You've all heard of the bird in the intercooler...

That guy ain't got **** on me.

Sunday, i was in Eau Claire, Wisconsin for an autocross, and after the event one of our longer standing MAC members offered to have the whole lot of us over for a "Post Cheddarcross BBQ". this was awesome. good food, company, jokes, and stories. so around 9pm we wrapped up the BBQ and i set forth on my merry way for the 2 hr drive back to Minneapolis. After leaving their house, i pull off of WI-53 onto WI-8.

Just as i pull on to WI-8, right behind a gold 4 door of some sort... i see a big dark object come at me quite quickly and WHAM! hit the car. naturally, I'm startled and start looking all over to see if it's hit the windshield, if it's broken and generally freaking out a little bit. i keep driving though, and suddenly i see feathers being blown about in the car a little...

WTF? looking in my rear view mirror, i see something in my rear view mirror. in my car. on the back shelf.

A bird, flew directly at the car, hit the A-pillar, barrel rolled through the driver's side front window (The only open window), flew within 4" of my face as it passed between the fixed seat headrest and the b-pillar, struck the top of the rear window, and slid down into the crack between the rear window and the parcel shelf.

Holy ****.
i quickly pulled into the next gas station, bought a crappy 35mm camera, and started snapping away. pictures will be up as soon as i get the film developed. the woman working there was nice enough to give me some rubber gloves to pull the bird out with.

 

poor bird. what kind was it? lol!

 

wow! crazy stuff. hope it cleans up ok.

 

LOL ... that sucks.. so nothing broken or bent?

 

/waits for pictures

 

Wow Lol

:laugh: LOL

 

your turbo would've just turned it into pâté :laugh:

 

This almost happened to me a couple of times on the morning drive to RF!!!:eek3:

 

Holy ****! I've had some close calls but never had an animal try to come at me through the side window!

 

On the way home from work today i had both front windows open, saw a big butterfly comin and it ended up smacking the side of my face through the passenger window! made me think of this. Must be something with the aerodynamics of our cars with the windows open.. Wonder if that's covered under warrenty......

 

Shane, How can you tease us with horrible automotive interior bird carnage and not opt for 1 hour photo?

 

That is ridiculous

 

lmao!

I managed to take out a pigeon with my hood (it just barely missed the scoop) a few years back -- I ended up with feathers, blood and **** all up over the hood, windshield and roof. I think the little bastard was trying to kill himself because it basically divebombed out of an overpass on I-94 out by Albertville. lol.

 

pics pics pics!!!

 

I find myself reminded of a scene from Pulp Fiction.

Stuart.

 

This one?



If I had a pic of shane I would have ps'd his face in there somewhere, but I don't, so that's someone elses job.

 

That'd be the one.

Anyone have a copy of Shane's old avatar ? The one where he's fondling a tyre ? We could probably work something up with that.

Stuart.

 

Well, dropped the camera off this morning for processing.
i'll pick it up when i get off work.

 

Nucking Futs!

 

I see no proof of this yet. Pics or shens.

 

Thats amazing. My only bird incident was in our full sized van I hit a seagull who didnt get off the road fast enough. When we got to the cabin I had to pry him off the car..neck and head caught behind the license plate frame. I had no idea it was even there, I thought it bounced off to the side of the road. I bet I put some animal rights activists into cardiac arrest for that 1/2 hour of driving.

 

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

 

That was almost two weeks ago...

 

A friend and I hit a duck one time. (booze cruising on gravel roads) It flew out of the ditch just to make an impression... Which it did.

 

no pics yet? wtf

 

yea what ^^^^ he said. Come on Shane we want to see pics.

 

I had bird guts and feathers on my hood scoop this morning. Sorry no cam for pics guys. Another kill for the animal death thread tho.