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Amps 13

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Driving down the Road this morning going about 60 when I see about 25 geese just off the road eating in the grass. Just as I was about on em something scared em and they took off in my direction. I hit the brakes but just wasn’t enough time to avoid em and took out two of em. stupid bird destroyed my side mirror but luckily no damage to bumper or undercarriage.
just glad I was driving my wife’s car and not my new car. Still, it will prob set me back $400.
Goose is dead!
 

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Were you able to cook them for dinner? Glad you were not injured.
 
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'spensive duck dinner! :( Dang.

I hit a turkey vulture in VA near Tappahannock probably 10 years ago. A group was feeding on some side-of-the-road buffet & one of 'em got up close & personal with my windshield.

No damage, just a good, solid "whump!" Good armor angle on an '02 F-150; clearly designed to deflect feathered anti-truck missiles.

I went about 3-4 miles... pondering... then it occurred to me: "I have a lumber rack that extends over the cab."

I pulled over and, sure enough, dead-azz turkey vulture wedged firmly btw the cab roof and the rack. Nice and oozy, too! It was fun pulling him out of there bare-handed.

The real punchline is that I also have a form-fitting cap, and there's about 1/4" to 3/8" of space btw the cab and the shaped front edges of the cap. There is absolutely no way to get a squeegee or anything else in there that's thin enough and stiff enough to scrape buzzard gutz off'n a back winder. (Anything that wouldn't scratch the glass all to h3!!)

By the time I got to a car wash, they were good & dried in there... you can still see the outline of the dribbled carrion innards on the back glass.

Hope you get yours fixed without too much residue.
 
Try car-parts.com to try and find a mirror in the same color as your wife's vehicle from a salvage yard. Save the painting cost, etc.
 
I hit a pheasant hen on the interstate while I was doing around 80 or so.

Saw her start running across the interstate in front of me...a car to my left, no real emergency lane to my right, and a car on my bumper. Couldn't hit the brakes, all I could do was ease off the gas some.

"Don't fly...don't fly...DON'T FLY...AW SH*T, NO!"

She took off and clipped the leading edge of my hood, slid up, and exploded in a huge smear of blood that COVERED my windshield. This is when I found out my wiper fluid pump wasn't working because my wipers just made it horribly worse. I had to roll my window down and drive with my head hanging out.

Took the next exit, pulled into a gas station, and proceeded to clean my car. Found out why so much blood when I popped my hood. Both legs and part of her belly had been shaved off by the leading edge of my hood and were right under the hood when I opened it. There was a V shaped swath of blood starting at the center of my hood which widened as it approached my windshield. And the windshield was a horrible, bloody smear.
 
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