ChatterBox
I have had a number of animal-vehicle interface issues over the years.
My old man had a toyota Hi-ace vanny trayback thing. Cab over like the van but trayback. The pet cat was underneath on start up one morning and got itself all tangled in the fan belt. The motor wasn't able to start so a cut off belt to rescue the cat was the only casualty.
We used to mow my grandfather place where they stayed. They were in a caravan on an engineering firms property as a sort of caretakers. There was lots of machinery and long grass. One time we had to move the grader to mow around it. We had a hard time starting it this particular time, so gave it full throttle and just kept winding. We thought the battery was dying but then it kicked into life with a roar and thudding noises and foot long chunks of carpet python came flying out the side.
My others have been running over a snake on a motorcycle mid corner. Feels like hitting a waterpipe. A sideswipe of a skippy, again on a motorbike at around 190kph at Tambourine Village, and hit a ridgeback in a volvo in NormanPark one night delivering pizza. A possum committed suicide under the dual rear wheels of my 4 tonne truck.
The one that sticks in my mind most was shooting as a kid, the station had an old HT Belmont ute that was a bit rough. It also had no bonnet so you could get to the problems in the engine quicker. we vwere out spotlighting this particular night when out of the bush on the side comes Skippy the big red kagaroo and lands straight in the engine bay. His face and upper body are pressed against the windscreen, legs on either side of the motor, with the tackle over the motor. We all got a shock at the suddenness of it all but the guys in the cab really **** themselves at the roo looking through the windscreen at them and the whole situation was that comical we couldn't stop laughing to fire of a shot. Skippy once we got him off just hopped off into the bush.
Then there was the time when I was living in Marsden and used to give another fellow a lift home after the night shift at the Meatworks. We were in my XY ute and a massive huntsman spider was in the cab on the hood lining. Peter was petrified of spiders and the thing crawled down the inside of the windscreen in front of me to the dash. I kept driving and Pete starts freaking out . He says if that thing comes over here I'm out. No sooner had he uttered those words than the the spider starts crawling along the dash towards him. We are still doing 60 when he opens the door, so I pull up and he jumps out before we are stopped. I am killing myself laughing and flick it out the door towards him. It landed and turned back towards the car. He says he can still see the shadow cast by the spider underneath the ute from the streetlights.
My flatmate hit a dog on the way back from the shops on his motorbike in a singlet, stubbies and thongs. Ouch. we had great fun poking him while he was healing
Fossicker
I was driving home one night at 3am after night shift along the ring road, with the window down...
when i feld somthing hit me in the middle of the chest!!! i then felt some thing fury and wet in my lap!!!@#@!!!
I pulled over to find a small bat hit the mirror, inside edge, and then hit me!!! poor little thing!!! scard the **** out of me!!!
after telling a mate he asked it i held it infront the the head light to make the "bat symbol"
Master
My first car was an old Golf diesel. One day after work went to start it, a small bang - then nothing. Looked underneath the bonnet to find a mouse squashed under the inj pump timing belt around the pump drive sprocket causing the belt to skip two teeth and throw my timing out. Wasn't going anywhere till I stripped the belt and re-set the timing
Makes me laugh now.
Rob W
Master
What was the rabbit doing on a bike, was he wearing a helmet?Originally Posted by Panda
You didn't kill the duck, it was on a kamikaze mission and killed itself!
I came over a rise on the road between Broken Hill and Wilcannia, straight into a mob of sheep at about 3am, more than a few years ago now, sheep flying everywhere. Stopped and checked them out - all OK- hadn't yet been shorn.
Hit an Emu between Broken Hill and Wentworth - the guts and blood stuck the feathers to the windscreen, didn't have enough water to clean up more than a small patch to see through
YarnMaster
That would have been so gross! How long did you have to drive with the windscreen like that? Glad it wasn't me, I would have been in tears the whole way.What was the rabbit doing on a bike, was he wearing a helmet?
You didn't kill the duck, it was on a kamikaze mission and killed itself!
Yea, I've tried to tell myself all sorts of things ...
I came over a rise on the road between Broken Hill and Wilcannia, straight into a mob of sheep at about 3am, more than a few years ago now, sheep flying everywhere. Stopped and checked them out - all OK
Hit an Emu between Broken Hill and Wentworth - the guts and blood stuck the feathers to the windscreen, didn't have enough water to clean up more than a small patch to see through
Used to jump on my bike many years ago during the night & go for rides to wherever. You know, just ride around with hardly any traffic, go up the coast or stop at a beach down the coast. Marvellous it was. (This was back in the days when you didn't have to worry about speeding). The poor bunny was on a road called Mowbray Road, heading to Lane Cove from memory. (In Sydney). Anyway, it was pitch black, & the little fellow just scooted across the road. Being on a bike, I didn't manage to avoid it, hit him making the bike wobble as it bumped over. Very nearly lost control of the bike, but managed to correct the steering. Made me more careful in future!
As far as the duck goes ... I worried about it all day, poor bloody thing. It made such an awful thud when it hit the Landie. Kept telling myself he was okay & flew away with his mates!
Still getting over running over the snake the other weekend - and I don't even like snakes! Technically speaking, it may have seemed I ran over him, but he got away.
Yes ... I live in a world of make believe, sometimes it's easier that way!
TopicToaster
SubscriberI'm glad there's someone else who cares about running over snakesThat would have been so gross! How long did you have to drive with the windscreen like that? Glad it wasn't me, I would have been in tears the whole way.
Used to jump on my bike many years ago during the night & go for rides to wherever. You know, just ride around with hardly any traffic, go up the coast or stop at a beach down the coast. Marvellous it was. (This was back in the days when you didn't have to worry about speeding). The poor bunny was on a road called Mowbray Road, heading to Lane Cove from memory. (In Sydney). Anyway, it was pitch black, & the little fellow just scooted across the road. Being on a bike, I didn't manage to avoid it, hit him making the bike wobble as it bumped over. Very nearly lost control of the bike, but managed to correct the steering. Made me more careful in future!
As far as the duck goes ... I worried about it all day, poor bloody thing. It made such an awful thud when it hit the Landie. Kept telling myself he was okay & flew away with his mates!
Still getting over running over the snake the other weekend - and I don't even like snakes! Technically speaking, it may have seemed I ran over him, but he got away.
Yes ... I live in a world of make believe, sometimes it's easier that way!
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A lady who works with my brother has a late model toyota something,similar to a corolla,but its not.Anyway it had been playing up ,missing,etc & eventually would not start.She got it trayed to the dealer as it was only a year old,& they found rats had chewed the wiring harness in the engine bay.
Many hundreds of dollars later,its now all fixed.
We have found cats chewed up in belt drive refrigeration units,rats are caught in them often.They climb in behind the fan on the off cycle,& when it starts up,well, its all over
Master
I have had some terrible luck, no matter the vehicle!
I hit an owl with my postie bike one night on the way home from work - it flew straight into my right hand, punchng the front brake lever back into my knuckles and sending me out of control into the kurb. ouch. two broken fingers, lots of missing bark and bent handlebars.
Came around a bend as a kingswood travelling at 110 hit a calf then threw it into the front of my festiva at the same speed! the front of the poor car practically exploded! engine mounts broken, etc... a write off.
three months later, this time driving a kingswood ute - late at night and very sleepy. Hit something big - broken grille, cracked windscreen - woke up in a big hurry! middle of nowhere and couldn't see anything lying on the road, figured it must've crawled away to die... got 2 hours down the road to my destination to find one very large dead emu in the back of the ute.
couple years later, driving my work Kombi around when a large flash and smoke starts pouring out from under the seats... GF's kitten had stowed away and chewed through the supply from the 240V inverter.
And on the LR I had a snake stow away in my roof rack, then appear one night in the middle of Fortitude Valley... slithered down the back ladder and into the night.
Brother-in-Law was making the trip from Adelaide to Melbourne many years ago, in an old banger, in summer, no air-con.
Somewhere around the south-east they spot a dead roo on the other side of the road, and an oncoming truck.
He didn't have time to wind up the windows, before the truck ran over the heavily bloated roo carcass, and blew the festering insides out of the roo, and into his car.....
Plenty of dry-reaching and heaving up on that trip. He says the smell never came out of all the vents.
Master
SubscriberStarted Range Rover a couple years back - Started with a nasty clunk, and dash lights stayed on. Thought the worst, popped the bonnet. And a Dirty big Rat fell out from under the car. Had been cut in half by fan belt, which had also snapped.
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