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Re: Have you ever hit a Crow while Driving?
« Reply #50 on: October 31, 2013, 12:40:10 PM »
No crows, but we hit (got hit by?) a galah north of Broken Hill a couple of years ago.  Flew up and straight into the middle of the windscreen, hit so hard that the rear view mirror flew off, and we nearly had a heart attack.  Didn't break the mirror mount, but the shock force must have made the mirror pop off.  I reckon if it had been filmed the slow motion play back would have been awesome.
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Re: Have you ever hit a Crow while Driving?
« Reply #51 on: October 31, 2013, 03:47:32 PM »
nearly hit a peacock in Blacktown today did not see any crows ;D ;D
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Re: Have you ever hit a Crow while Driving?
« Reply #52 on: October 31, 2013, 03:54:47 PM »
Hey gv 2003,

On your quote of being on the look out for drop bears, you've got your N and O around the wrong way.  ;D

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Re: Have you ever hit a Crow while Driving?
« Reply #53 on: October 31, 2013, 05:57:26 PM »
We collected 3 crows together on the road between Horsham and Mildura in September, all 3 were hit by the bull bar, 2 then going under the car the last stuck between the bar and grill. lucky no damage to the car or new bull bar.
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Re: Have you ever hit a Crow while Driving?
« Reply #54 on: October 31, 2013, 06:13:39 PM »
Quote from: Bobsan on October 31, 2013, 05:57:26 PM
We collected 3 crows together on the road between Horsham and Mildura in September, all 3 were hit by the bull bar, 2 then going under the car the last stuck between the bar and grill. lucky no damage to the car or new bull bar.

We'll Bob I think you may have the record with 3 on one trip.  Driving to work this morning I took out a bird with the UHF antenna (first time with the antenna). They don't seem to recover too well after a hit on the UHF antenna. I think it was an Indian Mynah. Still no luck with a crow.

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Re: Have you ever hit a Crow while Driving?
« Reply #55 on: October 31, 2013, 07:10:09 PM »
Hi,
  do bees up the leg of your shorts while riding a motorbike count??


Naah, didn't think so, but I'll give you this instead.

cheers
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Re: Have you ever hit a Crow while Driving?
« Reply #56 on: October 31, 2013, 08:01:43 PM »
Quote from: terravista on October 30, 2013, 04:17:32 PM
but I did hit a Kookaburra many years ago in a Datsun 180B.
He/she swooped down in front of me and got creamed at 100kph.

Thats BS, everyone knows the Dattys top speed was 97kph ;D
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Re: Have you ever hit a Crow while Driving?
« Reply #57 on: October 31, 2013, 08:14:15 PM »
We were out the back of Shepparton, the missus was driving and there was a flock of cockies on the road ahead. I told the missus to hold her line and speed and they would fly off. Well they didn't fly off and she cleaned up quite a few. I was pulling bits of cockie out of the car for days.
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Re: Have you ever hit a Crow while Driving?
« Reply #58 on: October 31, 2013, 08:18:33 PM »
just south of the Exmouth turnoff in March last year at about 0300 I spotted one just about halfway on the road but it was facing the right hand edge, so I backed off a bit and moved left, then the bugger turned and went straight for my ute, I braked hard, dropped a couple of f bombs and couldn't swerve as I would have rolled and with wife and kids in the car, well I'm sure his tongue and nostrils rubbed themselves on my drivers side window...pulled over and regathered my self and continued on.

coming back two days later in roughly the same spot, there was a cow with its front half missing! presume a truck cleaned it up!
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Re: Have you ever hit a Crow while Driving?
« Reply #59 on: October 31, 2013, 08:34:47 PM »
Crows have youngest and nostrils? I think you are talking about a cow...
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Re: Have you ever hit a Crow while Driving?
« Reply #60 on: November 01, 2013, 07:44:58 AM »
My bloody border collie got a crow a couple of months ago, don't know how he got it but was in his mouth when I went out side sqwaking till he went crunch.
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