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You must sign in to post. | Edith the Bear-Slayer!! :: Jun 24, 2010 @ 2:35am |
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Nanno 
Joined: Nov 30, 2006
Posts: 3254
Location: Colorado The Queen Bee | This is my car, Edith: 
This is the last thing that bear saw tonight: 
Of course, poor Edith ain't doing too hot herself right now. The deer skull and antlers shattered into pieces (may have saved our radiator though), the grill shattered into even more pieces and left a gaping hole, the front panel on the driver's side is shoved back so the driver door won't open, and the strip along the front of the car is pushed back an inch over the hood so I can't open that either.
BUT, Edith is still running strong, losing no fluids, and didn't even bust any lights. It just goes to show you can't keep a good car down!
Here's the play-by-play breakdown of the event:
Phil and I were just leaving home to pick up his parents at the airport. It was about 10:15 p.m.
About three miles from our house a furry, pitch black object shot over the bank and hurtled out of the darkness on the left, straight into the front of our car.
It was about a 2-year old bear running full speed. I barely had time to slam the brakes so I was going about 55 mph when I hit it
The antlers splintered and scattered in every direction. The bear was knocked off his feet and went rolling head-over-heels in front of us.
I continued to hit the brakes, but we still overtook the tumbling bear.
Edith shot into the air like she was auditioning for a stunt car part in The A-Team as she launched right over the top of the unfortunate bear.
The bear rolled out from under the side of our car as we barreled by, and I was able to stop a short distance later.
I went up the road a little way to where I could turn around and when we got back to the place where the bear had been lying he was already gone. Hopefully he's ok somewhere. Bears are tough, but he got knocked pretty hard.
I put the hazards on and shined the headlights on the road while Phil picked up the pieces of shattered antlers, skull, and car parts.
We went home, called the Division of Wildlife to go look for the bear in case he needed to be put down, and picked up Phil's parents in the truck.
We were about 20 minutes late. But we had a good excuse.
Edit: When I hit the bear, Phil screamed like a little girl. I wish you could've heard him!post updated on Jun 24, 2010 @ 2:38am | | Re: Edith the Bear-Slayer!! :: Jun 24, 2010 @ 7:07am |
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txgangsta 
Joined: Mar 12, 2007
Posts: 4001
Location: Texas | I think you told us this a while back (or i have premonitions), but its still really funny. | | Re: Edith the Bear-Slayer!! :: Jun 24, 2010 @ 8:45am |
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Nanno
Joined: Nov 30, 2006
Posts: 3254
Location: Colorado The Queen Bee | I could not have told this story before seeing as it happened last night. But I have posted pictures of my beautiful car before:
http://www.galcon.com/forums/13/9/652/?cur=0#3606
She does not look the same after last night's bear encounter. She has a huge hole where the antlers should be.
But on the plus side, Edith was pulling hard to the right and we were fixing to get her aligned. After she ran over the bear she drove away straight as an arrow. | | Re: Edith the Bear-Slayer!! :: Jun 24, 2010 @ 5:24pm |
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haam 
Joined: May 18, 2007
Posts: 357 | That's crazy. Glad you guys are okay. Edith was the name of my high school math teacher, so when I read "Edith the Bear-Slayer", I immediately saw this image in my mind of my old math teacher wielding a sword and standing on top of a dead bear. | | Re: Edith the Bear-Slayer!! :: Jun 24, 2010 @ 6:01pm |
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roxie 
Joined: Apr 3, 2010
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Location: 3rd Stone From the Sun | lollllllllll | | Edith: Bear-Slayer... the Final Chapter :: Sep 1, 2011 @ 11:25pm |
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Nanno
Joined: Nov 30, 2006
Posts: 3254
Location: Colorado The Queen Bee | Well, this is it folks! She's 23 years old and feeling her age, so Phil and I decided it was time to put the ol' horse down. Sometimes it's the only humane thing left to do. But we couldn't let our car be unceremoniously parted out and crushed like any old beater you'd find on the street. Oh no! Edith has been a wonderful, faithful friend for nearly 13 years and she deserves to go out in style!
We inherited the car when my great-grandmother died in 1998. Phil named her "Edith" because he thought it sounded like a good name for an old lady's car. Here is Edith as we drove her for 12 years:
Notice that the license plate reads "HIX". This was unplanned but it worked out well.
This is Edith as she looked this evening:
Yep! She's going in the demolition derby at the Colorado State Fair on Saturday!
And look! She's sporting the Galcon logo on her derriere!
She is far from complete. I'll take more pictures tomorrow when she's in full glory.post updated on Sep 1, 2011 @ 11:26pm | | Re: Edith the Bear-Slayer!! :: Sep 2, 2011 @ 12:25am |
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melek 
Joined: Aug 14, 2010
Posts: 2170
Location: liron | Lol nice :P | | Re: Edith the Bear-Slayer!! :: Sep 2, 2011 @ 1:03am |
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liron... 
Joined: Jun 20, 2010
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Location: bahia blanca | Nice :P | | Re: Edith the Bear-Slayer!! :: Sep 2, 2011 @ 3:06am |
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swollenpig 
Joined: Jun 12, 2010
Posts: 928
Location: Colorado Deputy | I wish Edith luck, though I bet none of the competition can call themselves bear slayers.
fight well! I hope Edith gets to see the gates of Valhalla. (it killed a bear, it deserves a norseman's afterlife.)post updated on Sep 2, 2011 @ 3:10am | | Re: Edith the Bear-Slayer!! :: Sep 2, 2011 @ 6:16am |
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LjuboM 
Joined: Jun 25, 2009
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Location: Lord of trance! | WOW! | | Re: Edith the Bear-Slayer!! :: Sep 2, 2011 @ 9:21am |
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marky1991 
Joined: Nov 8, 2009
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Location: Douglasville, GA Deputy | Haha. For a second, before I read the text, I thought you had just decided to bedazzle your car and had been driving it around like that as if it were normal. | | Re: Edith the Bear-Slayer!! :: Sep 2, 2011 @ 2:49pm |
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zmar01 Joined: Jun 6, 2009
Posts: 634 | why didnt you do that the moment you got her?
good luck
are you driving? | | Re: Edith the Bear-Slayer!! :: Sep 2, 2011 @ 5:37pm |
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melek
Joined: Aug 14, 2010
Posts: 2170
Location: liron | Yes who is the one driving her in the Demolition derby? Also if you could get a video of it, it would be amazing! | | Re: Edith the Bear-Slayer!! :: Sep 4, 2011 @ 8:41pm |
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Nanno
Joined: Nov 30, 2006
Posts: 3254
Location: Colorado The Queen Bee | I drove in the derby. Phil got the footage, but he hasn't uploaded it yet. Unfortunately it wasn't much of a run. I got about three good hits in before one one of my fuel lines came loose. It was inside the fuel tank so I couldn't locate the problem fix it mid-contest. The car came away in such good shape that I think we're going to try and enter her in another derby. Only this time I'm using some JB Weld in addition to the hose clamp!
But even if she didn't come out so hot in the smash-up competition, if there had been a prize for "best decorated", she'd have won hands down. Here are a few photos of her final glory. I will no doubt be finding glitter in my house for the next 10 years.
 post updated on Sep 4, 2011 @ 8:51pm | | Re: Edith the Bear-Slayer!! :: Sep 4, 2011 @ 9:04pm |
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kunckles 
Joined: Feb 12, 2010
Posts: 562
Location: here | Nice!
-Kunckles | | Re: Edith the Bear-Slayer!! :: Sep 6, 2011 @ 5:32pm |
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melek
Joined: Aug 14, 2010
Posts: 2170
Location: liron | I drove in the derby. Phil got the footage, but he hasn't uploaded it yet.
Post it here as soon as he uploads it =)
Unfortunately it wasn't much of a run. I got about three good hits in before one one of my fuel lines came loose.
At least you got some good hits and you can enter Edith in another competition hahaha
But even if she didn't come out so hot in the smash-up competition, if there had been a prize for "best decorated", she'd have won hands down.
Indeed since it held the galcon symbol =P
I will no doubt be finding glitter in my house for the next 10 years.
Lol
I really like the nature and the forest around your house, seems like a great place to have a walk! |
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