* could have been a big rabbit or a fox or a cat, fuck knows
 
Everytime I take my dog out in this specific area its like the fucking end scene to Watership Down.

It runs back to me proudly holding a dead rabbit like I'm gonna do something with it.

And then other dog walkers give me tbe stink eye as I chase my dog around trying to get it to put it down.
 
Pankratous said:
GAF, what animals have you decimated? And how long does it take to stop feeling terrible?
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I was going fast downhill when from the corner of my eye I saw something brown in the bush at the side of the road. It was maybe half a meter from me. That's like 1,64041995 feet. I recognize it's a squirrel and I see it running between my front and rear tire. I was going maybe 30 km/h. That's like 18.64114 mp/h.

*thump*

I ran over a squirrel with my bike (bicycle). I brake. See it rolling in air doing flips all over the place. I panic. Will I have to kill it. After maybe 5 or 10 second it stops to a halt. I approach it and it's dead. Blood coming from ears and mouth. There's blood and maybe brain pieces on the asphalt. Actual image from the scene, no corpse, but blood and bits of something. Felt like garbage for awhile. Picked the poor fella and threw it in the bush.

Later that fall my GF almost runs over another squirrel with her bike at the very same spot on an adjacent road.
 
Only three years? You're just getting started!

I've hit a deer, several birds and somethings I'm probably forgetting. Never mind an incalculable number of bugs.


EDIT: Oh, I ran over a large frog with my lawn mower when I had high grass and was cutting in the evening with the sun almost down.
 
Hit a squirrel after 10+ years driving.
Felt terrible about and my younger brother(13) in the car with me getting anxious about it made me feel even worse.
 
I let one of our employees take a company vehicle home one afternoon as a once-off, and he hit a calf that had escaped it's paddock, while doing over 80km/h. The ute was a write-off and the calf was decapitated...that was a good-one to have to explain to our CEO.

I hit a duck once when I was driving a 3 tonne truck, I didn't stop to check if it survived...
 
i never hit an animal, but i once couldn't stop crying on my way home from work after having just seen a run over cat on the side of the road.

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I fuck up a rabbit or two at least once a fortnight. They're idiots and run directly into my driving line and I'm not swerving at 100kph. Usually you hear their head smack against the axel or muffler.
 
I never killed an animal while driving, but last week I saw an hedgehog, which had to be run over by an SUV or something.
It looked like right out of a comic, flat as a pancake. Little guy was stretched out all over the place.

Oh right, I once bumped against a bird. Wasn't going high speed, it just decided to swoop past right in front of the car and bumped against the windshield, then took off into another direction.
 
Pankratous said:
GAF, what animals have you decimated? And how long does it take to stop feeling terrible?
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A cat, a possum, a shit load of birds. The cat was the worst, not that I realized at the time because it happened so quick. Cat literally darted across the road at the last second that I only noticed a white flash out of the corner of my eye before it disappeared under my bumper and rolled under the cars chassis. It wasn't until a day or two later I was at my mates and he said his cat died, it was his cat as I drove past his house. Was such a lovely affectionate cat too. Fuck I felt terrible, even now 26 years later thinking about it makes me sad, obviously because I knew her. Rip Chloe.
 
Gen X said:
A cat, a possum, a shit load of birds. The cat was the worst, not that I realized at the time because it happened so quick. Cat literally darted across the road at the last second that I only noticed a white flash out of the corner of my eye before it disappeared under my bumper and rolled under the cars chassis. It wasn't until a day or two later I was at my mates and he said his cat died, it was his cat as I drove past his house. Was such a lovely affectionate cat too. Fuck I felt terrible, even now 26 years later thinking about it makes me sad, obviously because I knew her. Rip Chloe.
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D:
 
Gen X said:
A cat, a possum, a shit load of birds. The cat was the worst, not that I realized at the time because it happened so quick. Cat literally darted across the road at the last second that I only noticed a white flash out of the corner of my eye before it disappeared under my bumper and rolled under the cars chassis. It wasn't until a day or two later I was at my mates and he said his cat died, it was his cat as I drove past his house. Was such a lovely affectionate cat too. Fuck I felt terrible, even now 26 years later thinking about it makes me sad, obviously because I knew her. Rip Chloe.
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C'mon dude. You completely glossed over answering the question everyone will have after reading that. You even do a bait and switch with "even 26 years later..."

Did you tell him you killed the cat?
 
Several pigeons flew out from behind a parked box truck the instant I passed it. I hit all of them and they basically exploded. There was surprisingly little blood but it looked like someone dumped a pound of flour on my car.
One time I had to brake hard to avoid running over seven peacocks at once.
Last year I almost ran over a mountain lion with my work van.
 
I bashed a badger on the bonce.

It ran into the road, I was able to quickly slow down from about 40mph to 10 but it froze in the road and I heard a donk under the car.

Looked in the mirror and it was alive and running off the road.

He either died in the bushes or had a headache.
 
I hit a few pigeons a while.back from work on the way home. I saw them from a distance and thought they would have at least a little sense to fly out of the road. A bunch of them were just stationary in the middle of the road. I slowed down, flashed my lights at them and even did a half beep with my horn, and the birds just stood there and one didn't even bother to turn around.

Thing is since the road was.pretty awful to drive on, and the time being right in the middle.of rush hour and the road being known for an accident hotspot, if I slammed on the brakes in front of the heavy traffic behind me a pile up would have very likely happened. The car behind.was right up my tailpipe distance wise. 1-2 dead birds or injured (or worse) people? Id say the choice was pretty clear.


Didn't feel bad about it at all, it was either me being the reason for a possible pile up and major accident or a few gormless, zero survival instinct birds getting the heave ho because they didn't use the time they had to get out of the way.
 
Doing 60mph down a tight wooded country lane at 0600 in the morning during winter, so quite dark. Took out a fat pheasent type bird fellow the size of a sheep that came out of nowhere. Dented my front bumped and lodged a good deal of feathers inside the grill (that stayed for many months) as it rolled over the windscreen. I was awake after that for sure.
 
When I was 3 I stomped a baby bird with my foot.
Of course I don't remember it anymore. My mom told me that when she asked me why I did it, I just replied with: "because it was ugly"

I also ran over a cat with my car once :(
 
Log4Girlz said:
I hop you're okay
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Heh.

Well not the same thing but I still feel bad. I had three lizards and I put a frog in their cage. Frog ate all but one then died a week later. I always wondered what the last lizard did to survive. He's still alive today.

To clarify, besides that incident I took good care of them. That cage was over $100 with a big expensive humidifier also over $100.

Ironically I bought them at a snake expo because they were feeder lizards and that made me feel really bad.
 
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