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

Re: I mourn...

[tropism.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it. Possums seem to be particularly dumb when it comes to crossing roads; only squirrels generally outnumber them in roadkill status around here.

I hate the local deer, too. "Oh, look, a car's coming --let's run away RIGHT ACROSS ITS PATH, despite alternate routes in the other direction existing!" Thank god I know where they usually congregate, but I've had a couple of close calls.

Re: I mourn...

[lostwanderfound.livejournal.com]

The worst I've (almost) run into are emus; they like to graze on the road verges (the bitumen collects water and delivers it to the side, so out in the arid areas you get a tiny bit more greenery by the road than elsewhere), they're sufficiently inattentive that they'll fail to notice an approaching vehicle until it's almost on top of them, and their standard response to any threat is "run straight forwards at full speed".

Since they're usually facing the road at the time, this works nicely to bring them into the path of whatever it was that startled them. I once missed one by about an inch, while riding at 140km/h west of Broken Hill...

Re: I mourn...

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I find a roadtrain and settle in behind it until dawn.

Re: I mourn...

[lostwanderfound.livejournal.com]

I'm always off the road by dusk meself (barring emergency; I once had to spend a hair-raising half hour at dusk in outback Queensland, dodging half a dozen 'roos, assorted birds and a few cows).

'Roos may dent cars, but on a bike they sting a bit.

(speaking of roadtrains, my brother once saw a roadkilled camel in WA...)