USAF Bombs Yorkshire!!!!

Our battalion ops sergeant killed a raven with his motorcycle helmet at highway speed - he managed to stay upright, but he was a little shaken for the rest of the day.

Glenn D.,

That can make for a bad day. It wasn't a raven, but I took a hit from what looked to be a jay or a thrush at about 65mph on my Hog. Open face half-helmet, direct hit to the cheek and jaw. I had just cracked open the throttle after coming out of a slow curve onto a wide open empty straightaway. The last thing on my mind was meeting up with something. I didn't lay it down either, so I was OK with the slight pain and yukky stuff on my face that I had to ride with for a few miles to the next stop. That did shake me up for the rest of the ride though.

WmB

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What, there's some other way to cook it?

(This brings back memories from a few decades ago, of going to the grandparents' house for Sunday dinner... )

i don't pretend to know how it grounded, but it did.

damn cricket broke my nose when i was a teen.

I thought it was Herb that came in and said "I swear to God, I thought turkeys could fly", or something to that effect. But my memory could be off.

Yeah - I recall the dancing ducklings...

Yeah - they only lifted across the road and then landed.

Was recently surprised by a roadrunner doing the same thing - I thought they were ground-bound as well, but I recently saw one cruise over a fence.

I had one hit ME once...I was cruising slowly off base out east one night when a big brown blob sailed over my windshield. I hit the brakes, and the second one leaped straight into my right rear fender. Glad it was a rental...

I think that the guy in the pickup behind me must have clubbed it out with a Maglite and thrown it in the back...it was stunned and kicking in the street the first time I looked, the second time it was gone and the guy was getting back in his truck.

I thought it was Herb...as I recall, Herb promoted the event, and Les knew nothing until the birds started "flying"...hence the "shock and awe".

That's my fav line of the series, though.

I took a one inch nut in the forehead at about 75 mph on the highway once. It disloged from a semi goin the opposite direction and hit me just above my right eye, between my glasses and my helmet. I saw it come loose an hit the deck...I had managed to avoid it, but my pal in front of me rode over it, kicked it back up, and it hit me. Don't know why the thing didn't crack my skull open...but I didn't do more than flinch and stayed upright.

It wasn't until we got to his place and I removed my helmet and he saw the dried blood and the gash that he figured out had happened...

looked to be a

to the cheek

curve onto a wide

something. I didn't

face that I had

rest of the ride

Squishing a squirrel or rolling over a snake can give you the geebies too...

yes i hated that sport too!...............

This raven was sitting on the ground (well, probably on part of the target or something, not the actual ground) when my friend dropped the ordnance on it, I think from an F/A-18. It wasn't a bird strike in flight.

Mary

Now THAT would have been REALLY impressive -- taking a bird out of mid-air with "blue death"!

We've also disturbed the occasional jack rabbit or burro with a sand-seeker...

You have been unduly influenced by Warner Bros. ;)

Bill Banaszak, MFE

in the floor

Because I can't

It was all the work of CBS's programmers. They kept moving the program around until nobody was sure when it would be on. As far as I can see they killed it. Dummereseln!

Bill Banaszak, MFE

I think I understand pinochle better than I do cricket. ;)

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Have a stunned bumblebee land in your crotch sometime! Glad I got him out before he woke up mad.

Bill Banaszak, MFE