Author Topic: >.< Ouch, my tail! (Read 7323 times)

The Garbone · **on:** July 06, 2011, 03:53:54 am

You can see it exit stage left on replay...

http://youtu.be/k0TONBwqc7E

$:-\$

iowarider · **Reply #1 on:** July 06, 2011, 04:56:42 am

LOL, yep, suicide squirrels, they are rampant in my neck of the woods.

Andy · **Reply #2 on:** July 06, 2011, 08:58:14 am

I had a rabbit die under the slug. I had already avoided him, but he crazy-ivan'd and ended up under the wheels. Clearly a suicide.

boggy · **Reply #3 on:** July 06, 2011, 03:22:07 pm

That squirrel has expensive taste.

barenekd · **Reply #4 on:** July 06, 2011, 07:00:13 pm

"Lemme see, if I time this just right I can get a cool waft of air!"

bman734 · **Reply #5 on:** July 06, 2011, 07:16:05 pm

He timed it just right. Must have been one hell of a nut on that side of the road to take such a daring chance!

Bug_Catcher · **Reply #6 on:** July 07, 2011, 12:30:18 am

I ran over a bunny with my Enfield. A tiny, baby, cute bunny.

He died.

prof_stack · **Reply #7 on:** July 07, 2011, 04:05:02 am

One day bicycling home I startled a squirrel who then ran into the road. A car ran over him and the last thing I saw was his spinning carcass sliding on the road and coming to a dead stop. I was very sad at that.

MotoJ · **Reply #8 on:** July 07, 2011, 12:40:49 pm

There was an Austrian salesman at the local BMW dealership around here whose single most famous line was "nevah brake on a skwirrel!" (said in Ahnold-like accent).

A kamikaze squirrel stopped dead in his path and he slid the front wheel on the poor critter like a banana peel and wiped out. The squirrel was worse off than him or the bike, needless to say.

Andy · **Reply #9 on:** July 07, 2011, 01:17:38 pm

Quote from: Bug_Catcher on July 07, 2011, 12:30:18 am

I ran over a bunny with my Enfield. A tiny, baby, cute bunny. He died.

Was it a suicide like mine? Maybe we need to set up a bunny suicide hotline. They like to throw themselves under the roodoodoos way too much.

Bug_Catcher · **Reply #10 on:** July 07, 2011, 05:30:16 pm

Quote from: Andy on July 07, 2011, 01:17:38 pm

Was it a suicide like mine? Maybe we need to set up a bunny suicide hotline. They like to throw themselves under the roodoodoos way too much.

I love rabbits, I actually own one myself. But I admit they have to be some of the dumbest and most easily panicked animals I've ever dealt with. They're lucky they're cute.

jdrouin · **Reply #11 on:** July 07, 2011, 06:11:08 pm

I was running early one winter morning and a squirrel fell out of a tree headfirst right in front of me. Made that sickening thud sound and bounced up a few feet and fell back limp. I didn't really know what to do, but it was gone when I returned a few minutes later.

boggy · **Reply #12 on:** July 07, 2011, 06:19:05 pm

I know what happened to that squirrel. This little girl picked it up and carried it around like a trophy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Nn0UkdDArM

(description: this is a video of a little girl carrying around a dead squirrel like a trophy. disturbing, but not graphic).

The Garbone · **Reply #13 on:** July 07, 2011, 09:56:57 pm

Quote from: boggy on July 07, 2011, 06:19:05 pm

I know what happened to that squirrel. This little girl picked it up and carried it around like a trophy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Nn0UkdDArM

(description: this is a video of a little girl carrying around a dead squirrel like a trophy. disturbing, but not graphic).

Ummm, I am speechless...

barenekd · **Reply #14 on:** July 08, 2011, 01:49:27 am

Quote

"Sometimes I wonder if the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." -Mark Twain

Unfortunately, most of them mean it! Have you checked out Congress lately?
Bare

2bikebill · **Reply #15 on:** July 08, 2011, 09:11:20 am

Grey squirrels not popular round here - just rats who live in trees. They do a massive amount of damage, and we shoot em, same as any destructive vermin.

olhogrider · **Reply #16 on:** July 08, 2011, 03:19:40 pm

Quote from: WillW on July 08, 2011, 09:11:20 am

Grey squirrels not popular round here - just rats who live in trees. They do a massive amount of damage, and we shoot em, same as any destructive vermin.

How do they taste? I thought guns were outlawed in Jolly Old.

2bikebill · **Reply #17 on:** July 08, 2011, 04:57:25 pm

I don't eat em, yet, but times is getting hard.......

Guns aren't outlawed here, but you need a licence and secure metal storage. I doubt you'll find a farmer here who hasn't got a couple of shotguns. That said, I knock em down with a high velocity .22 air rifle, for which no licence is required.

Ice · **Reply #18 on:** July 08, 2011, 09:34:10 pm

Quote from: olhogrider on July 08, 2011, 03:19:40 pm

How do they taste?

Depends on their diet, the time of year and the recipe.
The flavor can range from kind of bland to veal like.
Textures can run from a bit stringy to chicken like.

Organic lean protein grown in the wild without artificial hormones and anti biotics.

Makes a person think twice.

iowarider · **Reply #19 on:** July 10, 2011, 01:56:41 am

I was riding a bit heavier of a motorcycle, Honda spirit 750. It was getting toward dusk and a raccoon came ruining from the shoulder of the road. To close to brake, running about 55-60, so griped hard and held on for the bump, this thing was 20 to 30 lbs. I felt nothing, but hear a loud POP, though full face helmet with ear plugs. Next day going back to work there was this big headless raccoon. If that doesn't gross you out, let me tell you about the wild turkey that flew across the road and I ducked behind the windshield. He missed me but the gross part was what I had in my, well we just wont talk about that.

Maturin · **Reply #20 on:** July 10, 2011, 10:55:04 am

I always wondered about overrun hedgehogs. Hell, they´re not very fast - it´s possible to hit them with a car on the street´s frindge, but why at center?
Once I drove behind some BMW 3 with a couple of our auspicious offspring onboard. At a distance I could see a big hedgehog crossing the street, the driver in front of me obviously did too, accellerated, aimed, altered course and ran right over the animal.
At the next redlight I pulled up beside him, still pissed, and asked him if that´s the kind of fun he´s at. He grinned at me, and so did all his crew, and told me to care about my own bussiness. He added an "asshole" at the end and roared away.
And there I stood. Pissed, in the middle of the street and totally helpless against such a kind of ignorance. What could I have told him to alter his opinion?
For sure it´s stupid to ask such a question.

2bikebill · **Reply #21 on:** July 10, 2011, 12:59:29 pm

You can't reason with brainless arseholes. I was following a car from which was thrown the leftovers and wrappers from about five Kentucky take-aways, strewn along a beautiful country road. I followed these filthy bastards and eventually confronted them, for which I received a tirade of foul language and a show of fingers.
Teenage yobs - I'd gas the feckin lot of em....

Andy · **Reply #22 on:** July 10, 2011, 10:20:28 pm

A local paper did a test with artificial animals. The results were disturbing, to say the least. As if the very high percentage of people who would go out of their way to hit assorted animals, wild and domestic, weren't bad enough, some would even put themselves and others at dangerous risk to do so, crossing centre lines into blind corners, etc.

People suck. I've always said so.

bob bezin · **Reply #23 on:** July 10, 2011, 10:29:12 pm

years ago in chicago some trash flew out the window of a car with the back seat full of early teen girls. i was on my bike and picked it up in the stop and go traffic.at the next stoplight i threw it back thru their open window and yelled "don't litter" looking embarresed they rolled up the window. just a day in the life.

Andy · **Reply #24 on:** July 10, 2011, 10:37:38 pm

Quote from: bob bezin on July 10, 2011, 10:29:12 pm

years ago in chicago some trash flew out the window of a car with the back seat full of early teen girls. i was on my bike and picked it up in the stop and go traffic.at the next stoplight i threw it back thru their open window and yelled "don't litter" looking embarresed they rolled up the window. just a day in the life.

Much as I've been tempted to get into it with car drivers on this and other subjects, I make it a policy never to deliberately piss off people who can kill me with a flick of the wrist, no matter how much they deserve it. I'm just a coward that way.

iowarider · **Reply #25 on:** July 11, 2011, 06:29:25 am

Much as I've been tempted to get into it with car drivers on this and other subjects, I make it a policy never to deliberately piss off people who can kill me with a flick of the wrist, no matter how much they deserve it. I'm just a coward that way.[/color]

Right their with you on that. That and when pulled over by the police, always told my 3 boys, "never wise to piss off a guy with a gun strapped to his hip"

ROVERMAN · **Reply #26 on:** July 11, 2011, 07:48:52 pm

I had a cute bunny fly out in front of me from the left the other day,a flick of the wrist and the sound of the Goldie made him reverse course in the most unnatural way i have ever seen in my life! I can just imagine how many little pellets he lost over that one once his arse stopped puckering!
Robert and REnfield in MI.

single · **Reply #27 on:** July 12, 2011, 03:42:03 am

Out riding the other day with some new friends and a squirrel ran in front of the bike in front of me,had it made,missed the front tire,did the u-turn from hell,straight into the back tire.Squished.
Squirrel is quite good if it is first cooked,then fried.Don't taste like chicken.Pretty much need a good dog to tree 'em,they will cut off leaves so you watch for that,pretty apt to bark or scold ya,can't seem to hold their tail still.They aint worth the effort for me anymore.Had an in-law that used to fill his freezer with them.Hunted them all the time.Pretty weird.

iowarider · **Reply #28 on:** July 12, 2011, 05:40:33 am

squirrels in my area are the beginner game to teach safety and hunting skills. I know some don't think hunting is right, but its about the only way to keep a deer heard in check. I also believed the saying, better to take you kids hunting then to be hunting your kids" At least it worked for my four boys.