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robomama
26-06-2002, 19:48
as i was reading the moose sign thread, i was wondering what the weirdest critter you've ever had run across the road in front of you.

i've had tons of critters make the dash. we live in the country so it's pretty common.

i'll start with some of the more common ones i've had.

rabbit
rat
possum
skunk
big black snake

ok now i'll get a little weirder
wild turkey...real scary
deer
quail and babies...very cute
fox

now i'm gonna save the best for last, but i wanna see if anyone has anything REALLY WEIRD.

so i'll post later with the last few.
Ricky Q.
26-06-2002, 20:20
Here its deer everywhere!! Sometimes you'll get the squirrel or racoon, but mostly deer, because we have too many of them here

See this:Deer Problems (http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/jun02/54042.asp)
Ashley Weed
26-06-2002, 21:38
Umm.. of the top of my head, I have seen thousands of deer, many of them hanging from a tree in my backyard:) Tons of rabbits, squirells, chipmunks, raccoons, opposums, etc. A few bears and bobcats and coyotes. Flocks upon flocks of wild turkey. Weirdest thing though wa the turkey in Boston!:confused:
MissInformation
26-06-2002, 22:52
A lion. In Baltimore City, no less. It was someone's pet and one day it got away from them and ran right in front of our car. Luckily we didn't hit it and in return, it didn't eat us (actually, it was about as tame as a lion could be, I think it was used in television and such).

Chickens, but only odd because a chicken transport truck had overturned so there were hundreds of them.

And a cow. Well, it didn't actually run out in front of me, it was just sort of standing there in the middle of the road and only ambled off after I had honked my horn at it for 15 minutes. And they say donkeys are stubborn

MissInformation

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Lions and chickens and cows, oh my!
Melissa Nute
27-06-2002, 06:14
It's not a critter but once I was driving downstate on I-95 when a construction worker jumped in front of me from the side of the road...I didn't hit him luckily but I was so close to...

I get the occasional racoon...
dlavery
27-06-2002, 10:38
A wallaby, while driving through West Virginia (for those that don't know, a wallaby is like a short kangaroo, about two feet tall).

it's a long story...


-dave
Katie Reynolds
27-06-2002, 10:53
squirrels, rabbits, shrews (kinda like mice, but with no tails and really ugly) and the occasional moruning dove ... no deer or anything interesting around here!

- Katie
robomama
27-06-2002, 18:55
thats cool... a lion...a coyote...bears...and bobcats..a WALLABY!!

i knew this was gonna get werid
hehe

ok here's a one more
a pheasant....they are really long when they fly!

ok and i'm waiting to see who's had elephant!!!
Ian W.
27-06-2002, 20:20
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54630-2002Jun27.html

that sounds like it hurts...
Matt Leese
27-06-2002, 21:31
Well, it didn't run across the street but I was driving home from church one day and there was an emu on the side of the road. It through me for a loop until I realized that it had probably escaped from a farm.

Matt
Scorpion515
27-06-2002, 23:31
My weirdest, a giant wild turkey! lol, it was really weird.:D
robomama
28-06-2002, 09:21
ian...wow that's too funny.

a cow dropping from the sky. i'm surprised the lady didn' have a heart attack! i mean i've heard of cow tipping...hehe..but this is too much

and yearbook...the guy jumping out in from of you should be EXTREMELY grateful that you are such a good driver!! lucky guy.
robomama
14-07-2002, 01:13
well i just remembered that i didn't tell ya'll the weirdest one for me.

one morning on the way to work...before i'd had enough coffee...i saw this thing going across the road pretty far away. it was like flowing and don't ask me why, but the first thing that popped into my head was the loch ness monster!! weird brain fart i guess....anyhow when i got down to it i couldn't believe it. it was a peacock with its tail down(that's what was flowing) well i thought i was losing it. but it was really there!

so any more weird animals in the line of fire??
E. The Kidd
15-07-2002, 14:11
Do drunken met fans count? cause a few of them ran in front of our school bus.....and yes we were away from Shea stadium
mtaman02
15-07-2002, 16:56
Druken METS fans. wow thats a cool untamed animal.

Racoons run along and in back of my block like its a free way. Posseums Rats, Dogs Cats also join the animal marathon in Staten Island
team222badbrad
15-07-2002, 18:38
Those stupid little birds that stand right in the middle of the road!!!! Or the ones that fly into your windshield!
GotGuts610
15-07-2002, 21:54
Hmm, i'm not sure if this counts, but just this weekend my family found an injured pigeon that couldn't fly stuck in our garage. After we got it out, it spent the rest of the day sitting on the steps in front of my house. Yet, by the next morning it disappeared as mysteriously as it came...
Dan 550
16-07-2002, 01:24
A white owl. Driving on Rt. 31 in Jersey in winter outside Washington (no guys, not the Washington by you, the one by me...), in my mom's LeBaron, the thing flew into the side of the roof bonnet and shettered the thing as it exploded into a cloud of feathers. Guy behind me told me about it after I pulled over. Crazy.
DanLevin247
16-07-2002, 13:11
several squirrels, a few cats, a dog or two, the occasional homeless person ( those crazzzzy hobos ) raccons, oppossums, my sister, lots of stuff.
Trashed20
16-07-2002, 14:45
um, turtles, geese, ducks, possums, racoons, rats, people, trash, prolly some other stuff too
oreocookeee
18-07-2002, 00:58
if you are very quiet, you can usually watch humans in their natural habitat.
evulish
18-07-2002, 01:13
Do...uhh...drunk naked people count as weird?

Include everything that weedie said, too :)
Rich Wong
18-07-2002, 12:52
Lots of stupid pigeons.
Really stupid, garbage picking
New York City Pigeons.


:D
robomama
18-07-2002, 17:42
drunk naked people count as weird?

well...idk

maybe that should be counted as something else...like..ummm

hilarious.....drunk naked people!!!

what a hoot. did you know them??
evulish
19-07-2002, 01:33
No. I didn't know them :P I was in a nearby town. When entering the town, there's a sign that says 'high DUI crash area.' :D
Ashley Weed
21-07-2002, 00:22
hehehe, :) where was this?
asher
23-07-2002, 23:44
I think ill win this one....

A CAMEL

Yes, kids, a camel, you know, the ones with humps.
I was driving to the lake house and it had escaped from the wild animal sanctuary that is on the way, and a zebra was standing just off the road. Yeah, freaking weird, still makes me laugh though, no one would believe me till I drove them by where the animal park is.

asher