Posted on 05/05/2020 9:32:28 AM PDT by C19fan
A mother duck and her eleven ducklings had a very lucky escape after they were run over by a motorist while crossing a highway. Footage shows the shocked parent bird flap into the air as the vehicle mows over her brood in Fort Worth, Texas, before gathering up her unhurt ducklings and continuing with the perilous crossing. A bystander can be heard shouting moments before the car hits: 'Mother duck, where's your yellow safety vest?'
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It is very hard to hit a squirrel.
Would take a lot of practice .... and a lot of luck .... bad luck ... for the squirrel.
Not saying that I have tried.
But my wife thinks I have to slow to 2 mph if a squirrel is in the street.
A number of years ago while on the way home from work on a divided 6 lane highway, there was a brood of panicked ducklings on the grass median whose mother had just gotten killed by a car. That was very sad to see.........
You need to control your mouth. I don't tell you where to post and you are not going to tell me where to post. It is NOT going to happen. This is to document that you were told.
If you simply drive down the road, not even trying to hit one, a fleeing squirrel will sometimes think twice and run back into your path!
Hopefully he wasn’t driving a Yugo.
Very true. There’s no guarantee that people who are nice to animals will be nice to people ... it would be good if that was true ... but there are too many exceptions to posit a corollary.
Exactly. For some reason, startled animals will dart back in to traffic. Nobody wants to hit a deer to wreck or damage their car, for example. But it happens.
I think this is what one would call a slow news day item.
Apparently so. I am just tired of people being concerned sometimes beyond a reasonable level and then show no concern, or absolute hatred, for people. Something is wrong with that picture.
Looks to me like it was intentional. However, there could be other reasons such as distracted driving or some sort of vision issue. With the virus shutdown, people have a lot on their minds and could easily be distracted..
When I was a teen, I had a litter of pups - maybe 12-15 weeks old - come shooting out from between two cars on a curve in town. I slammed on the brakes as hard as I could, and all of them got across the road except one. I heard a thump under my front end, and my heart sank. I was about to open the door to see if it was still alive, when out of the blue it shot out from under my bumper, turned around and started barking furiously at me like, “Slow it down, you dumbass!”, then took off full speed to catch up with the rest of the litter. *whew* I think I was more scared than the pup was.
Those ducklings were tough! several of them took a few tumbles in the back-draft of the car. But they huddled together and started running as fast as they could to the other side!
Several years ago I was driving down a residential street, and a suicidal squirrel decided it was a good time to play Frogger. There was no way to safely stop, so I kept on. Looked back in my rear view, and there the squirrel was standing up and looking around like he was doing a big “WTF?” I laughed. Good thing he ducked.
Do you feel the same way about groundhogs?
They eat brake lines - I’ve had to replace 2 because of them!
Hah! I would use my borzoi to distract the squirrel to run around the tree where I was waiting to spook him again.
Great fun!
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