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Drove down to my hunting camp in southern Ohio yesterday morning to drop off some water and my tubs of hunting clothes. On the way home on a 2 lane State route I saw 5 Turkey Buzzards eating something off the side of the road. 4 of them flew off before I got to them. The last one took off at the last minute and broke the windshield on my F-150. Glass shards flew all over inside. Luckily, I have zero Deductible on comprehensive. My truck turned over 100k miles on the way down. Safelite fixed it in my driveway today.

Ron

Had almost the same thing happen a couple weeks ago, only I not only had to worry about hitting a buzzard, I also had to worry about the G-D fool behind me riding up my ass.

I hit one with my shoulder while riding my motorcycle. No damage to me.

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Hit one years ago. It cleared the windshield but hit the blue light bar (firefighter) on the roof of my pickup.

Poor bird looked like a plane nosediving into a field beside the road.

There’s s hit on vehicles known as brakes and speed controls if properly utilized! DUH!!

I could imagine the smell also

Be thankful it didn't void it's stomach contents on your truck too, they vomit to gain altitude in circumstances like that.

I was driving over to Texas, saw one on dead coon in road as I went by, coming back home later there were six , I slowed down a little, five went off road, one flew into oncoming lane and nailed front windshield on Grand Wagoneer, glass got on wife, thank goodness we had sunglasses on, our local glass guy in little town got us a real Jeep windshield wish dealer or no body else could with strike going on, now still have to calibrate it.

Same thing happened to me about a year ago somewhere north of Abilene when I topped a rise going 75 or so. One of the buzzards waited just a little too long before deciding to depart and he smacked the schidt outa my windshield, high up on the passenger side. Had it hit low on the driver side I mighta been wearing a lot of buzzard guts since the windshield was already cracked in that area. There was a guy about ten or twelve car lengths behind me and I've wondered how it all looked to him.

I've done exactly the same thing.
Shattered the windshield.

The black buzzards will just step off the road while you go by.
Somebeechs will give you that "you're next" look.

Yep hit one with my Yukon XL doing about 65 on Hway 90 outside of Mossy Head, came up off a dead critter and a tractor trailer was coming in the opposite direction, they got the bird dodge action, I got the bird splattered on my windshield post, down the side, the windshield and the top. Spattered buzzard is great fun to get off a big vehicle....gives the olfactory nerves a real work out. Only thing worse is when you wet it.

Had the same thing happen to me when I was riding my DR 650. It smelled strong like ammonia.

Nearly happened to me, only I missed the buzzard but got barf and crap all over the car ,next stop car wash

Hit one on I-95 going 80-85 in a Nascar Pack. I could not swerve into the right lane without a major accident. My Wife's Brand new car, no damage except guts .

How does one hit something that is in plain sight?

I think that's the only thing Gruff hasn't hit with his truck.

On the shoulder of the road feasting on road kill. It might have been 3-4 feet off the ground.

Not a buzzard but one year during the eagle mating season I was a half mile from home and had just rolled my window up when 2 eagles who were chasing each other at Mach IV crossed my trucks path and 1 of the eagles hit the drivers side window which I’d just rolled up….thankfully or that thing would’ve hit my head doing 100mph in a dive. It hit the window high by the upper door jam and busted the rain guard and left feathers in every seem and gap all the way down the drivers side. If I hadn’t moments before rolled my window up I would have taken a direct hit to my noggin, which would’ve left a mark. 😉

It amazingly didn’t break the window since it hit high and the door jam absorbed a lot of the energy. Eagles, like a lot of critters, get pretty brazen when they’re feeling frisky and they lose a lot of their usual caution during that time. I initially didn’t know what the hell I hit, initially thinking someone threw a rock while I was doing 50mph but the shower of endless feathers told me the story.

Dad had just bought a brand-new Ranger pickup, and looking out his picture window, he saw "something" going on at the bottom of the hill about 3/4 mile away. He got in his new truck, and drove over there to see what it was. It was a buzzard eating on a dead skunk. As Dad got closer, the buzzard took off, and circled around, puking all over his new Ranger. Regurgitated skunk was a no-go for Dad, he drove to town (about six miles up the road) and then spent $10 at the quarter car wash, trying to get the stench off the Ford.

He laughed about it when he told me about it, but I knew him pretty good, and that $10 was hard-spent, he hated to spend money.................I sure do miss him..........