Deer in the headlights

[thermidorthelobster]

...actually, in the bumper.

Bizarre!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/beds/bucks/herts/3723508.stm

[Paul]

I heard about that on the news, Amazing. :shock:

[SteveH]

What the...... How do you not notice that youve done that?

Steve

[Wanderer]

Deer deer...

That's awful.
If it sat there too long it'd be Stag nant

I'll get mi coat!

Ed

[Mace]

Not in the same league but....

Years ago I was driving through Woburn Deer Park in the middle of the night (as you do) when a deer ran straight into the side of my car. It's chest thumped the front right wing and it's head landed on the windscreen, it rolled over, got up and ran away. Nothing more I could do except drive home and get a new wing fixed. When it came out of the garage with it's shiny new wing I felt I was haunted for weeks.

Everytime the sun caught the windscreen I could see this eerie silhouette of a deers head complete with staring open eye, outlined on the screen. Every week I'd clean it down with glass cleaner but it took weeks to go away. I'd forget about it for a while but everytime the sun came out....there it was, a petrified deer staring at me. Haunted I was.

[keithdixon]

he was lucky (the driver not the deer) it seems like little damage was done,

I hit a wood pigeon early this year.  (A BIG FAT WOOD PIGEON)

it seemed to disintegrate on the front of the car and spread itself across the whole bonnet and screen (and roof)

in the end our friends down at Jaguar decided it needed:-

new bonnet
New front grill
new radiator
new air con radiator
grill and bonnet spraying

£2000 in total.

and when I put it through insurance they asked me if I had taken insurance details from the other party?????

I lost on that one and ended up loosing one of my protected no claims

[thermidorthelobster]

Yum.

A tip for all you bird whackers - a friend of mine had a car, I think it was a Volvo, and hit a pheasant which splattered on impact.  It was a few hours before he could wash it off, and something in the bird, I think it must have been the stomach acids, stripped the lacquer coat off the paint in great patches!

So next time you splatter a bird, make sure you hose it all off well as quickly as possible!

I've found the roof rack means I catch the odd pigeon which would otherwise have bounced fairly harmlessly off the windscreen.  The most recent one was on the M5 and there were bits of it jammed everywhere in the roof rack.  Nice.

On a related note, a pigeon hit the window of an office building I used to work in, at some speed, and left a grease mark (similar to the deer mark mentioned above) on the window.  It was the perfect greasy outline of a pigeon, down to the individual feathers, the eyes, and everything.  It captured the moment of death quite graphically.

David

[pritch]

Going back to the original topic, I'd like to know why it didn't overheat.  The Disco overheats if you get a bit of mud stuck to the radiator, let alone large animals.