Ute vs Roo

[den]

Dad hit a kangaroo on the way home. The roo was a big male, about 7 feet tall. Mum and Dad are lucky the animal bounced right over the top and didn't come through the windscreen.

They're okay, but the ute and the kangaroo are totalled.









Well, bugger. But the company needed a new truck anyway. Now the accountant will let us buy it.

Comments

[jim-lane.livejournal.com]

Crazy thing is, here in the US a LOT of trucks and SUVs have "bars" on the front (some functional; some merely "tough-looking"), but for a good percentage of them, they're never exposed to potential rural "critter encounters"---only the ever-growing population of urban pedestrians...

Most of those are fat, soft and at best will only crack a windshield. The old ones, however, move slowly enough that even a novice driver can "score a kill" with only a minimum of driving prowness...

Bunting an athletic one of breeding age, though, garners the most points, and oftentimes takes exceptional skill---

"Pre-breeding age" targets are off-limits, and bagging one of those gets you ejected from the game (and buried UNDER the jail---)

Ciao!

roo bar / bull bar

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Thttp://www.arb.com.au/

here is a move to have bull bars banned from city vehicles. Can't think why.

Re: roo bar / bull bar

[jim-lane.livejournal.com]

From what I've heard about the upcoming European "pedestrian friendly" vehicle requirments, autos (don't know about trucks) for the 2007 model year will have to have special, specific "pedestrian friendly" front-end structures to minimize injuries to wayward walkers when they get mowed down by vehicles. This will completely eliminate some sports cars, and cause radical redesigns on many others.

Whacking some j-walking bozo with a big "bull bar-sporting" truck would, no doubt, spoil said bozo's day--- *evil grin*

BTW, I *like* the bars that ARB sells! Those are the "real deal", unlike some of the "for looks only" rigs many trucks and SUVs -- usually the ones that never leave the pavement -- sport over here.

Re: roo bar / bull bar

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Like wyrd says, if it doesn't bolt to the chassis it isn't a proper bullbar.

[ngarewyrd.livejournal.com]

I don't think much of those crappy, fake 'bars'

gotta be bolted Firmly to the chassis for me to even THINK that it's a good thing


But then again, you get the bogans, in their utes, with the Mack Truck Bullbars, and it just looks wrong, Really Really Wrong..