So... I hit... what I think was a cat?

[TheOriginalJames]

Drivin home from Fisher, Indiana after setting up a couple of IP phones... I drove up State Road 37 to State Road 9, to Indiana 218, then finally onto I69 to bypass all the construction on Northbound 69...

So I finally enter Allen county, and I'm about 2 miles from my exit onto I469 and I'm driving along singing to something on the bear when suddenly I see this black... and partially orangish? looking thing dart out in front of me.

My first reaction is OH HOLY FUCKING SHIT! Then I realized it wasn't that big, next thing I know is I hear this loud *THUD*, then this shattering sound... So I put the music all the way down and looked back. Nothing to be seen... uh oh.

lol

I was doing 80 mile an hour in my work truck and it didn't even dent the bumper. I dunno what it was, but if it was a cat... then someone doesn't have a cat tonight. I feel bad, but the fucker just darted out into the middle of the lane with a giant white minivan coming right at it.

I get to the office and all I see is water dripping down (from the AC condenser)... nothin is leaking hopefully (yet)... first animal that *I* hit, the other two hit me... haha

 

[hhayes]

well that sucks...you just seem to be having a great day huh. i hate when i see dead cats or any animals in the road...and they are all over the place. next time i see a dead cat in the road i'll think of ya

 

[Legoman]

Peh, in my mind - most animals are retarded and they're asking to get killed. Squirrels are insane. For some reason, they run accross and stop in the middle of the road and wait a few seconds. The funny thing is that people manage to run them over even then. You know, animals may have instincs... but they don't have the instinct for telling that they're about to get hit by a car. I've had ducks fly right in front of my car, stop and just walk around pretending that I wasn't even there.

 

[hhayes]

that makes me think about those freakin insurance commercials lol

 

[TheOriginalJames]

Yeah I'm having a wonderfully odd day.

Woke up at 7:25... because the power went out last night from that HUGE thunderstorm that even woke me up around 3-4 am.

Got to work only to find out that I have to go downtown to program some IP phones. Well... I've never done it by myself, and there was always some weird thing that I could never figure out that I had to do.

So one call to tech support, one call to the customers computer people and 3.5 hours later, I finally have them up and running.

Great, it's 12 pm... I'm starving and I don't have time for lunch as I have to drive to Fishers, which is almost two hours away.

So I grab some combo's and a Full throttle energy and hit the highway. I get to the job about 2:15, hook up the phones and realize I need to grab my laptop to get ESI Address open so I can get the phones working.

I get one up, then I get the other one up. Finally. So now this guy needs trained on the phone since he missed our training in Ft Wayne. *sigh*

It's 3:15 now... and he just starts rambling on and on and on and on and freaking ON, and I still have to drive home.

On my way down I69, I noticed the road construction and repaving going on with the traffic backed up to hell... so I take US37 all the way up. I get passed a couple times only to catch back up to them after getting stuck behind a slow moving old couple and a truck. *sigh*

I finally zig zag through Marion and whatnot to get back onto I69... 10 miles later BAM! I hit something.

So I finally get back to town and i notice my roommate's car is over at Gregs, so I call him. Their softball game is tonight at 7:10. I get to the office and park at just after 6 pm. Exactly two hours to get home. Not wanting to drive home I chill at my parents for about 45 minutes then head over.

They play their game, and I had to substitute for right-center field for an inning. Missed a catch. Depth perception > me. Then they end up losing, which makes for their first loss of the year.

Anyway, read my other thread for the rest of the day.

 

[TheOriginalJames]

Re: RE: So... I hit... what I think was a cat?

Peh, in my mind - most animals are retarded and they're asking to get killed. Squirrels are insane. For some reason, they run accross and stop in the middle of the road and wait a few seconds. The funny thing is that people manage to run them over even then. You know, animals may have instincs... but they don't have the instinct for telling that they're about to get hit by a car. I've had ducks fly right in front of my car, stop and just walk around pretending that I wasn't even there.

Animals don't have a reason to be afraid of a vehicle... they don't learn their lesson until they get hit, then they're dead... sooo... it's a vicious cycle of undeveloped brains.

 

[Legoman]

Yes, very well put. But think about it though, it's an incoming vehicle and it is about to hit you... what do you do? I don't think it matters if you're animal or human to be able to tell what to do in that situation.

 

[TheOriginalJames]

Undeveloped brains don't have the same ability to reason or weigh the possibility.

This goes for people who weren't paying attention and got hit by a car too.

 

[Haus]

My tire was thumping.
I thought it was flat
When I looked at the tire...
I noticed your cat.
Sorry!

 

[Mrs Behavin]

I ran over my neighbors cat before

 

[99mustang232]

haha, nice kill

 

[hhayes]

Re: RE: So... I hit... what I think was a cat?

My tire was thumping.
I thought it was flat
When I looked at the tire...
I noticed your cat.
Sorry!

:lol

 

[Legoman]

I haven't run over anything yet, hooray :banana

I did come pretty close to running over a squirrel once. Damn critters.

 

[TheOriginalJames]

This is the first animal I've hit.... but I have been hit by a crow. The fugger flew into the backside of my door in my car. I had just pulled my arm inside and then I see this black thing lift off and fly across the road. BAM... then I saw him just flip and roll over on the road.

 

[UncleBacon]

I haven't ran over anything in a long time....I did get a squirell once but when I looked back the damn thing ran off

 

[Haus]

last thing i ran over was a possum. squirted blood and shit all over the side of my truck. :barf

i went right to the car wash after that.