Hi All,
This is the first convertible I've had on the road (I have a Triumph Spitfire I'm restoring.........maybe I should have kept that to myself?) and it's a GT, so at the weekend I took the top off (only had it since Nov 2002).

Since then the roofs been down every day!!! so question.

Went to work today in Leeds, roof down, and stuck in traffic at the side of the railway station, with all the railway bridges overhead, I look up and see all these pigeons!!.................so what are the chances? how do I avoid this happening? time it so I don't have to stop under bridges?

all thoughts welcome, I did have a bit of a chuckle to myself, that I might have been sh*t on.

cheers

Gary

 

I have heard it said that if a you are shat upon by a pigeon, it is a sign of good luck. I would imagine that you could be "very lucky" if you spend a lot of time under bridges (and that last sentence has the potential for so much humour).

I personally have thought that the only people who actually SAY that, are those who have just been shat on and are trying to find a way of not being laughed at.

I have been "bombed" only the once - and I can't think of many people whom drive with the top down (in all sorts of ridiculous weathers) as often as I do.

 

You could carry an inflatable Peregrine Falcon around.......err on second thoughts that may have the opposite effect

 

Turning either left or right before the dark arches gets you most places that going under there does. However I have never experienced any adverse droppages under it.
Marc

 

You should trip round the roads in outer Manchester. A piece of pigeon shat is the last of your worries. Think 9 year-old rip off Burberry sporting twocker with a paving slab.

 

May 13th 2000. Day 2 of owning my car. Went to show it off to my sister in Esher. Beautiful day, roof down. Drove under a railway bridge, didn't even stop, and got crapped on good and proper. My head, the seat, the roll bar, the inside of the roof. All from one bird, ba$tard . Nuff said.

 

What are the chances? Good apparently

I've had bird poo in the cabin at motorway speeds (and no I don't mean the M25) - reading the responses it doesn't seem that un-usual.

I believe I can claim a unique experience in the 'turd-in-the-car' department - cow sh!t.

Just after I got the car, I was taking my mature, retired Aunt for a quick jaunt around the back roads. I didn't want to be shown up by her Volvo so I was giving it a bit of stick (did I mention she drives a T5 ).

Now there's this hairpin junction I know well, lots of run-off area, good site lines, often covered with a light dusting of gravel. So in I pile, blipping down from 4th to 1st, power on and a luuuuvvvvverrrrlllllyyyyy power slide out the other side. S'funny I thought, no gravel sound, but it was slippy.

Then I notice the slurry stripes on top of the door, the dashboard etc. Farquhar the farmer had been moving his incontinent cows around, and I had some cleaning to do!

 

The chances Im afraid are quite high Gaza,

I will quote myself from a few months back if I may:

[QUOTE]I had an unfortunate incident with a satanic Sea Gull last September which managed to pepper the cabin area, the roll bars, and *the tonneau* cover with a frankly astounding amount of toxic waste. If you wish to imagine the effect, picture if you will having several large handfuls of wet gravel thrown at you, from above while driving at 60 mph

 

..and don't leave any crumbs on the seat when you leave the top down... last year I came back from shopping to find several pigeons had taken roost...

 

*touches wood* this is one reason I dont like driving round my parents home town - FULL of bloody seagulls and I have killed a few in my time

Colin A - you have the BEST stories!!