Have you ever hit an animal with your sports car?

JARblue

So, I'm going to revive this thread, since I don't have a Mayan-cursed 2012 Z to post in that other thread. I'll try to make it worth it

In the Z, I have hit a squirrel that faked me out. I was in the left hand lane of two at night on 40 mph road and saw him run in front of my car and just stop in the middle of the lane. It was just like when you're walking down the sidewalk and you see the other person, but neither of you make eye contact and don't really know which way to go, so you do this stupid awkward shuffle dance before bumping into each other and muttering apologies, except I was going about 35 mph in a car, and he is a squirrel.

Before we traded in the Honda, I actually had a dog run into the passenger door of my car while I was moving about 25 mph. It was a black lab and I didn't even see it until it cleared the parked car on my right as I was passing it. It was looking the other way and just walked out into the street and into my door. I had the windows down and pretty sure I heard a yelp, but I slowed down and saw him run off right away. Very bizarre.

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PlatinumGraph

In my 330ci, I hit a gigantic pelican at shell beach in CA. Well, it mostly fell into my car, but I'll make the claim anyway.

blackcherry20

Wow-never heard that before!

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unijabnx

opps, didnt mean to grave dig.

I hit a deer Monday night... The outcome was not good for either of us.

Knockoutpie

Smash into a cat in my 14 Camaro ss

kenchan

stepped on a squirrel.. oops

cigarclifford

Oh Dear

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TKP-Zeto

Drove over a dead deer one night at around 70mph, luckily cleared it without incident.

Fuzzzy

A fitting response to a necro-bump:

About 20 years ago I hit a fairly large dog at night on a rural interstate with my 300ZX. Sumbitch apparently got hung up underneath my left front wheel well which impaired my ability to steer significantly. I came to a stop sideways not too far short of a bridge abutment, car dead and not wanting to start, and an 18-wheeler in the distance behind me.

Fortunately the thing fired up and I got underway before the truck arrived. Poor dog was not so fortunate.

JARblue

Since I last posted in this thread, I've run over a dead lab probably 60-80 lbs on the highway at 70 mph on I-35 south of San Antonio. In the Z

All trucks in front of me that made no effort to avoid the carcass - they cleared it no problem. I pulled over immediately - no obvious damage. I called a nearby friend who has a shop in SA, and he was nice enough to let me put it on a lift right away for a more thorough inspection. All was ok - just really, really disgusting, so I headed off to my second appointment of the day in Lockhart. I cleaned up the mess the following weekend - not a fun task.

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JARblue

Better than starting a new thread

So that was your photo in the On Topic thread with the peeled back fender Hope you (and any passenger) are ok. GL with the repairs

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scope22

I had a white 95 trans am, my favorite car till a mexican cut me off and that was it...

SINISTER

I "hit" an "animal" in the back seat of my 2006 Gto....her name was Amy....

2016 370z

I hit a faun. It jumped out of a bush and was hit instantly. I first cried because my front bumper was destroyed. Then I cried because I killed a baby deer :'(

Funeralclown

Ran over a duck once in my Civic, I was going too fast so knowing I couldn't stop, I yelled out "DUCK", but it just looked up higher. I could see the horror in the other ducks face who was standing on the shoulder.

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