Rabbits

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Dave Liquorice

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• May 31, 2005

• #1

Fupping rabbits, why do they leap out 10' in front of you? Had one do
that early Monday morning driving down to Leeds for work. It managed
to collide just inside the offside front head light, smashing the
corner of the grill, the plastic headlamp shroud pop riveted to the
metal work behind and two of the headlamp adjuster sockets. Grrr...

Hopping mad, bunny wasn't hopping anymore though, body there, guts
over there, clumps of fur spread along 20yds of road. Though it was a
pheasant at first due to the plume of white floaty bits.

No doubt the grill, being a large and colour co-ordinated plastic
moulding fupping expensive. B-) 2001 Disco II Bonati Grey.

Looked on Beamends but not listed...

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Tom Woods

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• May 31, 2005

• #2

On Tue, 31 May 2005 21:55:27 +0100 (BST), "Dave Liquorice"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Fupping rabbits, why do they leap out 10' in front of you? Had one do
>that early Monday morning driving down to Leeds for work. It managed
>to collide just inside the offside front head light, smashing the
>corner of the grill, the plastic headlamp shroud pop riveted to the
>metal work behind and two of the headlamp adjuster sockets. Grrr...
>
>Hopping mad, bunny wasn't hopping anymore though, body there, guts
>over there, clumps of fur spread along 20yds of road. Though it was a
>pheasant at first due to the plume of white floaty bits.
>
>No doubt the grill, being a large and colour co-ordinated plastic
>moulding fupping expensive. B-) 2001 Disco II Bonati Grey.
>
>Looked on Beamends but not listed...

Was it a very tall rabbit?, or is your disco very low?

 

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Dom J

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• May 31, 2005

• #3

If a kamkazie rabbit smash's your headlamp, think yourself lucky!. Try
hitting a fox in an Astra van, you will need:

New Bumper
2 new headlight units
1 new Radiator (with etc)
1 number plate

Good job it was a works van, that lot was expensive. Must have used at
least 50 litres of water to get back home. Stopped at every petrol station
i could find!!.

Dom J

 

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Ian Rawlings

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• May 31, 2005

• #4

On 2005-05-31, Dave Liquorice <[email protected]> wrote:

> Fupping rabbits, why do they leap out 10' in front of you?

A friend of mine had problems with one of his headlights, which he
eventually traced back to a large fish wedged behind the light.. An
odd one that. He'd been wading and the light hadn't been right since
then.

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Dave Liquorice

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• Jun 1, 2005

• #5

On Tue, 31 May 2005 22:48:56 +0100, Tom Woods wrote:

> Was it a very tall rabbit?, or is your disco very low?

I can only assume that it tried to jump up out of the way at the last
moment rather than running or stopping. The chances are the wheels
would have missed it for the latter cases. If it had been a normal car
it would have come up the bonnet and made intimate contact with the
windscreen right in front of me...

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beamendsltd

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• Jun 1, 2005

• #6

In message <[email protected]>
Tom Woods <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 31 May 2005 21:55:27 +0100 (BST), "Dave Liquorice"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >Fupping rabbits, why do they leap out 10' in front of you? Had one do
> >that early Monday morning driving down to Leeds for work. It managed
> >to collide just inside the offside front head light, smashing the
> >corner of the grill, the plastic headlamp shroud pop riveted to the
> >metal work behind and two of the headlamp adjuster sockets. Grrr...
> >
> >Hopping mad, bunny wasn't hopping anymore though, body there, guts
> >over there, clumps of fur spread along 20yds of road. Though it was a
> >pheasant at first due to the plume of white floaty bits.
> >
> >No doubt the grill, being a large and colour co-ordinated plastic
> >moulding fupping expensive. B-) 2001 Disco II Bonati Grey.
> >
> >Looked on Beamends but not listed...

Send me your VIN and they soon will be!

Richard

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David Willerton

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• Jun 1, 2005

• #7

We've got bunnies hopping all over our garden at the moment, but not one has
got close to jumping the 3ft required to reach a Disocovery headlight.

Are you posting this message as a way of pretending that you haven't just
hit a tree on an offroad excursion that you haven't been making...?

"Dave Liquorice" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Fupping rabbits, why do they leap out 10' in front of you? Had one do
> that early Monday morning driving down to Leeds for work. It managed
> to collide just inside the offside front head light, smashing the
> corner of the grill, the plastic headlamp shroud pop riveted to the
> metal work behind and two of the headlamp adjuster sockets. Grrr...
>
> Hopping mad, bunny wasn't hopping anymore though, body there, guts
> over there, clumps of fur spread along 20yds of road. Though it was a
> pheasant at first due to the plume of white floaty bits.
>
> No doubt the grill, being a large and colour co-ordinated plastic
> moulding fupping expensive. B-) 2001 Disco II Bonati Grey.
>
> Looked on Beamends but not listed...
>
> --
> Cheers [email protected]
> Dave. pam is missing e-mail
>
>
>

 

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Derry Argue

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• Jun 1, 2005

• #8

I once put a red grouse through the radiator of a Range Rover. But of
course up here in Scotland, we have CLASS!<vbg> Our rabbits wouldn't
dare...

Derry

 

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Dave Liquorice

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• Jun 1, 2005

• #9

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 16:17:18 +0100, David Willerton wrote:

> We've got bunnies hopping all over our garden at the moment, but not
> one has got close to jumping the 3ft required to reach a Disocovery
> headlight.
>
> Are you posting this message as a way of pretending that you haven't
> just hit a tree on an offroad excursion that you haven't been
> making...?

No, it was a rabbit, honest. The bumper is unmarked let alone damaged,
a tree wouldn't allow that... The grill is mangled in the lower left
corner, the seperate headlamp trim that wraps around from the grill to
the side is OK AFAICT. The center line of that trim is 700mm or 27.5"
above the deck.

I didn't see it well enough before impact to identify what it was, the
plume of white floaty bits made me think it was a pheasant. I've had
them fly into the windscreen of a car before now...

I stopped, inspected the damage and put the headlight back in the as
best it would with only one fully functional adjuster socket, the
other two being broken. Fished out several bits of broken plastic from
the headlight cowl/shroud that is behind the grill and went back to
find what it was... Definately a large, adult, rabbit.

I knew I should have taken a picture of said dead bunny... mind you
the Doubting Thomas's would have said that just *a* dead bunny not
*the* dead bunny. B-)

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Ian Rawlings

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• Jun 2, 2005

• #10

On 2005-06-01, Dave Liquorice <[email protected]> wrote:

> I knew I should have taken a picture of said dead bunny... mind you
> the Doubting Thomas's would have said that just *a* dead bunny not
> *the* dead bunny. B-)

Did it have a small basket with it containing chocolate eggs? If so
you are in DEEP **** buddy...

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Dave Liquorice

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• Jun 2, 2005

• #11

On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 11:22:02 +0100, Ian Rawlings wrote:

> Did it have a small basket with it containing chocolate eggs? If so
> you are in DEEP **** buddy...

No, some of it's intestines where 10' from the body.

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Dave Liquorice

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• Jun 2, 2005

• #12

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 08:55:51 +0000 (UTC), beamendsltd wrote:

> Send me your VIN and they soon will be!

YHM.

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Tony

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• Jun 2, 2005

• #13

I know its sad but it amused me...........

A precious little girl walks into a pet shop and asks, with the sweetest
little lisp, between two missing teeth, "Excuthe me, mithter do you keep
widdle wabbits?"

As the shopkeeper's heart melts, he gets down on his knees so that he's on
her level and asks, "Do you want a widdle white wabbit,or a thoft and fuwwy
bwack wabbit, or maybe one like that cute widdle bwown wabbit over there?"

She, in turn, blushes, rocks on her heels, puts her hands on her knees,
leans forward and says, in a tiny quiet voice, "I don't think my python
weally gives a thit."

"Dave Liquorice" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 11:22:02 +0100, Ian Rawlings wrote:
>
>> Did it have a small basket with it containing chocolate eggs? If so
>> you are in DEEP **** buddy...
>
> No, some of it's intestines where 10' from the body.
>
> --
> Cheers [email protected]
> Dave. pam is missing e-mail
>
>
>

 

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Austin Shackles

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• Jun 3, 2005

• #14

On or around Thu, 02 Jun 2005 19:20:35 GMT, "Tony" <[email protected]>
enlightened us thusly:

>I know its sad but it amused me...........
>

silly sod... but yes, it amused me too.

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