A random incident occured a couple days ago. My g/f and I were driving along a hwy in houston with the windows down about 60 mph and a dragonfly the size of a small bird collided with my forehead. It wasnt much of pain, but it scared the crap out of me. I didnt even see it coming. We both laughed so hard that it made it difficult to pullover. When we did, I noticed that the insect was split in half, the head and thorax was on my side while the abdomen and tail was on her side. Another side note was the next day I noticed that its body fluid made it to the back seat.

Does anyone have any stories like this of maybe even a bird doing this or a crazed animal? LOL Maybe you even got a free "on the go" lunch/dinner out of it?

 

Glad I read this AFTER lunch!

 

Thats a good one! I was riding ATV's one day and had a wasp hit me in the neck at about 50 mph and was stuck there stinging the heck out of me...not as good as your dragonfly story though.

 

Anyone who ever rode a motorcycle without a faceshield has the odd bug in the face story, I opened my mouth once to talk to a fellow rider and swallowed a large June bug! Yuck!

 

Oh yeah there are a lot of motorcycle bug stories, I have plenty, but im talking about car/bug/bird/whatelse stories. And love the free lunch moment. lol

 

One day I was out and about on a backroad driving about 70-ish MPH. No other car for miles. Nice day, clear skies and could see for miles.

I am just tooling along and see this spot in the sky. Quite high up, but appeared to be dropping slowly.

I keep watching and after about 15 seconds, I realize it is a bird and it is diving. Another few seconds and I say, "hummm,..if that bird maintains it current trajectory [SPLAT!!!!]...it will hit my windshield." And it was gone,...I look up in hte rare view mirror in time to see it make its last dive into the pavement.

Listen up birds. A head on collision with a 1969 Ford LTD, traveling at 70ish MPH, will yeild only one result. You b dead.

The only instance in my life where I have witnessed a bird commit suicide.

 

^^ WOW. That must have been a crazy thing to witness. Did it crack your windshield at all?

 

Haven't had any mishaps in the Mini with wildlife as of yet.

I have taken out a dragonfly, butterfly, and several bees while jet skiing. Getting wacked in the face at high speeds is very painful. On the water, so you don't have to worry to much about the clean up.

 

I've been hit in the side of the head and neck by numerous bugs over the last few years, since I've had the MINI (didn't happen with my Civic - must be something with the aerodynamics). Mostly bees and yellowjackets. A couple months ago, I was on a club run, and we were going down a stretch of highway at about 60mph and a bug hit the side of my neck and stung more than usual. I brushed off my neck, and whatever hit me - or part of it - was still there, and then STUNG me. THAT was fun. Going down the road, getting ready to make a turn, frantically trying to brush all of the bug parts off my neck, and my neck stinging like crazy. I never did see what it was. I looked for "parts" on the floor of my car when we stopped, but didn't find anything, or at least anything big enough to identify. It left a big bump on my neck for a few days though.

 

The round mirrors can reflect buggs right at you ,We had a wasp do this on a twisty road .

 

I've had a big bug of some sort hit the B pillar on the Mini and splatter on the side of my face a little, it was pretty gross, couldn't tell what the bug was beforehand.

 

I've also hit two birds with the MINI. One was a crow on the freeway who didn't leap out of my path quickly enough like his buddies did, and the other one dove under my windshield wiper.

 

I really expected it to come through the windsheild, but there was not a mark on the windsheild. Really an amazing thing to witness.

 

I've gotten bug splatter off the driver's side mirror a couple time, too. Kind of an "Ew, gross!!" moment.

 

I got hit in the face by a stone on my last track day... I was coming around a corner, gaining on a Corvette in front of me when I suddenly screamed a 4-letter word. My instructor was stunned, to say the least. A stone had been kicked up by the 'vette and flew through the open side window, hitting me on my upper lip. I was probably going 40-50 MPH and the stone was coming towards me from the opposite direction. Anyway, it hurt like crazy!

Who would have known that an open faced helmet wouldn't provide enough protection with a fully-enclosed car?

 

Here's my post from when I lost my virginity to the Dragon.

In involves a bee, a corner, and my underwear (well, kinda)...

Enjoy.

 

I raced enduro for many years and had a nickname of BAMBI BASHER.
In oONE enduro I jumped and landed ON a buck (he was DEAD) I smashed the exhaut pipe. Had to take it off and use socket extensions to just make an opening (not to good on a 2 stroke)

Last check point, (same enduro) sideways in a corner... a deer ran right into me from behind a tree (another one dead !) , I slid through the checkpoint ontop of the animal, funny thing is that I had just moved here from overseas and was told that it was against the law to kill a deer by any method when out of seasion.

I coiuld have made some great jerky !

 

 

Blimey, you must be a radio DJ, cause that's one heck of a tease.

 

Last spring I was riding shotgun in my MINI when I heard and felt a -SNAP- on my cheek. Wondered what kind of bug it was, until about 10 minutes later I found a honeybee walking around in my lap. Must have given him a heck of a headache.

 

The other day I was riding around town, hunting for someplace to eat, with an open sunroof doing about 50 mph. Something went splat on that mesh wind guard and it's insides and "juice" hit me in the face.
YUCK!

 

Back in the 60s I was riding with my boss in a pick up. His window was open and he had his arm resting on the sill when a bird hit the West Coast Mirror and it folded back on his arm and cut it. 8 stiches!! Also had bird body parts in the cab. Yuk!!!

 

both incidents on Motorcycles:

first involved a June bug @70 mph on the side of my face= 3 stitches
(I use a full face now)


second was a bird (starling) who flew into my jacket through the partially opened zipper and got a free ride for about a half a mile while I regained control of the Bike and managed to unzip the jacket. My heart is still racing from that one.

 

So there is something to that recent biker movie with John Travolta getting smacked by a bird while riding?

 

While driving late one night with the sunroof open, I passeed through some low-hanging branches and heard something land in my interior. Didn't think much of it but then I started to hear a cricket chirp. As it was late and I have a dark-colored interior I couldn't see where the noise was coming from. Eventually I pulled over to check it out, and I found a healthy-sized cricket chilling in my passenger seat.

I kindly asked the cricket to leave. I think he must have enjoyed the MINI so much because he stayed there. It took some...convincing in the end.