Caveman Posted July 31, 2009 Share #1 Posted July 31, 2009 Had an encounter on my way to work tonight. RSV 1 : opossum 0. I have often wondered how this big ole bike would handle such an encounter and those brand new avons mowed right over that poor animal. I had no time to initiate braking measures which I think was probably a good thing as it happend accelerating out of a curve. Be careful out there guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smely Posted July 31, 2009 Share #2 Posted July 31, 2009 Yup, I hit an armadillo one night. Scared the bageebus outa me. Like running over a boulder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRider Posted July 31, 2009 Share #3 Posted July 31, 2009 Had an encounter on my way to work tonight. RSV 1 : opossum 0. I have often wondered how this big ole bike would handle such an encounter and those brand new avons mowed right over that poor animal. I had no time to initiate braking measures which I think was probably a good thing as it happend accelerating out of a curve. Be careful out there guys. Did ya' go back and pick it up for ma' to make dinner with? RR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squidley Posted July 31, 2009 Share #4 Posted July 31, 2009 Did ya' go back and pick it up for ma' to make dinner with? RR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yammer Dan Posted July 31, 2009 Share #5 Posted July 31, 2009 Had a little Meet&Greet with Mr Opossum on the way back from Skid-In Last year on my 750. Pouring the rain down and I wasn't dodging. Mr Opossum lost that one too!! Hold straight ahead and hang on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venturous Randy Posted July 31, 2009 Share #6 Posted July 31, 2009 (edited) Several years ago on a hot summer day, I was behind a car I was getting ready to pass. Just about the time it was clear and I was ready to go around, the car passed over a dead opossum that was very swelled up. I centered it, and it exploded. The stench was so bad on the bottom of the bike that I had to go to a car wash to wash it off and get it off my shoes and pants. I learned a lesson on that one, don't get so close you cannot see for a distance what a car in front of you is passing over. Glad it was not more than a bump to you. RandyA Edited August 2, 2009 by Venturous Randy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoomerCPO Posted July 31, 2009 Share #7 Posted July 31, 2009 Count your blessings it was not a skunk that you hit............ Boomer.......who has only hit 1 skunk and never wants to do it again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilvrT Posted July 31, 2009 Share #8 Posted July 31, 2009 Couple years ago I was riding in the dead of night, super dark out (no moonlight), bright on-coming headlights of a transport blinding my vision and just seconds before we met, my headlight (and his) illuminated a dead deer in the middle of my lane (2 lane hwy) ... well, before I even realized what happened or even thought about my actions, I'd swerved around it and was past both the deer and the semi... THAT was about as close to running over anything I ever want to come! From that point on I was just a wee bit "edgy" to say the least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcarl Posted July 31, 2009 Share #9 Posted July 31, 2009 You did the right thing, had you braked you would have grabbed that possum and drug it along, never brake, always throttle, you'll 'lift' the front and ride right over it. We were taught in riding school: the throttle is your friend, not your brake, only use your brake as last resort, the more you think about, the more sense it makes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ediddy Posted July 31, 2009 Share #10 Posted July 31, 2009 Ya'll got to get the spelling and pronunciation correct. It's not opossum, it's possum. Just ask granny clampett. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilvrT Posted July 31, 2009 Share #11 Posted July 31, 2009 Ya'll got to get the spelling and pronunciation correct. It's not opossum, it's possum. Just ask granny clampett. From Wikipedia... A possum (plural form: possums) is any of about 69 small to medium-sized [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arboreal]arboreal[/ame] [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsupial]marsupial[/ame] [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species]species[/ame] native to [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia]Australia[/ame], [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Guinea]New Guinea[/ame], and [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulawesi]Sulawesi[/ame] (and introduced to [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand]New Zealand[/ame] and [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China]China[/ame]). The name derives from their resemblance to the [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opossum]opossums[/ame] of [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Americas]the Americas[/ame]. (The name is from [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonquian]Algonquian[/ame] wapathemwa, not [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language]Greek[/ame] or [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin]Latin[/ame], so the plural is possums, not possa.) Possum is also used in North America as a short form of [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opossum]Opossum[/ame]. A possum's diet is mainly plant-based i.e. leaves, fresh gum tips and flowers, however they also occasionally eat insects, eggs and meat. An open compost bin in a backyard becomes an enticing smorgasbord for a hungry urban possum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcarl Posted July 31, 2009 Share #12 Posted July 31, 2009 So now who am I gonna believe, is it a possum or opposum, and then if we have more than one is it possumites or opposumtoneians, and if you get bit by one of these creatures, will that be possumotitis, opposumectomy. Man this is getting confusing, some better jump in here and clear this up, or I'll be down with wordology along with my knee-vex-omee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jburrell Posted July 31, 2009 Share #13 Posted July 31, 2009 It East Texas its dinner!! Road Kill stew...BBQ it along with some Gator. Surely, don't leave good food lying on the road!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ken8143 Posted July 31, 2009 Share #14 Posted July 31, 2009 Like they used to say in East Tennessee Possum, possum, The sweetest kind of meat. Possum, possum, The flavor can't be beat! Never tried it myself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBoyinMS Posted July 31, 2009 Share #15 Posted July 31, 2009 If you grow up in a place where you see them all the time (usually as road kill) then they are called "possum". If you grow up in a place where you never see them and only know of them from books or cable then they are "Opossum" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBoyinMS Posted July 31, 2009 Share #16 Posted July 31, 2009 If you grow up in a place where you see them all the time (usually as road kill) then they are called "possum" or "ole possum" as in "Look how flat that ole possum is!" If you grow up in a place where you never see them and only know of them from books or cable then they are "Opossum" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilvrT Posted July 31, 2009 Share #17 Posted July 31, 2009 If you grow up in a place where you see them all the time (usually as road kill) then they are called "possum" or "olepossum" as in "Look how flat that olepossum is!" If you grow up in a place where you never see them and only know of them from books or cable then they are "Olepossum" .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aussie Annie Posted August 1, 2009 Share #18 Posted August 1, 2009 So now who am I gonna believe, is it a possum or opposum, and then if we have more than one is it possumites or opposumtoneians, and if you get bit by one of these creatures, will that be possumotitis, opposumectomy. Man this is getting confusing, some better jump in here and clear this up, or I'll be down with wordology along with my knee-vex-omee. Okay Marcarl, to make you feel better--I call all my family and friends "POSSUM" it's an affectionate name I have used for years'. As in: " Hope your knee gets better soon, Possum" :happy34: Now over here they are called possums, had one as a pet when I was a kid. Didn't like my dad, would pee on him every time he picked her up :crackup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PastorPaul Posted August 1, 2009 Share #19 Posted August 1, 2009 In 1981 I was stationed at Ft Huachuca AZ. I was riding a Honda cb750k at the time. I was behind a 2 1/2 ton truck which hit a skunk with the front wheels and then the rear wheels lofted it's smelly carcas high into the air where it came to rest in my lap. Needless to say my wife made me strip on the carport and even after the tomato juice bath I still had to sleep in the tent in the yard.LOL:Avatars_Gee_George: Never did get all the stench out of the seat . Would reactivate every time it rained. Gave the bike to my brother in law. He replaced the seat after the first rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wrench Posted August 1, 2009 Share #20 Posted August 1, 2009 I had an encounter with a Pit Bull a couple years ago, just a glancing hit with the hiway peg. But buzzard regurgitation is another story, you just can't outrun it!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctraylor Posted August 1, 2009 Share #21 Posted August 1, 2009 I was raised in Louisiana and followed my Papaw on a trap line as soon as I could keep up. We ate coons and possums. They taste alot alike. Mamaw would boil them until they were tender with some ceyanne pepper in the water then put them in the oven with creole seasoning on it and sweet taters around them. Man I am getting hungry just thinking about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wrench Posted August 1, 2009 Share #22 Posted August 1, 2009 My Dad always said that when he was small they likely would have starved during the Depression if it hadn't been for an abundance of groundhogs, or woodchucks to be politically-correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eusa1 Posted August 2, 2009 Share #23 Posted August 2, 2009 my youngest daughter has been called "possum" from about 2 weeks of age, as when we would hear her making noise in her crib, and we would go to look in on her and see her eyes open and cooing and chirping untill she would see us, then she would shut her eyes and pretend to be asleep...thus "playing possum" as she has been known ever since. she just had her 9th birthday last month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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