Reply to: A very sad day.

[Sysman]

A woman was killed on the A465 in Merthyr after her car hit a badger.

They're really 'ard up in Merthyr.

One woman overturned her car by trying to swat a wasp when doing 70 on a motorway.

[Sysman]

Aunt & Uncle of a chap I worked with were totalled by a horse that jumped out of a field.

The horse was totalled too.

A neighbour's horse got out onto the road and a motorist hit it. Car a wreck, horse badly shaken and needed a huge flap of skin stitching back into place.

Car driver furious, and tried to claim off horse insurance. Promptly told to look at what the Highway Code had to say about horses having priority. It was after all a country area with adequate road signs to that effect (beware cattle, beware sheep).

[Sysman]

1.Cats are vermin.
2.There was an Ad for some cat food that used to say "Cats instinctively know what's good for them" - clearly not true given the number that get mangled.

One hotel I stayed in had some semi-wild cats in the outbuildings. They would climb into the nice warm engine compartments of a guest's car for a kip and occasionally get mangled when the car was started. This was in the days of mechanical fans; it's probably a relatively rare occurrence nowadays.

[Board Game Geek]

Know of a chap who arrived 2 minutes after a horrific RTA involving a young girly-girl (18 yo, first car a Fiat Punto, decked in girl racer pink fluffy sttering wheel, etc).

As he came around a bend in a wooded area in Suffolk, he had to slew to a halt pretty quickly, as a car was parked just around the bend, with hazards flashing and the driver walking back to the bend to warn oncoming traffic.

The driver asked him for assistance and said that there had been an accident.

Friend parked car on the verge with hazards on, walked round the corner, and witnessed a scene of apoocryphal carnage.

The Punto was totalled, from the front.

No other vehicle was in sight, which was really odd.

The trees either side looked undamaged.

Standing in the road, in a daze, was the girl, completely hysterical and completely covered, and I do mean drenched, in blood.

As my mate struggled to understand what had happened in this surreal scene, he saw the legs and body of a large buck, sticking out of the windscreen.

He then noticed the WWF stickers on the side windows of the Punto.

Tragic, and wonder if the girl ever got over that.

[doodab]

When I was a boy, I remember my father coming home late from work, because he had hit a badger.

He was on a motorbike at the time. I've no idea what happened to the badger (dad said it had scuttled off) but his bike was a right state, and he was a bit bashed up himself.

[NotAllThere]

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Got in the car, reversed back over it, feeling a sickening crunch as I did so.

Got out, had a look, and it was still alive.

Back in the car, drive forward again, bumpity bump, and check again.

Still alive.

Back in car, reverse back, then forward, then back then forward again.

Checked the ameoba-like mess and decided job was a good u'n, and drove home.

Was a bit low for a day or so, understandibly.

Good practice for when you run over a politician. Though you won't feel low on that occasion.

[xoggoth]

Know somebody whose car as written off in a deer collision but apart from a slight crack in the number plate it did nothing at all to mine.

I once got a lift from a guy with a strange curved dent in the windscreen pillar. I said jokingly it looked like somebody hit it with their head and wished I hadn't when it turned out they had.

[Board Game Geek]

I ran over a fox one night many many years ago.

Stopped the car to get out and have a look, and some of its innards were spewn all over the road with the rest hanging out of its burst stomach.

Decided that there wasn't really much I could do at 2am, and the injuries looked too abysmal. I reasoned that leaving it to die would be inhumane (apart from hitting it first of course, which I could not avoid).

In the abscence of a shovel in the boot with which to stove its head in, I resorted to plan B.

Got in the car, reversed back over it, feeling a sickening crunch as I did so.

Got out, had a look, and it was still alive.

Back in the car, drive forward again, bumpity bump, and check again.

Still alive.

Back in car, reverse back, then forward, then back then forward again.

Checked the ameoba-like mess and decided job was a good u'n, and drove home.

Was a bit low for a day or so, understandibly.

[OwlHoot]

A guy I once worked with in Paddington came back a bit shaken one lunchtime and said he'd just seen a dog get its front paws cut off on the underground escalator.

Some people are so stupid - There are signs everywhere saying "dogs must be carried on the escalator".

[Zippy]

At least you did something good.

[minestrone]

Jesus Minestrone. You saw a man torture a dog and you didn't do anything???!!! Whats wrong with you??? A video like that must be worth at least £250 on Harry Hill.

Call yourself a contactor! Pah.

I did see a dog getting hit my a bus last year, it got put down the next day.

I was sitting playing the xbox at 6 in the morning, sat up for the night and had a few brews. Heard a bang and a yelp outside, opened the blind and there is this dog on the middle of the road. I'm like WTF, then the owner comes across the road and tries to pick it up and it's like a massive Japanese fighting dog, then the dog starts mauling him, pretty badly. Now this is in a very plush area of Glasgow, which you may say is like being the best dressed man in Bulgaria, but not an area you expect a man in a sheepskin coat to be mauled by a fighting dog (you have probably got me down to about 3 streets now).

So I think the guy is attacking the dog and get my shoes on and run out and confront the guy, "Oi, you hurting that dog?" Then he runs up the side street, arm soaked in blood and it is me and the dog in the middle of the street, dog cannot move, it is looking at me and I am looking at it.

I go back inside to call the cops, then some women turns up and get bitten a few times as I look out the window, transpires it was his wife.

So in the end I call the police, the bus driver turns up 10 minutes later "Oh I had to turn at the roundabout".

In the end I had to get this thing in to a police van with blanket of mine over its head while it is trying to bite me and the police officer.

Heard the guy was in hospital with blood poisoning for a week. Dog broke its spine and was put down. I never got my blanket back, I stole it from Vietnamese Airlines.

[scooterscot]

Saw a cat being run over this morning. Three cars in front of me, the driver had no chance to act, the cat ran out of a row of gardens chasing a large rodent, straight under the wheels. Not killed instantly.

I keep relaying it in my head; 3 seconds that seem to last for hours.

Can't stop seeing replays.

Think I'll have a drink or two.

some exits are graceful others or not, while the process of life for us continues the horrors so remain, but sleep easy the poor creature is no longer suffering.

[MarillionFan]

Hit a young deer once. Fortunately, considering what its leg was like, it was killed outright.

How much was it to fix the car?

[doodab]

Hit a young deer once. Fortunately, considering what its leg was like, it was killed outright.

I hit a young deer once, when I was on holiday in Italy. It was about the size of an adult labrador and made a right mess of the front of the car. By the time I had turned around and returned to where I had hit it, a passing local had it in the back of his car and was taking it home for his dinner. He was kind enough to return my headlight though.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

1.Cats are vermin.
2.There was an Ad for some cat food that used to say "Cats instinctively know what's good for them" - clearly not true given the number that get mangled.