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Careful driving has limited my impacts with wildlife

2 birds

1 bat (found on the radiator)

1 very close call with a duck

1 very close call with a roo

1 very close call with an ugly blonde late one friday (well I counted her as wildlife)

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Damn.. Gordon. Well living within 1km from Gordon, you're gonna be encountering roos from the monaro, all the way to your front yard - and vice versa.

I was told that your lights on high beam attract the roos. Mind you, I was drunk and so was she.. and I was trying to feel her boob.

I was told that your lights on high beam attract the roos. Mind you, I was drunk and so was she.. and I was trying to feel her boob.

Champion :D

I grew up and learnt how to drive 30clicks outa town. Also moved backed home to save some cash. Worked different night shifts, putting me on dodgy roads at all the wrong times. Have ran over a roos tail, glanced one, never hit one properly. So many close calls its insane. Was once at a 50 degree angle, sliding at 90km/h trying to avoid one with P plates in a stock excel.

There are def some tricks.

- Obvious, but pay attention when driving. I’m often moving briskly, which on an old road, needs a keen eye. Scan around corners as far as you can see, and on the straights, concentrate on your peripherals for movement and shape. If you keep darting your eyes around from possible roo like bush to bush, its harder to detect movement. The cones and rods that make up your retina are more sensitive to movement in the other regions of you eye, so let it work for you.

- If you do see a roo, don’t fixate on it, as there are often more around that might have a higher chance of jumping in front of your stead. Make a decision on its “chance of jumping onto road” and move eyes on to check for others.

- Diff size (age) act differently too. Its not really time/petrol economical to slow to a crawl every time you see one. Iv found generally larger ones eating, head down are ok, and don’t move much; it’s the younger ones by themselves that have a tendency to freak out and jump in front of you

- BOV’s, Gates and just plain noisy exhausts spook them

- ABS is wonderful :D

Edited by GeeTR

haha i read it the same way, didnt want to ask incase he confirmed it :X...

GeeTR is right on the young ones being more likely to jump (but the young ones are the good eating ones (thats a fact, not a reference to me eating roadkill...))They usually get spooked and run from their parent across the road, realise what they have done and cross back over.

Edited by Baconer

Reading through this thread has made me realise how much wildlife i have killed on the road i lost count of all the birds , rabbits , roos and wombats i have hit. Hit this mob of galahs one day must have killed 20 of them there was blood and feather all over the car.

If your entering Gordon via the Covenant College way you may need to keep it slower around midnight. most of the time theres 1-3 packs of roos at the end of that road where it turns left towards gordon shops.

I've never hit any wildlife, sept for when a pack of those pink and white birds flew into the side of my car, no damage to the car and all birds were ok :D

Roadkill FTL.

My mate hit this bogan one night in goulburn , the bogan stepped out in the middle of the road and put his hand up to stop , my mate keeps driving "he will move , he will move" bang the bogan didn`t move the last thing i saw was the bogans face pressed against the windscreen as he fell off the side of the bonnet.

Didnt hurt him he got up a started running after us , we pulled up got out of the car it was then the bogan thought another beer was a better idea and went back in the pub

Damn i must have had a lucky run. I have only hit on bird in the skyline hit the IC and didnt do anything luckily.

In Dad's patrol I have hit two birds and ran over a dog (by run over he came out of no where and literally ran underneath the car (i shat myself at this stage) only to pop his head out the other side and keep running i was so expecting a thud but thank jeus nothing.

My mate was supposed to put down a horse in a paddock. It was apparently the ONLY horse in the paddock.. so he shot it after saying, "What now.. b!tch!?"

The next day we woke up and was questioned by the owner why we didn't put the horse down.

Coincedently, the neighbours were missing a horse.

EDIT: BTW, I haven't hit anything yet *touch wood*

LMAO funniest post i've read in a while.

:thumbsup::)

In my old sierra was on some dirt roads out near dubbo... came around a left hander with the back hanging out and went sideways straight into a roo. Saw him headbutt the drivers window before he went down. :(

Same car was driving along another back road at about 110 with the windows down. A galah smacked into the b pillar and went flying into the back of the car. Was funny as... pulled off the side of the road cos the car was filed with pink feathers and a half dead bird was making weird noises in the back! :(

heres one that wasnt really roadkill but involves a kangaroo killing itself on a vehicle.

Was out hunting on a mates property and we spotted some roos in the adjacent paddock from the ute, so we chucked the dogs over the fence and they chased it for a bit before the roo (a fairly large male) started heading straight for the fence and our ute. It was speeding up and we all watched on laughing and cheering it on as this roo tried jumping the fence and the ute in one giant leap, unfortunately its feet clipped the top of the fence and body slammed the ute killing itself and leaving a pretty decent dent in the door.

heres one that wasnt really roadkill but involves a kangaroo killing itself on a vehicle.

Was out hunting on a mates property and we spotted some roos in the adjacent paddock from the ute, so we chucked the dogs over the fence and they chased it for a bit before the roo (a fairly large male) started heading straight for the fence and our ute. It was speeding up and we all watched on laughing and cheering it on as this roo tried jumping the fence and the ute in one giant leap, unfortunately its feet clipped the top of the fence and body slammed the ute killing itself and leaving a pretty decent dent in the door.

Thats awsome!!

Just got back from shooting coincidently, got more rabbits between Cooma and home than shot :sleep:

This threads getting pretty harsh :)

Id say it will be moderated shortly

:D not yet... but yeah can we not turn this thread into a pissing contest on who f**ked up an animal the worst? I am a girl and I will cry :w00t:

Aif, you are doing pretty much the same hours as me, and in the same area ;) Although I dont go home on the monaro, I go over Hindmarsh which has a roo issue too.

I have had 1 very near miss (massive male standing in the middle of the road as I came over the crest) and 1 hit (there's a thread in here someone) :sleep:

i've found that if they're feeding, they might lift their heads, but pretty much dont give a rats... it's the random ones that are already on their way somewhere and are hopping through the bush before you are even anywhere near them, that you have to worry about.

And in this case it pretty much comes down to luck and there's not much you can do about it :D

:P not yet... but yeah can we not turn this thread into a pissing contest on who f**ked up an animal the worst? I am a girl and I will cry ;)

Aif, you are doing pretty much the same hours as me, and in the same area ;) Although I dont go home on the monaro, I go over Hindmarsh which has a roo issue too.

I have had 1 very near miss (massive male standing in the middle of the road as I came over the crest) and 1 hit (there's a thread in here someone) :nyaanyaa:

i've found that if they're feeding, they might lift their heads, but pretty much dont give a rats... it's the random ones that are already on their way somewhere and are hopping through the bush before you are even anywhere near them, that you have to worry about.

And in this case it pretty much comes down to luck and there's not much you can do about it :happy:

Spoiling all our fun Shell.

A jack move is to hit the horn when there is a roo on a median strip and a car coming the other way, guess what happens next... I havnt done this and dont condone, but have seen it happen, not cool.

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