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Model specific boards => Golf mk6 => Topic started by: Rolfe on 07 May 2010, 19:40
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Bizarre accidents with the MkVI, we have a winner.
(http://www.b5-dark-mirror.demon.co.uk/duck1.jpg)
(http://www.b5-dark-mirror.demon.co.uk/duck2.jpg)
I was at an election count last night, and didn't leave till 4am. I had a drive of almost an hour and a half to get home (it's a big constituency), and dawn was gradually breaking as I travelled. Somewhere the other side of Lockerbie, I came over a small rise to see (momentarily) two wildlife specimens apparently necking in the middle of the road. I had no chance to stop, and they had no chance, period. I knew I'd killed whatever they were.
By the time I got home I'd almost forgotten about it. I garaged the car and went in to bed. This afternoon I went out to take the election stickers off the windows and go fetch a prescription from the chemist. I was rather taken aback to realise I'd driven all the way from Lockerbie with a dead duck wedged in the front grille.
The good news is that the damage is only to the plastic honeycomb grille and a new one is on order.
Rolfe.
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That's Sunday roast sorted then!! :grin:
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Love can kill you or set you free! :smiley:
Are you going to cook the poor bird?
Beautiful picture though slightly morbid.
Suits the political landscape. :rolleyes:
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There's an SNP badge visible in one of the shots, and I'd just like to say this is by no means to be taken as a metaphor. :evil: The SNP increased its share of the vote by a couple of percentage points and held all its seats from 2005. (And anybody who thought we could hold Glasgow East was in cloud cuckoo land.)
Rolfe.
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Can i have it? you know you can't eat your own roadkill! :evil:
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Can i have it? you know you can't eat your own roadkill! :evil:
She will you know. :evil:
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That is frecking awesome Rolfe!!
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There's an SNP badge visible in one of the shots, and I'd just like to say this is by no means to be taken as a metaphor. :evil: The SNP increased its share of the vote by a couple of percentage points and held all its seats from 2005. (And anybody who thought we could hold Glasgow East was in cloud cuckoo land.)
Rolfe.
nice duck!
re snp increase in vote... i take it a few people came off the dole then, not enough in my opinion looking at the labour vote :sick:
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Missed you Rolfe.
I'll give you a fiver for the Duck if it's still fresh.
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Missed you Rolfe.
I'll give you a fiver for the Duck if it's still fresh.
She'll probably give you the duck if you fit her grille! :grin:
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Quack quack could of been worse
lucky its only the grill :grin:
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Quack quack could of been worse
lucky its only the grill :grin:
I'll have to starve as I like grilled duck. :sad:
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Shame about the duck
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however...
Truly magnificent photo :grin:
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What happened to the other very s!utty duck?
Don't these birds read the highway code?
Sorry about your grille.
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I know I shouldn't really laugh but this has got to be the funniest thing I will ever read on this forum. LOL
a few years ago i hit a pigeon on the motorway, i vaguely remember the pigeon had tried to fly across but a tall lorry that I was following had hit it and seems like it instantly killed it, and the dead lifeless carcass just dropped towards my car. i instantly knew it was going to hit me, but i daren't change lanes because i wasn't fully aware whether there was traffic in my blind spots, so i just sort of carried on driving and then cringed as the pigeon hit somewhere around the front bumper.
i got to work and checked, there seemed to be no visible damage to the car, no more than before anyway!
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What happened to the other very s!utty duck?
Don't these birds read the highway code?
Sorry about your grille.
It's almost certainly a two-dimensional silhouette on the road between Lockerbie and Lochmaben. I think they were courting. I just got a very quick impression of two figures sort of rearing up, confronting each other, then bang-bang. I wasn't even sure it was birds - I wondered if it could have been boxing hares. I had intended to check the car when I got home, but it was about 5.15am and I was totally zonked. I thought there might be a few feathers. I didn't expect an entire mallard!
Rolfe.
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Now who's the tough bird! :laugh:
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How much does the grille cost?
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Quite honestly, I didn't ask. I'll find out when I make the booking to have it fitted. The car was already provisionally scheduled to go in for a couple of days to have a nasty scratch sustained during the deep snow fixed, and I just called into the garage to ask if a grille could be ordered for fitting at the same time.
I'm feeling a bit resigned about it. Presumably nasty surprise #3 is still awaiting.
Rolfe.
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Quite honestly, I didn't ask. I'll find out when I make the booking to have it fitted. The car was already provisionally scheduled to go in for a couple of days to have a nasty scratch sustained during the deep snow fixed, and I just called into the garage to ask if a grille could be ordered for fitting at the same time.
I'm feeling a bit resigned about it. Presumably nasty surprise #3 is still awaiting.
Rolfe.
For God's sake don't even think on these lines. Bad karma. :lipsrsealed:
Let's say the result of the National Election is the 3rd surprise which ever way you look at it! :smiley:
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What happened to the other very s!utty duck?
Maybe it ducked?
(thats worse than the other posts on here :lipsrsealed:)
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funny :grin: i'd leave it there till it rots!!! u could say its some sort of trophy, because the car is a 'beast'.
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I should maybe explain that the photos have a little unpremeditated artistic licence.
When I saw the duck wedged in the radiator grille, my first instinct was to pull it out, and deposit the corpse in the bin. I then left on a short errand, and while I was out I called into the garage to report the damage and request the necessary part be ordered. While I and the garage owner were examining the grille, we removed a couple more bits [ETA: of the grille, not the duck!] that were loose inside.
It was only as I was returning home, I thought about telling the forum, and then I realised the natural response would be, pictures or it didn't happen. So when I got back, I retreived the corpse from the bin and replaced it for the photoshoot.
It doesn't look quite the same. It was originally more wedged, and I think the head might have been inside and the arse sticking out. But it looks better like this. And it's close enough! :evil:
Rolfe.
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You are de best! :laugh:
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LMFAO!!!!! :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin:
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I am now reacting as I got choked laughing and the wine just dripped out of my nose. I am a bit merry and I thought I was bleeding!
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It was only as I was returning home, I thought about telling the forum, and then I realised the natural response would be, pictures or it didn't happen. So when I got back, I retreived the corpse from the bin and replaced it for the photoshoot.
:grin:
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Rolfe, you're a legend! That's gonig the extra mile for the forum! :laugh:
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When I die, Rolfe will be my undertaker.
Such respect for the dead is unheard of.
And she's got a black car!
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Don't say it's black! it is definately blue! she's very proud of that fact! :laugh:
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Don't say it's black! it is definately blue! she's very proud of that fact! :laugh:
I'm dead meat now!
Same colour as Snoops's lubed wagon, I presume.
Now, if it was Snoops's car, the duck would have slipped off beautifully.
PS: OF! It's the darker blue, is it not? Nearly black at night.
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Blue Graphite, you peasant. :rolleyes:
Rolfe.
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Well am1w and some others have been responsible for a couple of threads entitled "what do you give your mk6 to drink"
I think this thread should be entitle "what do you give your mk6 to eat" :laugh:
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Blue Graphite, you pheasant. :rolleyes:
Rolfe.
:laugh:
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Good point. Pheasant was my best guess as to the species of the casualty until I saw the actual mallard. The roads round here are positively infested with the damn things. They breed them to shoot, and only hit about 80%, leaving the others flapping around in everybody's hair.
Rolfe.
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Good point. Pheasant was my best guess as to the species of the casualty until I saw the actual mallard. The roads round here are positively infested with the damn things. They breed them to shoot, and only hit about 80%, leaving the others flapping around in everybody's hair.
Rolfe.
I think you should take up shooting and not use your beautiful blue car as a shotgun replacement. It's a rather uneconomical way of controlling wildlife. :laugh:
PS: You should post those pictures on the www! Classics in the making.
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Quality :laugh:
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Blue Graphite, you peasant. :rolleyes:
Rolfe.
Am1w your getting in more trouble :grin:
Rolfe, i think you need this mod for your car
(http://i918.photobucket.com/albums/ad28/p3asa1/2010-04-09182529.jpg)
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When i shouted DUCK i meant swerve. :grin: :laugh:
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PS: You should post those pictures on the www! Classics in the making.
I guarantee somebody will say "fake".
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Quality :smiley:
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PS: You should post those pictures on the www! Classics in the making.
I guarantee somebody will say "fake".
As I said above, that would be right, too. I should really have taken the photographs before I pulled the corpse out of the grille, but I didn't think of it at that point. Then when I did, I didn't bother recreating the exact original positioning, which if I recall correctly was arse-out. Also, some loose bits of grille had been tossed aside as well.
It's more artistic, but it has lost a degree of realism.
Rolfe.
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hey rolfe, did u eat it? it would of been a waste of some roast duck.
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It's more artistic, but it has lost a degree of realism.
Rolfe.
I was just kidding :)
i showed the photo to a guy at work and he told me about his episode in his old Ford Focus and a pigeon... somehow driving along he decapitated a pigeon, at the time he hit it the body just seemed to bounce off the bonnet, but after a while the bonnet seemed to be a bit loose, so at home he opened the bonnet to find the pigeon's head roll off onto the floor. Somehow the head must have got jammed inbetween just under the bonnet and the top part of the grille.
These are things that you would never believe unless you actually experienced it yourself.
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Ducks eh?
I saw three of the daft duckers waddle into the hole in the wall foyer of HSBC on Park Row in Leeds yesterday. Somehow they activated the automatic door opening when all three landed in front of it and they promptly walked in. P*ss funny.
And if you're quick Rolfe they might still be there - you could eat one or maybe shove it through the other side of your grille. Two ducks will always be better than one!!!!