View Full Version : I think I just killed a cat thing...
driving home in the SR. Going up hill in the dark wet roads surrounded by woodland approx 50mph, go round a left hand bend crest the hill and start to decend - up to 60mph.
Suddenly from the right a cat like thing (ginger and whitye) bombs across the road carrying summut dead in its mouth!
I hit the anchors and lock up :eek: Slew the car to the left and manage to avoid curbing it as it fishtails back!
At the same time I hear an almighty THUD THUD as the "thing" goes under the car!
Manage to regain control and have no idea wtf it was!
Figured it was a cat and for some reason I know that if you hit a cat in a car its the only animal (except for a donkey?!?) that you dont have to stop and report.
So I carry on
But now feel like utter sh1te!
:cry:
I love cats - have a big black soft one and this poor thing could still be at the side of the road with a mega dent in its head.
Thankfully it didnt damage the SR's bumper and ther was no blood smear! Would have been well p1ssed if it had!
lol
nova brakes locked up that quick ?? what you running ?
brainsnova
12-03-09, 11:15 PM
sounds like a fox.
go back, bag it and cook it.
Asa-James
12-03-09, 11:15 PM
meh, dies by the hands of darwin. if its stupid enough to stay in the way of a big noisey thing with bright lights on it doesnt deserve to survive.
and before anybody jumps on my back, i like animals and wouldnt wish death or harm to anybody's pet.
I hope it wasnt a cat :cry: I know what you mean I have one cat hes my baby Ty love him loads.
my ex took my kitten with her, hes the only thing i miss of our relationship :(
might join fathers for justice, i have a batman outfit
Ive ****ted a cat before now, in my old black nova, on its ass with about thirty screws holding the laguna splitter on so there wasnt much room for it to go under the bumper but it did, got up looking shocked and ran away but unfortunately they usually get an epic adrenaline rush and run off fuelled by this then find somewhere quiet to die of the injuries sustained, i felt horrible afterward as i love cats!
Also hit a few wabbits but thats par for the course really, one big bugger took my laguna splitter clean off hence why it was on with about thirty screws the second time round lol
Still hate it when you nail something cute and fluffy as you feel really mean and horrible afterwards, or at least i do as im a big soft git lol
nova brakes locked up that quick ?? what you running ?
Astra 16v ate's - theyre awesome!
:thumb:
sounds like a fox.
Nah, its not in his garage
never swerve for cats or chickens, they move to erratically, you could have been in the ditch or worse.
unfortunately these things happen, and often the animal will come out fairly uninjured. I once hit a red setter that shot out of a gateway, i was doing about 40 & the dog bounced off up the road & ran off. his owner apologised, adding that 'he does it all the time'
Spudly, my dad tried accelerating hard to raise the nose of his car over a rabbit once (omega, so heavy sod wasn't gonna stop, or that was his excuse anyway) lifted it just enough to crack it clean in the head lol
spud im the same, but anything ya hit you can legally keep and eat.
spud im the same, but anything ya hit you can legally keep and eat.
survey says
WRONG
Astra 16v ate's - theyre awesome!
:thumb:
lol id be impressed if they were standard brakes (i had ATES on my old XE, asweome !!)
next person along can keep it and eat it, but you can't eat anything you roadkill yourself! :)
Asa-James
12-03-09, 11:26 PM
thought you wernt allowed to stop if you hit a pheasant, but the next person along cam take it
brainsnova
12-03-09, 11:27 PM
i once swearved to miss a hedge hog as i just fitted new low profiles and wasnt sure if it would puncture them and missed the kerb lol
Im not sure if Iv mentioned it before, my other cat who was the brother of the cat I still have got killed by a dog a couple of years back I was so sad :( he was such a darlin.
spud im the same, but anything ya hit you can legally keep and eat.
nope, another american thing (i think) and even then i thought it was if you run it over you cant keep it but what you find at the side of the road you can ??
keithrg
12-03-09, 11:30 PM
run a staffordshire bull terrier over like that, whack it went on front of car then felt it hit under the car. I stopped quite quick. Then to my utter amazement this staff came flying out from infront of the car like a bolwing ball before running off. Once I caught it and the owner up, The dog seemed fine jumping up and licking me. I was so angry, I gave the owner a massive lecture took their address and went back to car still sat in road to check for damage. luckily their was none. Had a witness to he was shocked that the dog was ok. Blesh the guy he stayed with my car.
keithrg
12-03-09, 11:34 PM
my cat got his tail run over £300 vet bill. Money we pay could have got a new one for free.
but anything ya hit you can legally keep and eat.
Nope, if you hit something you cant pick it up but anyone travelling behind you (and not anyone with you as in a convoy or whatever) can, it usually only applies to pheasants as if you run one down and pick it up its classed as poaching but if you find one someone else has nailed then its finders keepers:thumb:
meh, that cat last week was too nice to leave.....
shame it was on the neighbours drive.....
Nova_Tek
12-03-09, 11:39 PM
I have never hit an animal before but I might have done this yeah a few weeks back.
Many times I have come close as cats jump out the bush run into the road, the type of roads that have very little / no lighting. Not to mention hedgehogs tryna navigate from one side of he road to the other. Never run one over as I make ure I avoid them, dont want any flat tyres now do I lol
1)Once I saw a cat jump out into the road, it was litterally 5 meters infront of me. Stamped on the brakes ABS kicks in it hit the wing and ran back to where it shot out of.
2) Same thing happened with 2 cats, 1 chasing the other, they shot out of the shurbbery one ran and made it to the other side the other starred at the white light coming towards him, slam the brakes ABS kicks in and avoided it.
3) The last one I have no idea what happened, dark country road high beam on, all of a sudden cat runs into the road looks at the headlights I slam the brakes, ABS kicks in, skids for a few metres and I see the cat go under the car. I stop put reverse lights on and see nothing. No dead cat in the road, nada. Just a black void behind me. It probably ran somewhere, god only knows what happened to it.
But I did feel crappy after; not knowing if it was dead or not.
And no, my Nova doesn't have ABS, all these happened in the wifeys Yaris. Something with that car and cats committing suicide :confused:
ABS kicks in skids for a few metres
I think your ABS is broken if it comes on and the car skids lol
Nova_Tek
12-03-09, 11:44 PM
You know what I mean, ABS skid, the pump action of the abs on and off the brakes as it locks and releases.
Asa-James
12-03-09, 11:46 PM
i've hit a squirrel, clipped another squirrel, mullered a blackbird (it jumped too late, i thought it was coming through the windscreen!) and several pigeons. i always speed up for pigeons, filthy pest infected winged vermin they are...
my favorite pigeon was hit outside a resturant. at 40 mph. in the middle of summer as loads of people are sat outside. feathers and headless body ahoy!
I've had countless road kill, all part of the job.
We once hit a kite (the bird variety not the toy thingy lol) on the A470 on the way down to Cardiff, saw it fly down from the tree and then bang, slap into the windscreen right in front of the drivers face! Left a huge smear across the windscreen landed on the verge on the other side of the road flapped its wings and flew back up in to the tree! Was a bit of a shock lol
~~joycey~~
13-03-09, 12:37 AM
We once hit a kite (the bird variety not the toy thingy lol) on the A470 on the way down to Cardiff, saw it fly down from the tree and then bang, slap into the windscreen right in front of the drivers face! Left a huge smear across the windscreen landed on the verge on the other side of the road flapped its wings and flew back up in to the tree! Was a bit of a shock lol
lol i once knew somebody who hit one of them and it smashed there windscreen and dented there roof! Killed the ****er tho lol
keithrg
13-03-09, 12:49 AM
what you need is a bumper like this. Collect you dinner to go, with this super scoop. http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee303/mrloopey/P200209_1430.jpg
dj_wudgey
13-03-09, 01:27 AM
what you need is a bumper like this. Collect you dinner to go, with this super scoop. http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee303/mrloopey/P200209_1430.jpg
hit the animal and keep it warm for the rest off the journey eh lol
Ive hit a few things. Best i remember was followling a mate in a escort van with ladders on top, bird came up, missed the windscreen but hit the ladders and landed in the ditch.
I have a soft spot for cats, even if i do moan about my 2.
excellent shot ade. cats make me ill so they can all die as far as im concerned. apart from our cat obviously but shes 13 now so wont be around much longer anyway
jimbob-mcgrew
13-03-09, 02:27 AM
go back, bag it and cook it.
and whatever was in its mouth lol
Was in a mini bus once coming back from Yorkshire and we ran over a cat. Slammed the brakes on and looked out the window only to see it dragging itself across the road without the function of it's back legs. It continued to drag itself across the pavement, up a wall and over the other side. Think we'd fairly messed it up tbh, but it made a awesome effort to get the fook out of there afterwards, considering. Felt fairly bad, but, as horrible as it sounds, it was a fairly amusing sight.
Also know a lad who ran over a cat, stopped, saw it was dead and threw it in his boot. He took it home, skinned it and put the meat into a pie. He ate half himself and gave the rest to his brother (unaware that it was cat pie). A fairly sick trick if you ask me.
Nova_Tek
13-03-09, 10:02 AM
Also know a lad who ran over a cat, stopped, saw it was dead and threw it in his boot. He took it home, skinned it and put the meat into a pie. He ate half himself and gave the rest to his brother (unaware that it was cat pie). A fairly sick trick if you ask me.
:wtf: WTF? :wtf:
=[/B]Matt.]He took it home, skinned it and put the meat into a pie. He ate half himself and gave the rest to his brother (unaware that it was cat pie). A fairly sick trick if you ask me.
That is a bit weird :wtf:
apart from our cat obviously but shes 13 now so wont be around much longer anyway
One of my cats lived to 16 but died last year :(
excellent shot ade. cats make me ill so they can all die as far as im concerned. apart from our cat obviously but shes 13 now so wont be around much longer anyway
Could be another 5 years :thumb:
I hit a bird years a go had to pull over and check, saw me and buggered off so I assumed all was ok.
i once hit a rabbit in the head with my exhaust manifold.
my mate once had a bird head on, the thing was stuck in the rad with his nosething lol
My dad was telling me a story he heard the other day about a trucker that was driving on one of them huge straight roads in america at night, the other guy was in the back sleeping and suddenly there was a huge bang and the front windscreen was all smashed in, the guy in the back jumped up and was like WTF they looked in the passenger seat and there was a LIVE golden eagle that had just came through the window. lol so they had to stop and call the animal service people to try and get it out lol
GRUNT 16V
13-03-09, 10:35 AM
Done This Afew Times !! And Am Calling Myself A Vetren In Doing So !! I Felt Like A C"nt The First Time But Then I Thought What Type Of Dumassed Thing Would Run Out In Front Of A Moving Car !! So Then I Thought Fook It !
my mate once had a bird head on, the thing was stuck in the rad with his nosething lol
LOL my celica has eaten a bird before too! First time I washed it I found the remains of a recently deceased small bird of some sort embedded in the front rad lol
nom nom nom lol
jimbob-mcgrew
13-03-09, 11:15 AM
a pheasant flew out infront of me once when i was in a work van, and it went straight thru the front grille into the bay, got sent round and round with the cam belt from what i could tell, within seconds all i could see was this great big thick wall of feathers behind me in the rear view mirror, it instantly got munched into a thousand bits.
been following a m8 down a single track lane before too, and saw him run over a rabbit under his back tyre, the rabbit got fcuked, practically popped its body open and intestines slopped out to the kurbside.
OMG i actually dont think i have laughed so hard in my life reading these. lol lol lol
and i dont think i have ever hit anything, apart from a seagull on my scooter.
had a fox run out in front of me, it stopped ran back, then ran back ut in front of me. i was like make your mind up ffs death or no death
i always avoid previous road kills dont fancy the mess
AND sloth you would of liked this, two rabbits right next to each other on my road, both splattered to ****.
let_nova
13-03-09, 12:00 PM
i hit a sheep on a single track road. i got out and wondred why there wal legs sprackling about at the front bumper.... its head was stuck in the whhel arch!!!
kelbelle
13-03-09, 12:21 PM
Martin actually read this entire thread giggling like a 4 year old on speed! WTF!
I've not hit anything yet
Did hear about a woman that hit a low flying swan doing 70mph on a motorway. It hit the very top of her window and exploded. The contents of which fell straight through her open sunroof. BLEUGH!
MyNovaSr
13-03-09, 12:57 PM
I swerved to miss a hedgehog once, but ended up running it over :( , oops.
I'll always try and avoid cats as I have a soft spot for them, think of them like children then you might try harder to miss them.
brainsnova
13-03-09, 01:01 PM
i had to do an emergency stop to miss a dog on my driving test lol i passed as i never locked it up and missed the dog.
Rob (novafusion) has hit a dog before in his omega it ran out slap bang in front of us and its back end clipped the nearside front of the omega sending it into a spin as it ran onto the kerb was piss funny as the dog was fine and it did an awesome drift as its back legs flew sideways and the front ones were still giving it big licks, dogdrifting ahoy lol
And years back i was passenger in my mates saab 9000 carlson and we were doing 100 and silly mph when two birds flew across at headlight level, and only one carried on....
This and the fact the nearside headlight seemed to be illuminating the moon was a good clue that we had hit it, hard!
So we pulled over for a looksee and....
Bye bye headlight glass and hello roast bird thing baking onto the headlight bulb inside, it stayed that was untill the smell of rotten roast bird got too much after we had carried on so we stopped again and scraped it out with a stick lol
I've tvvatted a badger before with my engine cradle (yeah it was attached to the car lol)
The little bugger was on the crest of a hill. Dunno if I killed him, but if not he'd be looking for the Ibuprofen.
I hit a dog once. Was in my astra gte dog ran out of the park i slammed the brakes on, dog ran accross the road so carried on going. Dog turned around in the middle of the road and jumps towards the car. Front legs and its head looking square at me as it bounced off. Was a funny sight, big flappy ears too lol
Stopped and went in the park to find it, had gone back to its owner and shaking like mad. Seemed ok though.
Yeah im a big softy for dogs :(
I ran a kid over once. On purpose. As in, aimed for him.
At least I can safely say he won't be playing chicken again.
I ran a kid over once. On purpose. As in, aimed for him.
At least I can safely say he won't be playing chicken again.
I do that with chavs that slow down and start to swagger when they cross the road in front of me, makes em look well good innit blud, when they crap it and make a dash for the kerb in front of all their mates lol
LOL @ spud
Remember me telling you about that charver who wheelyed towards me on his shopper and then i wheelspan at him and the fear on his face as he went sailing over the handlebars as he babbed himself was epic lol
Lmfao, hey at least chavs are useful for something lol
Ive killed a few pheasants, one i mowed down in a van, and one smashed a window on a truck, turned the whole thing into a massive spiders web, and it kept cracking when i hit the brakes. lol Also had a fair few bunnys, if i'm not sure if they are dead i reverse back over them. Alomost had an escaped horse the other day in my truck. Also get farm dogs trying to bite my tires, suprised i havent had one of those yet.
Pistol Pete
13-03-09, 07:55 PM
I would have stopped and checked. I would be gutted if someone ran over one of my cats and didnt report it.
I've hit 2 badgers. First time was in my first Nova, i was 19 stoned with a few mates...thud thud, splitter pulled off. Second time about a year ago, £500 to fix my sodding car!! Front bumper, i/c and pipework, arch liner...was not clapping.
stupot89
13-03-09, 08:05 PM
it would make a dam good curry lol
also my dad said he was travelin down the m1in his truck when he saw a pheasant comin towards him he herd a thud and thought it had gone under neith but when he pulled in to the next services he got out and walked round the front and it was stuck through the grill and hangin buy its neck lol
wilson_sri
13-03-09, 08:36 PM
The lad that bought my old saloon ****ed a deer last week. Had half the deer stuck in his headlight and grill.
Pistol Pete
13-03-09, 08:50 PM
I know someone who hit a deer in a Fiat Cinquecento, wrote the thing off!!
Curtoise
13-03-09, 10:39 PM
yeh weve hit 3 deer in our audi, im sure it attracts them, the first was a muncjack and we hit it at 50mph aprox, popped all the plastic outa the car, made a rank crunching sound as it bounced around underneath, second one just clipped it and it ran off somewhere, and the third we hit at around 50mph on a main road, and looked back it looked like it was paralised, wailing and screaming, not a gool sound, as we were thinking what to do, a bemer came over the hill and finished it off. After this we have had like 5 encounters with deer in the road. I have two cats and i would hate it iff they got splatterd as i live on a main road, espesh it no one told me lol
kelbelle
14-03-09, 11:56 AM
Just remembered the time i was walking past the bus station. A bus ran over an already dead pidgeon. It made a horrible crunch and then a pop. Cue me gagging in the street! And then the popping sound kept replaying in my head all round town and setting me off again!
Pistol Pete
14-03-09, 12:07 PM
lol i rode over a pidgeon on my bike once ..feathers everywhere! Hit one with the wing mirror of a car aswell, folded it in against the window..surprised it didnt smash actually!
Going down a narrow 2 lane road once with a car coming the other way i had no choice but to run over a dead fox, they sort of go "thudcrunch"
*Back on topic* thats harsh, theres some pricks around our estate that think its cool to bomb around at 50mph in their saxo and one night they hit a cat. My dad saw it laying there half dead twitching and have mad spasms! I need ade your not a tw@t but theres some people out there would have hit it and laughed, makes me sick.
:cry: I drove back the same way today and saw "it" lying on the side of the road. Felt absolutely awful :cry:
I was a cat - small furry white and ginger number - obviously killed instantly when it bounced its brains off my bumper/sump.
Felt awful seeing it...:cry:
:cry: I drove back the same way today and saw "it" lying on the side of the road. Felt absolutely awful :cry:
I was a cat - small furry white and ginger number - obviously killed instantly when it bounced its brains off my bumper/sump.
Felt awful seeing it...:cry:
Murderer :witch:
lol
:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:
staggy_gsi
14-03-09, 09:40 PM
i ran a cat over in my old nova a while back. went under both drivers side wheels. the suspension was that hard that as i ran over it my stereo fell out!
got a baby deer once too. id only been driving a month and had just fitted a badboy bonnet to my corsa. 2 days later a deer jumped a fence in front of me whilst i was doing 60mph! bonnet, bumper, headlights and a big red go faster stripe right over the roof!!
i was not impressed. felt bad when i hit the cat but i was fuming with the deer lol
I assume the bonnet was wrecked? I think thats gods way of telling you to change the it. lol lol
I've only ever hit a pigeon (it walked out in the road from an island- think it forgot to look left :() I don't know what I'd do if I hit anything else, I'd be devastated.
My ex hit a dog once, luckily it was fine though. My old dog got ran over when she was a puppy and broke her hip but didn't learn from it, daft thing she was lol
Gashgusher
14-03-09, 11:00 PM
ive hit a dog in my metro, felt it go under both wheels, not nice.
favourite one was taking out a piss head on a pelican crossing hahahaha he thought the red man meant "cross" <<< official quote from police statement.
ambulance and 5-0 turned up, told them i was coming from the pub, and he didnt even breathalise me.... result!!
(i hadn't had a drink btw)
General Baxter
14-03-09, 11:04 PM
iv had to flick a barn owl out the grill of my patrol, it was in there for about a 20mile journey, so its was nicely cooked by the time i got there lol
a fox wrapped around is axle lol
General Baxter
14-03-09, 11:06 PM
it was funny, as it went thru the grill ass first, and its head got stuck on the outside lol
dont like cat the ****ing things all the people round here let them live out side and the come in my garden when my dogs are in the runs and **** all overs and drive the dogs potty. one less to worry about i say but i am a cold dark harted person people keep telling me
in the day when i am at work yes thay are in runs. thay are to alert me of people on my property when thay are in the house at night
Ade, if it makes you feel any better I once hit and Killed an animal with my newly aquired BMW 523i. The main problem was that it was a FUKKING DEAR and it took the front end off my lovely Beemer causing €100+ worth of Damage (thats parts along, I did the labour all myself)
It was pretty weird getting out after the massive BANG and the usually comfortable and refined car being Launched into the air and then seeing a Dear at the side of the road with her head the wrong way round.
Oh noes......
Dods killed bambi noooooooooo.................... lol
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