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What have you hit with your car, other than another car?

Back when I was younger, I had a '71 Nova. Going through a parking lot in an ice storm, I managed to spin out, and hit the most expensive tree at the mall. Cost me something like $400 dollars, not to mention the damage to my car. BTW, this tree physically snapped in two. We dragged it out from under my car.

I hit an owl once. It was in the middle of the road, eating, and I ran it over. Poor thing.

A few years back, I hit a deer with my Jeep. The $%^ thing did a 180 and ran into the side of my Jeep. If it had kept walking, it would have missed me. Almost $500 damage.

Deer ran into the side of my Taurus. Ripped the side mirror off. Just made my first payment on it when it happened. Fixed it with Duct tape and epoxy.

Deer hit the side of my Tracer. I swerved and it bounced off the side, no damage to my car. I got out to check my car and kept hearing this crunching noise. It was the traffic running over the carcass, still laying in the road.
 
Plymouthbreezer said:
puckhead193, I was just thinking of going to the Chestnut Hill Mall like... this morning - weird you mentioned it (and now I'll be able to keep my eye out for this pole)!
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HAHAHA, i highly recommend valet parking... its free :D
Where in MA u located? I go to school in milton
 
Nothing with my new car.

With the old one, the rear of it somehow made its way into a tree whilst travelling at about 70 kph (43mph) on a wet road at night after scraping a barrier .

I ended up oversteering with the front of the car facing the curb proceeding to a 180 degree turn going thru dirt and eventually coming to grief into a gum tree....

The car was a right off. The tree made its way thru the boot - it was compressing the back seats. If it was the front that hit the tree, I wouldn't be here typing this post. :eek::eek:.


The airbags went off as well. I will NEVER forget that night...


Amazingly i walked out of the crash....... I have used 8 of my 9 lives.

aussie_geek
 
iBlue said:
You hit a bunny and found it funny? That's so not funny it's not even funny.
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Well I was originally mortified (I try to avoid plowing down animals)... but when I realized how it was essentially vaporized by my cheapo car, there was just some cosmic irony to it all.
 
Well, my parents my moms Touareg to a graduation party and parallel parked on their road.. There were a zillion people there. They left around 8;00. When my parents started packing the car to go to our RI place today they noticed a deep, bullet like almost looking indentation on the back of the car to the left of the right taillight. There is also a smudge of plastic on the bumper. It is a bizarre looking indentation and I don't know what could have done it since its up so high. Its like a good size ding only like pushed in 1/2" in a circular shape, almost like someone took a metal rod and hammered it into the back of the car without breaking the metal. And because the back of the car is like curved, it is very defined. My parents came home at like 10:00 and my mom was still teary eyed. Her beautiful ($53k!!) car now marred by a curious bullet like wound. I wonder how much that will cost to replace...
 
I've been in so many accidents that they don't even faze me anymore :p Never have I personally been driving a car while hitting something, but I've hit so many things while others have been behind the wheel. These include (but are not limited to):

  • Frogs
  • Snowbanks
  • Wallaby (like a small kangaroo)
  • My teacher's daughter (great story there, haha)
  • Other vehicles
  • Trees
  • Frozen swamp

Yesir, good times...
 
Ugg said:
Coming from someone who enjoys splashing hapless teens? That's a little rich, isn't it!
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Not really. They lived. (and my post was meant very tongue in cheek)

Vuzie said:
Well I was originally mortified (I try to avoid plowing down animals)... but when I realized how it was essentially vaporized by my cheapo car, there was just some cosmic irony to it all.
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I suppose I can see that. I half wondered because I have these inappropriate reactions to stress and laugh at the worst possible times occasionally. :eek:
 
Vuzie said:
Well I was originally mortified (I try to avoid plowing down animals)... but when I realized how it was essentially vaporized by my cheapo car, there was just some cosmic irony to it all.
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That's hilarious. That's out of this world! :D

Add a fox and a bunny to the list. I just got back from a big country work trip and I could've nearly had another car added to the list but thankfully I got back on the left side of the road just in time. :)
 
well, ok...it wasn't a car, but does a motorcycle count? the dumba$$ was driving at night, without a light, without the proper license and with a passenger on the back.

the passenger was wearing an old classic style Cooper....get this....Cooper HOCKEY helmet. here's a pic:
http://cgi.ebay.ca/VINTAGE-COOPER-S...QcategoryZ79768QQtcZphotoQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

anyhoo, i was pulling in left to say good bye to some friends and i see this blur and i remember saying 'oh oh' to my buddy. bam...quickly turn my head out the window and all i see, under the lampost, is this figure twirling like a helicopter rotor and bam...right into a steel street sign. the street sign was just bouncing back and forth after that making a waaaong sound.

they didn't die, but helicopter hockeyhelmetwearingboy destroyed his ankles (they hit the street sign). I will never forget the severe angle of those ankles and of course, me in some shock, ran up to him and said, "are you ok?" as he was looking at his ankles and then i looked down and said...um...ok...

idiots were charged appropriately. this was about 18 years ago. ironically, i was driving home the other night and i saw a motorcycle without its lights on and the driver not dressed right....zipping past me. that moment years ago instantly flashed back.

the hockey helmet is a laugher though. i still can't believe that....

cheers,
keebler
 
Half a dozen kangaroos (Not all at the same time! Had to finish one off with a blunt instrument)
Cane toads
Rabbits & Hares
Many many possums in NZ
A sheep
Near miss on a cow (I was on a motorbike at the time :eek:)
A couple of wombats (don't do the suspension much good!)
An echidna or two
Snakes
A few birds that went :boof:

... oh yeah, and ...

Lots of those little midgy things
 
Well lets see.

I've hit a telephone pole in my best friends mom's car

I hit another car while i wasnt even driving my car (more like hanging out the window being stupid)

I used to go cow tipping alot (with my buick) also. Though that wasnt so much hitting as slowly pushing over with my front end.
 
Hit a black bear, small, on very rainy, dark night in northern BC, Canada. It got jammed in the wheel well of my truck. :( (Almost hit numerous other animals on the highway over the years, usually at night in the mountains).

Also hit the cabin I lived in while I was going to university; wet snow on grass = slippery.

In both cases my vehicles received negligible damage.
 
In this order, after getting my drivers licence a week prior i hit (all in one go):
a curb
the front of a parked car (doesn't count in this thread)
a cable distributing box
and finally uprooted a japanese cherry tree (3000$ (!))

The car stopped in the middle of the road, engine on the ground. A big star (about 20 cm diameter) in the front window. and the tree lay just a few meters behind me, also in the middle of the road, leaving a big hole behind.
Thank god I was driving my mom's sturdy Audi A3. The call to the parents, who were on a holiday at the time, did hurt though.
Driving to fast to soon...

The firefighters, who came to clean up the mess I made, informed me that the star in the front window was bulging out. I probably hit it with my head and got pushed back by the airbags.

I always wear my seatbelt now, even if i'm just moving the car.
The other accidents I did all involved cars. With them being at fault.

I did never ever hit a living creature though (except for the numerous bugs). Jeej me. But that's probably because I live in Brussels. Not much wildlife here.
 
Damnitshane1 said:
3. A bat - and it got caught under my windshield wipers so I had to drive with it looking at me until I got home
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LOL..!!.... sad really,.. but funny! :eek:

Hit some bunny wabbits, and a couple of small birds.

One of those little birds I hit happened quite amusingly, I must admit:
I was hammering down the motorway around 150 Kph (okay.. a bit too fast, sorry) in the left lane close to the crash barrier, and in an instant about 30 centimetres in front of me, suddenly flew a little green bird out of the crash barrier straight into the path of my speeding green VW Golf I had at the time.
It hit me (or did I hit him..?) on the curvature of the bonnet of the Golf probably half way the curve, at an approximate 45 degrees angle, while I was travelling at this 150 Kph, resulting in the fastest perpendicular launch of any living thing I have ever witnessed.
It shot up into the air and for some time I had lost the poor little bird out of my sight. Then, viewing through my rearview mirror, I saw it come crashing down right in front of an X5 (also doing some slight speeding...) who merciless made sure of it going to little bird heaven by making a big mark of it's front left tire on it's tiny lifeless little body.
:(:eek:
 
I ran over my best friends foot once.

He was helping me back out of a parking spot where I was between two huge SUVs (they parked after I did) and so couldn't see the road at all to know if it was safe. When he got back in he informed me that I had run over his foot but it was ok because he was wearing steel toed shoes.
 
A pidgeon
An opossum
A trash can... at 60mph... today. I clipped it with my mirror so now I gotta go to the junk yard tomorrow to find a replacement (mirror that is) :(
 
I actually drove over a small sparrow on the Mass Pike yesterday on my way to Boston. I was going 85 and the bird passed under the car, only to roll around in the fast lane afterwards (my girlfriend informed me, I wasn't about to take my eyes off the road ahead). I know it wasn't unable to fly, seeing as I SAW it land in front of me. I guess maybe it had a death wish?? :confused:
 
kind of off topic, but I was driving to work this morning and saw a car "near" i.e. "down-hill from" a parking lot smashed into a tree. The owner is going to be confused upon his/her return. Hopefully they'll remember next time to put the parking break on when parked on a hill.
 
Counterfit said:
Do tell. :D


Also, I forgot about:
I once "hit" my friend. I was waiting to pull out from our high school, and he ran over and fell on my hood.
Also, whenever I see a garbage can in the street, I bump it off to the side.
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My "friend" did the same thing, hit me that is! He was pretending he was going to run me over and smacked me in the knee while I was jumping up on the hood to avoid being run over by him!
Glad I jumped!
I've gone years without hitting a thing, then a couple of years ago I hit a squirrel,a bunny and a hedgehog all in the same spring:(
I'm still trying to figure out what I did wrong!
 
I used to live in a place where frogs would come out in droves when it rained. You couldn't drive 10 feet without hitting one--they were everywhere. I can remember getting back to my house and the entire car would have a fish smell because all the frogs that I hit. :(
 
imac/cheese said:
I can remember getting back to my house and the entire car would have a fish smell because all the frogs that I hit. :(
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Ugh, nasty!

I've been lucky to avoid any major damage to my car (or anybody else's for that matter) but I've had a few mishaps along the way. I hit a bird that got stuck between the underside of my bumper and radiator. It was kind of a sad discovery when I got home because I thought I had missed it. Also driving back from a friends cottage in Haliburton I saw what I thought was a black piece of ABS plastic on the road, I tried to avoid it but heard a rather heavy 'thunk' on the underside of my car as I went by... as I looked in my rear-view mirror (to make sure I wasn't dragging a chunk of plastic under my car) I saw chunks of red and black bits scatter across the road. It turns out I hit a turtle, and fairly square on. :eek:

More recently though is that I've picked up the habit of misjudging the distance of my car by a few millimeters. :mad: In my last appartment my car only had a clearance of about 10cm (about 4 inches) of clearance on either side of the garage pillars and I managed to scrape my paint (but not dent the body) twice! More recently I managed to do it again with a parking lot pillar, the kicker in that one is that I was rushing to get into the spot because it was close to the entrance and I thought that someone would rush down into the lot and rear-end me!
 
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