Had to wrench a bird out of car grill

whydoesitalwaysrainonme

Yesterday i was in a car travelling down the dual carriageway doing about 50/60 and all of a sudden i heard a very loud thump, only to see we had hit a bird. I looked behind and saw a large flurry of feathers and assumed the bird was somewhere behind on the carriageway.
This morning i walked out to the car and saw a massive bird wedged in the grill, it was twisted and bloody and frankly smelled awful, had to wrench the damn thing out of the grill with a stick, also damaged the car lol. Just thought i'd share that. Will upload photos if anybody wants to see damage to car

Liftman

Will upload photos if anybody wants to see damage to car

would rather see pictures of the bird

MissBint37

Ergh thats kinda grim

thekickingmule

That's happened to me too. Not the nicest thing to see really.

My friend hit a squirrel a few years ago. He didn't know it at the time, but he'd completely decapitated the thing, and the head was lodged in the grill of the car, facing forward. It was actually quite amusing, yet sad at the same time :twisted:

KnightofCydonia

we have a huge imprint on our front window where a pigeon smashed into it. it's quite comical to me, my mum thinks it's freaky but doesn't have the guts to get up a ladder & clean it off. I said it adds character to the house.

whydoesitalwaysrainonme

I saw another pidgeon earlier, it looked like it was looking for someone, like for example it's husband!? lol. I did tell it to look in the binbag.

snotty badger

thekickingmule wrote:

That's happened to me too. Not the nicest thing to see really.

My friend hit a squirrel a few years ago. He didn't know it at the time, but he'd completely decapitated the thing, and the head was lodged in the grill of the car, facing forward. It was actually quite amusing, yet sad at the same time :twisted:

Red or grey? *fingers crossed it was an eveil grey*

I hit a sparrow once, dented my bonnet. Was an AX though, made from tin foil so no wonder it dented!

Hit a bat once too, passenger informed me that they were proetcted- didn't seem to help it though!

Mr Wu

Did it do as much damage as this one did?

http://thetorqueless.com/blog/porsche-h ... at-260kmh/

Tim.s

Many years back as a junior grease monkey I had the task of investigating a 'wretched smell' coming from the front of a customers car.

I lifted the bonnet to find her ginger tabby cat melted over the turbo, poor thing had climbed in to keep warm then got trapped when she left for work.

The diagnosis went something like this, "Have you lost your cat madam?" "Yes, he went missing a few weeks ago. Why?"

snotty badger

Mr Wu wrote:

Did it do as much damage as this one did?

http://thetorqueless.com/blog/porsche-h ... at-260kmh/

:shock:

Reminds me of this Evo video!

stev68

Afew years ago whilst driving through reading,mum next to me.a bloke on a dt125 type bike was sat right up my bum,so a few hundred yds up the road a suicide wood pidgeon decides to cross the road.
So then a dilemma occures.
A-brake like stink to avoid and get matey boy on the bike go through rear screen killing me girlfriend :evil:
B-squish the pidgy :twisted:

I chose B!

much to the horror of my mum and ex,the amount of feathers that came of the pigeon was imense!like somebody blowing up a feather pillow lol.The bloke on the bike behind us was trying to wave all the feathers out of his face lol
Still makes me smile to this day

bobs bikes

i once hit a pheasant in the lake district...... it took out my headlight, indicator and fog light.
he walked off, a little stunned...

i stormed off, a bit more stunned.... (from the bmw garage that replaced them ... and promptly skipped off to the bank!)


.... i aim for them now!

thekickingmule

snotty badger wrote:

Red or grey? *fingers crossed it was an eveil grey*

Was an evil grey one :twisted: There are a few red ones round Bury, but no way near as many grey ones.
Stev68 -

nicklouse

i am still waiting for the original picture!

snotty badger

thekickingmule wrote:

snotty badger wrote:

Red or grey? *fingers crossed it was an eveil grey*

Was an evil grey one :twisted: There are a few red ones round Bury, but no way near as many grey ones.
Stev68 -

Ahh thats alright then- death to the evil greys!
Not seen any greys up here though, quite a few reds though- which is nice!

nicklouse

snotty badger

& at the same time...

Whytepeak

nicklouse

Thought MBUK said that was a fake

nicklouse

well i was aware of it well before MBUK found it

it originated on PB back in 2000-2003 (well before i joined MBUK forum to post).

whydoesitalwaysrainonme

sorry phone is dead will upload pics asap, also will try to get the one of it the actual grilll on here

Northwind

Ages back, I arrived home at the end of a motorbike ride and noticed a strong burnt meat smell... I had a whole massive flat half-rotten grey squirrel caught up in my rear downpipe, where it had burnt itself onto the metal. How can anything so disgusting smell so good?

hucking_fell

I've had a seagull crack my work's van's windscreen. It was then trapped in the ladders on the roof.

Also a vehicle on the dual carriageway I was behind drove over a 2 foot square piece of chipboard, launching it up into the air. It sliced far enough into the grill to damage stuff under the bonnet.

johnnyboy29

Years ago i lived near a statley home which had a lot of land. driving home one night taking the back roads through the land i saw something move in my lights. The next thing i hit a fully grown deer. it shot up in the air about 4ft the skidded across the road. i absolutly filled me pants. I had to ring the park ranger who told me to move it off the road!!
I picked it up by the front leg and i've never been so aprehensive that it was gunna get up and bite me. but alas it was dead. RIP Bambi. Rote me F**k*ng off though!!!

Mancunianfightingcat

be thankful you didn't hit a deer at 140mph. You'd have needed much more than a stick to retrieve it........

http://www.fbody.com/anything/954163

deadliest

Saw this on Nitro Circus . . . Bad luck or what ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdxmAq3TOjI

whydoesitalwaysrainonme

If we're talikng about burning living/once living things here, then i have the most disgusting story to tell. (this is all true by the way)
Once upon a time.....
My auntie lived in London because that's where her uni was, she shared a flat with a couple of other people. In the morning shortly before she went to uni one of the flat mates could smell bacon and was saying how nice it was. When my auntie got home the smell of bacon was immense, and the same bloke was saying how he was off to get a bacon sarnie. It turned out that the old bloke living in the floor below had had a heart attack and had fallen on the oven hob :oops: .