Rural riding hazards By ccprof (Read 575 times)

[ccprof]

Yesterday was nice and sunny and a bit cool. I needed to run into town and go to the library. At 10 AM it was 55 degrees so I decided to ride the scoot. I put the pony express bags on the scoot and loaded up. I decided to take the back road due to the pipeline construction on the main road.

The other day, I was coming back from the dentist up at the construction site. I saw this person running toward the road and it looked like she wasn't going to stop and I'd hit her. I managed to brake down and so did she. When I was past, I looked in the mirror and saw her run into a porta-potty. I guess when you gotta go, you gotta go.

Anyhow, I'm ripping down the back road at about 40 mph yesterday and come into a little dip and blind curve. There's a turkey vulture in the road. He takes off and just as I get to where he was, his buddy takes off out of the bushes. All of a sudden, I'm looking at a bird with a 6 foot wingspan a couple feet in front of the windshield. We missed each other, thank the Good Lord, but talk about a cardiac check.

I made it to town without further incident.

When I was coming home, I came up on one of the local farms. All of a sudden, a herd of free-range chickens runs into the road and panics when they see me and are running around in circles flapping wings. Missed them too. Note - I DID have chicken for dinner.

Ride safe friends!

[JR]

Dang CC between the winged critters and females needing to go it's just safe for you to venture out!

In my neck of the woods one has to watch for those can't keep in the fence moo cows!

JR

[richardthescooter3]

cc it sounds like their out to get you. be careful my friend The road I ride is going out of v-dale, I always see the Dawg turkey vultures, I'm like you the one day they startled me

[ccprof]

We seem to have an awful lot of vultures lately. They've even talked about them on the evening news. I've never seen them up close and personal before.

JR - cows I expect, vultures and chickens no.

[scooterran]

Be careful out there CC, those vultures are big and they would hurt for sure. Those big birds are protected by law and I don't know why. We have lots of them around here. I just about hit a turkey Friday evening as I was heading out to the highway and it was too close for comfort. I actually ducked as I saw something move out of the corner of my eye and herd wings flapping. It was close.......