I've been stung...

[D O G]

...by a goddam wasp, dammit.

Riding back from work, got home, stopped the bike to get off and open the garage, felt a really sharp pain on the top of my right ankle.

It was so bad that I had to take the boot off, unzip leathers and get my sock off so I could have a look - I thought I had been stabbed, but then I realised it must have been a wasp. Damn thing. Shook my boot out, and there was the little fucker!

Must have gone down the front of the boot when I was riding, chilled out a bit, then I must have squished him a bit when I got off, making him pissed off.

Anyone else had crazy insect/animal related stories you want to share with the group??

PS. Its been years since I've been stung, fuck me it hurts a lot. Its 1 1/2hrs later and its still giving me gip.

PPS. At work today a fuck off dragonfly flew into the office - must have been 4" long. Nuts. Obviously there is something in the air!!

[puremagic72]

I once found a hedgehog in my boot, just thought it was a stone till i emptied my boot upside down

Baz.
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[Timmeh]

Being dive-bombed by a mad pigeon whilst crusing up the A40.

Smacked me right on the helmet, the crazy f00ker!
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[Ariel Badger]

LOL
The pleasures of riding, I have had a few over the years, normaly inside the top of my leathers on a hot day when I wear them not fully done up.
Hit a dung beetle in Zimbabwe at 90, it was like a golf ball in the face.
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[5v3d3b0]

My friend was riding with the visor open and a wasp went into his helmet and stung his ear I think XD

[SimonB]

Damn wasps! I went for a ride and it was the only bit of exposed skin that the wasp attacked right on my neck.

So painful I had to stop and find the bastard it felt like it was stabbing me multiple times.

Found him though and crushed him with my boot.
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[Torque05]

Riding in the evening just as it had got dark, on a bit of a hoon and a bat flew into my helmet. I dont think it fared to well.
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[D O G]

[lllN30lll]

I found 180 horses behind my bikes side panels.
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[D O G]

Did you have it on a paddock stand at the time?

[lllN30lll]

I said behind the side panel, not behind the rear sprocket.
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[.Chris.]

A bee smacked me on the chin at 60mph about a week after I started riding. Hurt quite a bit!
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[Fahd]

Well I guess I fought back on this one, I was driving my car pretty fast in the suburban area I live in as there was a nice patch of open road and no cars ahead of me. (Of course this was under the speed limit officer... ). I saw a pigeon ahead of me and assumed it would fly away well before I reached it (as they always do) and the fucker just sat there until I was about 20 inches away, in which it decided to start moving, the fucker flew right into my windshield, luckily there was no damage on my car, however it was not a particularly pretty sight, dumb bird...
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[stooster]

not really bike related but.....i fucking hate wasps...

got ome to find about 400 in the garage....donned the bike gear zipped it all up , lid on and wacked away with a tennis racket for about 20 mins.....eventually they all went away...

great ....i thought....i showed em...

next day one was left in garage....wipped it with the hand and the fucker stung me...left the sting in my hand...went to bite it out then realized id better use the plyers....hand swelled up like a boxing glove.....dont think ill be so cocky next time...
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[bazza]

[2t-Screamer]

i got a little sparrow thing stuck in my helmet once, i was riding down a country lane doing about 70mph and i saw the bloody thing coming straight at me and it pulled its wings back and turned itself into a fucking dart and got wedged between my cheek and the inside of my helmet

"mental note" always have visor down
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[Torque05]

[steveh]

hit in the head by:

seagul
pigeon
sparrow

wasp in my foggy mask was the worst,

got in once, took gear off, looked in mirror, theres a fucking horse fly sat on my NECK!
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[m0l0t0v]

I've been smacked on my stomach while doing 60 by a pheasant The bloody bird actually flew in my direction! It was walking along the other side of the road and suddenly flew towards me.

And another time is when I was on my way home and a pigeon started flying towards me then turned around so it was pretty much flying alongside me and as I started to catch up with it I moved my head so I wouldn't hit and then I decided "fuck it, it's a flying rodent" and gave it a headbut. Had a few feathers stuck to my air vents when I got home
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[teech]

My grandad was a motorbike cop in the 2nd world war. One day he was charged with the task of accompanying Winston Churchill down to his country house in Kent (with a few other fellow officers). As they were riding a long in convoy, a wasp lodged itself inside the leather flap of his helmet and stung him. He completely stacked the bike forcing the car containing Winston to swerve all over the place to avoid running him over. my grandad was OK - a few scratches and bruises, Winston even got out and asked him if he was alright!

Imagine, a bee sting could have changed the course of the war had things not turned out quite as well as they did.

This was one of my Grandads favourite sunday dinner stories. What a legend.
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[spike_Alike]

One of my old school teachers lost his leg because a bird knocked him off his bike.

Only story I've got is a bee in my helmet that didn't sting me.
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[matthab]

Pigeon flying across the road and smacking it with my head. Heavy fucker to much mcdonalds for that pigeon .
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[lukamon]

60mph down a back road, and a pidgeon flew out of a hedge, strait at me. ducked and swerved and though id just missed it, but heard a sort of bloomph noise. looked round and a cloud of feathers was slowly settling over the road
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[Gazdaman]

I nutted a bat once. I won.

Gaz

[fredsredhat]

A mate of mine was riding with his zip undone a few inches - a bee/wasp got in and stung him loads of times. he screamed to a stop with the bee still stinging. When he took his shirt off his neck/chest was a right mess!