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Old May 15, 2008 | 10:49 PM
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Had an encounter with a Jack Rabbit yesterday.. Hit him cruising about 60-65 mph. Dented the front fender skirt slightly and damaged my nerves a bit! Luckily I didn't go down.. Has anyone seen a Jack Rabbit from S.E. Arizona? Im new here but holy crap these buggers are big.. Not your typical bunny rabbits for sure!
 
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Old May 15, 2008 | 11:45 PM
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No Jack Rabbits around here, just good old Buggs Bunny's, but there do seem to be a lot of them around this year.
Almost let my two pups out in the yard this evening until I noticed there was a VERY bushy tailed cat with a white racing stripe about 6 feet from the door. Glad I saw it before I let them out or they, being pups, would have not have known any better and found out the hard way what happens when you scare a skunk.
 
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Old May 16, 2008 | 07:30 AM
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Got to watch for deer here...those suckers are every where...I had one run out a yard and slam into the side of my car a few years ago...that was the third one I hit,our hit me since I moved to NJ back in '91...I don't want to do that on 2 wheels....I have heard it ain't pretty...

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Old May 16, 2008 | 03:10 PM
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Lived there for about a year awhile back and ya their not like your regular cottantail. Dito on the deer, live in MO and their is alot of them too. Hell,down my rode its deer, coon, squirrels and dogs. I hope I never get to tell the story about how I hit something and survived.

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Old May 16, 2008 | 03:12 PM
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my g/f luvs her jack rabbit
 
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Old May 16, 2008 | 03:17 PM
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my g/f luvs her jack rabbit
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Old May 16, 2008 | 03:43 PM
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YEAH! I live just west of Phoenix and my cat brought one in the house. I guess he used the Vulcan neck pinch on him, because when I tried to get it to let it go, it scratched the crap out of me and was definitely impossible to handle.

Those suckers are big! I've been here for less than two years and I hail from Pennsylvania originally.

I'm very surprised to hear you only got a small dent. Hitting one of those rabbits is very much like hitting a smaller dog IMO
 
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Old May 16, 2008 | 03:55 PM
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I grew up in Cochise County. They are big and numerous.
 
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I had a pigeon cut a u turn in front of me on a bridge once. Old bike had apes on it... pigeon hit me in the pit of my left elbow &yanked my hand off the grip. Thank God it didn't hit me in the face!!!
 
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Old May 16, 2008 | 05:15 PM
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Got to watch for deer here...those suckers are every where...I had one run out a yard and slam into the side of my car a few years ago...that was the third one I hit,our hit me since I moved to NJ back in '91...I don't want to do that on 2 wheels....I have heard it ain't pretty...

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Funny story (now...it was scary as hell when it happened)...friend of mine was doing "a little over the speed limit" (over 70) on his Sporty when a deer ran in front of him. He went THROUGH the deer and laid the bike down, knocking him goofy for a minute (and giving him a nice compound fracture in his leg). When he came to, he saw intestine on his shirt, and thought they were his own...said that was the most scared he remembers ever being. Bastard is lucky he's alive.

My father in law ran over a snapping turtle, with my MIL riding p-pad, there was oncoming traffic, and another bike kinda close, so he couldn't swerve, so he went dead center over it. I swear my MIL bounce a good 3 feet in the air.

My best is hitting a goose, and having it get all twisted up in my front spokes of my old Sporty. Didn't lock the wheel up, but feathers and bird innards were flying everywhere till I got it stopped. Worst part was I had to keep going with bird scraps in the wheel till I could find a hose[sm=smiley11.gif]


 
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