How sad. It's indeed strange that the duck didn't react normal... I once hit a pigeon with my right car mirror... she went head firt right against the mirror... then fell to the ground, then took of again to the side. Never really killed an anymal with my car that I know of.
It is quite shocking when it happens, isn't it? I've seen a bird come towards a window in a building and crashing against it. We all assumed it was dead, but within 5 minutes it stood up, gave a little shake, then flew off again.
How awful, but there was nothing you could do. Just a fluke. When I live in PA I would see dead animals by the side of the road all the time. Very sad. I once ran over a racoon, not pleasant. The scariest are deers. I can't tell you the number of times I had a close call with a deer.
And of course, I've seen a gazillion happy ducks since then. Yes, the deer in PA are quite brazen and plentiful. I've seen too many bodies on the side of the PA turnpike and Interstate 80.
some people are such idiots. and you know the moron was thinking, "MY dog would never jump out of the back of MY truck." Too bad the guy himself didn't jump out and you hit him instead of the dog...would have been a great addition to the Darwin awards.
This sort of thing happens a lot if you live in the country...ennazuJune 16 2005, 09:32:39 UTC
Once I driving on a quiet, unlighted country highway near my house in Ottawa. I noticed a mother raccoon in time, but her babies almost too late. As it turns out, I hadn't run over any of the babies but I didn't know that until I came home by the same road a few hours later and boy was I upset until then. Once a rabbit practically jumped under my mom's wheels when we were driving. Even though there was nothing she could do about it, she was really upset. Another time I saw a duck in the highway that had been hit and wasn't quite finished dying. It broke my heart. I knew the animal was beyond help but that I couldn't leave it there to suffer either. I felt the only thing I could do was the run over it nice and square to kill it quickly, but I didn't know if I could do it. I turned around... I think once I got there, though, it was dead.
Re: This sort of thing happens a lot if you live in the country...barkingcatJune 18 2005, 10:10:55 UTC
Oh, it is so scarey when it happens and you just can't do anything about it. You're right, I've seen in the countryside in PA hundreds of times. When I was about 5 years old, our family was riding to my Aunts house on a dirt road and there was a raccoon right in the middle of the road foaming at the mouth. My father said it looked like it was rapid, so he ran it over with the car. Not an experience I'm ever likely to forget...
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I once hit a pigeon with my right car mirror... she went head firt right against the mirror... then fell to the ground, then took of again to the side. Never really killed an anymal with my car that I know of.
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When I live in PA I would see dead animals by the side of the road all the time. Very sad. I once ran over a racoon, not pleasant. The scariest are deers. I can't tell you the number of times I had a close call with a deer.
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Once a rabbit practically jumped under my mom's wheels when we were driving. Even though there was nothing she could do about it, she was really upset.
Another time I saw a duck in the highway that had been hit and wasn't quite finished dying. It broke my heart. I knew the animal was beyond help but that I couldn't leave it there to suffer either. I felt the only thing I could do was the run over it nice and square to kill it quickly, but I didn't know if I could do it. I turned around... I think once I got there, though, it was dead.
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who knows if it was rabid or not...
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