I fit a nice shiny zender bumper on Sunday, 2 days later a giant kamikaze pheasant leapt out of a hedge to ruin my effort!

nooooooooooo

ouch

we have the same problem up here, 7am its like bloody dodgems on this road. Ill be honest mate, i don't think thats going to "buff out"

Yikes that was a big heavy bird and /or you were really motoring - really bad luck there

Forget the car! How did the pheasant taste afterwards?

Stan, as a member of Her Majesty's finest, surely you're not endorsing poaching? I'm sure the driver behind had a nice dinner though.

In a case like that you simply reverse and claim to be the following driver

The remaining feathers must be left as a warning to other birds.

I wasn't happy at work yesterday, especially with all the "fowl luck" comments

I probably hit it at 60 but yeah it was a beast of a bird. When I looked in my mirror it had bounced up really high, I couldn't help but laugh even though I feared damage.

Glued it back together tonight and it looks dreadful, so I'm taking to the bottle tonight.

What, the pheasant?

lol

It's not clear from the context whether Webbo glued his bumper back together or the pheasant back together. Both would seem to be equally futile.

Never underestimate the power of superglue

tbh seems funny now, but must have been a heart stopper then.

if you aimed it near the centre of your bumper, it could have been cooked by the turbo and engine..

Indeed the English countryside must be a scary place to drive. Fortunately we don't have pheasants running around the Australian outback. Mind you a red kangaroo can go feet first through you windscreen if you get it mid stride.

in 6.5 seconds

no but seriously mate that is just bad luck. you gonna have to get another zender bumper? why not try a cada? thats what i'm going to get.

I do find it quite funny . Can't be arsed changing it now though, it will just have to look awful for a while.

What a way to go................

a face full of coop, a skydiving lesson without a chute and hitting the ground with a thud.

Bad luck mate, i have hit a pheasant before but in another car and luckily it just bounced off with no damage...

mate, is is bad about the damage but i cant stop laughing to my self!!

i can picture a kamikaze pheasant bouncing off the bumper!!

some would say thats sick but i still think its funny!

The last time I hit a pheasant was when I was 19 in my Capri. I was driving enthusiasally along a country road coming from the golf course with the window down as I was having a cig. The Capri had a solid front end so I wasn't too bothered about slowing down for a bird that's too stupid to get out the way of a car. Unfortunately, just as I was 10 feet away it decided to try to take off and launched itself into the path of my windscreen. How the screen didn't shatter I don't know, but most of what was inside the pheasant was now smeared all over my windscreen and the car filled up with feathers through the window. I looked in the rear view mirror to see it spiralling to the ground and landing like a sack of crap.

It didn't bounce off, it went underneath and sort of flicked up

Week after I bought my old Alfa 156 a deer ran out in front of me - fortunately (for me!) it only took out the lights...........Think yerself lucky - I have seen total write-offs in Australia when theres been a Wombat in the middle of the road.........