Forgot to tell you about my near-miss

[Welly]

Driving home a week last Friday it was dark but dry and I was following an old Rover 214, I was keeping a fair way back when suddenly the Rover braked and started skidding. Then followed a bang and as I slowed and stopped behind it I saw something big with 4 legs roll off the top/side of the car and get up.

It was a bloody great Cow it was black and bloody massive. The Rover hit it and scooped it up rolling partially over the roof the animal was stumbling about holding its leg up (it must have been broken) but there was no blood apparent. The Cow hobbled to the entrance to a field in some bushes and stayed put, in shock I suppose.

Anyhow the passenger of the car got out and was too shocked to do anything so I spoke to the police on the phone and directed them in to where we were. A *huge* tail-back was building as I had unknowingly blocked the road with my car (I was worried the cow might stumble into it ) as I had left it bang in the middle of a single carriageway. As I heard the police coming I checked the people in the Rover were ok and left, freeing up the traffic.

As an animal appreciator I felt really sorry for the Cow but I guess it was the duty of the farmer to keep the animals safe. To be honest it could have been far worse as this all happened near a bend and the opposite traffic approach at 60mph whereas we were doing about 40. The windscreen was smashed-in on the Rover and I can only imagine the horror of driving and hitting such a big animal

[DiscoPol]

you were a lucky man welters old bean, but then i am guessing the improved lighting and braking capacity of the the vulva would hopefully have stopped such a thing if it had been in front of you not the old rover (and of course your heightened senses as an ex 406 owner )
Poor cow though eh, tenderised before slaughter and all that

maybe if she was a good milker they would fix up the leg, as im guessing they dont really need to be too agile to produce the white stuff? maybe one of our farmer members could let us know the score on that one, kill or fix?

but glad to hear your ok pal.

if its any consolation one of my students hit an elk the other day, no punchline he really did hit an elk, onlya glancing blow but took half his golf out in the process, it trotted off without a backward glance.

[waue1978]

Isn't there some sort of rule whereby if you hit an animal you can't take it, but anyone else can?

You could have had one hell of a Sunday roast...

[FarmerPug]

Did you find my cow?

This bunch near got out the other day, i parked my car at the yard, opened the gate, went back to the car to put my wellies on, and there was this crowd out and about on a very quiet but still listed on a sat nav road. Luckilly they were all hungry and couldnt resist a wheelbarrow full of sileage.
On the issue of the broken leg, if its fixable and there is no 'suffering' as vets put it, then its fixed, but if the animal is suffering then its put down, like one calf we had that had something that made it not grow (cattle are a fecking disaster for getting sick and breaking down thats why as a peugeot owner i dont mind the niggles cattle do nothing but give trouble, and theres no lexia to fix them, every problem needs the vet who makes dealers seem like a pound shop). If the cows old enough ie over a year, then a broken leg is a good enough excuse to send it to the factory.

[teamster1975]

Glad you're ok Welly, that was a very lucky escape!

[plod]

Isn't there some sort of rule whereby if you hit an animal you can't take it, but anyone else can?

You could have had one hell of a Sunday roast...

Yep

I had a deer run in front of the lorry the other week, and had to brake considerably to avoid.
Would of been a pisser if I had hit it, as at £25 a kilo, would of been a nice earner except, like you say, you can't take what you hit

[DaiRees]

Very lucky there Welters.

I hit a sheep once many years ago, having enquired of the locals where I'd find the animal's owner I was shown the general direction to his house and told to drive in the opposite direction . I pointed out that I wanted to speak to him about the damage to my car since his sheep shouldn't be on the main road in the first place but the kindly locals pointed out that the farmer wouldn't be pleased with his newly flattened sheep and that he had a gun . I took their advice and buggered off but in retrospect I should have called the police, cost me a headlight and indicator for a solara that did ! That car had bits of wool sticking out of it's bumper 'till the day it was scrapped .

[Bailes1992]

Almost hit a sheep few months ago in the Pug. It was only cause I locked my wheels and they squeeled the sheep ran away and I missed him
If I had ABS I would have hit the poor bugger!

Oh and I forgot about this one... But I did hit a sheep aswell... Same road, hit it, went over my bonnet and run off... I was then left with this dent

[Doggy]

Nicely avoided Welton, old chap.

When out for a youthfull 2 a.m. blast round rural Argyll some years ago, I narrowly missed a hoooge red deer. It jumped the 6 foot deer fence on the right hand side of the road, crossed the carriageway in one bound, then leapt over the bushes on the left hand verge. Took maybe 3 seconds start to finish, missed it by about half a fag paper at 65 ish.

In fact, I reckon its little bobble of a tail possibly brushed the TOP left hand corner of the windscreen.

[FarmerPug]

Rabbits, what a bunch of stupid fu*kers. They seem to only run out in front of the car when your coming, and with full beams stand staight up in the air just as if they are intentionally looking to get hit, and so far i believe ive hit 7 rabbits with my car, and squrrels do the same, although i make effort to avoid hiting them as the red ones are rare enough so ive had to swerve to avoid 2 squirrels. And a pigeon has flew into my windscreen, made quite a thud but didnt crack the glass, and in my rear view mirror there was a lot of feathers.

[highlander]

Who was it on this forum that seemed to have developed the noble art of "driving into pigeons and other birds" into a sport?

I've still not killed anything bigger than insect life with any of the cars I've driven.

[DiscoPol]

Who was it on this forum that seemed to have developed the noble art of "driving into pigeons and other birds" into a sport?

was it not our very own OP on this thread?

i seem to recall some pics of various types of winged "rad fodder" wedged in the front of the vulva's t'intercooler and what not,
there was somebody else too,

but i will be buggered if i can remember who (its no incentive to remember either is it?)

*edit*

found it, it's here

[Welly]

I think it was Tooty who kept hitting Pigeons.

[steve_earwig]

Is this the thread you were looking for?

[DiscoPol]

I think it was Tooty who kept hitting Pigeons.

one free buggering to the man that remembered

Welly pass that "buggering" over to Steve will you please