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03-17-2006, 05:10 PM
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!#*&$%#*&^%#$^%!! Roos!
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03-17-2006, 05:27 PM
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what happened?
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03-17-2006, 05:36 PM
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driving to work at aboyt 615 this morning, coming up a residential street about 2 minutes from my house, saw it hopping along the grass on the side of the road so i slowed, bastard jumped in front of me so i swerved and collected it on the headlight. Not a huge amount of damage, but it might not be worth fixing. Front quarter panel is pushed back and the door catches it, and the front is bent up, corner of the bonnet bent right over, brace across the engine that the radiator bolts to is bent back on one side, and the small strip of metal under the grill/lights and above the bumper is bent under the broken light. My dad is an insurance broker and a former mechanic and he said that something he'd consider writing off at work. Not a lot of damage, but a lot of work to fix, probably need to pull off most of the front end.
We're gonna take it to a panel beater next week. Just forked out nearly $600 for rego
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03-17-2006, 05:38 PM
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Wait you hit a kangaroo?
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03-17-2006, 05:46 PM
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yeah, what'd you think i meant by "!#*&$%#*&^%#$^%!! Roos!"
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03-17-2006, 06:07 PM
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damn, that sucks major ass.
a roo jumped into my dads old prelude years ago. jumped into the back door. went though the glass into the car.. was about the same time in the morning you hit.. along the mudgee rd (or w/e its called)..
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03-17-2006, 06:23 PM
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Are there a lot of accidents like that? Like car and deer in this country? I would think roos are smaller though so less damage and less chance of getting killed by one.
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03-17-2006, 06:33 PM
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Yeah plenty of cases. Roo's are deadly though cause theyre arse heavy...
My brothers collected one on his bike (as opposed to being collected by one  ) going down to Phillip Island a few years back. I think at the time he'd just repaired the fairing as well..
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03-17-2006, 06:36 PM
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a roo can be quite big, Red Kangaroos out west can be about 2m tall i think, an Eastern Grey like i hit is a bit smaller, about the size of a man. There are tons of accidents with roos, but i've never heard of any fatalities caused directly from the roo itself, like when people hit deer and it comes through the windscreen, but i imagine people have died in crashes involving them. They can trash an enitre car, even a big one like a commodore
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03-17-2006, 07:43 PM
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03-17-2006, 08:44 PM
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Commiserations
 I know how you feel. In the 18 months before January this year, my wife & I hit kangaroos four times! Three high-speed hits including two major repairs (her Ford XF & my previous Merc) and two write-offs (Falcon AGAIN - and my beloved HZ Kingswood, sob) Your car looks hardly damaged when compared to my wife's XF after she centre-punched a big roo at over 100km/h - pity I can't scan the pics, the front-end stove in so much it looked like she'd hit a telegraph pole Last edited by nota; 03-17-2006 at 08:59 PM.
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03-17-2006, 09:10 PM
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You guys hit kangaroos like I hit squirrels. Only squirrels don't screw your car up... They just get blood on your tires.
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03-17-2006, 10:29 PM
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Sucks dude. I nearly had the same thing near Bunnings in Tuggeranong (THIS IS LIKE A CITY!!!) and a roo just jumped out from nowhere. The Jeep nearly went End over End trying to stop! AND THEN THE STUPID BEAST JUST STOOD THERE!
Sucks mate, Commiserations.
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03-17-2006, 11:34 PM
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