While at the Phillip Island round of Moto GP I was leaning on the fence halfway down the front straight watching a local support race, when I espied some retarded VIP from the Yamaha tent throw a fist full of french fries (we call them chips) out on to the grass verge of the track. Of course every seagull within sight swooped in to the fray to fight for a chip. Next thing you know about 30 gulls are fighting on the track to pick up the chips the other gulls have dropped. So, old mate comes boring down the straight and has no option but to go straight through the flock killing a couple and wounding how many more. So I see red! Couldn't get in to Yamaha tent to punch on due to security won't let me! So next I go to marshalls and lag this idiot in.
Needless to say, the very next day during practice Marco Melandri has a gull smash up his hand in the exact same place! I hope the cockhead who caused it dies in a fire.
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i totally agree.... but hopefully the fire was started by the vigorous "buggering" he had just received by a group of kangaroo's with aids and herpes...
I remember when about ten years ago Anthony Gobert caught a gull on the hole-shot of the WSBK races at PI. He all but obliterated it. The explosion is still vivid in my brain.
Unfortunately for him the remaining carcass got caught into the ram air snout of his ZX-7. Cost him a probable podium if memory serves.
I took a pheasant to the helmet at about a buck twenty once. It was nothing, but feathers & ass at that speed.
I can't even imagine taking one to the helmet, and at that speed...
On one ride I killed two birds within minutes of each other. I was only going about 85, not 120! The first bird bounced off my front master cylinder and went over my head, scaring the piss out of me, and the second went straight into the right side of my radiator and literally exploded. My boot, pant leg, jacket, and the right side of the bike were covered in blood and feathers.
The idiot that threw the chips onto the side of the track should be strung up like a pinata and beaten!
I've had a couple near misses with birds, don't actually ever want to hit one. I have collided with a grasshopper at 85, hurt like heck and nearly cleaned me off the bike (didn't see it coming untill it was too late).
Took this one (is buzzard the name of the bird in english ?) late last summer - hit me on my right shoulder doing something like 110 km/h hell of a blow - could not feel anything for days in my right arm, but perhaps fortunately enough, often thought of what would have happened if I had hit it with my head ?!
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