Kookaburra sits on the old car grille...

[Geez Louise]

What a lucky bird!! Hit by Mr Wham!

Originally Posted by Ninemsn

Despite being stuck in the grille of a car for a 700km drive, one lucky kookaburra has had the last laugh.

Bruce Wham, from Wollongong, was heading north from Scone in NSW when his car hit a kookaburra.

"There was a bang and I thought, 'uh oh, there's one dead kookaburra'," he told the Courier-Mail.

He noticed the bird stuck in the grille of his Mazda 6 when passers-by pointed it out at a petrol station in Tenterfield.

Assuming the bird was dead, Mr Wham decided to drive on and deal with the carcass later.

At one stage he thought he saw the bird move, but people convinced him otherwise. It wasn't until he arrived in Brisbane 25 hours later that he decided to remove the bird, only to find it was alive and extremely irritable.

"I must have hit it up the bum because his head and a little bit of one wing were sticking out," Mr Wham said.

The kookaburra had to be cut of the car grille by the RSPCA and has spent the last week recovering from the traumatic journey.

700km Journey! Wow

FULL STORY HERE

[NickosBF2XRT]

haha, waht a tough bird! Must of been a falcon in its former life!!

[trippytaka]

[LUXO_8]

who takes 25 hours to travel from mid nsw to brisbane....?

[Geez Louise]

The kookaburra does obviously!

[LUXO_8]

my point is....its an 8 hour drive... he'd obviously been driving for a while before it happened.... it makes no sense to my brain.... lol

[GasoLane]

Not everyone gets into a car and bolts until they get to their final destination.

Some people actually stop and look at things, and even...shock... sleep in a motel !!

[LUXO_8]

didnt mean to offend.....
i can understand sleeping overnight on a 20 hour drive..... etc
an 8 hour drive really isnt that far... =/

[GasoLane]

Nah, no offence taken, but I know people who stay overnight between Melb and Syd.

[Road Games]

Yeah he thought it was dead at tenterfield so left it in there .. he realised it was still alive in Brisbane..

[tankclare]

Holy crap just seen this on the news. It was from Scone to Brisbane. Scone is in my neck of the woods. Well 40 minutes away lol

[irish2]

Shows how soft mazda 6's are. Can't even kill a bird at speed.

[aussie muscle]

At least his survived. i hit a crow between bombala and delegate NSW. it was DOA. i was more angry at the smashed grille on my AU than the poor bird's life.

[Bucknaked]

I hit several galah's on trip to Adelaide a few years back. One hit my side mirror at 100 and pushed he mirror into the driver side window and the motor and mirror came out. Had to get a new mirror at nearly $200. I hope the bastard died a painful death.

[Corzza]

Lucky escape for sure!

[Falcon_Crazy]

I hit a bird just outside of Pory Hedland..when i got to Broome it was still in grille of RTV and alive! was in a bad way so put it out of its misery quickly