Thread: Ever had this happen to you??

Originally Posted by Col.Coleman

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.

A while ago now I was doing shift work so arrived at a party early in the morning rather than early evening like everyone else. Seemed like everyone had been having a good time however it was starting to break up by the time I arrived. A girl I knew asked if I would drive her home in her car which was parked out the front as she was in no state to drive herself.

Started off down the road when a large spider appeared on the windscreen wiper blade arm. This was accompanied by a screaming sound from the passenger seat which suggested that she was not really at ease with spiders. Turned the windscreen wipers on thinking that this would fix the problem of the pain in my left ear. Spider must have seen this one coming and was ready for me. It just rode the wiper arm across the windscreen. Screaming from passenger seat now increased and decreased depending on if the spider was in from of her or not.

At this point I became aware of the police car beside me that seemed to be taking an interest in the car with the screaming girl in it. Lucky for me it must have been the end of their shift as they turned into Victoria Barracks Police Station rather than pull me over. I could though hear their laughter as they drove off so suppose they must have figured out what was going on. Spider became bored with the game a little further down the street and jumped off.

Originally Posted by 3toes

A while ago now I was doing shift work so arrived at a party early in the morning rather than early evening like everyone else. Seemed like everyone had been having a good time however it was starting to break up by the time I arrived. A girl I knew asked if I would drive her home in her car which was parked out the front as she was in no state to drive herself.

Started off down the road when a large spider appeared on the windscreen wiper blade arm. This was accompanied by a screaming sound from the passenger seat which suggested that she was not really at ease with spiders. Turned the windscreen wipers on thinking that this would fix the problem of the pain in my left ear. Spider must have seen this one coming and was ready for me. It just rode the wiper arm across the windscreen. Screaming from passenger seat now increased and decreased depending on if the spider was in from of her or not.

At this point I became aware of the police car beside me that seemed to be taking an interest in the car with the screaming girl in it. Lucky for me it must have been the end of their shift as they turned into Victoria Barracks Police Station rather than pull me over. I could though hear their laughter as they drove off so suppose they must have figured out what was going on. Spider became bored with the game a little further down the street and jumped off.

Originally Posted by Aaron

I had a snake a few weeks back in my engine bay. I noticed it stick its head out during the day. Took ages to catch it. Found out a few days later it was there to shjed its skin

I'd shed my skin if I found a snake in the engine bay then I'd put the car up for sale. "May we go for a test drive? No, you go, here are the keys I'm staying right here"

Originally Posted by JamesH

I'd shed my skin if I found a snake in the engine bay then I'd put the car up for sale. "May we go for a test drive? No, you go, here are the keys I'm staying right here"

Same here!

Canadian winters are not kind to cats. Very common occurance for cats to be caught in a fan belt. I know of a few dying by this fate. An engine bay is a nice warm spot on a cold winters day. As a kid, I remember dad spending over an hour trying to cut my grandparents dead cat out of the fan belt.
You quickly got into the habit of banging on the car bonnet to scare any cats out from under neath before starting your vehicle.
One time one of our cats climbed in under the bonnet of the car (which we did not know about) we drove for 15minutes to our destination, stayed there for over an hour drove back home. When we got home dad opened the bonnet to find this cat was sitting in the engine bay unharmed - by the way this cat had more than nine lives.

Originally Posted by d@rk51d3

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.

Bloody oath!

I have just been told off for not working thanks to you... I was laughing my head off!

Another time, Grandpa was driving us home one night, in his immaculate XD Falcon.

As he gunned it down a hill, we saw a shadow in the distance......


"LOOK OUT FOR THAT COW !!!!!!!!!" yelled out both my parents...



HA HA HA HA, cow? what cow???????????? BANG!!!!!!!.

Last thing I saw was the cows butthole, doing the blowfish on the windscreen, with its back legs dangling over the sides of the car, before sliding back down the windcreen, onto the bonnet, then back onto the road.

It then happily(?) trotted off into the darkness.

Some nasty skids on that bonnet................. and Im guessing Grandpa's pants too.

Originally Posted by d@rk51d3

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.

I know this smell all too well

The old grey 45series out at a property i went to go shooting at absolutly stank of roo gut. When it's 40deg+ out past Roma you definatly want to be riding in the tray of this tilly, not the cab haha. Was a good old shootin truck though, got a few