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Well, this was in my car a long time ago, and a giant hard dragonfly flew in the wind wing (any of you remember what that was?) and hit me smack in the chest. It really startled me. It hurt too.
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a bottle, thrown at me by a group of youths. it hit my helmet, bounced off, and smashed in the road.

when i was younger and living in the middle of nowhere, sometimes in the spring we used to have what we called 'worm nights' .... when it rained all of the earthworms would surface and crawl into the road. i mean thousands and thousands of them. a mate who rode a bike told me that on worm nights he'd have to hose worm pulp off himself and his bike after a ride Bleh emoticon
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I had a stupid Myna bird clock me in the head at about 50 mph. I think i stunned him. A whole handful of Dove shit on my thigh while sitting under a tree in traffic Bleh emoticon I was on my way the grocery store and when i got there all i could think of was getting my hands on a whole bunch of those cart sanitizer wipes and some dude wants to talk about my scooter
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Reason not to wear an open face helmet

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An A4 piece of paper advertising a carnival. Nearly covered my whole visor . I was behind one of those carny ride trucks, but it must of come off another truck or something as there were a few of those flyers flying around the A12.
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Does my wife rear-ending me back in January count????
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The idea that I may sell my scoot and buy a used car with the money. Still thinking about this one, actually...
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Does my wife rear-ending me back in January count????
Yes if she's strange
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I have had a bottle thrown at me from an on coming car. sailed passed my head in slow motion, hit my shoulder, and shattered onto the car beside me.

close call - was a huge block of wood flicked up by a van tire. it hit the spot i was in 5 seconds before. I am sure it would have taken my head clean off
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175mws wrote:
JimmyTwoNutz wrote:
Does my wife rear-ending me back in January count????
Yes if she's strange
Well.... She did marry me....lol
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In a car: Racing home after a long business trip at about 1AM...in the Santa Cruz mountains...I come around a corner and a HERD of raccoons crosses the road! No time to do anything...I just heard them him the truck...Boom, boom, boom, boom...I really don't know how many. As I look in my rearview mirror, there is just enough light to see little bodies rolling across the road. I truly felt terrible about this but kept it to myself. The next morning, my wife had to drive my son to a soccer game. She comes home and says she just saw the most terrible site on the road... (BTW...I hit 7 raccoons)

On my scoot: a broomstick laying across the road, in a turn, at a really unfortunate angle to the direction of travel. It appeared to be literally designed to roll under me the moment I ride over it. I managed to straighten out for the split second I went over it. Whew.
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JimmyTwoNutz wrote:
Does my wife rear-ending me back in January count????
How about on the scooter? Clown emoticon
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Just remembered I was also hit by a pedestrian once. The strange thing was that he was looking straight at me from the pavement when he suddenly started running and hit me full on. I don't know who looked more surprised. He was a big bloke and I was doing about 30mph. He came straight over the handle bars and took me straight off the back of the scoot. I was in Brixton at the time and I thought it was just a really masochistic way of stealing a scooter.

I'm not sure what he was built from but I was completely winded, my scoot had bent forks, a broken front panel and a bent front disk while he just stood up and came over to pick me and my scooter off the ground while appologising for not having seen me. I think if he had asked for the keys I'd of just handed them to him
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^^^^^^^ wow; a running body-block on a 325+ pound bike Wha? emoticon
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In one week in my big red Jeep Cherokee, a queen sized mattress, a wicker rocker, two gravels that dinged the windshield, and something else big - I thought I would never forget, but life keeps going. My kids were in elementary school then and christened the Jeep our big red target. My husband still insists that the Romulans develop their cloaking device from coming down and stealing our Jeep. It is utterly invisible to everyone but police officers . . .
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funny
This stuff as stupid as it seems dose happen, I was riding to the River Run in NV on the I40 and the locus were the size of birds. I love my fullface helmet.
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I hit a flying squirrel...Just kidding couldn't resist.
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redhandmoto wrote:
^^^^^^^ wow; a running body-block on a 325+ pound bike Wha? emoticon
I was riding a Gilera Runner 180 SP at the time so the weight was probably only 2/3 of that but I'm a fairly well built 200lbs and I still shot off the back. I was amazed he was completely unhurt (unlike my scoot). I think he must of seen the bus behind me and was just focusing on that without seeing me at all.
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Well I've been stung by a bee going down my top (ouch) but by far, my worst experience was when I was happily riding up a local main road, heading off for an evening out with my mates, when OMG a huntsman spider walked across the visor of my helmet.

For those of you who don't know what a huntsman is, it's a large furry dark brown spider - not lethal but supposedly painful if it bites you.

I used to park my scoot under a pergola that had a passionfruit vine all over it - the vine was loaded with the big buggers! I imagine (oh the horror) it was on my bike then crawled over me (shudder) then over my visor!

I immediatly pulled over and happened to stop outside a large building that had enormous palm trees out the front. I grabbed a palm tree frond and beat myself over the head with it, whilst dancing and screaming - all on the side of a very busy road on a Friday night. I daresay it looked amusing from the side fo the road, however I still feel a little bit sick thinking about it!

Cheers,
Mim

PS I just remembered, riding on Station Street in Aspendale and a group of bogans showered me with long-necks - half full! That was a bit scary too - but not as bad as the spider.

PPS and heaps of lit ciggies too.. AGRR
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A skanky jaywalking pedestrian. Biatch! I honked before she stepped off the curb. I braked and took evasive actions after she stepped off the curb. She just kept coming! At least I put her in hospital for a couple of weeks (the Vespa took a lot longer to fix tho...).

Just today I had a muffler fall off a car in front of me. Managed to avoid that one.
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Strangest thing I had was getting hit by a fish. And a big fish it was.

An eagle was coming up from Lake Sammamish between trees and low over the road, on a collision course with me. It was bombs away and get the hell out of Dodge for the eagle, but my windscreen got slapped by a fish tail (that's tail not a tale).
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Mimsta wrote:
PS I just remembered, riding on Station Street in Aspendale and a group of bogans showered me with long-necks - half full! That was a bit scary too - but not as bad as the spider.
i'm going to need that translated. it sounds like something out of ghostbusters.
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Mimsta wrote:
PS I just remembered, riding on Station Street in Aspendale and a group of bogans showered me with long-necks - half full! That was a bit scary too - but not as bad as the spider.
i'm going to need that translated. it sounds like something out of ghostbusters.
LOL - Bogans are kind of like white trash? Hard to explain that bit, but long necks are bottles of beer sold in 750ml brown glass bottles - ala Victoria Bitter etal I forgot you guys probably don't speak Aussie!
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Strangest thing I had was getting hit by a fish. And a big fish it was.

An eagle was coming up from Lake Sammamish between trees and low over the road, on a collision course with me. It was bombs away and get the hell out of Dodge for the eagle, but my windscreen got slapped by a fish tail (that's tail not a tale).
Wow! I had a huge bird of prey swoop across my car windshield missing it by mere inches when driving through the Northern CA. It was Scary but impressive.
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Ran into a cloud of perfume this morning....lady in the car infront of me was attacking her car seats with some sort of nasty cheap hooker smelling spray and when they light chnged I drove through a cloud of the foul flower smelling stuff. I can still smell it on me. Nasty.
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The weirdest thing I've hit on the road with my scoot..... A chicken egg. I guess the locals thought it would be funny. SPLAT right on my wind shield.

cigarette butts...

A wasp down the front of my tank top, I had my jacket unzipped. OUCH!

An ear of corn falling off of an Amish buggy- hit me in the left elbow. That one hurt.
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A cicada square in the face at 35 MPH on my first ride (open face helmet). Ouch. Bought a full face helmet the next day

Egg sized rock off the back of a landscaping truck that just hit a pot hole.

A bird in the side of the helmet -- that was a shock, don't know what happened to him -- I was fine.
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what the heck is a
cicada I just googled it that thing is sick.
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A tire weight from a car to help keep alignment. All I can say is I found yet another reason I love having a tall wind screen.
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Haven't hit more than bugs with my scooter, but I used to get hit by bats all the time, at night while driving a patrol boat. I had one hit me in the neck and go right down my shirt.

I often thought that bats were attracted to my boat because of the radio signals, although that may not be a fact.

The absolute most horrible things I ever hit with the boat were swarms of mayflies...thousands of them. It was always a ritual, usually in mid to late August, during breeding time. Sometimes the water would be totally white with mayflies, doing their thing. They would swarm at the slightest disturbance and head right for my nav lights. I remember having to use a small shovel to clean the boat out the next day, and boy, did they stink!
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genie, some examples
breakfast of champoins
breakfast of champoins
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A cadillac was the most memorable Razz emoticon
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It's been a bad summer for me...

1) Clear plastic tarp off a landscaping truck. It wrapped across the windscreen and around both mirrors.

2) Turkey (!) Riding through Mark Twain National Forest, descending a hill on a long sweeping corner. Sign indicates a 25mph right hand corner ahead. No problem, I'd been taking those at a decent speed all day. Then, standing in the middle of the oncoming lane, I see it. It stares at me as I approach. I begin to slow down for the curve. Then it begins to move staying in it's lane, heading generally towards the shoulder . I think, "good, it's getting off the road". Then it explodes off the ground and is suddenly heading directly for my head. I break hard. I see nothing but the big bird. My head jerks left. Then it was gone, and i hear on my right side a faint "tic" against my helmet. It had hit me, with the tip of it's wing. My buddy who was riding with me was amazed that I didn't end up on the pavement. He was already mentally preparing himself to call my wife and trying to explain what happened.

3) Later that same day a turtle jumped under my tire. I don't think it was a successful suicide attempt, but my friend (still riding behind me) saw it go shooting out from under the edge of my tire and go flying across the street.
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3) Later that same day a turtle jumped under my tire. I don't think it was a successful suicide attempt, but my friend (still riding behind me) saw it go shooting out from under the edge of my tire and go flying across the street.
How fast are the turtles in Chicago?
This didn't happen to me but to the husband of a friend of mine. He was on his motorcycle overtaking in the outside lane of the motorway. He was about to pass a transporter lorry when suddenly a large block of yellow metal started tumbling towards him across the concrete. Luckily enough it missed him and he watched it in the rear view mirror while trying to work out what on earth it was. He certainly wasn't expecting a small hatchback car to fall out the sky and knock him off his bike!

The yellow block was apparently all that was holding the hatchback to the top level of the car transporter and I assume it must of been very badly attached. Amazingly he wasn't seriously hurt and came away with a written off VFR and a good story.
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I was riding through the hills around here at about 60 mph when a walnut fell off a tree hanging across the road, bounced once and hit me right in the chest.

If you don't know much about walnuts it was still in the big green husk and larger than a golf ball.

I thought I'd been shot ! Had a perfect round bruise on my chest for days.
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mike_bike_kite wrote:
Mythdraug wrote:
3) Later that same day a turtle jumped under my tire. I don't think it was a successful suicide attempt, but my friend (still riding behind me) saw it go shooting out from under the edge of my tire and go flying across the street.
How fast are the turtles in Chicago?
Well, it wasn't in Chicago. It was about 360 miles SW. Much closer to StLouis or Memphis than Chicago.

But regardless, I could have sworn I was going to pass a foot or more away from the turtle. But then there was a small bump and the turtle went flying. So I can only assume that the turtle jumped.
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On my Honda dirt bike as a kid riding on a dirt road I saw what I thought was a groundhog on his haunches. It turned out to be a huge owl. He took flight right as I was passing. I ducked, and he plucked my baseball cap right off of my head and dropped it out in the middle of a field. The guy behind me saw it all happen and thought surely I was going to wreck because the wingspan of the bird looked huge and I looked tiny.

But I didn't get hurt at all. Just startled. The most painful thing was a bumblebee that flew into my shorts between my leg and the gas tank of my motorcycle. I didn't see it happen and all of a sudden felt a massive burning sensation. I pulled over to see the bee flop out of my shorts and had a golfball sized welt on my leg. I must be allergic. That was 1998 and happens to be the last time I ever rode a motorcycle with shorts on. Never again.

Otherwise, the typical grasshopper to the forehead, hail storm, cigarette butts from cars in front of me. Nothing deadly yet
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Weirdest thing and most annoying thing I was ever hit by on a Scooter was a fox!

It was very early in the morning in the UK, it ran out in front of me, I hit it head on, bike slid under me, I was skidding down the road on my front. Bike wrecked, me wrecked, fox got up and ran off!!

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