Roadkill is my speciality.
The weirdest thing I've ever killed in my car has to be mackerel. I was driving across a causeway in a storm and a wave deposited a shoal of mackerel over the road ahead of me which I promptly ran over.

The second most unusual road-kill occurred when driving home at night, in a blizzard. I managed to hit a sheep which had unwisely decided that a white animal sitting on a snow covered road was a good idea. (Not an uncommon occurrence here, most people have at least one sheep related insurance claim.)

As the sheep was dead it went in the back of the car for a fitting disposal (I was going to eat it). Unfortunately, a reasonable amount of blood and guts had deposited itself over the engine and resulted in a sickly smell of roast lamb through the cabin for the rest of the drive home and I couldn't face eating lamb for months afterwards.

I know of someone who reportedly did the same with a deer. He hit it and loaded it into the back of his Volvo estate. Pity it wasn't dead and just stunned. About a mile down the road it woke up and as you might expect panicked, totalling the car from the inside. I'd have loved to see the insurance claim for that.


(In a karma balancing moment I once helped refloat a beached whale so in terms of weight of things I've accidently killed versus what I've saved I'm in credit.)
(azgiles, Thu 22 Dec 2011, 23:51, 5 replies)

Just wait till a wave deposits a pod of whales in the road.
BAM goes your karma footprint.

Also: I like this.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 11:29, closed)

I thought the rule was that
The person who kills it has to leave it, but the next person can take it. I've no idea where I heard that from though.
(anonymousreality tickled your fancy on, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 12:33, closed)

I've heard the same.
I think it was related to poaching, otherwise you could "accidently" hit a deer and then take it for meat with no repercussions.
(azgiles, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 15:53, closed)

I admit I laughed a bit at the deer part.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 18:35, closed)

Same thing happened to my ex. He was driving his dad's transit when they hit a deer. They put it in the back thinking it would fill the freezer but it came round and started jumping about. Apparently his dad dispatched the deer with the only thing he had to hand, a spade.
(new_dawn, Sat 24 Dec 2011, 10:39, closed)