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Strange things you have hit

This article appeared in a local paper a couple of weeks ago, poor bastard! Emu's and roo's blend in to the road side vegetation very well.



A MOTORCYCLIST has been killed after hitting an emu in Victoria's west.

The rider came off his bike after hitting the bird at about 10.30am (AEST) today on the Casterton-Edenhope Road, near Edenhope, nearly 400km west of Melbourne.

Police are investigating the accident, Rural Ambulance Victoria spokesman John Mullen said.

The man's death takes the state's road toll to 254 for the year, eight fewer than for the same time last year.




A friend cleaned up a kangaroo last year and is still recovering. Who has other tales of woe to tell???
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other creatures are out there too

well I'm sorry to here about that.....

well you are down under and the creatures sharing the world are may a bit bigger than over here in Europe....

well this June a few month ago on a bike trip to Sweden together with my mate we came just in to the outskirts of Esbjerg/Denmark, I did nearly hit a deer in bright day light... I was riding behind a van on a busy road, suddenly this deer came out of the bushy side to cross the road but luckily rearlisied the busy traffic and paniced back in to the side.... there wasn't much room to get around if it didn't turned around... deers course lots of heavy car accidents mainly at night.

A few years before that I went to work on my bike, abut 6am, a foggy dark morning on a lonely country lane in Oxfordshire. suddenly there stand a male deer right on the middle of the lane and fros still as it came in to the beam of my headlight.... well i could just dip the bike to the right other wise I would have run straight in to that dear right up front, luckily the deed didn't turn the same way so no one got harmed, not the deer nor I.

My advise... we are not alone on this planet, and the roads are used by other creatures as well, so take care and watch out...

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This article appeared in a local paper a couple of weeks ago, poor bastard! Emu's and roo's blend in to the road side vegetation very well.



A MOTORCYCLIST has been killed after hitting an emu in Victoria's west.

The rider came off his bike after hitting the bird at about 10.30am (AEST) today on the Casterton-Edenhope Road, near Edenhope, nearly 400km west of Melbourne.

Police are investigating the accident, Rural Ambulance Victoria spokesman John Mullen said.

The man's death takes the state's road toll to 254 for the year, eight fewer than for the same time last year.



A friend cleaned up a kangaroo last year and is still recovering. Who has other tales of woe to tell???

Can't match that - the emu was hit in clear daylight conditions?
Come to think of it, you must have seen the pics that went around the internet of a horse through the windscreen of a car - probably a "photocut" fake? (But horses do get hit on the UK roads)

There is plenty of roadkill on the roads of the UK but nothing the size that you guys can find - the odd deer, very occasionally.
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roadkill

2 years ago in cambodia the deadtol

1 snake
1dog (smal one )
2 chikkens

1 year ago in thailand,cambodia but with the bicycle the dogs had there revenge, every time you pas a dog in thailand with the bicycle they go for the kill. ok its good for the condition but one of them had the chance to bite in my soft panniers and stop my bicycle . once on my feed i sceard the dog away. so if you ever wanth to ride e bicycle in thailand always have a something to hit ore trouw with you
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A friend of mine almost died after hitting a cow. He's OK now though.
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