Damn Cats :(

[Riksta]

At around 5am this morning I was heading home from a LAN, along a nice stretch of highway (80k/hr zone).

I'm sitting on 80k/hr in the left lane, and I notice a cat in the right hand lane that had literally come from nowhere. Now, instead of doing something smart like waiting for me to pass, or heading towards the island in the centre of the road (two lanes each way with a couple of meters of island between), it absolutely BOLTS into the left hand lane (I don't think I have EVER seen an animal move so damn fast). Before I even have a chance to react, I hear "thud" on the bumper and felt something also hit my drivers side rear wheel.

Having the C2R/Havoc kit on my car, its put a fair crack near the driver's side foglamp and scratched it a little bit. I'm not happy. You might remember my previous post about scraping the underside of the kit parking against a gutter, I'm thinking now when I get some money together I'll get the scrape fixed as well as this cat-induced injury to my pride & joy. Unfortunately I don't have a permanent job, I just do temp/contract type jobs for an agency, and I'm out of work at the moment.

I'll see if I can get some photos up tomorrow, I guess its not really that bad - it could have been worse (kangaroo/cow/moose/ex girlfriend etc) that I hit, I guess I'm lucky it was only a small cat. Let's just say that to the people who know what they're doing repairing these kits, It'll probably just buff out! Also, I don't know the way the airbags work, but I was doing 80 when I hit so its probably a good thing it didn't hit a sensor!

Anyway, that's my slight rant for the night. Hopefully it won't cost me too much to get it back to the way it was!

[ronwest]

Originally Posted by Riksta

Hopefully it won't cost me too much to get it back to the way it was!

I collected someone else's roadkill (roo) with my Brumby bar at around 120kph. I'd pulled out to overtake a truck and had nowhere to go other than over it. It cracked the bar right through. Unfortunately we were heading away from home at the time but a stopover at Supercheap and a roll of racing tape and we were underway again.

Not sure what colour your car is but you may get a close enough match that it won't bother you for a while.

(edit: oh, I see it's red... it was red tape that we bought. Not close to the maroon I've got but much closer to your colour)

Had mine repaired when I got home. A brilliant job! Can't tell from the front that it's been patched.

[wodahs]

i was in the truck and idicated to go in to the right lane coz someone lost a queen size bed in the left lane ( fat materiss type with heeps of small feet ) the guy in the right ( enough behind me atleast 2 car lengths ) didnt like me commin ova so he planted it and came up me left then saw the materiss but to late to do anything , the late moment statsmen mounted the upside down materiss and ended up airbourn
even thou it was a holden - felt sorry for the car coz it was put throu that

[Riksta]

Here's the pics of the damage to the car.

Sorry, no pics of the damage to the cat.

[The Monty]

Ouch. I took some paint off my front bar and bent up my mesh and numberplate holder after collecting a cat a while ago. I then had someone tell me they had every right to let them out at night. I simply said, thats a good way of keeping there numbers down, you let them out, Ill collect them in my car. She wont talk to me now.

[HLC]

i hate cats. this one cat that belongs to our neighbours always sits on my car, scratched the roof, craps in our yard, and tries to get my pet rabbits. oh well hahah

[Soundwarp]

Insurance????

[Mechan1k]

Last time I had an encounter with a cat ... I was in the Territory and it decided to bolt across the road ... ended up under the rear wheel.

I guess you are lucky it wasn't a wallaby ... like I encountered on Putty road a few months back ... thank god for nudge bar and strong driving lights ... that's all I can say.

[FGII-XR6]

Originally Posted by HLC

i hate cats. this one cat that belongs to our neighbours always sits on my car, scratched the roof, craps in our yard, and tries to get my pet rabbits. oh well hahah

yea the only good cat is a dead cat

Originally Posted by The Monty

Ouch. I took some paint off my front bar and bent up my mesh and numberplate holder after collecting a cat a while ago. I then had someone tell me they had every right to let them out at night. I simply said, thats a good way of keeping there numbers down, you let them out, Ill collect them in my car. She wont talk to me now.

actuactally they don't have the right to let them out. and if the animal is microchipped as they are required to be by law now you can take the body to the council and ID the owner who is then responsible for the damage caused to your car. if you catch the cat that is causing you greif you can hand it over to the animal shelter to be impounded the owner then gets fined for not keeping their animal in if it is chipped, if it is not chiped it will never cause you dramas again. Yes i too hate cats they kill native animals and scratch out cars, mayby there should be a bounty on cats

[The Monty]

If cats sit on your car, put pepper all over it.
Wash it off after a week, and you wont have cats on it again.

[robbo_yobbo]

Grinspoon got it right - dead cat 3x

[DOHC-DJ]

damn cats... hate em

hope you get it sorted out

[samftr]

I hit one on the way to the car show at cleveland. he ran under the centre of the car, it got clipped by the front crossmember but he ran away so I couldnt see if it was ok, but the joys of having a standard height car :P:P

no damage to mine however. I have also collected a small bag of concrete, I mean, wallaby, it did the same thing hopped away, no damage either LOL.

good luck with the repairs.

PS are you doing labour hire stuff (manpower workpac etc)?

sucks!

[BPXR6T]

We got a dog stuck up in our tailshaft once. We had to help the owners family lift the car up on the side of the road to scrape the remains out. Poor poochie...

[mcflux]

[BAFalconXT]

Originally Posted by The Monty

If cats sit on your car, put pepper all over it.
Wash it off after a week, and you wont have cats on it again.

Or you buy some rat sack and cat food, mix it together. This solves the problem and saves some native birds at the same time.

You should have tried to find a tag on the cat so you could call the owners and see if they were willing to pay for the damage. :evil3:
I doubt they would understand

[AUTickford]

Haha thats a great pic ghia5l,****in cats are oxygen thiefs and deserve every thing they get[MEOWWWWWWWsplatthumpthump]

[FGII-XR6]

just a bit of a laugh here the revenge of car owners http://www.gnn.tv/threads/8239/Inven...with_dead_cats

feeling hungry ?? try KFK
http://www.foldedspace.org/weblog/2006/02/post.html

[Riksta]

I simply said, thats a good way of keeping there numbers down, you let them out, Ill collect them in my car. She wont talk to me now.

That's a classic, I laughed

I hit one on the way to the car show at cleveland. he ran under the centre of the car, it got clipped by the front crossmember but he ran away so I couldnt see if it was ok, but the joys of having a standard height car

As far as I know, my car is standard height, its just that the non-standard bumper bar hangs lower than what the normal bumper does. I think if I had a bog standard bumper it probably would have hit the same part of my car, and may even still be alive.

Insurance????

I've got fully comprehensive with a $300 excess, so if repairs are going to cost too much more than $300 I will most likely claim.

PS are you doing labour hire stuff (manpower workpac etc)?

Yeah, I do various office/admin type roles through Challenge. Been a bit quiet the last few weeks though unfortunately :(

You should have tried to find a tag on the cat so you could call the owners and see if they were willing to pay for the damage.

Now I'm tempted to go for a little slow drive along that stretch with a garbage bag and see if the corpse is still around on the side of the road...


Many laughs @ Mechanic Kittah and the two links from au3xr6

[mcflux]

Originally Posted by BAFalconXT

You should have tried to find a tag on the cat so you could call the owners and see if they were willing to pay for the damage. :evil3:
I doubt they would understand

LOL that reminds me of Seinfeld where George has a jumper land on his car, and he contacts the jumper's family to get an insurance payout

[BAFalconXT]

Originally Posted by Riksta

Now I'm tempted to go for a little slow drive along that stretch with a garbage bag and see if the corpse is still around on the side of the road...

If it was any other animal, dog, cow, sheep, goat?? you probably could get some money. Owners should keep there animals under control, cat owners think cats are somehow superior.