I hit an EMU that was after me while I was building a fence across the
head solid with a pair of large bolt cutters as hard as I could swing.
Took me about 5 minutes to come to, but after that he was fine. Those
are some tough birds. Mean too!
Chad
"Bridges, Bruce" wrote:
>
> Jack, I think the R/T attracts birds... My bird story is kinda strange...
> Driving @ 70mph up the 99 (rural highway in CA) saw the car 2 cars in front
> of us slam on the brakes and dive to the left. a large grey brown object
> goes flying over that car and the car in front of us... We swerve radically
> to the right (car in front of us goes to the left) out of the rear view
> mirror I see the object that the car hit (looked like a large bag of dirty
> rags) get up and run away!! It stood about 4 feet tall. either it was an
> emu or an ostrich! No farms in the vicinity. down side, even though we
> didnt hit the bird, the radical swerve caused my front end popping to turn
> into front end cracking noises! Thanks to the EMU I found that the front
> lower a-arm bolts were loose! (i think Alan S mentioned this as well)..
> Now No cracking noises and Im looking out for large birds running in the
> middle of the road! (the car that hit the emu looked real bad (ford), but
> the emu ran off...)
> Bruce "almost bird killer" Bridges
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HEMI@charter.net [mailto:HEMI@charter.net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 1999 11:26 AM
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net; dakotart@egroups.com
> Subject: DML: Dakota R/T : 2 Birds : 0
>
> Yes , for the second time , I have hit a bird in my truck .
> Luckily , no damage to the truck again .
>
> Funny , this one did the same exact thing : Flying in front of me from the
> left , while I am at about 50MPH , and he hit the grille , in the upper
> Pass. side section of the grille .
>
> Just call me Bird Killa......!
>
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>
> Jack Hilton III
>
> Black 1998 Dodge Dakota R/T Club Cab
>
> Charter Pipeline......the Next Wave.....
>
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>
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>
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