Missed by that much... (warning,may upset some viewers)

jaydee · 03-11-2008, 09:19 PM

Whats that skip? you should have jumped higher.

XR6

Poor old skip

FGX-351 · 03-11-2008, 09:25 PM

It'll buff out

**Peuty** · 03-11-2008, 09:35 PM

Holy moly. Made a mess of that Falcon.

**ebxr8240** · 03-11-2008, 09:38 PM

Speed kills !! Must give way to wild life...

manxman · 03-11-2008, 09:44 PM

My brain hurts........

Elks · 03-11-2008, 09:46 PM

I hit a little one near work last month. Destroyed the front of the SSV. What are there things made of??

I'll post a pic when I can.

Rodp · 03-11-2008, 10:28 PM

Surprised the pursuit cars in WA don't have bullbars, not that I think it would have mattered in that instance.

Did the roo make it?

Spanrz · 03-11-2008, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Rodp

Did the roo make it?

With a roof like that, I doubt it very much.

And hitting a wombat is just as bad. Been there done that.

MAFIA · 08-11-2008, 01:52 AM

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Originally Posted by BA Waggn

And hitting a wombat is just as bad. Been there done that.

Yeah the fat @ss get in the way doesn't it.

Spewin for the roo and the BF MK3 XR6T.

Ricks_Xr6t · 22-11-2008, 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Rodp

Surprised the pursuit cars in WA don't have bullbars, not that I think it would have mattered in that instance.

Did the roo make it?

We do up north mate as we probably have 95% of australia's stray cattle and red roo's

Gabbs · 03-11-2008, 10:59 PM

I've been doing a few country runs and so far have seen 2 roos at once dart infront of me hit the gravel and then try and get traction and head for the other side of the road. If one does decide to jump infront of me though there is no way i'd be swerving thats for sure.

**Peuty** · 03-11-2008, 11:01 PM

The absolute best thing to do if a roo jumps out in front of you is to threshold brake and hit it. Swerving can get you in all kinds of dramas.

fordAU · 03-11-2008, 11:06 PM

The dangers of hitchhiking..

fiesta8u · 03-11-2008, 11:32 PM

Looks like one of the officers were bleeding too, they woulda crapped themselves i rekon.

NC1183 · 03-11-2008, 11:35 PM

Wombats and wallaby's hit even harder then that, they make a huge mess.

Best thing to do if one jumps out in front of you is hit the skids as hard as u can while maintaining control and keeping it straight.

05_ENFORCER · 03-11-2008, 11:40 PM

Cheap XR6T, 6 sdp auto for sale.
Veiwing at Maylands Police Academy, holding yard.

C

Fairlane · 03-11-2008, 11:47 PM

Looks like it was a hit my a meteor. Old skip must have bounced up high.

NC1183 · 03-11-2008, 11:51 PM

Looks like skip might have gotten the passengers side front corner, there looks to be a bit of the guard curled up

**Full Noise** · 04-11-2008, 05:48 AM

I wonder if the conversation went anything like this? :hihi:

HWP..........HWP 4 to base, over.
BASE.........Base receiving.
HWP..........I’ve hit one of the locals, over.
BASE.........Agggh, not again. Is it a fatality?
HWP..........Affirmative.
BASE.........Any witnesses? Over.
HWP..........Negative on that.
BASE.........Much damage?
HWP..........Metal damage, brain damage.
BASE.........You’ve got to stop watching Mad Max, over.
HWP..........What do you want me to do?
BASE.........Try and clean up the body and make it look like an accident before one of the elders finds out.
HWP..........What? I think that you’ve misunderstood my transmission. I’ve actually clobbered a kangaroo.
BASE.........Oh, that’s a change. How far did you have to go off the road before you got him?
HWP..........I didn’t this time. He actually jumped out in front of me while I was driving on the bitumen.
BASE.........Bull***t… really?
HWP..........Affirmative.
BASE.........That’ll make the paperwork easy for a change.
BASE…….....It’s a shame. That car only had three days to go before retirement.

burnz · 04-11-2008, 06:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Full Noise

I wonder if the conversation went anything like this? :hihi:

HWP..........HWP 4 to base, over.
BASE.........Base receiving.
HWP..........I’ve hit one of the locals, over.
BASE.........Agggh, not again. Is it a fatality?
HWP..........Affirmative.
BASE.........Any witnesses? Over.
HWP..........Negative on that.
BASE.........Much damage?
HWP..........Metal damage, brain damage.
BASE.........You’ve got to stop watching Mad Max, over.
HWP..........What do you want me to do?
BASE.........Try and clean up the body and make it look like an accident before one of the elders finds out.
HWP..........What? I think that you’ve misunderstood my transmission. I’ve actually clobbered a kangaroo.
BASE.........Oh, that’s a change. How far did you have to go off the road before you got him?
HWP..........I didn’t this time. He actually jumped out in front of me while I was driving on the bitumen.
BASE.........Bull***t… really?
HWP..........Affirmative.
BASE.........That’ll make the paperwork easy for a change.
BASE…….....It’s a shame. That car only had three days to go before retirement.

right i'm booking you on a 10:17 pointing out police stupidity.

Walt Kowalski · 08-11-2008, 03:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Full Noise

I wonder if the conversation went anything like this? :hihi:

BASE.........Try and clean up the body and make it look like an accident before one of the elders finds out.
.

ROFLMAO because it reminds me of the good ol days - I mean the bad ol days - when the elders dogs were fair game.

A certain feral cop in central NSW could not resist the temptation to have some crazy fun. This particular cop had a very strange sense of humour

One occasion when a silencer was confiscated from someone who had recently visited South Australia (where silencers were legal at the time) he thought he would use it to take care of the local dog population.

He and a colleague decided to visit the local Aboriginal Mission one very hot evening around 3am.

The colleague was told about how much fun it would be to sneak out there in the middle of the night and test the silencer on the local indigenous population's very large mob of dogs.

The colleague drove and the particular cop took care of half a dozen dogs from half a dozen shots. He was a crack shot obsessed with reloading cases/cartridges and shooting foxes from the paddy wagon on nightshift in winter when pelts fetched a handsome price (but thats another story).

He then handed the rifle over to the driver so the driver could join in the fun (but not before he stealthily removed the silencer) to have first shot.

Can you imagine the sound on a still night?
Can you imagine the shock the driver got?
Can you imagine the tribe wondering next morning how one bullet (thats all anyone heard) killed 7 dogs?

That cop did many many many crazy things and it was 20 yeras later that he got dischared as "hurt on duty".

The funny thing was that all the crazy things he had done over the years came out in the inquiry into whether he was mentally fit actually helped his case to be pensioned off as the decision makers were basically convinced he was nuts.

This is just one such TRUE story and maybe if ever someone starts a thread on crazy but true stories I might tell you some more.

BTW His middle son is a leading sports figure in 2008

DioMac · 23-11-2008, 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Munroman

ROFLMAO because it reminds me of the good ol days - I mean the bad ol days - when the elders dogs were fair game.

Awesome - your BS story sure added a lot to the thread...

Walt Kowalski · 01-12-2008, 04:17 PM

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Originally Posted by DioMac

Awesome - your BS story sure added a lot to the thread...

It was not BS mate. Its fair dinkum from the days before the media was interested in such stories and cops could do anything.

AndrewR_AUII · 04-11-2008, 09:50 AM

Cows are also bad...my boss did that in a mazda 121, cow ended up on the roof.
This about 10km out from centre of Adelaide....

DoreSlamR · 04-11-2008, 05:17 PM

I've been hit by roos 3 times. I say hit by because in all three cases I spot the bugger, slow right down to like 20km/h till i know what the hell it's doing, when they decide to dive head first onto the side of my car

This has happened 3 times!

un-freakin-believable

**redxm** · 04-11-2008, 05:32 PM

Did a late night run from Bourke to Engonia once, Lost count of the roos we barrelled after 70
Good old landcruiser with a proper bullbar

sk8xr8 · 04-11-2008, 08:25 PM

bloody roos!! imagine it.... 250,000 square kms to hop around, then they find a road, the only road for another 100,000 kms, then they find the only car for 50,000kms, then think to themselves....." geez, whats that?!? i might just try and stop that thing!!!"

yeh..... bloody roos!!!

Rodp · 04-11-2008, 10:23 PM

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Originally Posted by sk8xr8

bloody roos!! imagine it.... 250,000 square kms to hop around, then they find a road, the only road for another 100,000 kms, then they find the only car for 50,000kms, then think to themselves....." geez, whats that?!? i might just try and stop that thing!!!"

yeh..... bloody roos!!!

Because the grass is greener on the side of the road. Rain runoff or dew runoff. Better grass, more roos.

burnz · 04-11-2008, 08:29 PM

the roo's you really have to watch out for,
are the one wearing bandana with the rising sun on them.

Pinch · 04-11-2008, 08:39 PM

Got a panadol Sarge?

Big hit.

Wrote off a car hitting one once. Had a Shu-Roo after that and no probs, still saw prenty though - just not suicidal ones.

Emu's hurt too!

Yeah, don't swerve though.

Second the roo's hitting cars though. Not sure why that is. I had a mate in a Festiva clear pushed off the road as one bounded into his rear quarter. Must have taken a disliking to the colour?