Knocked of by ......

mkirby
mkirby Posts: 365
edited April 2011 in Commuting chat
A low flying duck :oops:

Been out for the club ride came back into town and a mallard comes bolting out of someones drive and clocks me for 6. Headed straight for the deck.

No dammage to me, bike or duck. The old granny had a good laugh mind.

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,730
    off
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  • walkingbootweather
    walkingbootweather Posts: 2,443
    Perhaps you should have lowered your head when someone shouted "Duck!"
    Nobody told me we had a communication problem
  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    mkirby wrote:
    A low flying duck :oops:

    Been out for the club ride came back into town and a mallard comes bolting out of someones drive and clocks me for 6. Headed straight for the deck.

    No dammage to me, bike or duck. The old granny had a good laugh mind.

    It came out of someone's drive? So presumably it's owned by that person?

    I'd send them the bill for damages....



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  • desweller
    desweller Posts: 5,175
    You shoulda been going faster, at that speed you were obviously a sitting duck.
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  • The Rookie
    The Rookie Posts: 27,812
    The duck sent you flying?
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  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    mkirby wrote:
    A low flying duck :oops:

    Been out for the club ride came back into town and a mallard comes bolting out of someones drive and clocks me for 6. Headed straight for the deck.

    No dammage to me, bike or duck. The old granny had a good laugh mind.

    Glad you and the bike are OK, you should check your helmet carefully, it may have a quack in it.
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  • dilemna
    dilemna Posts: 2,187
    Send the duck the bill.

    Did you call the old Bill?
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  • cyberknight
    cyberknight Posts: 1,238
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    mkirby wrote:
    A low flying duck :oops:

    Been out for the club ride came back into town and a mallard comes bolting out of someones drive and clocks me for 6. Headed straight for the deck.

    No dammage to me, bike or duck. The old granny had a good laugh mind.

    It came out of someone's drive? So presumably it's owned by that person?

    I'd send them the bill for damages....



    (I'll get me coat)

    +1 you would be quackers not to !!
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  • iwearshorts
    iwearshorts Posts: 72
    Should have hit it with a mallard.
  • walkingbootweather
    walkingbootweather Posts: 2,443
    Are you Fernando Torres? He seems to have been out a few times without breaking his duck too!

    Edit: I see that he put that right against the Hammers yesterday.
    Nobody told me we had a communication problem
  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    Maybe you were cycling too slowly. You really need to pochard if you want to avoid them.
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    cyberknight wrote:
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    mkirby wrote:
    A low flying duck :oops:

    Been out for the club ride came back into town and a mallard comes bolting out of someones drive and clocks me for 6. Headed straight for the deck.

    No dammage to me, bike or duck. The old granny had a good laugh mind.

    It came out of someone's drive? So presumably it's owned by that person?

    I'd send them the bill for damages....



    (I'll get me coat)

    +1 you would be quackers not to !!

    even though it might ruffle a few feathers...
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    You can't blame the OP for getting hit by a duck.

    I think eider gone down under the same circumstances.
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Some desthpicable jokes on this thread.
    FCN 2-4.

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    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    Were you puddling hard when it hit you?

    Don't be mandarin about it - sounds like you are OK.
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  • jonginge
    jonginge Posts: 5,945
    Just Peking into this thread. I'll now du.. er, nip out again
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  • walkingbootweather
    walkingbootweather Posts: 2,443
    Could have been worse,..........

    .........You might have been knocked up by a drake.....
    Nobody told me we had a communication problem
  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    You can't blame the OP for getting hit by a duck.

    I think eider gone down under the same circumstances.


    Better an eider down than a rider down, that's what I say...
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  • SimonAH
    SimonAH Posts: 3,730
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    mkirby wrote:
    A low flying duck :oops:

    Been out for the club ride came back into town and a mallard comes bolting out of someones drive and clocks me for 6. Headed straight for the deck.

    No dammage to me, bike or duck. The old granny had a good laugh mind.

    It came out of someone's drive? So presumably it's owned by that person?

    I'd send them the bill for damages....



    (I'll get me coat)

    Boring answer - in law I believe that loose animals are not the owner's responsibility, rather that the owner could sue you for damage to the duck?
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  • SimonAH
    SimonAH Posts: 3,730
    On the other hand you could have turned it into a Soul Singer by sticking it in the microwave until its bill withers.....
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  • dilemna
    dilemna Posts: 2,187
    Alert! Duck down ......... duck down!
    Life is like a roll of toilet paper; long and useful, but always ends at the wrong moment. Anon.
    Think how stupid the average person is.......
    half of them are even more stupid than you first thought.

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