Road Kill(ers)

http://dsc.discovery.com/cars-bikes/study-finds-6-percent-of-drivers-go-out-of-their-way-to-run-over-animals.html

If 1,000 drivers see an animal on the shoulder of the road, how many of them will go out of their way to kill them?
Employing the scientific method, NASA’s Mark Rober found 94 percent of drivers continued on their way. The remaining 6 percent? Rober called them cold-blooded rubber animal killers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-Fp7flAWMA

Are you a road killer? I try to dodge animals but I don't always succeed!

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Isn't there a points system for this? Is a granny not 10 points?

Sauve

Stealth Recce wrote: »

Isn't there a points system for this? Is a granny not 10 points?

Grannies are 50.
Kids are 100 (theyre more nimble)
Hippies are 500
Hipsters get you some ironic points.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Sauve wrote: »

Grannies are 50.
Kids are 100 (theyre more nimble)
Hippies are 500
Hipsters get you some ironic points.

Hhmmm, pfft hipsters are dead inside anyway!

Hippies!

Sauve wrote: »

Grannies are 50.
Kids are 100 (theyre more nimble)
Hippies are 500
Hipsters get you some ironic points.

I dunno whether to be flattered or what

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Hippies! wrote: »

I dunno whether to be flattered or what

Flattened methinks!

jimthemental

I'd try and stay going, I'd only try to dodge them if there was a significant chance of damage to the car, like a bullock. Rabbits and the like can cause you to crash trying to dodge them.

UCDVet

The only way to stop these killers is to ban vehicles.

UCDVet

UCDVet wrote: »

The only way to stop these killers is to ban vehicles.

Just ban animals from crossing the road. :pac:

Froyo

If I witnessed someone deliberately killing an animal I would hunt them down and probably just give out to them.

LivelineDipso

Typical idiotic American video.

"Dude I love science...dude...we reduce it to the level of a five year old...dude..."

LivelineDipso

If the guy in the video stood in the road I would run him down.

im invisible

GOURANGA!!

maglite

Have gone for rats on the road in the past....

Have also on occasion chosen to hit a crow instead of taking evasive action, chance i would have ploughed into an on coming car or got rear ended.

Conmaicne Mara

If it's likely to damage my car I'll try to safely avoid it. Otherwise splat, say goodnight bugs, charles, brock. I know of one or two drivers who've crashed trying to avoid animals on the road. I won't intentionally try to run something over but I'm not risking my safety or car to avoid them.

NegativeCreep

If you're doing your driving test and an animal runs out in front of you you're supposed to run it over. Anything else could cause a crash.

dxhound2005

Some people eat roadkill. But if you have certain food allergies be careful of eating squirrels as they may contain nuts.

Galwayguy35

It's a lot more dangerous living in a rural area because the chances of a cow or horse being on the road are a lot higher. I nearly hit both of these on occasions and to say it gave me a fright is putting it mildly.

I would try not to hit an animal if I could but obviously if there is oncoming traffic then you have no choice.

The biggest animal I have hit is a badger, the stories about them being tough critters are true, he took the front fender clean off the car.

Ava_e

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Some people eat roadkill. But if you have certain food allergies be careful of eating squirrels as they may contain nuts.

They are both nuts, so they cancel each other out.

Local-womanizer

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

It's a lot more dangerous living in a rural area because the chances of a cow or horse being on the road are a lot higher. I nearly hit both of these on occasions and to say it gave me a fright is putting it mildly.

I would try not to hit an animal if I could but obviously if there is oncoming traffic then you have no choice.

The biggest animal I have hit is a badger, the stories about them being tough critters are true, he took the front fender clean off the car.

I hit a badger myself, I was going about 30mph, 2 wheels went over him, it felt like I hit a speed ramp.

Turned around to see the damage I left behind and he was nowhere to be seen!

Now I am feared that there is a badger out there looking for revenge

Amalgam

My grandfather (farmer) hit a pheasant going to market one morning. Car stopped and him almost sprinting to squirrel it away in the back, thoroughly pleased with himself. It may have ended up on the dining room table, minus feathers and very well cooked..

Galwayguy35

Local-womanizer wrote: »

I hit a badger myself, I was going about 30mph, 2 wheels went over him, it felt like I hit a speed ramp.

Turned around to see the damage I left behind and he was nowhere to be seen!

Now I am feared that there is a badger out there looking for revenge

I was on the motorway when the one I hit decided to cross so his chances of surviving were zero.

Galwayguy35

Amalgam wrote: »

My grandfather (farmer) hit a pheasant going to market one morning. Car stopped and him almost sprinting to squirrel it away in the back, thoroughly pleased with himself. It may have ended up on the dining room table, minus feathers and very well cooked..

There is a strong flavour off the meat but it's very nice, my brother is a farmer and the lads who ask for permission to shoot on his land always give him one of the pheasants they kill.

FanadMan

im invisible wrote: »

GOURANGA!!

You need a line of Hare Krishnas in the road for that

Pottler

Amalgam wrote: »

My grandfather (farmer) hit a pheasant going to market one morning. Car stopped and him almost sprinting to squirrel it away in the back, thoroughly pleased with himself. It may have ended up on the dining room table, minus feathers and very well cooked..

I waited at that Pheasants stall for four hours. I wondered what happened to him. He used to sell lovely feathers. RIP Mr Pheasy.

Ficheall

The guy in the video could do with a crash course in statistics...
Though I prefer a previous poster's suggestion of just hitting him with a car.

Wattle

NegativeCreep wrote: »

If you're doing your driving test and an animal runs out in front of you you're supposed to run it over. Anything else could cause a crash.

Are you supposed to speed up and make sure of a clean kill? Could it be the difference between a pass and a fail?

Ihatecuddles-old

My ex's mum was driving out of her driveway and there was a dead fox on the road, she carried on and went off to lunch.
Came back an hour later and it was gone. She got out of the car and someone had put it in her bush!

NegativeCreep

Wattle wrote: »

Are you supposed to speed up and make sure of a clean kill? Could it be the difference between a pass and a fail?

I don't know the ins and outs but I'm pretty sure the rule is you just have to keep going at the speed limit and run the thing over.

Pottler

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

My ex's mum was driving out of her driveway and there was a dead fox on the road, she carried on and went off to lunch.
Came back an hour later and it was gone. She got out of the car and someone had put it in her bush!

Must resist, must resist...:D

Fr_Dougal

NegativeCreep wrote: »

If you're doing your driving test and an animal runs out in front of you you're supposed to run it over. Anything else could cause a crash.

What if the animal was Lassie and he was running out on the road to stop a child getting knocked down, what do you do then?

Lando Griffin

A mutt ran out in front of a friend of mines car and she swerved to avoid it lost control flipped and landed upside down in a ditch totalling her car and broke nearly every bone in her senceless body.
She was months in hospital.

Pottler

Lando Griffin wrote: »

A mutt ran out in front of a friend of mines car and she swerved to avoid it lost control flipped and landed upside down in a ditch totalling her car and broke nearly every bone in her senceless body.
She was months in hospital.

Was the dog ok?? Sorry, but there'll be loads who really really want to know that. Joking aside, hope your friend recovered ok and yes, swerving can be a bad idea. I think this is more about people going out of their way to hit animals though, not hitting them when it's unavoidable.

Death and Taxes

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

My ex's mum was driving out of her driveway and there was a dead fox on the road, she carried on and went off to lunch.
Came back an hour later and it was gone. She got out of the car and someone had put it in her bush!

She a redhead? what with the foxy bush an all:D:D:D:D

Pottler

WileyCoyote wrote: »

She a redhead? what with the foxy bush an all:D:D:D:D

So much for resisting:D

Ihatecuddles-old

WileyCoyote wrote: »

She a redhead? what with the foxy bush an all:D:D:D:D

Blonde, she'd definitely get it as well!

kfallon

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

Blonde, she'd definitely get it as well!

MILF alert, where's the pics???

coolhull

NegativeCreep wrote: »

If you're doing your driving test and an animal runs out in front of you you're supposed to run it over. Anything else could cause a crash.

I barely missed a cat while doing my
test. Had to reverse back and drive over it properly.

dj jarvis

there was a thread on this very subject about a month ago
well it was about cats , and a poster stated that he does not swerve to avoid cats , i added i did not serve to avoid cats because it might cause a accident

you would swear we were talking about running over disabled kids the reaction it got - FFS i would hit a cat every time rather than poss cause a accident

some cat owners are truly a special bunch of fruit cake

you should not avoid animals on the road , by the letter of the law

unlucky squashed kitty indeed

Pottler

dj jarvis wrote: »

there was a thread on this very subject about a month ago
well it was about cats , and a poster stated that he does not swerve to avoid cats , i added i did not serve to avoid cats because it might cause a accident

you would swear we were talking about running over disabled kids the reaction it got - FFS i would hit a cat every time rather than poss cause a accident

some cat owners are truly a special bunch of fruit cake

you should not avoid animals on the road , by the letter of the law

unlucky squashed kitty indeed

How dare you point your Daewoo at my Pussy.

Death and Taxes

Pottler wrote: »

How dare you point your Daewoo at my Pussy.

Ya just couldn't resist anymore, huh:D

Pottler

WileyCoyote wrote: »

Ya just couldn't resist anymore, huh:D

Everyone has their limits:D

ITS_A_BADGER

Local-womanizer wrote: »

I hit a badger myself, I was going about 30mph, 2 wheels went over him, it felt like I hit a speed ramp.

Turned around to see the damage I left behind and he was nowhere to be seen!

Now I am feared that there is a badger out there looking for revenge

So it was you! :mad:

gerrowadat

dj jarvis wrote: »

there was a thread on this very subject about a month ago
well it was about cats , and a poster stated that he does not swerve to avoid cats , i added i did not serve to avoid cats because it might cause a accident

you would swear we were talking about running over disabled kids the reaction it got - FFS i would hit a cat every time rather than poss cause a accident

some cat owners are truly a special bunch of fruit cake

you should not avoid animals on the road , by the letter of the law

unlucky squashed kitty indeed

Yes, this. I own two cats and love them dearly like a crazy person should, but I would not swerve to avoid one if I was clearly going to hit it. I'd risk killing myself and everyone else in the car.

People don't seem to realise just how dangerous swerving a car going anything above walking pace is. Swering at anything above 50kph usually means either you or your car is fooooooked.

gerrowadat

NegativeCreep wrote: »

I don't know the ins and outs but I'm pretty sure the rule is you just have to keep going at the speed limit and run the thing over.

Same goes for truck license and cars, actually. If you're driving an artix or flatbed and you're going to hit the car, hit the car. You'll cause more damage by swerving.

tl;dr Cars are like badgers for trucks.

jimthemental

gerrowadat wrote: »

Same goes for truck license and cars, actually. If you're driving an artix or flatbed and you're going to hit the car, hit the car. You'll cause more damage by swerving.

tl;dr Cars are like badgers for trucks.

I'm going to take it that's a joke, and a poor one at that. Is it not better to swerve, maybe even jack knife a truck to avoid hitting some poor family in a car head on. I've driven a fairly small sized truck in Australia on crappy roads and have had to nearly sacrifice the truck on two occasions to avoid absolutely flattening cars, one of which I learned after had kids in it. Don't know how someone could be of this view.

jimthemental

jimthemental wrote: »

I'm going to take it that's a joke, and a poor one at that. Is it not better to swerve, maybe even jack knife a truck to avoid hitting some poor family in a car head on. I've driven a fairly small sized truck in Australia on crappy roads and have had to nearly sacrifice the truck on two occasions to avoid absolutely flattening cars, one of which I learned after had kids in it. Don't know how someone could be of this view.

I suppose it depends on the circumstances, swerving an artic on a quiet road is one thing, on a busy motorway is another, where avoiding one car will result in hitting about 20 others instead. Not a choice anyone would want to have to make.

gerrowadat

jimthemental wrote: »

I'm going to take it that's a joke, and a poor one at that. Is it not better to swerve, maybe even jack knife a truck to avoid hitting some poor family in a car head on. I've driven a fairly small sized truck in Australia on crappy roads and have had to nearly sacrifice the truck on two occasions to avoid absolutely flattening cars, one of which I learned after had kids in it. Don't know how someone could be of this view.

Not a joke, it's part of the training for the truck licensing here.

Clearly if you're on a country road, where you have time to react and driving into a ditch to save a car full of people is an option, sure.

But, in most situations, flipping a truck over or jacknifing a truck above a certain size in a built-up area is a very bad idea indeed. People underestimate how much force is behind a truck when it's moving, and you could be avoiding a car to flatten a dozen pedestrians, or a small cafe or house.