Driving into work today, it was pretty windy. A low flying bird thought it would be a good idea to divebomb the road. Unfortunately, I was going 70, with a truck I had just passed right behind me and a couple cars coming the other way. All I could do was go straight and hope. Alas, the dumb bird flew right at my WRX's hood scoop, exploding in a mess of feathers and goo. I immediately pulled over and popped the hood, because hey, nobody wants to be picking well-done sparrow out or their intercooler at the end of the day. Fortunately, most of the bird bounced over the car, and there were only a few feathers and parts on the intercooler.

So how about you?

 

I had a a fairly big rock end up in there that a tractor trailor in front of me kicked up. It made one hell of a loud noise but didn't break anything. I pulled over and pulled the rock out. Luckily at that time I didn't have the blocking plate off of it and the turbo in.

 

LOL, some hamburger buns and spices would be nice

 

Uh, no thanks. The explosion was mostly a sickly yellow color. Windshield wipers got rid of it fairly quick. It left a truly nasty stench for a little while too. The bird may not have been healthy, or maybe it had some eggs on board. That might explain why it was flying so darn low Next time I'll try to hit a chicken....

 

you made it crap itself... lol.

 

well I sure did get a good laugh out of that birds misfortune.

 

same here..

we gonna get more of those after the STis r delivered


w/ 30 mm scoops . we ll get way more ridiculous than sparrows..

 

How can you people be so cavalier with a life. Frankly I'm disgusted. this blantant diregard for nature is alarming. That bird could have had a family that relied on it to provide for them. think of the children!!!!! The whole family may need to move out of their nest into a smaller one in some ones wet rain gutter. And the mother she'll probably have to sell herself to crows or something just to catch the worm.







just in case ...I'm kiding

 

the weirdest thing I have had so far is a pine cone ......whoo hoo

~*~*Jenny*~*~

 

yea you have to watch out for those pine cones....

 

Darn birds! hehe the weirdest thing I've ever found in my intercooler/scoop is not that weird actually. I've sucked in an big moth once at night, and drove for about 20minutes after that, and when i popped the hood when i got home it flew away.. I usually just get leaves, and one time I caught an cigarrette butt in there, probably from some guy throwing one out his car window on the highway

 

i got a damn huge cone fell onto my Benzo's windshield once..

made a loud @ss noise..

was parked in a vista point in lake Tahoe..

so many ppl saw it..

i was pissed!!

nothing was broken tho..

god bless my Benz.. :P

 

thats a good one..