Heartless bastard!

novaderrik wrote: kinda felt bad when i hit that one fox..

You hit a foxbody in a foxbody? How meta of you!

The guy was probably stoned. Stuff like this is funny when you have been smoking pot. When you are sober you realize what a jack-wad you were.

Just think of it as a mouse, instead of a chicken, then it'll be ok.

http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/off-topic-discussion/i-hate-mices-to-pieces/26523/page1/

Honestly, I usually see this sort of thing done mostly by the yokels in their farm trucks. My unpleasantly favorite recollection is when a mother mallard was walking her brood across the street in town. People stopped and folks were standing there with their arms out, protecting her and the ducklings. Cletus decides it's going to be fun to rev up his 4x4 swamper special and charge through the crowd, smooshing as many ducklings as he could, while accidentally avoiding humans. With a honk of his dixie horn and finger salute out the window, off he went.

In reply to foxtrapper:

That's the kind of E36 M3 that would cause me to snap.

When I was in the Marine Corps, I had to get a government bus license as I was selected to be to bus driver when our squadron would go to the rifle range. Well, when I was going through the course we had to go drive a 80 passenger, city style bus out in town. We were driving on a two lane road with no traffic and as I came around the corner, there was some roadkill that I swerved to avoid running over. The instructor asked me what the hell I did that for and that if there was a deer running across the road I would need to hit it instead of swerve because I would be putting the passengers/Marines in danger. I was just used to swerving to avoid stuff like that in my car as a natural reaction, I still do to this day, but I understood to never swerve a 20 ton bus(full) ever again.

When me and a few buddies were riding our motorcycles up in north Georgia the guy that was in the front ran over a little dog that ran out to chase his bike. We were in a really redneck area and stopped a couple hundred yards down the road to go back. We were really nervous about going back because we didn't if the guy would be wanting to fight us or shoot us or what. But we went back together and the guy understood that the kid that hit the dog tried not to hit him. The guy was standing outside and watched it happen. His wife came out after we got back and was crying hysterically. It was a really E36 M3ty situation.

I once tried to dodge a chicken that was crossing the road but it kept dodging where I was going right until it got ran over If I'd known it would repeatedly line up with wherever I pointed the Samurai's tire I would have come to a complete stop. I don't think it suffered, it was completely flat within a fraction of a second...

WHY-DID-THE-CHICKEN-CROSS-THE-ROAD?

TO-GET-FROM-THE-LEFT-TO-THE-RIGHT!

HUH!

Its an animal, if its loose on the street its the owners fault. No, I dont condone chasing down an animal just to run over it but I also dont swerve to miss small rodents or birds. I do try to avoid pets as much as I can but some of them are too stupid to get out of the way. Fortunately I have only hit a cat that ran out in front of me since starting driving at 1984. I did hit a deer at a low speed but he wasnt fazed, just kept on running. If I see a turtle or snake on the road I will stop and catch them and move them out of danger. Too many people like to purposely swerve to kill them. If the pets are on the road or get killed by other means its the owners fault for not keeping them on a leash or in the yard. Crap happens, animals die, the world keeps going. Rather hit an animal thtn swerve and hurt or kill another person or me.

I cry a little inside everytime I see a dead deer rotting on the side of the road.

I cry because of suburban development.

Because of the overpopulation.

Because most of the animal will be eaten by scavengers and not predators.

Because that's a lot of wasted Deer-Jerky.

I've accidentally run over a few things. I hit a mouse once on a motorcycle. If you want to talk about contact patch versus body area, that one had to be statistically pretty damn far fetched. One time a deer charged into the side of me on the bike and knocked my ass into the ditch.

I never hit a pet though, except one time driving home. The crazy old lady at the end of our road had a cat, and the damn thing leaped right off the side of the road, I spiked the brakes, WHAM, it went right under. I looked up in the rear view and saw it roll, get up, and take off. I stopped to talk to the old lady who broke down crying but didn't blame me for what happened, because she could see the skid marks.

The damn cat showed up that evening, unhurt, which is more than I can say for the '81 Civic I was driving. It busted one of my Pep Boys foglights, bent the other, pulled the lip off, and cracked the air dam.

I've accidentally killed a few road animals. It's OK as long as you post it on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bNnS1imma8

I had an acquaintance in high school who used to run down dogs on purpose. He would actually go out looking for them. The last i heard he was doing pretty serious time, seems that he shot himself in the foot with a .45 after he had robbed a convenience store. He checked himself into the local hospital and was found to be holding some booger sugar.

So I am going to go out on a limb and say the OP's 'Vette driver is not going to be exactly the cream of society.

And yeah I have been known to dispatch mice in the house. Here's the deal: if critters stay the hell out of my house I do not mess with them. If they come inside and get into pet food, gnaw on my pipes and wiring or crap in the cabinets they are history.

scardeal wrote:

novaderrik wrote: kinda felt bad when i hit that one fox..

You hit a foxbody in a foxbody? How meta of you!

i hit the fox in a 70 Nova. damn thing kept trying to stay in front of me no matter which way i swerved.

I learned not to dodge animals the hard way. I totaled a brand spanking new WRX avoiding a deer shaped dent in the front bumper. Unfortunately the center divide shaped dent I got instead of the deer shaped one did a bit more damage...

Now every time I drive down the road and see a dead deer on the side of the road, I say a little prayer for the car killed or injured by the ungulate branch of the Taliban...

I refuse to swerve for any animal on the grounds that it probably won't save the animal, and it could put me and others inside or outside of my vehicle in danger. Animals aren't very logical. They react according to their instincts. They do not know to "get out of the way." They will most likely dart this way and that in a completely unpredictable manner.

That said, I will give the brakes my full attention. I have hit very few critters in 30+ years of driving.

I had to put down a deer one time because someone hit it...clipped the poor guy and broke his legs, then kept on going. It was a country road and snowing so not a lot of traffic. The poor guy, small buck, was exhausted from trying to walk on the useless legs and was struggling on the side of the road, so I put him down. I really hate stuff like that....I've run off the road to avoid animals when needed....in my cars and on bikes. People that intentionally hit then need to get berkeleyed up.

When I was sixteen Momma let me drive back from the campoground one day. We were on a little dirt road in Indiana and I was going about thirty. A dog ran out from a field directly in front of me. I hit him with both front and rear tires. I heard him yelp and he rold into the ditch. We had just passed the only house within two miles on the road. I started to stop and Mom freaked out and actually reached across from the passenger seat and hit the gas. I'll never forget the look on her face when she said Hell no we aint stopping. I was mad because if it had been my dog I would want to know. I kinda lost a little respect for her that day.

In reply to Curmudgeon: So I am going to go out on a limb and say the OP's 'Vette driver is not going to be exactly the cream of society.

Um, OP owns the Vette. Asshat was in a cobalt. But I get the sentiment.

Just bugs me that he had all the time in the world to stop, didn't, then also took off afterwards.

I've been seeing giant snapping turtles crossing the road on my way to/from work as I pass one of the 25 lakes I get to drive past each way. Today on the way home one of them was lumbering across the road. This is a 55 mph speed limit two lane road and this particular stretch is essentially a causeway across what used to be part of a lake, but now it is divided into two parts by the road. The silly people in the buick in front of me spotted the turtle a good distance before they got to it so that is good. There were no oncoming cars so dodging a slow moving turtle is not too hard. Pick your spot and go around. This guy had to slow down to 15 mph in order to go around the turtle. It was a bit funny. If he wasn't there, I woulda dodged that turtle at 70 mph. I've seen a few of them over the past week or two. All have been large snapping turtles. If they were nice friendly box turtles I might stop and carry them across the road to the other lake, but not these monsters. I did the the remains of one that did get hit by another lake last week. I would get high centered on these things in the Miata or Mini. How someone runs one over in daylight hours is beyond me.

For about 4 years in a row in the late 70's, I hit a bunny on Easter weekend.

Not on purpose, though.