Bird strike @ 250 KPH

[MajorPanic]

These pix were sent to me...............
I reckon it would of been bloody scarey!!!

[Gumby]

One would have to ask, what was the car doing up that high in the first place ? :D

[MajorPanic]

One would have to ask, what was the car doing up that high in the first place ? :D
Sorry Gumby!!

Didn't I say he was flying???!!!!!! :D :D :D

[Grunt]

Did the bird survive?

[bitingmidge]

Did the bird survive?

Bet he doesn't take her out again!

P :rolleyes:

[slab cutter]

wonder what was the last thing too enter the birds mind?

[LineLefty]

its bum.

[kiwigeo]

How fast was the car going? The average bird doesnt go that fast. If we say the bird was going 100 km/hr (unlikely) then the car was going at least 150 km/hr.

[Auld Bassoon]

One would have to ask, what was the car doing up that high in the first place ? :DG'day mate,

Notice the car's rego? It's German, so the Autobahn, and (in places) no limits (insert demonic grin here).

Bird's probably just flappin' from one side of the road to the other, when <splotch>http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Cheers!

[Jack E]

The clean up bill would have been a real wallet tearer. And the there's the car to clean as well

Yeah, I hear brown stains are really hard to get out of Porche upholstery :)

[Harry72]

I betcha they **** them selfs when it hit, it probarly lucky they didnt loose control of the car!

[Slavo]

Looks like the Mythbusters have been using their chicken canon again
Lucky the bird hit in the centre of the windscreen. A bit either side and it could have killed the driver or the passenger

[Rowan]

So why did the chicken cross the road.................................??????

[zenwood]

Anyone who drives that machine gets no sympathy from me.

\end{jealousy}

[AlexS]

Back in the '50s or early '60s I was a passenger in a Pioneer coach that hit a kookaburra. Kooky finished up in the aisle of the bus in a state of shock, but the windscreen was completely shattered with a hole in the middle.

Fortunately the driver managed to pull up safely, but needed a smoke or 2 to settle his nerves.

[Stylesy]

And it looks like it was a rental car (sticker on back window). Imagine limping back to the rental agency - "I did pay extra to get rid of the insurance excess, didn't I?" :o

Most people content themselves with launching rental cars off speed humps...

[LineLefty]

The mythbusters were firing chooks at hardened expensive highaltitude-proof plane windows, not a porsche windscreen............

Way cool photos though. any more?

[TassieKiwi]

Bird..."Ohh, there's a wee silver car about 2 km away. I'd better ge

[DavidG]

Reminds me of the time I was travelling (not that fast) and hit a galah. It took off the drivers side weather shield and hit the door pillar ar.se pointed in.
I copped the load in the right ear and the bird finished up on the rear seat. :mad:

[E. maculata]

A couple of years ago a young Bloke was killed by a swan during our annual bridge to bridge ski race, apparently neither would have known a thing.

Deja Vu imagine straight country road early morning 250+kph on a Suzuki 1100 head down bum up top of fourth about to shift into top (290+ top speed) and a farm goose half flys onto the road about 150 meters ahead, at 250 you cover 4.1 ks a minute or 70 metres a second, I really love sticky bridgestone bike tyres and geese that zag and don't zig. :cool:

[Cliff Rogers]

...imagine straight country road early morning 250+kph on a Suzuki 1100 head down bum up ...
Have you read this story Bruce?

If you haven't you will like it.

I've posted it here before but it's worth another trot for the bike riders....

http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/