View Full Version : Killed my first prairie dog today
Ok, at least it was the first one I've killed with a motorcycle.
Stupid animals. If he stood still, he'd be safe. If he ran to the right he would have been fine. Left was the only way he could go that would have put him in harms way. Bad choice my furry little flea ridden friend. Bad choice.
hurley842002
05-30-2016, 18:45
Glad YOU are safe! I don't swerve for animals unless it's the safest option for the fam and I (and it rarely is).
LOL, 2 years ago I rolled over a baby prairie rat while riding a mountain bike, I heard the little bones snap. :) The only good one is a dead one.
It took some work, I had to catch him and he didn't make a sharp right like his siblings. Natural selection.
Yep. Definitely safer to smoke some poor critter that didn't look both ways before crossing the street than to make things worse trying to avoid it.
On a related note, I almost corn holed a lady in a Honda Accord one day when she slammed on her brakes to avoid hitting a tumble weed.
[facepalm]
Yep. Definitely safer to smoke some poor critter that didn't look both ways before crossing the street than to make things worse trying to avoid it.
On a related note, I almost corn holed a lady in a Honda Accord one day when she slammed on her brakes to avoid hitting a tumble weed.
[facepalm]
I hate when people do that.
I hate when people do that.
She wouldn't last a week out east of town before someone in a cattle truck killed her.
JohnTRourke
05-30-2016, 19:05
don't swerve if it's small enough to eat in one sitting.
fportmen45
05-30-2016, 19:05
Was this before or after lunch and a couple beers? [Beer]
blacklabel
05-30-2016, 19:17
Good on you for not making a bad situation worse.
Was this before or after lunch and a couple beers? [Beer]
Before my lunch and beers. Couldn't tell you if the p-dog ate or how much he had to drink.
hghclsswhitetrsh
05-30-2016, 19:32
The life of a 1%er...
The life of a 1%er...
Well, I suppose sinc I was out on my motorcycle and took a life that probably makes it OK for me to wear one of those patches now.
[Coffee]
hurley842002
05-30-2016, 19:41
Well, I suppose sinc I was out on my motorcycle and took a life that probably makes it OK for me to wear one of those patches now.
[Coffee]
LOL!
fportmen45
05-30-2016, 19:54
Before my lunch and beers. Couldn't tell you if the p-dog ate or how much he had to drink.
Just ride safe, dude.
Just ride safe, dude.
Thanks. Same to you as well.
Just for the record, I am a responsible person. I limit myself to one or two beers if I'm going to be riding or driving. And that's usually with a meal so the food soaks up some of it.
hghclsswhitetrsh
05-30-2016, 20:46
Was he armed?
What makes you think the prairie dog identifies as any specific gender bro. Chill you micro aggressions.
I was merely appropriating the gender that Ray potentially, mistaken assigned to the paradise dog in his 1%'er whale tale.
Delfuego
05-30-2016, 21:11
You have to paint a prairie dog with an X through it on you bike now.
You have to paint a prairie dog with an X through it on you bike now.
+1, except a tire tread instead of an X.
Great-Kazoo
05-30-2016, 22:51
The life of a 1%er...
As long as he doesn't attend mc swap meets, he's ok. Or was that become a Denver CO ?
You have to paint a prairie dog with an X through it on you bike now.
Decal incoming [Coffee]
StagLefty
05-31-2016, 07:44
Yep. Definitely safer to smoke some poor critter that didn't look both ways before crossing the street than to make things worse trying to avoid it.
On a related note, I almost corn holed a lady in a Honda Accord one day when she slammed on her brakes to avoid hitting a tumble weed.
[facepalm]
Tunble weeds matter-just saying [Sarcasm2]
I clobbered a speed goat this weekend with my truck. Wife and I were cruising down 285 near Fairplay and looking at something off to the right. When I looked forward, there was a goddamn antelope doe standing in the highway right in front of me.
I jammed the brakes and she dived for the ditch, but we were both too slow, I drilled her right rear quarter. Glanced in the mirror and saw her endo'ing down into the ditch.
Traffic was far too heavy to go back, or to pull over on the shoulder. Traffic on 285 is insane at times. Took a couple miles before I could turn off for a damage check. Bitch tore the plastic trim off the bottom of my bumper, and put a nice dent in the steel bumper itself. No broken lights though.
Wasn't about to call it in, I'd managed to leave home with no wallet and driver's license, and I was sweating it already. Nope, not calling the po-po for a roadkill today dear.
I learned long ago that swerving at high speeds to dodge animals can be very bad ju-ju.....
newracer
05-31-2016, 08:59
I instinctively swerved to miss a prairie dog by my house once while I was driving to shoot prairie dogs out east. [Dunno][facepalm]
Great-Kazoo
05-31-2016, 13:10
Wasn't about to call it in, I'd managed to leave home with no wallet and driver's license, and I was sweating it already. Nope, not calling the po-po for a roadkill today dear.
I learned long ago that swerving at high speeds to dodge animals can be very bad ju-ju.....
Had you called it in AND not returned to the scene. You would have been hit with (up to) 12 pts, for leaving the scene of an accident.
SideShow Bob
05-31-2016, 18:00
Can one of you graphic arts types make Ray a p-dog silhouette with tread marks going across it so he can have a new avatar ?
Can one of you graphic arts types make Ray a p-dog silhouette with tread marks going across it so he can have a new avatar ?
What? You don't like the cheetah?
Tinelement
05-31-2016, 19:00
I popped one last summer in the BGD (big gay dodge) coming out of Encampment WY. Don't know which end the front tire hit, but the shithead exploded down the dually flare. Then a 150 mile drive down the hot summer road till I got home and noticed the mess..... Dirty little rats. We should kill um all!
TheSparkens
05-31-2016, 20:01
My brother hit a armadillo and about five miles later hit the backside of a coyote we were in the dead of night when we went down to the Texas hill country. Gold Wings handle small game pretty good all of the Gold Wing guys say with big game tuck it in and watch the tupperware fly and above all try and keep the wheels on the road never swerve or lay it over.
I met a guy once in OK that hit a friggin' black COW on his Harley, standing in the damn highway at night. Fucked him up pretty bad.
I met a guy with a limp once. Turns out he was going through one of the canyons and came around a blind curve to find a herd of elk in the road.
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