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bowser:
oh and some ali ladders at watsons ( as was ) in bolton … 90 quid they were apparently … :laughing:

I have often wondered how these lads who lose ladders explain it to the customer, sorry luv, cant fit your sky dish today, I need to go and retrace my steps :laughing:

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Nothing big, i usually duck when I see a pheasant coming at my screen, don’t we all? Seem to get away most times.

However, one day I was going around a roundabout doing a demo drive for new learner and there was a bunch of pigeons on the road, was just setting off, entering the roundabout. All of them flew off except for one, I thought it would just fly away when I got near but it stayed put and I heard my left tyre run over it with a horrible crunch at about 10mph, poor trainee jumped out of his seat!

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Smell as smell…

My friend, who’s a train engine DRIVER :stuck_out_tongue: once was pulling the fast train from Szczecin to WrocÅ‚aw. He was doing about 130 and he forgot his kettle from the cabin at the other end. So being at the long, straight stretch of track, he just went to take the kettle. He came back, did not noticed anything special and just continued his route. But every time he was entering the station the people’s faces were scared to hell, or some were even vomiting. He did not understand what’s going on, until he was asked to step out of the engine and see himself. Apparently he hit a wild boar and it literally splashed all over the front wall of the locomotive…

In Poznań his engine was replaced and he was send to the wash with it :slight_smile:

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hi all,
i was going over the brecon beacons around 16/17 years ago loaded with steel and a huge sheep ran across the road in front of me,and every near side wheel on the unit and trailer struck it.i looked across to the passenger side mirror and the trailer wing tops (all three of them)looked like the outlet of a meat mincer.i know what ur thinking…trust a welshman to tell a tale about a sheep :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:
regards andrew

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pete 359:
trust a welshman to tell a tale about a sheep :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:
regards andrew

In this case, I doubt that there was anything what could interest Welshman left… :stuck_out_tongue:

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darkseeker:

truckerjon:
A cathedral on an icy road!

:laughing: meant animals really but a cathederal takes some beating - you did see the bit about ran it over, didn’t you :wink:

Hit a large deer, it really p*ssed me off cos it was my new car, which some numpty reversed into in Tesco’s petrol station a few months before and had just had a new front end fitted! so it was back to the workshop, and this time it cost me on insurance! I can not understand how anyone or thing could not see me. My car is Bright orange, I once spotted it in the car park at Luton airport as I was coming in to land! you can see it from space. but when I go near Tesco somebdy manages to open thier door against it, or reverse into it, or some stupid deer run out in front of it! :imp:

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orys:

pete 359:
trust a welshman to tell a tale about a sheep :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:
regards andrew

In this case, I doubt that there was anything what could interest Welshman left… :stuck_out_tongue:

A clarks pie?

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darkseeker:
That you’ve ran over!?

I nearly had a deer recently that stood about chest high on me, luckily it shifted pretty sharpish but it got me wondering - what’s it like hitting something like that!? and how often does it happen?

An eight wheel tipper. I was riding a GSXR750wv at the time, going around a roundabout. The ■■■■■■ pulled straight onto the roundabout without looking or slowing down. I hit him smack square on in his second axle. I didn’t make it all the way over though. :wink:

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young rabbits often :frowning: drive nightly they seem to be attracted by the van headlights and a deer recently rolled underneath the van and run off into the woods

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Pheasants , lots of them. They are without doubt the dumbest birds in the world. Had deer run out in front of me on the A93 a few times but ive always managed to avoid them - they would cause some serious damage they can be big huge beasts!

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I had a pheasant completely obliterate the nearside headlight on a DAF85. Clipped the hind quarter of a deer once, the impact threw it into the woods opposite. Stopped to take a look and the poor thing had done a runner…!

Bob

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darkseeker:
Just because we’ve got onto revenge;

One night I went out rabbiting with a good friend of mine (who, shall we say, has a bit of a temper).

I shot a rabbit which ran off, my mate handed me his gun and ran off to do the deed. He came back a few minutes later muttering allsorts of obceneties and (for him) less than impressed.

What happened?

He’d found the bunny at the bottom of a hedge and reached down to get hold of it, said bunny responded by biting him! So, of course he jumped back, connecting squarely with an electric fence and getting zapped :laughing: Didn’t really help when he told me and I spent the next 10 mins rolling round on the floor in hysterics :blush:

:laughing: :laughing: :laughing: Please tell me you didn’t settle for fish & chips that night instead :wink: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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Not a full on run over,only got it with the n/s/r tyre.
It apparentley fell off the rear axle as i was traversing the linkspan in Calais - think the species originated in Albania. . .■■■■■? . . Ho hum.
Do i win £5 ?

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Was going up the M6 near Carlisle in my car doing about 90 in the outside lane and a crow flew out from the central res. Impacted on the o/s headlight and took that out along with all the mountings. Also took out the grille and o/s wing, and caused damage to the radiator, bonnet, airbox and inner wing as well. Cost me about £500 to get it all fixed. :angry:

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A Penguin.

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darkseeker:
:shock: A camel! When I saw you’d replied I was expecting a moose story but there you go :laughing:

Thankfully I haven’t had a moose, they really do a lot of damage, like ripping front axles off :open_mouth:

The usual sequence of events in a moose strike is 60mph… brakes… bang… ditch… hospital.

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A Italian roadworks lamplighters bike some years ago i was on my way to Rome at night in the fog and they used to light the roadworks with oil lamps i was a bit tired at the time and i felt the bump and heard the bang i pulled into the works and ran back thinking i had killed someone i am looking for the body when this guy comes out of the fog scared the crap out of me it seems he had been taking a leak when he saw his bike he went crackers and asked if it was me i with a look of shock said to him with a bit of bad Italian would i have stopped had it been me to this he agreed and thanked me for stopping when i got to Rome in daylight i found his saddle bag with his crushed flask and grub stuffed up between the mudflap and trailer floor.

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I’m pretty sure that I’ve mentioned this on here before but a three seater sofa on the M25, it was close thing and I stopped a couple of inches from it, so it probably doesn’t count but if I had of hit it then I probably wouldn’t be here today!

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Today at dawn, R1 motor road in Slovakia, a truck hit a herd of wild boars - aparently they were going home after a night feast in the corn field and forgot to look left before crossing the road…
westbound direction closed for few hours while firemen cleared the corpses: 24 wild boars killed in one hit! that’s one hell of fine meals!!!
Most were piglets so not much damage on the truck (blue actros), driver unharmed.

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Not run over, but hit … an owl.

Hit the top left corner of the screen. Blood & feathers everwhere. It was like slow motion, I was watching it & it so nearly got out of the way. Quite upset me it did, I like owls. Don’t we all?

Anybody had a bird hit the cab top air fairing? BANG! Doesn’t half make you jump!