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The Need for Speed

Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:31 am

After all those posts about how fast we have gone , thought this was interesting .
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Bird at 250kph
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Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:38 am

Wonder what the driver said ?
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Not the way i planned to pick up chicks with the Porshe
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Thu Aug 04, 2005 9:15 am

Clearly didn't observe the speed limits through the KFC drive through.

Thu Aug 04, 2005 9:36 am

Talking of speed/impacts. A space shuttle was hit by a paint fleck that left a pit a quarter inch deep in the bullet-proof cockpit glass :shock:

Thu Aug 04, 2005 10:08 am

don't sparrows make a hell of a mess........ :lol:

Thu Aug 04, 2005 10:10 am

That pic reminds me of a tale i once read,not sure if it's an urban myth but it goes sommit like this;
British Rail were testing the new APT,the new 125mph flagship passenger train and needed to test the strength of the windsreen from all things feathered.They got the machine from NASA,and duly set about testing the windscreen.The first bird they fired went through the windscreen,through the drivers console ,straight through the drivers seat and out of the drivers cab,must to everyones horror.
They immediatley contacted NASA and the teletext they got back read;









THAW THE CHICKEN

Thu Aug 04, 2005 10:16 am

NovaCoder wrote:Talking of speed/impacts. A space shuttle was hit by a paint fleck that left a pit a quarter inch deep in the bullet-proof cockpit glass :shock:


yep
you need to be doing just a tad less than 18,000kmh
to minimize that impact :o

Thu Aug 04, 2005 1:05 pm

what a mess. i'd be spewing

Thu Aug 04, 2005 2:42 pm

They need to leave 3 or 4 dogs in there for 10 minutes to clean up that shit!

Thu Aug 04, 2005 2:56 pm

up2nogood wrote:They need to leave 3 or 4 dogs in there for 10 minutes to clean up that shit!


Oh, gross!! 8)

brids MUH

Sat Aug 06, 2005 10:26 pm

On my last high speed trip down to katherine to c my brother i hit a kite which is a hawk lucky 4 me i was slowing down so i only hit him doin 140ish anyway smashed my nose cone on the rite side took my left mirror clean off n hit me in shoulder n almost knocked me off the bike. i had to pull ova 4 an hr so i culd let my shoulder settle down.. :evil:

Had to limb the 200k's 2 katherine PAIN...

Sat Aug 06, 2005 11:42 pm

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Sun Aug 07, 2005 12:07 am

That is one hell of a pic Steve.

Sun Aug 07, 2005 6:20 am

Puts a new twist on "Chicken Nuggets" I bet the driver/rider was passing plenty of nuggets in both incidents.
cheers Brett

Mon Aug 08, 2005 1:03 pm

birds should be shot
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