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5 birds in 3 years 1 off my helmet 2 off my face (they hurt like HELL!) 1 hit my knee and last saturday 1 hit my windsheild and cracked it and I almost wrecked.
Formosan Termite swarm going about 50. Couldnt see a damn thing until I got out of there and the damn critters get under your clothing and crawl around. Also narowly missed an Alligator (Young adult about 6-7 feet) while riding down by lafitte national park. Scared the bejesus out of me!
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hit a small fluffly dog on a curve that ran up out of the ditch. caught his head with the highway bar on the Heritage. Killed him deader than hell right there. the bar kept him from getting under the bike...Didnt dodge that critter!!! lol
Beaver ran out in front of me last summer. Missed him with the front tire but his head took the full brunt of my my rear brake reservoir. Almost snapped it in half. Rear tire then proceeded to run over the rest of his body. Came within an inch of bucking me off my bike.
When I was learning to ride, a baseball size rock. the only thing in the intersection, out in the middle of nowhere. Nothing around any place and I was looking at it when I was turning left from a stop. tried to go around it but could not because I was looking at it. Kept the bike up, but lesson 1 from the school of hard knocks. Hey stupid, where I look is where I'm going.
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I almost ran over a 3lb Chihuahua one night.
Better luck next time.
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I don't care who you are! That's funny right there!
I hit a seagull on my Kawasaki KZ1000 back in the 70's. It wrapped around my right side mirror and splatter blood, guts, and feathers all over me and my bike. What a mess!
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