Splat.
Life October 25th, 2007On the way home from work today, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a pigeon being run over by a car. I was listening to music from my discman so I didn’t get to hear it happen very distinctly but there was this kinda snapping of an elastic band like noise. I didn’t see much blood, only it’s wings all over the place. I didn’t stop to investigate further since it was freaking freezing. Still… eep. o_o
Ah, this reminds me of the time mother and I were driving down a country lane. We saw a lorry with two men inside. We continued driving. Then all of a sudden we two pigeons rebound of their windscreen (and die). Instead of looking at least a little shaken they just LAUGHED and punched their fists in the air!
(Although I do hate pigeons so I’m not particularly bothered. They’re horrible — rats with wings.)
You do realise this comment makes it sound like the pigeons laughed, and punched their bird-feet-fists into the air? ;)
Punching their fists in the air? I wonder if they thought they were winners or something. Like, “whoo!! we killed a pigeon!!”
Was one of those truckers Dane Cook, per chance?
Off.*
:(
Wow. I’ve always been worried for the birds walking on the road. I don’t get why they walk instead of fly.
I don’t like pigeons either. They poop entirely too much. But if you’ve played the Worms game, the Homing Pigeon is really cool.
Birds can’t fly 24/7, its very energy intensive. Also, their perceptual apparatus doesn’t equip them with the ability to see something as large as a car as a threat until it is gets very close. Its a recipe for a lot of run-over birds. :|
I’m sure you’ll be pleased to note that that sound is most often described by horror writers as “wet liver on wood”.
… yeah.
THAT’S A GREAT DESCRIPTION!!! It was a lot like that, though just imagine the sound occurring REALLY QUICKLY.
X_X;; I don’t think I’d enjoy seeing that or hearing that whichever way.
We hit a pigeon once. It was picking up road kill off the floor (is that irony?) and didn’t see us until it was almost too late. Tried to do a vertical take-off and bounced off the windscreen. Unfortunately there was nothing we could do (e.g. swerving/breaking) because of oncoming traffic and some nutjob behind us.
I hate seeing hit animals on the roadside, especially things like hedgehogs and birds. :(
Oooh hedgehog! I’ve never seen one in real life. I’ve only ever seen dead birds, cats and dogs on the road. =/
Oh win. I’ve run over a possum once. (It was on the road! And already kinda semi-dead. But I ran over it!)
Was it a mercy-killing?
More like a “haha, that possum got run over”, *possum twitches*, “haha, let’s run over it again” type of thing.
That is really cruel! Possums are cute. :(
So it wouldn’t be cruel if possums weren’t cute?
“Suffering: We cauz it for teh lulz.”
Ahah, Amanda’s comment made me laugh.
But … still … nasty bit of business there. :( I don’t get why it didn’t react fast enough, but … hmm. I’m picturing it over and over in my head now. Bah. *cruise* *screech* *splat* Eeek …
At least it was just a pigeon. In my part of town, people run over deer and jack rabbits.
I can’t stand seeing animals being killed. I always turn away because it makes me very sad :(
The first day I drove home from school all by my lonesome, I ran over a rabbit within a hundred yards of my house. I felt really bad about it, but what could I do, with him already dead…
One time I was hanging out with my friends while they talked to some girls I really didn’t like out on the street. A passing car ran over a kitten on the street, and some of my friends and the two girls laughed about it. I’m not really an animal person, but it made me so mad that I left entirely without saying anything and my friends showed up my house an hour later wondering why I left.
Some people find the weirdest things funny. :(
Ugh, that sounds awful! Thanks for the nice picture in my head…
One day I was coming home from school, driving along the highway and singing along to some random song on the radio when SPLAT! A bird had committed suicide and died at the hands of my windshield. I felt horribly but I kept going because you really can’t stop on the highway unless you plan on causing a six car pileup.
I usually go out my way to avoid hitting animals, once I almost got into a wreck by almost swerving into car to avoid hitting a possum.
But you what annoys me about possums? Those that pretend to play dead in the middle of the street. It’s like, now is not the time. Grrr.
Ha! Suicidal possums.
That’s what we call an evolutionary mismatch paradigm. Playing dead won’t save you from a car. :P
[very offtopic] Bel! I noticed today that Fiona’s domain is gone. >
Whoops, I guess Wordpress doesn’t like those opening brackets either…erm gist of the message is: both Fiona and your Ayame shrine are gone and I loved both. Hope they’re coming back. ^^
My Ayame shrine is still up but so grossly unfinished there’s no point in linking it! Fireyskye.net does appear to be gone, but Fiona’s other domain, unreality.nu appears to be still online.
Sky rats! :P
You know, I’ve never known a pigeon to … well … die. They usually fly away if anything goes near them. :3
Oh poor bird. :(
Poor that bird. God bless the pigeon. I’ve always been afraid of birds and feathered creatures. :(
Eh I’m not fond of birds either. But still… was pretty shocking thing to see!
Did you eat it? Failure.
Well, did you?
Interesting how you have the same IP address as pajamasam70.
Oh cmon Belinda, did you eat it or not? :P Roadkill wins!
Oh yeah, I rushed over, grabbed the dead, bloody bird with my bare hands, shoved it in my bag, ran home, shoved it in the microwaved, cooked it, then had it for dinner.
It WAS Thursday, and Thursday is ALWAYS Roadkill Thursday at home. :P
Poor bird :(
That has never happened to me, but I’m sure I wouldn’t stop either. I almost crashed my car the other day because I tried to evade a puppy crossing an avenue. heh.
oh… wow… now that’s one thing i haven’t seen in my life… yet.
haha i would have investigated.
That would have freaked me out.
My cousin told me about how he hit an owl with his truck one time. He didn’t even realize it when it happened, but his wife, who was driving another car behind him, suddenly saw all these feathers flying around. When they reached their destination, they saw a baby owl still stuck in the grille. :P
Oh geez, things like that makes me rather squeemish.