{"id":38,"date":"2009-08-06T19:00:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T17:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandshark.be\/blog\/?p=38"},"modified":"2010-08-19T22:50:03","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T20:50:03","slug":"flying-rat-vs-my-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandshark.be\/blog\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Flying Rat vs My car\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it possibly the heat?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it was old, or slow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah you got it, a damn pidgeon in the middle of the road. I did not see it coming right away, as i was in the middleof taking over a slowpoke and a truck.Suddenly I noticed the dumb bird, I then assessed the situation as I approached the peace of poultry at approximately 90km\/h, i saw it taking of and thought that, as with any normal birds, they would be off before me beeing anywhere near.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the next thing that happened was that i heard a *thumb* noise and shortly after the bird bouncing on my windshield and over my car, resulting in a cloud of feathers behind me.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t avoid it by crossing to the oposite lane either (It&#8217;s a 3 lane road), that would have resulted in in a crash with an oncoming bus \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46 aligncenter\" title=\"impact crater\" src=\"http:\/\/sandshark.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/BILD1465-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"impact crater\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sandshark.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/BILD1465-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sandshark.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/BILD1465-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Unfortunately for me, the quite heavy pidgeon (bosduif) at 90ish km\/h left a nasty dent the size of a dessert plate on my hood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43 aligncenter\" title=\"from another angle\" src=\"http:\/\/sandshark.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/BILD1462-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"another angle of the dent\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sandshark.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/BILD1462-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sandshark.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/BILD1462-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hopefully it won&#8217;t cost arm+leg to get it fixed :s<\/p>\n<p>edit: Today as i passed the location where it happened, i saw the pidgeon was now in 2D form in the middle of the road&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My car still drives, so i guess my car wins? (but I still loose&#8230; money)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it possibly the heat? Perhaps it was old, or slow&#8230; Yeah you got it, a damn pidgeon in the middle of the road. I did not see it coming right away, as i was in the middleof taking over a slowpoke and a truck.Suddenly I noticed the dumb bird, I then assessed the situation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandshark.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandshark.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandshark.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandshark.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandshark.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/sandshark.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/sandshark.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandshark.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandshark.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandshark.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}