Hit a ground hog on some back road twisties the other day. Didn't see him come in from the side and got him with just my back tire. I looked in the rear view and saw him tumbling in the road. Not a good day for Punxsutawney Phil.

 

I remember one time I was trolling around in Irvine, and I saw a dead rat right on the double yellow center lines. Now it was a two way road, one on each side. The road was pretty wide. However, it sure looked like someone was aiming for that rat. Either that or someone couldn't stay in their big ass lane.

 

I had a deer sprint in front of me a few days ago. But he kep on moving and I missed him by about 10 feet. Scared the life out of me!

 

The retired airbase where we autocross has a lot of wildlife. Everything stays hidden while we are running but the bears seem to love to poop on the runways. While getting ready to set up the course on day I drove through a big pile of bear skat and splattered berry filled shit all over my right rear fender. Man did I ever get picked on about that.

Does that count?

Oh I've also nailed a bird and the ABS saved a bobcat.

 

I told this roadkill story many months ago, but it's worth repeating. A friend of mine who was a traveling salesman (sorry, no farmers' daughters stories) was traveling at night on the plains of West Texas. It's been about 35 years ago and he was packing big American iron, a '60 Pontiac Bonneville. He claims he was doing at least 80 per on a long, desolate stretch of highway when he spied a huge beast standing just ahead in the roadway.

He didn't even have time to hit the brakes before he struck the big bastard. The Pontiac came to a stop almost immediately as a result of the impact. What turned out to be a 2000 pound bull traveled about 65 feet before he stopped. The Pontiac was totaled, my friend unhurt; the bull took over an hour to go to his reward, braying non-stop the entire time.

The rancher wanted compensation for his "prize" bull. Luckily the law and the insurance company didn't see it that way. This was back in the days before every legal dispute resulted in a lawsuit.

 

Ran over a dead possum the other night, had to go directly to local high pressure car wash that sprayed underbody. I had goobers hanging all under the car. Also got the scare of my life last week. A turkey (big turkey) flew down across the road and I just new I was gonna take it in the windshield, I had the top down and was doing about 60mph. At the last millisecond it went over the glass, I was laying on the passenger seat, thinking how much damage it was gonna do. I had to stop and clean out my drawers.

 

My weird sceince teacher would give us extra credit in high school if we brought in roadkill man i couldnt beleive we would try to run over chipmunks and stuff, the good ole days.

 

Extra credit for road kill? That's awesome .

 

The Varmits seem to avoid the STOOK but it's hard to avoid the road kill. The low ground clearance is not too graceful when a dead skunk's in the road. Avoid them at all cost's that nasty smell takes weeks to wear / burn off the bottom of the car.

RHES2K

 

I just ran over a squirrel, cat, or fox. I didn't get a good look because it wasn't on the road after its date with my rear wheel. It's not stuck underneath the car but there is hair all over the side. Probably a squirrel