What's the worst thing you've run over?

[rug]

For me it was a rabbit. i can still hear the scream.

[SarahB]

1. A curb.

It wrecks hubcaps.

[7th_Sephiroth]

32. a troy McLure quote

"oh no, we have drawn Judge Garver, he hasent been happy with me since i accidentally run over his dog, if you replace the word accidentally with repeatedly and Dog with son"

[Dave Reynolds]

2. My own foot.

It's a long story.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

3. Railroad track

Bottomed out on a railroad track and fucked up the super-low front spoiler on my Saab.

The only living thing I hit was a chipmunk. I felt bad.

[dolo amber]

4. Omg, I hit a squirrel once

driving through the park (far too fast)...I could hear it go *POP*... x(

[phusion]

5. A snake.

No way to avoid him..he was stretched out across the road :(

I've hit a jackrabbit, too. It was nighttime and I didn't have time to react...

[leftofthedial]

6. a repuke

never got rid of the smell

had to burn the car

[neuvocat]

7. A cat.

It was on the freeway chasing a mouse and I couldn't swerve in time to miss it. Hell of a thing to happen right after losing my mother just a few days before.

[Midlodemocrat]

8. I backed out of the garage and sideswiped hubby's car.

Then, I blamed it on some anonymous person in the parking lot where he worked. God, I am so evil.

I did tell him later, though. He thought it was funny.

[solinvictus]

9. Some sort of terrier/poodle mix...

I swerved to avoid him and the little guy ran under the left wheel. No one was around to claim the poor guy. Luckily, I suppose, he died instantly. I felt awful about it.

[tuvor]

10. Ducklings walking behind their mother.

I wish I were joking.

Thanks for reminding me.

[jjmalonejr]

11. Raccoon

Those guys are big, man.

Judging by what bits of him he left behind on my car, I don't think he made it.

[jhain]

12. an already dead skunk

in 90 degree heat.

I swear it was heat melded into the pores of my lovely station wagon all Summer that year.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

45. That believe that.

I passed over a dead skunk a few weeks ago in my mom's car (I was running errands for her). Everytime I got into that car the rest of the day, I nearly gagged. What the hell is in those things!?!

[LostInAnomie]

13. Other cars.

I felt horrible.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

14. A kitten.

Poor little thing couldn't have been older than 5 weeks.

[maveric]

15. A skunk. Twice. Once on each coast.

And the stink was the same in CA as it was in NH.

[DoYouEverWonder]

16. Armadillos

I run them over on purpose. I had the damn things and they are an invasive species in FL.

[phusion]

17. True story:

My friend hit a blind, old woman in a crosswalk once. He didn't knock her over, but he bumped her.

How's that?

[rug]

18. you win

[medeak]

30. alcholic friend hit two old ladies

well...let's say ex friend. she also ran over her own dog.

[phusion]

41. Yikes!

My friend was blinded by the bright New Mexican sun...right along the horizon just before sunset. And he had a dirty windshield :(

Sorry to hear about your (ex)friend..that's terrible!

[peekaloo]

19. Ugghhh rabbits scream?

I just heard *thud* when I ran over one. That was enough to sicken me.

[Quixote1818]

29. I once hit a rabbit then turned around to see if I could save it

it was flailing all over the place in extreme pain and fear! I then had to drive over it again to put it out of it's misery. I cried. :cry:

[peekaloo]

42. *screams*

Lesson....just keep driving.

:-(

[Xithras]

20. My own cat

In my own garage no less. That was a depressing (and messy) thing to clean up.

I hit an 8 year old kid once too, but he went over the top of the car so I guess I really didn't "run over" him.

[bilgewaterbill]

21. A 2-yr old girl.

She was riding on a shopping cart with a bunch of neighborhood kids. I watched the cart go behind my truck and come out the other side. As luck would have it, she fell off behind my truck. I never saw her. I backed over her catching her under the wheel well of my front passenger side. I felt a bump and when I got out to check, there was this little girl all scuffed up and wandering around, whimpering. It took me a minute to figure out what happened. I drove the little girl and her mom to the hospital. The angels were watching that little girl- no broken bones, just scratches. I cried for an hour straight.

[rug]

22. terrible

at least she was too little to remember it

[bilgewaterbill]

24. Thank heavens for that. nt

[Gemini Cat]

23. A cat when I was three years old.

I ran over the cat with my tricycle. I have no memory of the horrible event, but my mother told me I ran over the cat and backed up and did it again. I've always loved cats and would have been better off not knowing about my three year old self brutality.

[Quixote1818]

25. I ran over a dead Elk's head! You have to hear this story!

It was eleven at night and I had left work at the Grand Canyon and was driving south toward Williams, Arizona. I was eating a twix bar and drinking a coke then suddenly right in front of me was a huge Elk lying dead across the road. I swerved right trying to miss it and ran RIGHT over the top of it's head. It's antlers punctured two of my tires and scratched the side of my truck.

A few minutes later two cars pull over and help me pull it off the road then suddenly this big huge truck pulls up and this guy dressed in camouflage jumps out and starts screaming at everyone to get away from the Elk. Then he pulls out a hand gun and shoots the already DEAD animal in the head. This guy from New York walks over toward me and says "Is this getting weird or WHAT?" The old man and old lady who pulled over looked visibly freaked out by this guy, got in their car and took off like a bat out of hell.

It was the nut cases wife who hit the elk and left it lying clear across my lane so she could get her husband to come chop it up for it's meat. So here is this Dead Elk lying their and this buy pulls out a Buck knife and stabs the thing in the stomach and all this stinky air shoots out then he gutted it, took the meat and left. Meanwhile I waited for the cops to come and get me a tow truck. So this jerk gets all this free Elk Meat while I end up broken down with two flat tires and a scratched up truck however it was entertaining to watch this guy shoot a dead Elk in the head.

Buy the way, the reason I remember I was eating a twix bar is because I found it melted in my seat when I picked my Vehicle up. I am sure I drooped it when I frantically swerved to miss the dead Elk. Let me just say that that Elk had NO chance of living that night. It got hit by a car then I ran directly over it's head then a nutcase comes and shoots it in the head before cutting it up into little pieces. What a night!

[medeak]

31. they say things come in three's? n/t

[Ladyhawk]

26. Two gray squirrels in one day. :(

I felt really bad about it, too. I have a theory that gray squirrels are born with a magnet in their heads that are attracted to wheels on motor vehicles.

Hmmmm...what do you think?

[MrScorpio]

27. A Boid

In New Yawk

[medeak]

28. EAGLE

It was horrible. POOF the feathers went. Was chasing a rabbit across the road and oblivious to car

Cars behind me said they couldn't believe the carnage of feathers..front grill was destroyed.

only consolation it wasn't a bald eagle but the golden variety which is just as awesome however.

[KitchenWitch]

33. Those tire stabby things

Blew out all four of my tires.

[tyedyeto]

34. I have 'hit' a few animals in my life..........

since I've lived mostly in mountainous / rural areas for many years.

A squirrel, rabbit, bird or coyote ... I understand we have invaded their territory but it always hurts when you take a 'life', even tho it's a 'lowly' animal.

[BuyingThyme]

35. Lots of mice.

[alarimer]

36. A feral hog

It punctured my tire but it could have been much much worse. They are big (this one was only 150 pounds or so). Still I could smell the pigshit when I changed my tire.

[Dookus]

37. heheh

a bunch of frogs in upstate NY. They seemed to be "migrating" somewhere and the highway was just covered with frogs. Bumpity bumpity bumpity bump.

[peekaloo]

40. Gross! They actually go *POP* when you smush 'em.

I always turn up the music on rainy, summer nights.

x(

[ChemEng]

38. A Jackrabbit!

In West Texas at night. Kabunk!

[demwing]

39. A person on a motorcycle

My sister was driving, I was in passenger seat. The bike ran a red light and the person rolled over the top of our hood, it seemed, in slow motion.

It was as scary as hell.

The person lived, but was badly injured.

[soothsayer]

43. A turtle. Made a horrible crunch/thud. I still feel so bad.

[priller]

44. A teenage girl

She tried to cross a very busy street around dusk. Stepped right out in front of me. I slammed the brakes as soon as I saw her, and when you do that the front of the car usually dips down. My car hit her around the knees, she came up over the hood, her head hit the windshield and the whole thing just shattered.

She then pitched forward off my hood and crumpled into a heap on the road. Every nerve ending in my body was firing, I was frozen in my seat and I just kept thinking over and over: She's dead, she's dead! I hit a person! Not a dog, not a squirrel, but a person!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But then she rolled over on her on and I leaped out of the car to check on her. Some of her friends came up and tried to move her but I said no, leave her there until an ambulance comes. She was conscious and was asking, "Who hit me? Who hit me?" The other teens looked at me and I stammered: "I'm sorry, but it was me." And she replied, "Oh, I hate you!"

Believe it or not, that made me feel much better. If she was lucid enough to come up with a snarky teen phrase, then maybe she wasn't hurt so badly. And it turned out she had a concussion, a hairline crack in her leg, and other bruises and scrapes.

To add insult to real injury, the police ended up ticketing her for "failure to yield right of way to a vehicle".

And it happened on my birthday.

[beyurslf]

46. My grandma. Seriously.

When we were in grade school, my grandma lived with us. Both of my parents were gone early in the morning and she would get us up for school. Somehow we overslept (can't recall how that happened). We missed the bus though and grandma was going to drive us to school.

She had an old Renault stick shift. My brother and I were about 8 or 9 and my sister a couple years younger. The car's battery was dead so we decided to push start it. I was in the driver seat ready to pop the clutch. My brother and sister were in front pushing and Grandma was in the door of the driver seat.

Grandma stood there, with the door open, pushing and telling me what to do. We got the car going backward and (can you see where this is going), grandma yelled "Now!" I popped the clutch and the car roared to life.... but no one said to hit the brake. The car kept going backward and the open car door knocked grandma right over.

She was okay but it scared the hell out of me and my siblings. I think at that time a neighbor heard us screaming (because we thought we killed grandma) and came out and helped.