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Biggest thing you have hit with your vehicle?
Posted by amybyrd21 • 7/15/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: hit, pig, vehicle
Ok I am bad to my vehicles. I have backed into a concrete post with my ex's truck and tore the bumper up on it. I have run over a 600 lb black pig. It was night and the wild pig was black. I went airborn and tore up the front end of my car a few months ago. It was already dead when I ran over it. I was on a black road and no lights. I was just wondering what it did to the person that hit it before me and why they didnt stop and get it? What is the worst thing you have done to a vehicle.
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I'm usually hit WITH.
Just about two weeks ago, it was with somebody's Camry.
The girl was going the wrong way down a one-way alley and pulled out right into me without even looking my direction.
Bent the axle of my car.
My back wheel had an interesting weeble-wobbly ride after that! It was like an amusement ride, but without the amuse.-
It's an awful nuisance, isn't it? And it tends to go that way... where you get in a few accidents all at one time--
I narrowly missed getting hit under similar circumstances the day before. I think folks were not paying attention because it had been the first nice summer weather.
Hopefully you weren't hurt in any of them!
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I backed into my garage door with my SUV.
In all fairness, it was dark and the garage door was 2/3 open, so when I looked in the rearview I saw street and driveway. But when I put the car in gear and moved backwards, I heard this horrendous rending of metal sound. I soon discovered that the edge of the roof of my car had collided with the steel garage door handle, putting a crease in the steel just above the rear window.
I later discovered that the garage door had done the same "partial opening" thing to my husband, but he drives a low-slung sports car and drove right under it...and neglected to tell me about the problem.
Needless to say, the garage door opener was replaced immediately, but there is still a dent in my roof. -
Earth.
Many years ago, I tried to pass someone. We were on a narrow gravel road in the mountains. The person in front wouldn't pull over, so I pulled into a meadow and started to pass them. My brain clicked and I remembered a wash-out coming up. I thought my 4x4 was powerful enough to jump the ditch, but I wasn't on the Dukes of Hazzard. Gravity took over and I rammed the earth, going from 50+ mph to zero in less than a foot. Opened a hole the size of my mouth an inch below my mouth. Before the pain started I tried to drink coffee, but it just leaked out of my lower "mouth."
Many years ago, when I was foolish. Or, more foolish than I am now. -
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My mom actually is notorious for putting the car into drive instead of reverse. She has hit the house multiple times.
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I've never hit another car, so that's good ... but, as for wildlife - I did kill a massive porcupine when living in Nova Scotia. I owned (then) a 1986 Mazda 626 (yes I'm THAT old) and it did so much damage that my whole front spoiler was torn away ... my oil pan was virtually torn off the underside of my engine and my muffler was flatten as it pass out the back end. (Careful with the jokes there!)
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I hit a squirrel once and had to pull over to cry. It was on a stretch of highway that runs through a pretty heavily wooded area. I always called it the highway of death because it was littered with roadkill in the summer. Mostly squirrels, raccoons, skunks, occasionally a wild goose but once, I saw that someone cat had been hit. Little white cat with long skinny tail. *shudders*
I stopped driving that highway after I hit the squirrel.-
I made my Mom cry one time, when I was driving the back roads near her house. We were late for (I believe) my sister's wedding rehersal and I was going 60mph on a back road ... in the rain.
A dog jumped out of a ditch ahead of us and stood in the middle of the road barking to high heaven that "This was HIS road and for me to GET THE HELL OFF OF IT!!!!!"
I quickly said, "Sorry Mom" and ran it right over. It was one of those decisions that if I'd slammed on the brakes to avoid the dog, we'd have died ourselves. It was a no-decision.
Didn't stop, either. Stupid dog. Dumb Rory for speeding in the rain.
I'm a prick.
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@Rory,
Wow. I don't think you were a prick, but you are pretty typical of how men react in that situation. You knew you were going to cause an accident if you steered away from the dog. On the other hand, I probably would have freaked out, slammed on my breaks, and ended up seriously injuring myself.
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