"I did NOT just roll over a .... !"

[Jiffer]

So, I was on a 44 mile ride with my hubby and some friends. We're cruising down a flat road fairly quickly in a pace line. I'm the fourth one in line with a guy behind me and then my husband. All of a sudden I'm riding over something that wasn't pointed out to me by the riders ahead of me. It happened so fast and there was a loud popping noise as I rolled over it. I didn't know what it was, but assumed it must have been a cup or a bottle or something to have popped like that. But then immediately I'm hearing all sorts of dramatic yelling behind me, "Ohhhhhh! Man!" and the like ... so I quickly figure out it must not have been something as generic and uninteresting as a cup. I hear somebody say something about a bunny and I flipped out. :eek:"I did NOT just roll over a bunny! Tell me I did not roll over over a bunny!"

Alas .... I rolled over a bunny. :( I am happy to report that the bunny was already dead, so I am not a bunny killer. However, because it was dead and rigamortis had set in, when I rolled over it, the poor little guy POPPED!!! :eek: And the guys behind me got to see the result ... which was not pleasant, to say the least!

So now we get a laugh when we think about the day Jen popped a bunny. And my friend came up with a hilarious song to the tune of the Veggie Tales Chocolate Bunny song ... "The bunny, the bunny, whoa I popped the bunny!"

Ahhhhh .... good times, good times! ;)

[crazycanuck]

Pop Pop..pop :eek: eeewwwwww...

I can safely say that I just about biked over a dead roo a few years ago but thankfully the stench woke me up just in time..blaaaaghhhh...

[divingbiker]

Ick ick ick

[ClockworkOrange]

Now that was just what I needed to read before lunch, good job I was not going to have Welsh Rabbit (that's cheese on toast).

It was funny to read but kinda sad too but at least you didn't cause him to 'pop' his little clogs.

Ride safe and mind the bunnies. :D

Clock

[Bike Chick]

Ewwwwww! I was behind a guy in a pace line last year that ran over a dead squirrel. The pop and splatter was disgusting. Thank goodness I swerved in time to miss it but didn't have time to warn the person behind me and he hit it. Gotta love road kill, huh?

[bmccasland]

eeewwwwww. Just before breakfast too. Road kill. sigh:rolleyes:

Yes, Jiffer I'm glad to know you're not a bunny killer. ;)

[KnottedYet]

Fenders (mud guards) are my friends in situations like these.

Around here it's often fat juicy slugs that go "pop" under my tires. And under my sneakers, and under my bare feet, and.... ewww....

[kermit]

Oh gross, but damn funny. I had a close call one day like that with a dead skunk, really glad I missed him. POP goes the bunny! (sigh... a moment of silence... may he rest in peace and become part of the food chain).

[ChillyWilly]

That's one funny tale to tell

[Aggie_Ama]

Gross, sad and funny! I was in my mountain bike class two weeks ago and rolled over dog poo, along with a couple of classmates. Needless to say the class stunk in a literal way..... My teacher has a guard on her downtube to keep poo, dirt, rocks and whatever else (bunny splat?) from flying up off her front wheel.

[Roadtrip]

All around the road we go,
The pace quickened the people.
And after them in double haste,
Pop! goes the Bunny.

Sorry.. I had to.

Glad the Bunny was already racing along happily in forever fields with the sunshine at his back when you came upon him.

[loopybunny]

Eww!

Glad to hear that you didn't crash or anything. I'd think a bunny would be kind of a large thing to hit on the road.

(Also glad to hear the poor little guy was already dead.)

[jelee1311]

Ewwww! Thank you for cracking me up this morning . The Bunny song will never be the same for me.laughed out loud at the replies as well.

[Chile Pepper]

Oh, ugh, that's just gross.

[lph]

ohhhh, ick. Poor bunny. So glad he was dead.

I have to kill mice sometimes, and I really hate it. I try to think that once they're caught by my cat they're my responsibility, and a quick death is always better than a slow one, but it still makes me sad. But at least I'm getting better at being decisive about it.

[ny biker]

I almost ran over a (live) chipmunk today. He ran right in front of me. Happily, he ran fast enough to avoid my wheel.

[marni]

I was once riding in a charity ride cruising along about 25 feet behind the tail of a 5 person line. I was close enough to hear the following: "road kill right," "mindroad kill right", " road kill", "road kill" "OH ****!". I swerved a bit wider than I had planned just to be safe.

[Bike Writer]

ick ick ick, it was said before but bears repeating. Ok, that said


glad bunny was already dead and in bunny heaven
that musta been a "big" bump
glad you didn't get any on you
sorry about the people behind
and last for best I LOVE MY FENDERS


A few days ago I rode over al really dead and smashed flat snake. It didn't register until I was a few yards past it and realized that it wasn't a piece of plastic or rubber. Better than last year when I ran over a live snake with my vehicle. I heard a thump-thump-thump and pulled over to look and there as a 4 foot snake wrapped around my wheel. He was dead by then but part of him was whacking up against my wheel well. I was at a park and stopped to look it over and a ranger stopped up along side thinking I was having car trouble because I was bent over the car and he identifed it as a blue racer. ICK!

I rummaged around in the brush and found a stick to try to get him off my wheel. It was really gross and icky and creeped me out for the rest of the day.

[laura*]

Last week I was riding a meandering road through a residential area. I wasn't paying much attention to the road surface. Suddenly I noticed that I had just barely missed "something" as that "something" passed beneath my right pedal. My mind's first reaction was "Why did somone dump some chili on the road?" Then I noticed the bushy squirrel tail. I did not go back to look.

[RolliePollie]

I am cracking up. Poor bunny.

Did any of you ever see that Michelin tire commercial where all these poor cartoon forest creatures were getting run over because cars couldn't stop fast enough with their non-Michelin tires? The animals were alive but they were smooshed and had tire tracks on them. It was so horrifying and awful that it was funny. I'm sure it's on YouTube someplace.

[Seal]

I swear the squirrels around here have taken suicide pact! Its only a matter of time before I nail one especially now that its acorn season. I see at least one a day that's been hit by a cyclist. They see a bike its " hey instead of going for that nut on the other side of the path I think I'll panic in the middle of the road and zip back and forth until maybe she hits me!"

My riding buddy and I have taken to yelling GOOOOOO at them from afar.

Sorry about the bunny :(

[Catrin]

My riding buddy and I have taken to yelling GOOOOOO at them from afar.(

I talk to them as well, and to deer. There have been times where groups of deer have crossed the road in front of me, then the last one turns around and goes back because she forgot something. Or just wanted to give me an adrenalin rush...

Indeed, sorry about the bunny - though glad to hear it was dead already...

[arielmoon]

:(

I got distressed once when I rolled over a road kill squirrel. :(