Speaking of raptors............

[Yvsa]

This redtail hawk was very lucky or a messenger of the Old Ones.

It does speak volumns about the alertness of the driver who didn't notice the hawk fly down nor the resulting whack it must have made when it broke the grill!!!!
Amazing that the poor bird is still alive and unhurt!!!!

Edit:
Forgot to add that the pic was in our own Tulsa Daily World and made by one of their photographers. His name is on the print if you can make it out. I can just read the text at the bottom of the pic.

 

[not2sharp]

Well, at least it's better than hitting an elk, or moose.

n2s

 

[Daniel Koster]

They sure have funny ways of giving birth in your neck of the woods...

 

[munk]

..my friend hit a prarrie chicken and it put a hole in his windshield.

I ran over one with a little honda hatchback at 70 mph, ran right out in front of me at the last second, (fool hen) no damage to car but ball of feathers in road and feathers everywhere.


Never hit a hawk. Probably a felony without a lawyer in the car.




munk

 

[Tohatchi NM]

Not as bad as the woman who hit a guy, got him stuck in her windshield, drove home, and left him in the garage for a few days until he died.

This could be one of those weekly world news pieces, or an urban legend, but I think I read about it in the NY Times - she was eventually convicted for homicide.

 

[Tohatchi NM]

Yup - truth is stranger (and more disturbing) than fiction:

NATIONAL DESK | March 9, 2002, Saturday
Details Disputed in Death of Man Lodged in Windshield

By JIM YARDLEY (NYT) 1095 words
Late Edition - Final, Section A, Page 11, Column 3

LEAD PARAGRAPH - Sobbing and seemingly dazed as television cameras circled around her, a young nurse's aide charged with murder in the gruesome death of a homeless man appeared in court today as her lawyer disputed some of the most graphic accusations against her.

The defendant, Chante J. Mallard, 25, has confessed that early on Oct. 26, her Chevrolet Cavalier slammed into Gregory Biggs as he walked on a Fort Worth highway. The impact impaled Mr. Biggs's head and torso through the windshield, and rather than seek help, Ms. Biggs drove home and left her car in the garage with Mr. Biggs's body still wedged in the glass.

 

[Bill Martino]

Holy Toledo!

 

[a_punker]

this probably apocraphyl story is about the US airforce, but don't take offence....

The RAF decided to test the new cockpit design for fast jets. They designed a machine to fire dead chickens at the 'windshield' part, as a tst for flying into birds at mach3.
The USAF decided this was an excelent test as they'd lost a few aircraft during training as a result from collisions with birds, so they bought some of these machines from the brits.
After a few weeks of testing the US commander of the Air training wing telephoned the British designers to inquire about a problem...every test they performed the canopy shattered and the bird embedded itself in the back of the seat.
The engineer replied "you know youre supposed to thaw the chickens first, sir...."

 

[munk]

The lady actually went into her home, made love to her boyfriend, and all the while the guy in her windsheild was still alive. He'd tried speaking to her, and on two occasions all she could tell him was she was sorry. (as relayed to me by a good friend who followed the news)


munk

 

[Spectre]

a_p,

at least some of that story is true, for certain. When I lived in AL many, many, many moons ago, a man in my church (I was a Baptist in that life) worked for Teledyne. They fired frozen chickens from a purpose-made machine to test impact resistance.

 

[Howard Wallace]

We used to have a chicken gun at one of our test facilities up here for testing aircraft parts for bird strikes. Never used frozen chickens to my knowledge.

 

[a_punker]

wow! i thought even the chicken gun thing was ficticious!!