I have a weird obsession........
or maybe it's more a compulsion.
Sometime, somewhere, maybe after we hit that 'roo a few years back, I developed a thing about road kill.
I just have to have a look at things lying on the road. My eyes are drawn to odd stuff on the roadand I have to try to identify them.
There's always a glove or two, shoes, buckets, cats, pigeons and those pestilent Indian Mynas.
There's always a glove or two, shoes, buckets, cats, pigeons and those pestilent Indian Mynas.
The last couple of weeks it has been more exotic. There was a duck, a kookaburra, possums, a crow and an exercise ball.
It's a kind of distressing obsession to have but it's just there all the time.
Whats that thing on the road there?
It is always upsetting to see road kill. I often wonder whether the animal or bird that gets cleaned up by a truck or car is a victim of its own bad timing or poor judgement.
ReplyDeleteAlso I don't like to see them left lying in the middle of the road by an uncaring motorist.
Domesticated cats and dogs seem to have the knack of dodging the traffic .... eight times out of ten.
Secondly I have a love / hate relationship with motor vehicles generally.
ReplyDeleteEven though I like cars and motor racing I can't escape the fact of the incredible carnage and trauma that the internal combustion engine has inflicted upon man and beast for the past 120 years. It is an horrific trade off for progress.
Hi Kylie,
ReplyDeleteIs that a Kangaroo? They look big enough to seriously damage a car. Around here we have a terrible surplus of deer. There are so many of them that they eat up gardens and do all sorts of damage to everything except the wooliest of my hedgeroses. We also have a very mean spirited Armadillo digging in my neighbors front yard.
I would trade you several deer and that armadillo for a nice Kangaroo, preferably still living tho.
Best wishes,
Skeeter
hi mark,
ReplyDeletei tend to agree with you about the enormous cost that motoring has inflicted on us all.
unfortunately i have to admit that i am just as reliant on cars as anyone else in this society and therefore part of the problem.
progress is a questionable kind of idea, isnt it?
cheers
I hit a raccoon once when it darted into the road in the middle of the night. I felt terrible for days.
ReplyDeletehi skeeter,
ReplyDeleteyep, it's a roo of middling kind of size by what i can tell.
they can do some big damage: busted radiators, smashed in panels and lights, that kind of thing. they can put a car off the road for sure.
we hit on when we on holidays a few years back, he just appeared right in front of the screen in front of me (passenger side) the screen smashed and the roo bounced over the top of the car. he died within a minute or two.
it was upsetting but mercifully quick for him and relatively painless for us. there was minor panel damage and the windscreen was replaced.
what was funny was that our boy keaghan broke his arm later that day and we had to drive him to hospital without a windscreen. it was dusk, so there was a good chance of more roos being out feeding and there were plenty of bugs blowing into the car too.
a friend of ours has a deer problem , they're relentless arent they?
i dont know much about armadillos. it sounds exotic but i guess the novelty would soon wear off
have a great weekend
k
hi bob,
ReplyDeletei was about to go put some washing out but then i saw you had snuck in there and saying g'day is more fun than washing.
it's an awful feeling to kill an animal, isnt it?
i have a panic if i even see a pair of eyes by the side of the road. fortunately i have been in the car but not the driver which makes it a teeny bit different
you seem to be doing well at the moment, it's good to see
cheers
k
I enjoy driving the backroads of Washington, late at night. The trees creating a canopy over the road with small beams of moonlight shining through.
ReplyDeleteOne time, I came across a brand new high heeled shoe, red, sitting in the middle of the road. Nobody was around. It creeped me out, so I just drove faster.
The comments are amazing. How can CSI be creeped out by a red shoe. CSI, isn't that what you do? Investigate? You should have gotten out of that truck and taped off the crime scene, then called for backup.
ReplyDeleteWell, you know me. That photo hurts. I don't care what the hell it is, if it's an animals, it hurts. I've never hit anything, but when I was in Berkeley saw a cat hit and it nearly killed me too. It's still a vivid memory and one I hate to remember.
Kangaroo, please rest in peace.
Mark, you're a gem.
XO
hey suze,
ReplyDeletethe photo hurts me too, but it's a reality we all live with.
sorry to upset you. maybe i'll post warnings next time?
take care
xx