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Location: Vermont USA | Have you ever had a bird poop on you or anyone you know while driving with the top down on a convertible or the sun roof open? |
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Location: Vermont USA | The wife and I were driving this morning and bird poop hit the windowshield on the drives side so this question came up as we looked at a convertible this spring. Eva said to ask the OFC folks so here it is.
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Seagull spray is the bigger danger around here, especially during fishing season. They're wheeling overhead while you clean fish and.....
Y'know, I swear those things can chew clamshell! |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | When I was a kid, my friend's mom had a paper route. (We went by car as it was a rural area.) One day I went with and had my arm out the window, and I got "bombed". So I don't think it matters if you are in a convertible or not. Lesson learned - keep all body parts inside the vehicle. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | My wife drives a convertible and the top is down about 40% of the time. Never had a problem with bird poop.
Bigger problem is that you just get a lot of dust and dirt inside he car and if you're not careful papers and stuff can blow out and the guy behind you thinks you're a little bug. If you've got a bald top, wear sunscreen.
Other than that, if you live in a nice climate there's not much better than a convertible. Her lease is up in October and she wouldn't consider anything else.
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Location: South of most, North of few | I was riding my Fatboy along one of the barrier islands (Ft. Myers Beach), when a pelican unloaded and it hit me right in the chest. Felt like I got hit by a sandbag. You know what they eat, and coming out the opposite end, it doesn't smell like fresh seafood anymore. I had to stop at a 7 11 to wash it off. It stunk like an overused porta potti, and got baked on the engine pretty good. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Way To go Jim. I was just about to eat. :p
My fun this summer is finding yellow jacket nests in my yard while mowing lawn. I'm up to three and so far only ran over one before I saw it. Nasty little buggers.
OK back to talking about crap. Don't want to hijack the thread. |
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| I've never owned a vert or anything with t-tops or a sun roof so the answer is no. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | This is a really shitty thread
somebody had to say it............. |
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Location: SE Michigan | When I was in basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio; our Drill Instructor was marching us around on the drill pad while bitching us out in a most colorful fashion.
Suddenly a large black bird flew overhead and unloaded on him, right down the front of his shirt. It was very difficult not to laugh but it was imperative not to.
Those who have been in boot camp understand. |
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Location: Cincinnati | I was riding my motorcycle to my summer construction job when a bird nailed me about a quarter mile from the job site. Fortunately I was wearing a faceshield on my helmet or it would have been all over my face. I stopped and wiped off the shield in the grass. No way I was going to ride in with bird shit on me. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Not exactly in a convertible but we were in New York for an important business meeting back in the 80's....all suited up and looking good.
Right before we walk into the building a pigeon shits on my buddies head and suit. I laughed my ass off but he didn't see the humor. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Happened to Deb
Not while driving though.
Last Summer we were quietly having a coffee at an outdoor cafe over at Southbank near where I live and a Seagull crapped on her head.
Two girls sitting next to us saw what happened and laughed so hard I'm sure they nearly crapped themselves.
It was funny!! :D
Not that I was game to laugh!!
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Location: Cicero, NY | Sat a couple seats behind a guy at a baseball game and we were underneath an overhang that was just loaded with pigeons. Sure enough, this pigeon unloads on him with a seemingly never ending stream. Covered his head, shoulder, beer, just everything. Would have never thought one small bird could carry so much. His buddy jumped, burst out laughing and that led the entire section into a giant roar. Then the jokes started (i.e. "...don't you know it's better to be pissed off than shit on...etc.). WAAY more entertaining than the game and worth every penny of admission.
'Course we moved out from under the overhang too. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | ...and that's at least a 5 dollar beer ruined. Oh the humanity... |
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Location: Michigan | OMG :rolleyes: , I get bitched at for using capital letters and yet here we are talking about getting shitted on? :eek: I dont understand. :( GWB |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Back to the topic. Fear of getting shat upon is not a reason to avoid a convertible. You have just as much probability if being hit if you walk down the street or ride your bike. The birds are not smart enough to say "Oh, there's a lawyer in a Boxster let's go get him". We only wish they were that smart.
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Location: south east Michigan | :D :D
Okay Dave, so you have met Mark and broken bread with him. Does that give you a free pass for lawyer jokes around here?? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Who mentioned Mark? I was just using a hypothetical lawyer in a hypothetical boxster. Who might hypothetically live in a town with blue astro-turf. Dave |
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Location: South of most, North of few | hypothetically speaking. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | hypothermically speaking, would you be able to sue the pigeon? |
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Location: GA USA | Hyperbolically speaking, wouldn't it then be a STOOL pigeon? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I believe it would be, but only if it talked. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | While riding, I've been hit with bird dung at least a few times, but when mixed with everything else that comes up and smacks you along the way, it doesn't make a whole lot of difference. The rain will wash it away the next time you're caught in a storm. On the other hand, I refuse to park under trees for this very reason. Never was nailed in a convertible, and I've owned three of them. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Not yet. I keep the top down for one or two months in the summer. This time of year it's up in the morning, but down on the way home. So far so good, but we don't have that many pigeons and few seagulls. I've had every other part of the car shat upon and the top has been hit many times when it was up.
With my bald dome, I have to wear a hat, so if it got hit, I'd just grab another hat.
There was a video about some guy in a convertible (I think it was a Boxster) who "stole" someone's parking space, so the offended driver threw a bunch of bird seed or popcorn in the convertible until the pigeons filled it with poop. I saw something similar when I came out of a restaurant and somebody's convertible was filled with it. Fortunately I had parked further away. The worst I've had was when the sprinklers came on at the golf course and filled my car. It hardly ever rains here, so sprinklers are more of a hazard than rain.
If Dave ever comes to visit again, I'll drive him around under all the birds I know. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I had a 60 Caddy conv once and had it repainted just before shipping to the north. While in the shippers lot it got hit by a bird in the middle of the hood. They put it under an awning to be nice to me! Bird spoo and fresh paint don't do well together. They refused to pay for a new paint job and I wound up selling the car. Bastids! |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I know, sometimes bird poo, from the pigeons in NYC, is like acid.
Little wonder considering what those pigeons eat. |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | When I was a teenager and wearing glasses I was accross the street from home. I got it right on my right eyelash and right lens of my glasses. Luckily I was basically home and I cleaned up right away. I also grew up hearing that when a bird sh@ts on you it is some form of good luck.
I first thought is was a chinese superstition. There is a chinese delicacy that is called birds nest soup. My mother tried to slip that one by me at dinner once. I was a picky eater at that time and there was no way I way going to drink something that smelled like/looked like it.
I also heard the good luck thing from various other ethnic backrounds. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | .....I think that comes from the "when life hands you lemons"......school of philosophy. |
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Location: NJ | i swollwed a fly or ladybug or something once while walking through a flea market.
it was not fun |
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Location: big island | shoulda stuck with the fleas, al. they are easier to swallow and digest. |
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Location: NJ | I was walking through UnionSquare park in Manhattan last year . . .
I heard a loud "rustling" in trees above me and "Bang!" . . it felt like somebody'd just run up and slapped me on the top of my head with a closed fist!
I spun around, and there on the walkway was a dazed squirrel furiously shaking his head before he staggered-off into the bushes . . . |
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Location: NJ | . . . oh, and btw:
the little f@cker got my wallet!! |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | When I was installing my car stereo last year, I was crouched in the passenger seat with the passenger door open and the window up - I hear this "Thwack" and feel something graze my head - I look up and there's a "stain" on my window... I look down and there's an unconscious bird laying on the floor of the car.
The kid's tried to save it... to no avail :( |
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Location: big island | reminds me of fabio on the photo shoot roller coaster ride a few years ago. he had beautiful women sitting to his left and his right and as the coaster is descending rapidly fabio had a head on collision with a goose. they found the goose dead at the bottom of the tracks and fabio had a nice gash on his forehead. now i ain't a fabio fan, but i used to sell the fine art of pino daeni, who had used fabio for many romance novel covers. |
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Location: big island | i cannot recall any bird poop stories but i have a vivid memory of the day i got shot in the face by lioness pee at griffith park zoo in california. i was at least a dozen feet away from her when she lifted her tail. master blaster super soaker. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | OK Pauly. You should have enough evidence now to convince your wife that she should worry about something else. |
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Location: NJ | ". . lioness pee at griffith park zoo . . "
NUTHIN' beats BronxZooMonkeyPoo!!! |
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| Originally posted by cliff:
". . lioness pee at griffith park zoo . . "
NUTHIN' beats BronxZooMonkeyPoo!!! There is no way that that sentence could be defended in a court of law. |
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Location: NJ | Not in a court of "wig-wearers", anyway . . . |
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Location: big island | the monkeys down at busch gardens in florida regularly recycle their bananas. they catch it comin' out and drop it right back in their mouths. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | OK, I'm outta here now........... |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Cliff,
You made me remember what happened to my sister in Florida. When I was nine and my sister was ten years old. We went to Monkey Jungle in Miami.
I have not been there sinse but at that time you walk in what amounts to a caged walk way. My sister looked up to watch a monkey. He stopped above her and you guessed it BOMBS away. I can't remeber exactly where she got it but I just couldn't stop laughing after it happened. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | When I worked at the bronx zoo, I remember watching the Gorillas, when they got bored, fling their poo at the tourists. That was always good for a laugh. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Also, my wife has the same beliefs about poo and pee bringing good fortune ... the stories she tells! |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | As for the bird's nest soup, my mother-in-law was trying to convince me it was a delicacy and I ate it. It's not that great. It's made out of swallow vomit that's been scrapped off a cave wall. |
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Location: NJ | "Check", please . . . . |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | OK you guys. I've got something that will gross you all out so much you will never click on this thread again. I don't know how to post links, but just go to Youtube and type in "guy eats bird". After you have taken care of "cleanup", let me know how you liked it. |
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Location: Jet City | Feed them alka seltzer. They'll shit no more. |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Originally posted by an4340:
When I worked at the bronx zoo, I remember watching the Gorillas, when they got bored, fling their poo at the tourists. That was always good for a laugh. |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Originally posted by an4340:
As for the bird's nest soup, my mother-in-law was trying to convince me it was a delicacy and I ate it. It's not that great. It's made out of swallow vomit that's been scrapped off a cave wall. Rick you are a brave man to have done that. I have a simple rule. If I ask what is in the food that people want me to eat and they can't or won't tell me I'm not eating it. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | It was very earthy tasting. I'll try anything once. |
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Location: Vermont USA | If I told someone what goes here they wouldn't believe me.
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | While in several SEA countries, I've had bird nest soup (Where I was at it was a nest soaked and cooked for broth. The nest were only found in the highest dead trees which brought a top price in the markets. It was the saliva that held the nest together), cat, dog, monkey and some non-domesticated creatures.
As to bird crap, ya need to fish down here in Florida. Nothing craps like a cormorant (little bastards)!
Now let's talk about 'eating' bugs on a motorcycle... :D |
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