Rain, dark and curvy road, no traffic to the front or rear. High beams on and watching for deer. Running 50 in a 55.
I did not wobble much. Of course not, not even a mongoose could have reacted to what happened, it was quick.
Also old habits indicated that when loud and scary noises that break the machine happen, ya don’t wanna be jerking her round Captain as you might break it worse ya know.
What I saw that, covered about 1/10th of a second, White object that was very fast and compact looking was descending from high right in a counter clockwise arc/spiral as viewed by me and impacted the lower right side of the windshield at almost the perpendicular to its slant and just disappeared with a "Wham".
By the time Lady Dragon had raised up and said, "Wha.....", I guess that my mind had noted that I did not see shards of ice so the great ice blob from the sky was not the culprit, the descending arc was somehow controlled, ( if the truck had not been real, the object would have come in the lower right side of the windshield and exited the lower rear corner of the right hand door after going through precious parts of Lady Dragon and the seat judging by the noted trajectory) and since it was white looking, buzzards, hawks and such were ruled out. I did not think that escaped chickens and / or turkeys would be dive bombing at anytime of day or night (never thought of those encounters of the third kind) and so it was probably an owl.
Now I have heard that hawks can achieve 180 MPH + when tucked in a dive but the controlled arc said that it had some small wing deployment for control but had to be really moving along to do that kind of damage.
The lack of feathers and blood was why I was really unsure of what we had hit. I have hit all kids of stuff with ground based vehicles and those that do not stay on the ground and when that much damage occurs, there is "BLOOD & GUTS". Maybe in the morning when I’ll take a few pictures I might find a few but.......
When I picked it up from the road centerline ( must have bounced right over the truck) it was a very limp owl. Must be jelly inside, but no blood and guts apparent tonight.
I figure that there must have been a combined impact speed of at least 150 MPH to do the damage done. It is a small and light owl. Picture the effect of a sorta soft bowling ball swung a hard as you could without actually going through the windshield.
It had fixated on a target beside the road? Was trying to beat me to it? Thought I was gonna get it first? Was just stubborn? Why was it not afraid of the truck. Owls are shy, right? Not this dude.
I have had owls come past me in the dark but never through lights. Why did the sudden lights not cause him to lose sight of his prey?
Mmmmm Lady Dragon is really delectable......... but come on......... she was covered by a blankie
I did not wobble much. Of course not, not even a mongoose could have reacted to what happened, it was quick.
Also old habits indicated that when loud and scary noises that break the machine happen, ya don’t wanna be jerking her round Captain as you might break it worse ya know.
What I saw that, covered about 1/10th of a second, White object that was very fast and compact looking was descending from high right in a counter clockwise arc/spiral as viewed by me and impacted the lower right side of the windshield at almost the perpendicular to its slant and just disappeared with a "Wham".
By the time Lady Dragon had raised up and said, "Wha.....", I guess that my mind had noted that I did not see shards of ice so the great ice blob from the sky was not the culprit, the descending arc was somehow controlled, ( if the truck had not been real, the object would have come in the lower right side of the windshield and exited the lower rear corner of the right hand door after going through precious parts of Lady Dragon and the seat judging by the noted trajectory) and since it was white looking, buzzards, hawks and such were ruled out. I did not think that escaped chickens and / or turkeys would be dive bombing at anytime of day or night (never thought of those encounters of the third kind) and so it was probably an owl.
Now I have heard that hawks can achieve 180 MPH + when tucked in a dive but the controlled arc said that it had some small wing deployment for control but had to be really moving along to do that kind of damage.
The lack of feathers and blood was why I was really unsure of what we had hit. I have hit all kids of stuff with ground based vehicles and those that do not stay on the ground and when that much damage occurs, there is "BLOOD & GUTS". Maybe in the morning when I’ll take a few pictures I might find a few but.......
When I picked it up from the road centerline ( must have bounced right over the truck) it was a very limp owl. Must be jelly inside, but no blood and guts apparent tonight.
I figure that there must have been a combined impact speed of at least 150 MPH to do the damage done. It is a small and light owl. Picture the effect of a sorta soft bowling ball swung a hard as you could without actually going through the windshield.
It had fixated on a target beside the road? Was trying to beat me to it? Thought I was gonna get it first? Was just stubborn? Why was it not afraid of the truck. Owls are shy, right? Not this dude.
I have had owls come past me in the dark but never through lights. Why did the sudden lights not cause him to lose sight of his prey?
Mmmmm Lady Dragon is really delectable......... but come on......... she was covered by a blankie
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