Be today. Late to a wedding in Chico, CA. Speeding down country roads... Bird flies into my hood scoop, couldn't stop to peel him off the inter cooler... Got to wedding to find the little guy was pretty much splattered on the TMIC.

Any similar stories with things flying into hood scoops?

Also a memorial for Bird Mc Birdington will be held tomorrow in San Ramon.

 

Lol nice. I had similar experience but it wasn't in the tmic. I was driving to Pleasanton taking the back road from Castro Valley when out of the corner of my eye I see a white ball ........ Then I focus a little bit more and I realize that there's a semi driving above me on 580 so I automatically freak out and prepare for my windshield to shatter cause I figured it was a rock the truck kicked up.......then the white ball hits with a very quite thump and I realize it was just bird........well actually the blood and guts on my windshield told me it was a bird. Hahaha lol

 

Reminds me of this...

 

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lmao into the innercooler and out to the exhaust

 

Ha! Yeah we get about 1 bird-in-intercooler story here a year. They just love us for some reason

BTW, I was a Gunners Mate on the Essex (LHD2) out of San Diego, where were you?

 

Huge vacuum leak? LOL

 

I was an IS on the Essex back in Japan from 04 to 07. Im currently out at camp parks in Dublin. Small world!

 

No birds but plastic bags seem to find their way into my hoodscoop no matter how hard i swerve to avoid it on the freeway. Its a monthly occurance..

 

holy crap! damn that was a great ship to be on. Small world indeed!

 

Any pics of what happened?

 

chicken salad

 

STInavyguy WINS! FATALITY!!!

 

 

Haha I took a plastic bag from camden on 17 all the way til sjairport before it came out

 

In 10 years I've never found anything other than bugs, rocks, and cigarettes in my hoodscoop.