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I once met a truck driver in Alice Springs who described when he hit a camel which came through the passenger side of the windscreen. Apparently camel feet patter furiously when horizontal. He bailed out the driver's door.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

I once met a truck driver in Alice Springs who described when he hit a camel which came through the passenger side of the windscreen. Apparently camel feet patter furiously when horizontal. He bailed out the driver's door.

I Bet that woke him up from the little nap he was having

Yeah I bet. Apparently the camel was a big male standing on the Sturt Highway north of Alice at night, so tall it came over the top of the cattle grid bullbar. It all happened really fast. A cab full of camel guts is not a pretty sight, he said.

Solution.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Yeah I bet. Apparently the camel was a big male standing on the Sturt Highway north of Alice at night, so tall it came over the top of the cattle grid bullbar. It all happened really fast. A cab full of camel guts is not a pretty sight, he said.

Pretty sure there's an Aussie movie where an American is riding in the cab of a road train. Female driver. They keep bumping things, Kangaroos. The Yank is shocked. The driver just ignores them. I think the line goes, "Hit a cow once. (long pause). Fn thing exploded. (long pause). Mess everywhere."

I laughed.

If you are lucky enough when driving in North America you might get the chance to hit a skunk. Any sort of front end protection , unless a plow is useless. Myself , if the road was clear and slowing not possible , i would consider swerving around the stink monster !

only takes a wombat to roll a car.

Friend rolled a wombat under his old passat once. Was like going over a speedbump, except it rolled under the car as we went over it, all the way. Only minor damage to passat lower radiator bracket. Wombat wasnt happy. Poor chap.