Ahh the wonder of whats around the next corner....lol

Comeing home last night from the daughters i was ripping along listening to my toons and cutting some corners.
Top a small hill that leads into a downhill lefthand curve. See something dark in the middle of my lane about halfway through the curve as i lay into it. Looks like a big blob of tar at first but then as im almost on top of it it turns into a d@mn dillio headon.
No place to go but push left a lil harder put a lil more lean into the body and roll on the throttle to tighten up the turn and miss the lil bugger.

If id of just dropped my foot off the peg id of kicked him right between the eyes. Missed with the bike by about 18 inchs.
I hate them d@mn things!
Afterward i thought about what might of happened.
The lil bassturds like to jump when their scared, straight up 2 feet.
Good grill height on a car. More like across the top of the front fender into the headlight and over the top into the riders head/chest on a bike.

Bad enough haveing to watch for deer 24/7 around here but dead, dieing and live dillos in the road are a REAL pain in the arse!

Whats been your latest speedbump...lol

They taste like skunks, raccoons and nutria. Like English style roast beef (dry sawdust). Or New England style hamburgers (charcoal). Depends on how you cook them. They smell worse than they taste (kinda like MREs or C-rations).

Local church men's club would send leftovers from their wild game banquets to the sod farm I worked at down here 10-12 years ago.

Had to play dodge 'em with a box turtle this morning. Must be breeding season, they are everywhere down here.

And there is a dead dillo in the lower garden area, even the buzzards won't eat it (but the beagle will, go figure).

Hey dont pick on my hamburgs. Just caue you may have had a few bad ones doesnt make them all bad. My burgers a nice thick and juicy. If you are ever up this way Ill make you a few with some really good macaroni salad.

oh we call beef burgers hamburgers out here in the east. We also have grinders while you may have subs, hero hogie ect. different words same food.

Silly Ogre wrote on 06/21/11 at 18:57:05:





DO Dillos serve any beneficial purpose?

I have an older friend who is a master gardener & knower of many things. He taught me o not kill red wasps, because they kill garden bugs, lik tomato worms. He respects  all life, everything has some good purpose, except Dillos.. he said Kill them sorry thangs, theyre No Good fer Nuthin, politicians of the animal kingdom.. & they carry leprosy., dont mess with them.

You can still get DDT, every old farm in the USA is likely to have a few cans of livestock dust floating around.

Wish I could find a few barrels of chlordane, another banned insecticide. It worked too well, politicians couldn't get their agri-chemical kickbacks.

KristenAnn, beef cooked beyond rare is a crime. Too bad commercial beef is loaded with toxins and bacteria that almost necessitate over-cooking. And anywhere I've eaten in New England has overcooked EVERYTHING. That's hundreds if not thousands of homes, cafes, sandwich shops, etc. Must be the British influence. Lobster, crab and scallops the texture of pencil erasers... Charcoal like meats... Soggy everything else... Yep, sounds like English food to me.

Wait until you get wild hogs SuperSavage. Bike vibration attracts them (and water mocassins) and they want to attack.

Whistle pigs got a lil more smarts then them stupid dillos.
Whistle pigs will run from a car.
Dillos have such bad eyesight and are so d@mn stupid they stand there in the middle of the road untill a car is right on them then they 'jump'(defensive mechanism) about 2 feet straight up.
This puts them about grill height on a car, bumper height on a truck and right into your sloped forks n headlight on a bike.
They dont squish down real well when you roll over em either like a coon or possum will. Mini ramps for air launchs.

Only real saveings grace is the lil bassturds run at night mostly.
Mostly......
Oh, dont kick one of the lil buggers as you ride by. Its like kicking a rock...lol

The last winter or two has done a number on them. Just not enough of a number.
Supposedly anything north of about I-70 is to far for them.
Ive been seeing them along 44 and up along 54 for many years.
Stinking things are so thick around here now noone pays any attention to ones along the road.

As for crossing the MO river dillos can swim and if the rivers too wide or fast they can and will walk along the bottom holding their breath.
Only good thing abou them is they make good target practice. But then you got to haul the stinking things waayyy off.