Worked 8am till 10pm yesterday and was shattered. On my way home noticed how dark it's getting at night again.

From my work to my house is approx 6 miles, 3 miles of which is a 50mph back road.

So turn onto the road get up to 50mph and about hallway down the road I seen something making a dash for the other side a little bit ahead of me, coming from the right. I'm tired and for a split second thought it was a bunny or maybe a small fox. Nope. It was a massive badger!!

Too late and it's under my front and rear right wheel. It all happened so fast but it was like hitting a speed bump at 50mph. Nearly rattled the teeth right out my head.

I felt a bit sick driving home but when I parked up, gave the car a quick check over but couldn't see anything cause it was dark.

Gonna check today. Is there anything I should look for??

Ross

Yeah, keep an eye out for his mates! If any of em saw you, they might have followed you home!

This also explains why I didnt see you on COD!

If you've accidentally run over a "badger" then it's a good idea to wash the car very thoroughly, so make sure that any blood/guts/hair/bits of their bike aren't left sticking to the car.

"It" may have caused some damage to the front-end plastics, lights or even the suspension. It's a good idea to think of a plausable story to explain these, for when the police come asking questions.

You might get some feelings of guilty, especially when you see the "badger's" school-friends on TV, saying what a lovely, popular lad he was, but try to resist the urge to confess, as that can seriously push up your insurance premiums.

Once you've checked out the car it's probably a good idea to start some work on a basic alibi for the evening as well, just to be on the safe side. As you know, Emjay's a lawyer - so for the right fee he'll say you were at his house all night.

Best of luck. Sorry to hear about the "badger".

I've joked in the past about purposely running squirrels over if you see one darting across the road, after I had some invade my loft and cause damage (not to mention keep me awake at 1 in the morning) which gave rise to my dislike of them.

Last week though I came round a bend to find a squirrel in the road not knowing which way to run as a tractor was coming in the other direction. I braked hard, but hit and killed him. The crushing sound made me feel quite bad afterwards.

A colleague's Dad ran over and killed a badger years ago, and was shook-up for days!

I have to be honest, I'm quite "non-affected" by most things in life, as I seem to live quite detatached from real life sometimes.

Last night however, I was pretty rattled by the experience and seeing it lying at the side of the road this morning, made me feel quite sick.

Ross

You were lucky. A good mate of mine ran one over a few years ago in his Audi Quattro. It ripped his sump off. Said it was like hitting a big lump of concrete.

I did the same the other night(not in the coop) came round a corner to see three in the road one ran to the left one to the right and one down the middle, which didn't leave me much choice
shame as these where the first live ones I had seen. At the end of the day what can you do,and they keep talking about a cull anyway.