How to catch a bird. (pics)

[surefooted]

1. Have car with massive functional hood scoop.
2. Just drive normally, bird will find you.
3. ....
4. Profit.

This is probably the freakiest thing to happen to me driving. I was driving this morning when a bird flew pretty low in front of my car. I didn't think I hit it but didn't see it on the ground behind me.

Well it turns out, my car ate the bird.

[Roadhog_]

lol

[dennisjai]

uh... is the bird dead or alive?

[dired]

fmic ftw

[JeremyAlexander]

Thats seriously depressing. I could usually care less but that thing looks so helpless...

[SebringMGB]

You know... i can find some place to pick up almost any dead, wild animal with my bare hands... But for some reason, i hate touching birds too... they gross me out. In fact, birds in general are gross. I dont know why.

Awesome that it made it all the way to your firewall, and didnt just get stuck onto the front of the intake like they usually do.


Modified by SebringMGB at 10:58 AM 6-17-2007

[punkrockdub]

PETA better step in here and ban US spec cars from having hood scoops that large.

This is an outrage. Not to mention the endagered species of birds that are being caught and chewed up by fast moving (speeding most likely!) vehicles driven by car enthusiasts.

*dialing DNR PETA & GW BUSH* right now.

PRD

[westy66]

juvenile Grey Catbird......

thats terrible, i would have felt absolutely awful

[CrayonBox]

poor bird lol

[lookinforteha4]

nice subie

[anarchyx34]

Gross..

[yem_icculus]

Ick. Did anyone see the Pigeon that got taken out in F1 qualifying? Kersplat!

[B5tevo]

Good thing you didn't have the intercooler there, that could have been messier. And let me be the first to say to the bird, "that'll buff right out"

[dub_IN]

Quote, originally posted by punkrockdub »

PETA better step in here and ban US spec cars from having hood scoops that large. This is an outrage. Not to mention the endagered species of birds that are being caught and chewed up by fast moving (speeding most likely!) vehicles driven by car enthusiasts. *dialing DNR PETA & GW BUSH* right now. PRD

i hope you aren't serious. Anyone ever see that mischief 3000 video?

[varuna]

Quote, originally posted by punkrockdub »

PETA better step in here and ban US spec cars from having hood scoops that large. This is an outrage. Not to mention the endagered species of birds that are being caught and chewed up by fast moving (speeding most likely!) vehicles driven by car enthusiasts. *dialing DNR PETA & GW BUSH* right now. PRD

Are you serious? because if so, you better make sure everyone knows to stop building houses/roads/freeways/schools/stores and anything else that humans can drive on or go into. Because every time you build a new building/road you destroy some living things habitat. So make sure PETA knows that when I build my house I'm sure a little bunny rabbit family is gonna die.

[Tom@bwalkauto]

haha, that's freaking great. Much better than the bird that got stuck in the lower bumper of my MkIV.

[SLAB]

it looks like it was right in the exhaust too....was it crispy??

[surefooted]

Quote, originally posted by SLAB »

it looks like it was right in the exhaust too....was it crispy??

I don't know. It was picked up by pliers.

[8inches_o_rubber]

Talk about flipping the bird

[TTurboNegro]

wow poor bird...was it alive

[surefooted]

Quote, originally posted by TTurboNegro »

wow poor bird...was it alive

Nope it was dead.

[Kessler]

"was it alive?"

uhh... yeah. This was it having a quick nap right before flapping off into the sunset.

[capn]

that reminds me when I was driving to duluth, our honda odessy's front antenna cliped a birds wing, lemme try and find the picture

:::rummages:::

eh well it was gnarly

[Vert2PointO]

At least you looked before it started to smell. That, and I would have loved to have seen that in the oncoming lane.

I caught one in my grille once. I won't pirate the thread (unless everyone wants to see it) but it was similarly splayed out in mid-flight form, stuck in the slats. It really is hard to tell if you hit anything - doesn't even make a sound. In fact, the one I hit was at night, and it was there until morning.

...pulling it out made me want to vomit

[Come Original]

Quote, originally posted by Kessler »

"was it alive?" uhh... yeah. This was it having a quick nap right before flapping off into the sunset.

rofl

[FBMphil]

I *was* going to shoot an email off to PETA about the dangers of Subarus of all things to their precious little wing-ed friends, just to get a reaction, but not surprisingly, you can't really contact them.

[Amdek]

omg

[mycarsux]

A buddy of mine brought his Carrera GT to my store one day. I walked out to admire the car, and there is a tuft of feathers sticking to the door, and some red sticky stuff strewn down the side of the car. Underneath the front bumpter, is another tuft of feathers stuck to the carbon fiber splitter. It looks like he ran over a bird, and it was ejected out of the front fender arch, (in pieces) and shot down the side of the car. I wish I had taken pictures.

[Gary C]

lol my old subaru ate a bird (or two) as well. Definitely wasn't that easy of a clean up though.

That said, the worst I've had by far was a '32 Deuce Coupe being driven to a show. Picture the grille - numerous polished stainless steel bars made up this one in the original Radiator surround. Each one was polished and actually ground to a slight knife edged point. Took out a poor blue jay - thing never saw it coming. It literally sliced it into a ton of pieces. THAT sucked to clean up. That was one of those... stop at a you spray it yourself place on the way and rewash the entire car, on top of that spend about 20 minutes focusing on the grille, radiator, hood sides and under carriage, etc. and then burn up a bottle of QD once at the show after applying a quick coat of S100. Yeah. that kind of..really. really. sucked.

[Ghost85]

My dad has hit anumber of birds while driving his 5 car ramp-truck, ranging from the usual pigeon to a seagull!

Yea and what is it with birds trying to get eaten by Subarus! I bought mine a few weeks ago and it seems like every bird wants to die by my hands!

[Come Original]

someone post a pic of the bird that went through the porsche boxter and exploded on the seat

[SargeinAZ]

Quote, originally posted by Kessler »

"was it alive?" uhh... yeah. This was it having a quick nap right before flapping off into the sunset.

[TMH]

poor lil' guy

[Jetty!]

"Back off my grill motherf***ers!"

[2MuchRightFt]

still waiting for someone to photoshop an "OWNED" caption on one of those pictures.