Racoons.....
...natures little speed bumps...

 

It never did get cleaned up off the road, so a week later, it's pretty much a stain on the road.

 

I hit a mouse and this was the result.











JK

 

I'l come too. I think I saw a skunk and a squirrel on the side of the road. I'll pick them up on the way.

 

Alright, my house 11am. I'll get the grill ready

 

I'll bring the cow i'll find on the side of the road (Top Gear in America)

 

I'm in NY and your in CA. I think I'll leave my house with an empty 18 wheeler and pick up every thing on the road that has 4 feet and without a pulse. By the time I get to you we'll be able to feed everyone in your zipcode.

So 11AM on October 8. Deal?

 

Hey "maxboost925" and "the law". Your sig pics are exactly a like. It's like you just changed position between the 2 pictures....

 

Look at Tha Law's pic again... what does it say?

 

about 6 years ago i was flying down a rural road in northern CT - in a volvo 740, stoned off my ***, 3 AM - and a giant buck came flying outta some bushes about 10 feet in front of me. i slammed the breaks and cut the wheel but there was nothing that could be done. he almost made it by the front of my car, but i caught him exactly halfway on his body. the force was such that it whipped his head around onto the hood and his rack peirced not only the hood but also pierced the top of the battery casing. take a deer and draw a line down the middle and the rear half is what was demolished. his front end, head, antlers, and two front legs were perfectly fine. he managed to dislodge his head and drag his flattened and broken half into the trees. im guessing he was dead in 10 minutes. the noise was loud enough to wake up the residents of pretty much the only house on the road. i saw their light go on. this was pre- cell phones for me, so i walked up to their door to ask to use the phone. the btch refused to let me in.......KNOWING WHAT HAD JUST HAPPENED. not like im some guy who just shows up in the middle of the night. she heard the accident, and saw my wrecked car....but still.....and i thought hillbillies were supposed to be nice. ****

 

I had a bird fly into my B-pillar with my window down. Pieces of bird and feather splattered all over me and the back seat. I thought I was shot. I also had one hit at the top header of the windshield. It had bounced off the car in front of me on the highway and I think it hit the car in back of me too. It was like a ball bouncing off of each car.

 

Thats what happens when you smoke pot, no one likes you.

 

werd. ahahhahaa.

 

Hahaha this thread is great. The only battle with animals I've had so far in my max was when I was about to merge onto the Turnpike and a possum decided to do a lil dance UNDER my car. Not only my car but a truck and a van that were in front of me lol. Amazingly it avoided my wheels and everything else under there and safely made it into a bush on the side of the road.

The only time I ever got scared was when I was up in the north boonies of NJ visiting a friend up in some wooded area which looked like it came straight out of a scary movie and one of these crossed the road...

 

at least you dont have a raccoon walk on top of your car while your changing the rotors. that was a freaky site and experience

 

ahahahah yea especially in brooklyn. they got racoons in bk??

 

i hit a freaking rabbit last night comming home...

 

Back in the day I hit a cat in my 82 mustang, car had no carpet and the cat hit right under my feet, cracked the floor panel.

EDIT: By the way "Back in the day" that was a wednesday.

 

I usually have birds that don't like to move out of the road so I drive over them then there no longer there. I check unerneath my car and the bird is flapping stuck to my exhaust.

 

I doubt that

 

oh noes look what've started now..this one time at band camp....

any pics of the damage?

i have parts if you want.

 

f raccoons

 

better then hitting a Moose

 

ZERO damage (if you can believe it).

 

Oh boy! Can anyone play here?

I was in my 96 Contour (the real ugly one) doing about 75 down
the expressway, and a robin flies up from the side of the road. I
hit it, saw feathers, but I didn't see it in any of my mirrors behind me.

I figure I've got a dead bird on the front of my car. I was going to
get off at the next exit and look, when the damn thing comes up
off the grill and GETS WEDGED UNDER MY WINDSHIELD WIPER.

I've now got this dead robin between my wiper and my windshield,
and it's STARING at me. Like its accusing me of killing it.

So I did what any freaked out person who suddenly has a bird
stuck to his windshield. I turned on the wipers, and finally got
rid of it.

Later, I was checking my air filter, and found a crapload of
feathers in my airbox. Even after two filters and a couple
of years, a feather stuck in the intake would show up on the
filter. I'll bet whoever owns the car is *still* finding feathers...

And just how many of you have a bear bite in your bumper?
I do...

 

maxima's are not available on the Japanese market y0

 

Nice...got lucky.

 

wait a second...wait a second.. wait a second.. hold the phone dude...something doesnt sound right here.

Do you honestly expect us to believe...............................


















....that you drove a contour???







lol... i'm just messin with you man..

 

SES light?

 

Evap canister.

New fuel filler neck in my garage awaiting to be installed.

 

Glad it was only a racoon or else your ride could have really been damaged

 

lol, lay off man!!! not everyone starts off with or have always owned a perfectly reliable car! Just becuase he drove a Ford, doesn't make him an idiot!!!

 

dude...i know man..i was just messin around..lol i've been there myself. i used to own a 94 lincoln town car that partially caught fire because of a faulty cruise control device thingy..not too mention it had transmission problems and such. ..i'm sure my towncar was worse than any contour.. never again FORD!! you heare me??!!! NEVER AGAIN!! .. lol

 

Since we are relaying hit critter stories, I got a couple for ya.

First I was heading down an older road comming back from paying off a 300 dollar registration ticket (Don't get tickets in Pomona, CA). So there I was following a pickup truck in my Brother's 95 Contour (POC) when i see him suddenly swerve and hit a Skunk, and a big one at that. I tried to swerve but ended up hitting it in the head. Even though I hit it in the head, somehow his stink glands squirted the car as I passed over him. That car reeked for a full week after that, and my brother never let me borrow that car again.


Second story is about 3 stupid little birds and one big bird. I was driving down Beach Blvd. one day in my old 63 T-Bird when i saw three little birds fly out of the bushes and basically dive in front of my car. Only one of them made it. The other two got pulled underneith and sucked up in the engine fan. I heard a squack, a thump and then no more. The next day I noticed a funk comming from my engine compartment, popped the hood and there was two little blended birdies all over my engine. Luckilly my auto shop class had a steam cleaner that made short work of the BBQed birdies.

 

Sheesh. Gone for a couple of days, and you're being abused on the org.

I didn't want a full size car, and in 1996, it was the best available. (Did
I mention the zero percent financing?) It had that nice little 2.5l V6.
If they had imported the Mondeo intact, it would have been a great
little car.

But they dumbed down the brakes and the suspension, make the thing
so ugly only a mother could love it (in the dark), and the one I had was
made in Mexico (quality is job none) and orphaned the car in five years.

So in 2001 I was in a Nissan dealership, even though I knew Ghosen was
about the gut the company. (2001 was still too early for the Killer to have
any influence...)

So the question I still have is what to get next. 6th gen Max is too fugly,
and Nissans service is turning to crap anyway. (I had an alternator fail
on the road, while the car was still under extended warranty, and Nissan
wouldn't even acknowledge the letters I sent.)

But it was the first Ford I owned (and probably the last) and it was a lesson
well learned. The Contour SE was still a fun car to drive...So there.

 

I hit a squirrel about 2 months ago. I was doing about 50 when I saw the little f*cker run out in front of me. Then, the squirrel continued running across the street so I didn't bother slowing down until it decided to turn around and come back. The little sh*t runs right in front of my driver's front tire and I hit it with both the driver side front and rear tires. It didn't do any damage, but I did enjoy cleaning his guts out of my wheel well. I will say though, I felt so bad because the sound of it crunching under the car made my teeth chatter.