Transportation: Today, I swerved to avoid hitting a dog that ran in front of...

By animalover - 13/08/2009 16:49 - United States

Today, I swerved to avoid hitting a dog that ran in front of my car. The dog was fine but I hit a road sign, ripped off my rearview mirror, and cracked my passenger side window. When I got out to examine the damage to my car, the dog growled at me. FML

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By vstan - 25/08/2010 00:48 - United States

Today, I swerved off the road and hit a tree in order to avoid hitting a dog that came out of nowhere. Don't worry, I didn't hit him. The person behind me did, though. FML

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WOOF!

By Dweeb - 02/10/2019 18:00

Today, I ran into a parked car and fell into the gutter. All because a dog suddenly barked at me. From the other side of a wooden fence. FML

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By JC - 19/10/2009 06:40 - United States

Today, I was driving down the road when a dog suddenly runs across the street. In attempt to spare its life, I swerved to the side of the road and rear-ended another car. The car I hit belonged the family that owned the dog. Now I have to pay them because I saved their dog's life. FML

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Murderer!

By Puppy_Killer - 16/12/2020 23:02 - Australia

Today, I was backing out of my garage when my neighbour's collie ran behind my car. Unfortunately, I didn't see it, but I heard a thump. They were out, so I rushed him to the vet's. I was upset, and I guess I was driving too fast and didn't see that another dog was crossing the road. I killed two dogs today. FML

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Road rage

By fUcKOAHdSAjl - 16/08/2013 18:41 - United States - Manchester

Today, my dog was riding my car's passenger seat. He clambered over onto my lap, causing me to lose control of the wheel for a few seconds. As I tried to knock him off me, I lost track of my speed, and ended up being pulled over for reckless driving. FML

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By anonymous - 21/05/2010 17:26 - United States

Today, I swerved to avoid running over a dead cat in the road. Instead, I ran over its head. The crack of its skull was loud enough for me to hear it. FML

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By frame - 20/03/2009 15:08 - Canada

Today, I was walking my husky when she saw a cat and bolted toward it. I couldn't let go of the leash because my hand was tangled up. Forced to run along, I ran into a parked van at full sprint. I lost my dog, broke two ribs and have to pay for the dent in the van. FML

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By prettyinpurple - 10/02/2009 04:54 - United States

Today, I was in a car accident. After screaming at the woman for running into me, I got in my car and drove off. As I was driving away, I was staring her down when I ended up rear-ending the person in front of me. FML

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By GoodDog - 09/09/2009 13:21 - United States

Today, I yelled at my dog for waking me up growling and barking out the window. He was doing it at the person stealing my car. FML

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By Username - 13/05/2011 08:13

Today, I was driving along when the car in front of me ran over an animal. I only realised this when a chunk of flesh and blood landed on my windscreen. I put my wipers on to get rid of it but instead it got stuck underneath the wipers and smeared all over the screen. FML

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Intoxicunt 5

Thursday 13 August 2009 22:07

You're a good person. At least it's summer. It would suck to have a cracked window in winter.

iLIAMMM 0

Thursday 13 August 2009 22:06

At least he didn't bite the shit out of you...

Comments

inu_fml 0

Friday 14 August 2009 6:53

well some people equate animal and human lives. just saying.

slapper23 0

Friday 14 August 2009 7:08

You can't go to jail for killing a dog by accident, you can go to jail for killing a human by accident... therefore not equal

i_hate_people 0

Tuesday 18 August 2009 2:55

lol. it is very difficult to actually convict someone if it was an "accident". from personal experience.

jonathan1990 0

Friday 14 August 2009 7:43

you're pretty much an idiot. yes, you are supposed to avoid hitting animals on the road. However, if you must endanger yourself or others, then it's better to run the animal over. YDI

saa994 0

Friday 14 August 2009 9:30

that's shallow. "run the animal over". what if there was no one there? plus, I'd rather have a cracked window and no rearview window than to have dog guts on my car. a dog is a living, breathing creature with feelings just like us. just because dogs can't talk, doesn't mean that they don't matter.

icedrake523 2

Friday 14 August 2009 7:46

It beats having to scrape dog guts off your car.

snickel 0

Friday 14 August 2009 9:31

hey um unless you hit the inside of your car somehow i think you tore off your side view mirror

omgwhatanfml 0

Friday 14 August 2009 11:51

wow. My dog was just hit by a car and killed, i wish you were there to swerve..

musu_fml 0

Friday 14 August 2009 12:17

People are saying you shouldn't swerve for anything smaller than a deer. I say further than that; you don't swerve for ANYTHING. You should brake instead. Swerving means you're at great risk of losing control of the car (just as the OP did), and you may put yourself and other road users in greater danger. If you're going the speed limit and you emergency brake, and the animal or person still gets hit, then you're not to blame. If you swerve and kill yourself by ploughing into a tree, or kill someone else by hitting a car coming the other way, or mounting the pavement and hitting a pedestrian, then you are completely to blame, because you performed a dangerous and reckless action that led you to lose control of the vehicle. Brake every time!

monnanon 13

Friday 14 August 2009 16:06

so we should only care for things we deem to be on our level? Thats so stupid. If i did end up in the horrible situation of hitting an animal or missing the animal and in doing so hitting a child I would have to hit the animal of course though i would do my best to miss both. However if it was an empty road im going to stop. Im sorry that your brother died but I still believe that if you can miss hitting anything then you should. As for the loyalty arguement. If your dog is so hungry that its going to rip your throat out to eat then you deserve to be killed by your own animal. At least if an animal kills something it usually has a legitimate reason like its hunger or protecting itself. Humans kill for no reason. We are also the only species that kill its own kind on purpose.

monnanon 13

Friday 14 August 2009 16:08

If you break then the knock you are going to give the deer is less plus the push is going to be moving away from your car knockign the deer in the other direction. If you speed up you are going to knock it in the air and place your bonnet underneath it before it lands causing it to hit your windscreen

Abby97 0

Friday 14 August 2009 16:27

#98 Scientifically humans ARE animals. Kudos to OP because they probably saved a life, even if it was a dog's. My grandma's dog got hit and killed by a guy going way over the speed limit and he didn't even have the decency to stop and see if it was OK. Very well done OP :D