Last night on the way home...

BoardinBob

...I hit a bat :shock:

Cycling through the trees in the country park and it swooped down and hit me in my chest.

Pat my shants

Anonymous

Let's hope it wasn't rabid :shock:

hondafanatic

Get some lights ffs!



It the first time i've heard of someone hitting a bat...

Anymore unusual impacts out there?

Sewinman

I caught a bat once when fly fishing at night. It tried to eat the fly i was swishing around. It died.

BoardinBob

hondafanatic wrote:

Get some lights ffs!



It the first time i've heard of someone hitting a bat...

Anymore unusual impacts out there?

Plenty of lights.

hondafanatic

BoardinBob wrote:

hondafanatic wrote:

Get some lights ffs!



It the first time i've heard of someone hitting a bat...

Anymore unusual impacts out there?

Plenty of lights.

Get some sonicwave emitting bat defending device ffs!

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Lbaguley

That's funny, I was just thinking back the other day to when I got hit by a bat - it was spring this year and the sun was just setting. I was popping along at 20-plus and i felt something hit my chest really quite hard and stick there. I managed not to swerve or wobble, looked down and there was a bat spread-eagled against my jersey! Not sure who was more shocked, me or the bat.

We were soon enough both safely back on our way...

hondafanatic

Lbaguley wrote:

That's funny, I was just thinking back the other day to when I got hit by a bat - it was spring this year and the sun was just setting. I was popping along at 20-plus and i felt something hit my chest really quite hard and stick there. I managed not to swerve or wobble, looked down and there was a bat spread-eagled against my jersey! Not sure who was more shocked, me or the bat.

We were soon enough both safely back on our way...

I think i would have screamed like a five year old girl if that was me...I hate anything smaller than a puppy clinging onto me...

gtvlusso

Bats: Bastards.

Kieran_Burns

BoardinBob wrote:

...I hit a bat :shock:

Cycling through the trees in the country park and it swooped down and hit me in my chest.

Pat my shants

Are you sure you weren't just up past your bedtime again?

girv73

I had a wasp hit me in the face and get stuck behind my cycle glasses, all buzzy and mad.

Fastest. Dismount. Ever.

Gilbie

girv73 wrote:

I had a wasp hit me in the face and get stuck behind my cycle glasses, all buzzy and mad.

Fastest. Dismount. Ever.

LOL

Saw some bats last night too - nearly cricked my neck following them with the head torch!

stage_fright

If you were hit by a bat - where there some sheepish looking guys all dressed in white nearby asking for it back?

ChrisLS

...yeah I was hit by a bat earlier in the year...I thought they had radar to stop them hitting into things...

...anyway afterwards I found these two bite marks on my neck, and I now get very thirsty at night and I sleep during the day...

saveswalking

I nearly hit a bat once ...

an old one - just stepped out in front of me off the pavement :!:

sw

AyrshireBacon

I hit one on Monday night. Was just looking up at them flying out of the hedgerows and one glanced off the inside of my left arm. Nothing to show apart from the two little fang marks and a sudden longing for raw steak...

Stewie Griffin

Sewinman wrote:

I caught a bat once when fly fishing at night. It tried to eat the fly i was swishing around. It died.

My Dad used to take me fishing when I was a kid, I can remember him catching a duck :shock: He had this duck 30 feet in the air flying around in circles trying to free itself, QUACK QUACK QUACK QUACK and my Dad spinning around underneath it holding the rod trying to get it back down. I must have been 10 years old and I can remember almost peeing myself.

Greg T

Cricket Bat?

Now that would hurt.

girv73

I was attacked by a swarm of leaves once, all spiky and brown they were. I was lucky to escape in one piece I reckon.

Sewinman

Stewie Griffin wrote:

Sewinman wrote:

I caught a bat once when fly fishing at night. It tried to eat the fly i was swishing around. It died.

My Dad used to take me fishing when I was a kid, I can remember him catching a duck :shock: He had this duck 30 feet in the air flying around in circles trying to free itself, QUACK QUACK QUACK QUACK and my Dad spinning around underneath it holding the rod trying to get it back down. I must have been 10 years old and I can remember almost peeing myself.

I have caught a duck too. Good fight!

AyrshireBacon

Stewie Griffin wrote:

My Dad used to take me fishing when I was a kid, I can remember him catching a duck :shock: He had this duck 30 feet in the air flying around in circles trying to free itself, QUACK QUACK QUACK QUACK and my Dad spinning around underneath it holding the rod trying to get it back down. I must have been 10 years old and I can remember almost peeing myself.

I can remember a time out night fishing * with my dad when we caught a duck. Nearly spoiled the whole trip.






* The sort of night fishing that involves throwing a net across a river, waiting a couple of hours, pulling it back out again with a dozen salmon in it, hoping all the time the police don't find you.

Paulie W

I once got hit (or rather attacked) by a Red Kite (which if you dont know is a decent sized bird of prey). It swooped down and clawed at my helmet, then hovered above me - i could see its shadow - for a mile or so. It hit me with some force and I have to say I was pretty shaken up by it.

justresting

you would be if it was clawing at your helmet !!
Sorry somebody had to say it

Paulie W

justresting wrote:

you would be if it was clawing at your helmet !!
Sorry somebody had to say it

You've let yourself donw there!

Sewinman

Paulie W wrote:

I once got hit (or rather attacked) by a Red Kite (which if you dont know is a decent sized bird of prey). It swooped down and clawed at my helmet, then hovered above me - i could see its shadow - for a mile or so. It hit me with some force and I have to say I was pretty shaken up by it.

That is weird. Red Kites are normally scavengers and would not attack live animals, particularly a human. Are you sure it was not a buzzard?

ACE story however! I wish a bird would attack my helmet.

p.s. Sea Eagles can break a stags back, so be thankful!

Paulie W

Sewinman wrote:

Paulie W wrote:

I once got hit (or rather attacked) by a Red Kite (which if you dont know is a decent sized bird of prey). It swooped down and clawed at my helmet, then hovered above me - i could see its shadow - for a mile or so. It hit me with some force and I have to say I was pretty shaken up by it.

That is weird. Red Kites are normally scavengers and would not attack live animals, particularly a human. Are you sure it was not a buzzard?

ACE story however! I wish a bird would attack my helmet.

p.s. Sea Eagles can break a stags back, so be thankful!

Pretty sure. It had the "v" or whatever its called in its tale feathers. I wondered whether it was protecting someting rather than trying to "eat" me.

Littigator

Or maybe it just wanted to gobble your helmet

gnurk!

spen666

ChrisLS wrote:

...yeah I was hit by a bat earlier in the year...I thought they had radar to stop them hitting into things...

...

Clearly it didn't have bikeradar




I'll get my coat .....

attica

I was out riding with a mate last year, a pheasant mis-judged it's swoop across the road and hit the top of a van, bouncing off the top of the windscreen it landed on my mates back in front of me and managed to carry enough speed to land in the hedge rather than under my front wheel, not the most graceful thing I've ever seen!

I'm still laughing at the image of the duck trying desperately not to get reeled in though.

STEFANOS4784

Had a badger craftily place itself dead in the road, sly git almost hit him!

attica

Damn, I forgot about this (I'd been confining myself to flying creatures)

This summer I was riding a lane at night, saw a badger scamper out of the way as I approached and was too busy watching that one to notice his friend that was right in my path, saw it too late and he saw me too late, I ended up kicking said badger in the head as he lurched out of he way. My foot was on the back stroke and he was moving away so I don't think I did it any permanent damage, but still...

I kicked a badger!

a frickin badger!!!

In the head