SPLAT!!! WTH Was that??!!

[fastwin]

Not to take this thread to another level of grossness...but...it is my way...

Back in around 2003, there was a large brood that emerged in the midwest.  The local news guys were making a big deal about how dogs and other animals loved to eat them.  Then they went on to say that cicadas are actually very healthy to eat.

Well, I must have been inhibited by drink...or something like that...and so I opened my big mouth and said I would eat one.  My friends held me to that, and so we fried a couple up cajun style...and yes, I ate a big juicy cicada.

FWIW...it was disgusting, and I don't see myself ever repeating the feat.  

Mike B

This should go in the official I'm drunk thread!!!

For the record, next Thursday the 19th is my 4 year anniversary of cutting a full grown wild turkey in half with my Arai Corsair in Oklahoma! And yes all my fused neck vertebrae still hurt like a son of a pregnant dog! And I am still waiting for the Oklahoma Parks and Wildlife Dept. to send me my certificate for taking the dumbest make the beast with two backsing turkey out of the gene pool!

[the_Journeyman]

We have Cicadas here, but I've never hit one.

However, I have nearly taken out a turkey with a school bus.  I DID take out a crow with a school bus.

I have also eliminated MANY bumble bees or carpenter bees while riding.  I can't make a positive ID from them hitting my visor at 60MPH with a gun-like report from the impact.

JM

[akmnstr]

We have Cicadas here, but I've never hit one.

However, I have nearly taken out a turkey with a school bus.  I DID take out a crow with a school bus.

I have also eliminated MANY bumble bees or carpenter bees while riding.  I can't make a positive ID from them hitting my visor at 60MPH with a gun-like report from the impact.

JM

There is always DNA sampling to provide you with a positive ID to species!

[Monster Dave]

We have Cicadas here, but I've never hit one.

However, I have nearly taken out a turkey with a school bus.  I DID take out a crow with a school bus.

I have also eliminated MANY bumble bees or carpenter bees while riding.  I can't make a positive ID from them hitting my visor at 60MPH with a gun-like report from the impact.

JM

My sweetie told me a story about how she had to pick out hundreds of mushed bee carcases from the mesh front of her 675 after a ride one summer.  She said the swarm that she went through left them litterally splattered all over her helmet, her gear, and her bike!!

[Outlaw1100]

A few years back on a rural Iowa backroad, I was following my cousin on a sprited ride on a beautiful day...when a pheasant flushed out of the brush next to us and was promptly gutted by my cousins R6 left front turn signal stalk.  And I, of course, took a perfectly timed spray of bird insides all over my bike and leathers.  We stopped, and had a good laugh...mainly of relief because if that bird had been a bit quicker it could have gotten caught in the R6's front wheel.

The moral of the story kids...it is better to lead and have to replace a turn signal, then follow and have to clean your bike and leathers of bird guts.

Wow...I'm just full of disgusting stories on this thread.  Anyone want to hear a third?

Mike

[Monster Dave]

I knew a guy who took an inflight bat (the mammal) in the chest while riding down a dark rural road!!

[AJ]

...Wow...I'm just full of disgusting stories on this thread.  Anyone want to hear a third?

Yes please!

[fastwin]

A few years back on a rural Iowa backroad, I was following my cousin on a sprited ride on a beautiful day...when a pheasant flushed out of the brush next to us and was promptly gutted by my cousins R6 left front turn signal stalk.  And I, of course, took a perfectly timed spray of bird insides all over my bike and leathers.  We stopped, and had a good laugh...mainly of relief because if that bird had been a bit quicker it could have gotten caught in the R6's front wheel.

The moral of the story kids...it is better to lead and have to replace a turn signal, then follow and have to clean your bike and leathers of bird guts.

Wow...I'm just full of disgusting stories on this thread.  Anyone want to hear a third?

Mike

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Try that same stunt with a full size tom turkey off the helmet. I could do without the concussion, being knocked unconscience and the four crushed vertebrae that are now fused and very painful. I could do without the $17K helo ride too.. Just sayin'...

[ducatiz]

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Try that same stunt with a full size tom turkey off the helmet. I could do without the concussion, being knocked unconscience and the four crushed vertebrae that are now fused and very painful. I could do without the $17K helo ride too.. Just sayin'...

i bet thanksgiving is your favorite holiday

[ducpainter]

There are annual cicadas as well as the 13/17 year life cycle types.

That is all

[fastwin]

i bet thanksgiving is your favorite holiday

Absolutely!! When I was in the hospital checking off the menu card (what I wanted to eat for b-fast, lunch and dinner) my then 10 year old step son said I should have turkey sandwiches at every meal to get even! No biological connection but he does have my don't get mad get even mentality! Oh... and my "friends" leave gobbling voice mail messages at Thanksgiving. I have even had voice mail messages that said the Oklahoma turkey mafia has an active "hit" out on me and there's a price on my head! I say bring it!

[Betty]

Not to take this thread to another level of grossness...but...it is my way...

Back in around 2003, there was a large brood that emerged in the midwest.  The local news guys were making a big deal about how dogs and other animals loved to eat them.  Then they went on to say that cicadas are actually very healthy to eat.

Well, I must have been inhibited by drink...or something like that...and so I opened my big mouth and said I would eat one.  My friends held me to that, and so we fried a couple up cajun style...and yes, I ate a big juicy cicada.

FWIW...it was disgusting, and I don't see myself ever repeating the feat. 

Mike B

If that is what you agree to when you are inhibited ... I cannot imagine what you might agree to if you were uninhibited

[The Bacon Junkie]

I was on a spirited ride with Duck-Stew one afternoon when something hit my front brake lever hard enough to apply the brake, pinch my fingers, give me a minor tankslapper.

Stew said it looked like I flew through a cloud of moths... It was the feathers of an exploded bird.

The aftermath... (not for the squemish)






Coulda been worse... at least it wasn't a turkey.

[fastwin]

You know, it was funny. No blood and guts from the turkey. Everyone has asked me about that. None even stuck or splattered on the Arai. You'd think there would have been a little bird goo and some feathers. Maybe it was all that Honda spray polish I used. Oh well... happy 4th anniversary to me today. [moto] Sure wish it had just been a cicada.

[KnightofNi]

Not to take this thread to another level of grossness...but...it is my way...

Back in around 2003, there was a large brood that emerged in the midwest.  The local news guys were making a big deal about how dogs and other animals loved to eat them.  Then they went on to say that cicadas are actually very healthy to eat.

Well, I must have been inhibited by drink...or something like that...and so I opened my big mouth and said I would eat one.  My friends held me to that, and so we fried a couple up cajun style...and yes, I ate a big juicy cicada.

FWIW...it was disgusting, and I don't see myself ever repeating the feat. 

Mike B

a few years ago we paid a drunk buddy $20 to eat a dead one. he dipped it in his drink first to make sure it was flavored well.