Hit a damn Bird at 200 KM/H

moneymouth77

They're made from strong stuff!

faceman

craichoe wrote: »

I post on here quite regularly and i've always said i live in the NETHERLANDS, I could be driving anywhere .. what has the speed limit got to do with anything !!

There are LOTS of boards.ie users that don't live in Ireland.

People using the internet could be anywhere in the world.

Why did you leave out your location, which was rather important to your post, on this occasion?

*Kol*

faceman wrote: »

Why did you leave out your location, which was rather important to your post, on this occasion?

Because nobody would have bothered answering.

whicawha

Similar story myself.....

I was collecting a DJ to drive him back to the Airport after a show last summer. I was in my Dads IS250 and I was not speeding. I was doing just under 100kmh and a bird flew out of a bush and flew straight into the front bumper. It hit the place were the big screw goes when you need to tow the car. Anyway, the bird literally exploded! Blood and feathers covered the front left side of the car with the wiper area clean.
It was 4.30am on a summer morning, no car washes open. I had to drive from Letterkenny to Belfast and back before I could wash it off. I had to scrub the blood and feathers off they where dried in that much.
First bird strike, I am sure it wont be the last!

antodeco

Hammertime wrote: »

Fock me, them Germanian birds are tough.

:eek:

Vorsprung duck Technik

CianRyan

kbannon wrote: »

For those who were so quick to bitch about the OP - take a look here.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=2055556772
Maybe youse should try to ban all bikes!

Pfft, that's nothing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfjOn4unbn0

Blazer

moneymouth77 wrote: »

Ouch.


"A speeding car did this to me..."

damn u..stealing my thanks :mad:

irishgrover

House wrote: »

We regularly go over the ton in Traffic, it's just part of the job, I've been driving cars at 200/250 and 300 kph before on emergency dashes down the M50 or M11/N11.

The road, the weather, the car. All perfect.

The crap we call the average driver in Ireland? That's the dangerous part. I can count on one hand the number of times we haven't had to brake to under 90 kph on a 120 kph stretch of the M50 because some thicko thinks he's more important than all the other road users. Especially the two gents in the big white car with flashing headlamps, flashing blue light bar and winglets/grille repeaters blaring their siren in yelp mode to get past his arrogant sh*t face.

Get the f**k off your high horses, people.

I'm assuming this is a p!ss take?

Caliden

The first page is gold.

SV

WindSock wrote: »

Oh for heavens sake, shut up with the smugness everyone. The forum Boards.ie, why wouldn't people assume the poster was originally driving Ireland?

The smugness will stop when the high horse brigade piss on out of motors.

Hagar

SV wrote: »

The smugness will stop when the high horse brigade piss on out of motors.

Harsh, very harsh but true, very true.

irishgrover

Hagar wrote: »

Harsh, very harsh but true, very true.

Complete hourse****e imho. OP was baiting, 'High horses' took at bait, and the juveniles had a good giggle....
since when does being into motors mean that you have to leave your brain at the door

challengemaster

Technically you hit it at over 200km/h due to relative velocity....(ie. The bird had some speed too...)

Anywho...

Lol thread.

irishgrover

challengemaster wrote: »

Technically you hit it at over 200km/h due to relative velocity....(ie. The bird had some speed too...)

Anywho...

Lol thread.

or less, if the bird was trying to get the fcuk away.....

Hagar

irishgrover wrote: »

Complete hourse****e imho. OP was baiting, 'High horses' took at bait, and the juveniles had a good giggle....
since when does being into motors mean that you have to leave your brain at the door

Maybe he wasn't, I once was involved in one of the many "Indicators on a Roundabout" threads and posted forgetting I was in France and that everything I said should have been reversed :) Link

But if it was baiting, didn't he do a great job all the same? :pac:

GreeBo

For all those who say "speed doesnt kill"
Tell that to the pigeon.

irishgrover

Hagar wrote: »

But if it was baiting, didn't he do a great job all the same? :pac:

of course he did, most entertaining thread of the day.....
but there's a lot petty smugness floating around, which is more suited to a school yard..

Eoin

It's a shame that you can't adblock phrases as well as words, it's one of the most annoying ones used here.

When not prefixed with "moral", high horse just means an arrogant and stubborn manner. And that can just as easily be applied to the people on the other side of the fence in this forum.

L1011

GreeBo wrote: »

For all those who say "speed doesnt kill"
Tell that to the pigeon.

Who would have died had the OP hit him at 60km/h.

I hit a bird at about 80km/h, lost the front grille of the car I was driving (Grande Punto) at the time. The bird was in small bits across the front of the rad apparently...

peeka

craichoe wrote: »

Driving to work today was pushing 200km/h

I do this drive every week was pushing along as normal... see a bird way high up and then he dive bombs down ...

Next thing .. WHOOOMP ... Feathers, Blood, and then could see the bird landing about 300 meters away in my rear view.

TBH I'm surprised the windscreen didnt sustain any damage ! thank god for the guy that invented toughened glass !

In hindsight I was lucky I didnt hit the brakes as he could have flown into the front grille or into the center of the Windscreen where its a bit weaker.

Anyways, it was a brown pants moment, anyone else have an experience like this ?

Only other experience i've heard of was my uncle hitting a deer at 60 mph and the Jeep was completely wrecked, got a nice bit of venison out of it though!

:rolleyes: who gives a flying fcuk !!!!

veetwin

Probably one of the best threads ever on motors. First time I have ever read 12 pages in one sitting. Well done OP for bringing out the OMG PC Brigade!

Curran

^^^^
Same here - classic!!

caesar

Sitting here in the library in college (exams and all that), read the whole 12 pages.

Minute I read the first post, I remembered the OP lived abroad or something....and after that it was simply quality.

I'd rather if the high horses fcked off, but on this occasion they have given me a wealth of entertainment :pac:

-Chris-

Great thread alright!

Esel

House wrote: »

We regularly go over the ton in Traffic, it's just part of the job, I've been driving cars at 200/250 and 300 kph before on emergency dashes down the M50 or M11/N11.

250 km/h I'll swallow, but 300 km/h? Sorry.

*Kol*

esel wrote: »

250 km/h I'll swallow, but 300 km/h? Sorry.

Exactly. What police car can do 300K?? None. Full of sh!te.

cianclarke

caesar wrote: »

Sitting here in the library in college (exams and all that), read the whole 12 pages.

Minute I read the first post, I remembered the OP lived abroad or something....and after that it was simply quality.

I'd rather if the high horses fcked off, but on this occasion they have given me a wealth of entertainment :pac:

I'm also procrastinating study, but still didn't manage to read all 12 pages! :eek: The first few proved amusement enough...
On another note I don't think I've ever been thanked as much for a post...

seanybiker

easyeason3 wrote: »

Hit a badger doing about 70 mph on a small country road two years ago.

cool. who would have thought badgers can drive cars. espescially at that speed.

seanybiker

*Kol* wrote: »

Exactly. What police car can do 300K?? None. Full of sh!te.

Tee hee hee thats why I love me bike. not a hope of them catching me. They will never be after me but that thought that if they where they woudlnt have a chance gives me butterflies haha.

Esel

^ Hard to outrun a Motorola, though . . . . .

seanybiker

esel wrote: »

^ Hard to outrun a Motorola, though . . . . .

A motorola???? phones give chase now lol?

Esel

seanybiker wrote: »

A motorola???? phones give chase now lol?

Big company, Motorola.

seanybiker

esel wrote: »

Big company, Motorola.

Jebus never heard about that. :eek:

Caliden

After people mentioning the piss poor driving tests that go on in Ireland compared to other countries, I would want the same test that people in Finland have to do. i.e. A drifting portion!

seanybiker

Caliden wrote: »

After people mentioning the piss poor driving tests that go on in Ireland compared to other countries, I would want the same test that people in Finland have to do. i.e. A drifting portion!

yeah drifting be cool. Im dying to try it out but me lack wont give me a go of her car
And drifting on a bike just looks stupid. :mad:

handsomecake

Nerin wrote: »

I read all the thread. Hes still an idiot. Post reported for utter idiocy. I should be reported too. And banned. For personal abuse.

**** you op.

thats the best post ive ever read on boards.ie. my belly hurts from laughing

moneymouth77

Sorry dude, it just came to me... and, knowing German birds, I bet it was flying right at you, squawking CMON in German. There's a national bullish mentality you know.

suburban guy

Hope you come back as a bird in the next life.

moneymouth77

Ouch man, too close.

antomorro-sei

What a thread!

Saruman

This would make a great leaving cert maths question. If a car is driving at 200kph and a bird dives at it, hits the windscreen and bounces 300 meters behind the car, how fast was the bird going when it hit?

moneymouth77

It depends on so much though! How heavy is the bird, the consistency and bounce of the windscreen, the surface you're driving on...

antodeco

peeka wrote: »

:rolleyes: who gives a flying fcuk !!!!

The bird obviously

Dartz

I don't see what the big deal is. Exceeding the speed limit is perfectly fine so long as it's in a foreign country. I mean, on the M1 just outside Belfast there a while back, I pushed my Laguna up as far as it'll go.

Got all of 5kph out of it before my legs gave out.

GreeBo

seanybiker wrote: »

Tee hee hee thats why I love me bike. not a hope of them catching me. They will never be after me but that thought that if they where they woudlnt have a chance gives me butterflies haha.

I reckon they wouldnt have much of a problem catching you at 300, unwrapping you from the tree might take some time though.

MYOB wrote: »

Who would have died had the OP hit him at 60km/h.

I hit a bird at about 80km/h, lost the front grille of the car I was driving (Grande Punto) at the time. The bird was in small bits across the front of the rad apparently...

He could have done something about it at 60, at 200 u cant take any avoiding action.

Hagar

Saruman wrote: »

This would make a great leaving cert maths question. If a car is driving at 200kph and a bird dives at it, hits the windscreen and bounces 300 meters behind the car, how fast was the bird going when it hit?

Well the speed of the car would not be relevant for a start because we are trying to determine the speed at which the bird was traveling. At the exact moment of impact the bird was stopped, I think, so speed was 0 kph. Do I get an A?

peasant

just to be pernickety here, I don't think that the bird actually fully hit the windscreen.

Windscreens aren't made out of toughened glass, but laminated glass (two sheets of normal glass glued together with a film of plastic inbetween) and they do crack fairly quickly on impact.
I would assume that the bird was caught in the not inconsiderable updraft of air that must exist in front of a windscreen at 200 km/h and therefore only glanced off the windscreen instead of hitting it full on.

Saruman

Hagar wrote: »

Well the speed of the car would not be relevant for a start because we are trying to determine the speed at which the bird was traveling. At the exact moment of impact the bird was stopped, I think, so speed was 0 kph. Do I get an A?

A+

Seth Brundle

...and for the 200th post, lets watch a vid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSFggmz49Pk

moneymouth77

Jeez, you joke about it for days but then actually seeing it... yuch.