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**94bmw325i** · 10-25-2006, 11:37 PM

I was racing a squirrel and it started to win, but then it ran back across the road and went under the tire.

To my knowledge thats the only time ive ran over an animal. If you lived near my house you would see dead deer, squirrels, racoons, and ground hogs all over the place.

I was driving an 04 or 05 toyota 4 runner whatever my dad has lol.

**RSF5** · 10-26-2006, 11:23 AM

aww, On the way to michigan I hit a bird doing like 90 my girlfriend was in the passanger seat and she was horrified

**94bmw325i** · 10-26-2006, 11:26 AM

one of my buddies hit a deer after we went rallying (not in my car, would have broken my oilpan lol that thing is already a little dented)

but it just hit its butt so im guessing it had a limp for a while, or got shaken up. Did no damage, etc and we were doing the speed limit for once.

**Numark318i** · 10-26-2006, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by 94bmw325i

one of my buddies hit a deer after we went rallying (not in my car, would have broken my oilpan lol that thing is already a little dented)

but it just hit its butt so im guessing it had a limp for a while, or got shaken up. Did no damage, etc and we were doing the speed limit for once.

deer go nuts around here this time of the year. Ive had like 5 jump in front of me in the last two weeks.

friend hit a deer at 70 mph, got knocked out last week.
My dad hit another one last week.

dam deer.

as for squirels...idk

**RSF5** · 10-26-2006, 02:00 PM

deer are like rats with hooves.

**doughboyea** · 10-27-2006, 10:47 AM

FUCKING DEER! I killed bambi at 5:20am on my way to my old work on the back roads. Fucking thing bashed in my passanger headlight and cracked my grill. No other structural damage but scared the SHIT out of me. That old Benz was a tank!

Girlfriend killed a snake once, she's kinda like an animal lover (INCLUDING snakes....gross) and was really distraught over it. The whole, "I KILLED A SNAKE

" came up.

At least that little guy didn't really damage your vehicle. Grille for my Mercedes was $80 (form E-bay) head lights were around $400 not to mention the shock of having seen a bambi swivelling around like a baddly kicked football landing ~15 yards away. For a 100 lb. animal, it got good distance.

Dough

craig · 10-27-2006, 11:02 AM

iv been lucky enough to not hit a deer altho i have had a grand total of probably 30 or so jump infront of me(not all at once obviously). last weekend a group of 6 jumped out infront of me and ran across the road.

nick_318is · 10-27-2006, 03:15 PM

I always try to hit squirrels, there are just too many of them around. I still have not gotten one (grrrr).

**Mercenary(FH)** · 10-27-2006, 03:27 PM

I hit a cat...but I swear it jumped right in front of me.
also in our old 83' 318i. I hit a bird, and it got sucked into the radiator fan (yeah it wasnt pretty) since we were going like 80mph....bird guts everywhere
also we hit a racoon on the interstate.....it was a gonner Im sure

craig · 10-27-2006, 03:46 PM

here in tribune, the main thing that gets run over is rabbits. one day, we hit 6 on a 6 miles stretch of road. i counted. way too many of them.

**BMWLotAttendant** · 10-27-2006, 11:32 PM

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Originally Posted by nick_318is

I always try to hit squirrels, there are just too many of them around. I still have not gotten one (grrrr).

You read my mind.

There is a squirrel going into our attic, and my dad is really pissed. He wants to shoot it with my best friends pellet gun, but I set out some bird seed and got my paintball gun. By the time I snuck up on it, it ran to the fence and didn't see it anymore.

But, speaking of all that. When you exit my development within my neighborhood, the pesky squirrels hang out across the street, so everytime they're there...I try and purposely swerve to run them over. I left one time, and one squirrel was lying in the middle of the road. I wish I got the credit, but the next day...ANOTHER squirrel was in our backyard.

**RSF5** · 10-27-2006, 11:47 PM

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Originally Posted by craig

here in tribune, the main thing that gets run over is rabbits. one day, we hit 6 on a 6 miles stretch of road. i counted. way too many of them.

Awww dude jesus christ

craig · 10-28-2006, 12:54 AM

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Awww dude jesus christ

i wasnt driving. the only time my parents will brake is when it will hurt their car. i have only hit one and it was when i was first learning how to drve and didnt realy want to crash by swerving or braking too hard and losing control. and there have been times they have hit more then that(not swerving, just running out infront on the van). its pretty insane how many rabbits are out here.

**RSF5** · 10-28-2006, 01:32 AM

of course not, you never risk a major accident over the death of an animal like a rabbit. (people try to avoid squirrels and fucking kill themselves when they crash)

craig · 10-28-2006, 02:35 AM

well i didnt say avoid it at all costs now did i?