That's nuts! How fast were you going?

Also, how often do you have a cam on your helmet? What a carzy fluke that you caught this on film ... er tape ... er digital recording format.

On the way to high school from his farm, a buddy of mine caught a pheasant square in the chest ... took him clean off his bike!     He ended up with only a broken arm and some (gravel) road rash.  Lucky it wasn't a foot higher or it would have taken him out permanently.

somewhat related - i was walking once and got hit square in the chest with a large water balloon thrown from a speeding car 45-50mph probably....well it knocked me down and knocked the breath out of me....was not sure there for a few minutes if i was going to live or die - very painful and scary to think a harmless water balloon could inflict such pain....darn punk teenage kids!...never slowed down to see if was hurt just kept on going

I seem to get alot of birds fly crossways in front of me.  Always startles the bejezzus outta me.

Once, there were two BIG some-kind-o-birds flying above my head, kinda low.  They were doing S weaves with each other, back and forth above me, but flying right along with the road.  I was afraid they were gonna pass each other in the middle and both take a big dump on me at the same time!  I finally slowed down, they made me so uncomfortable.  

Here in the Midwest the crows are pretty good at judging the speed of cars, and continue to snack on "highway pizza" until the last possible moment.  They don't have nearly as much experience with bikes.  One of my BMW friends was "violating the rural speed limit" and came upon a murder of crows* snacking on road kill.  Danged beak penetrated his leathers and shin just below the knee armor!
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*  Yes, that really is the correct term for a group of crows.  Geese are gaggles on the ground, skeins in the air, cattle, bison and other grass burners form herds.

weracerc wrote on 08/10/11 at 11:04:59:

I know all about the dangers of water balloons!  Back in high school, I was cruising Main Street after school one afternoon in a '73 F150 @ about 35 mph.  One of my friends coming the other way chucked a water balloon at me, hit the windshield right in front of me.  Luckily I had my hat on and ducked reflexively, because it hit hard enough to bust the glass pretty good and actually push it in an inch or so where it hit.  He felt real bad and paid to have it replaced, so no real harm done, except where I unthinkingly tried to brush the glass dust off my arms when I got out of the pickup!  Looking back, I blame the upright angle of the windshield.  I hit tons of birds in my '72 Comet: grouse, pheasants, etc. and nary a problem.

Going to work one day around 6 in the morning, I was driving slow because I know how those deer like to pop out instantaneously. crappity smacking chicken out of nowhere runs across the road (he's completely across it) and right before I pass him he jolts back to the other side RIGHT UNDER MY FRONT TIRE. I've never seen so many feathers in my life. It was like someone filled a car with pillows and then detonated it. Got a bunch of feathers in my helmet and had to pull over to dump them out. Looked back, naked chicken was nowhere to be seen. Wonder what he told his wife