We would be remiss in our duties here at the Roadkill Diaries if we failed to mention this incident at the Canadian Grand Prix:
Briton Anthony Davidson blamed a collision with a beaver for costing him a possible first Formula One points finish in Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix.Hitting a rodent on the pit straight with a Formula 1 car yields one highly splattered animal. But as others have noted, it's highly unlikely the animal was a beaver - a groundhog is much more likely.The Super Aguri driver hit the animal while in third place behind the safety car at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
He finished 11th after making an unscheduled pitstop to replace a damaged front wing.
The story made the front page of the Ottawa Citizen today:
Canada's noble rodent victim of mistaken identity
Only at SMALL DEAD ANIMALS LOL!!
Beavers chasing F1 cars is usually a bad formula.
So thats how beavers get their tails flattened!?!
Somebody is going to get chewed out for this beavercide.
I have this gnawing feeling that this is so dam 'beaverlicious'. Hey watch those splinters!
Critics say they overheard this in MSM offices everywhere
"Get CTV/Bell/Globe Media/Rueters/CityTV/newsmonopoly photoshoppers on that woodchuck,... yesterday.
If we say it's a freekin beaver, than a dead beaver it will be!"
The only solution is to BAN formuls 1 racing to saaaaave all cute little beavers
"But as others have noted, it's highly unlikely the animal was a beaver - a groundhog is much more likely."
But now we'll never know.
"But as others have noted, it's highly unlikely the animal was a beaver - a groundhog is much more likely."
But now we'll never know.
Time to call in CSI (Castor Species Investigators).
Considering a Blue Jay baseball player was almost charged in offing a seagull, will Davidson face similar charges?
A beaver they say? Well, lucky it wasn't a moose.
A beaver they say? Well, lucky it wasn't a moose. Too bad it wasn't Alonso who hit it - that way he would have an excuse for the crappy race he drove.
Notice to all groundhogs at F1 racing venues:
No hitch hiking
Hate crime! Hate crime!
If he was driving a Dodge Ram 3/4 ton diesel extended cab 4x4 raised up with a welder in the back, I bet he wouldn't have needed to replace his wing. Those things apparently go as fast as most F1 cars, too.
Mind you, he would have had to stop a lot more for fuel.....
Where are PETA when you need them?
A beaver in Montreal?
No possible way.
Beavers are on the endangered list.
Rivers and streams have all dried up in Canada due to "Global warming."
Muskrats are still said to live in Montreal or again it may have been a skunk.
Skunks are thriving in the eastern part of Canada.
Don't ask Danny Williams about skunks though.
Alfonso might be a better source for skunk info in Quebec.
It must have been a ground hog or "woodchuck"
A few ground hogs still exist in southern ONTARIO.
One rare little critter was last seen in Joe Molnar's back yard, after eating his garden peas and chewing off all Joe's asparagus spears.
Drowning ground hogs is very difficult though, they have more escape routes then Chretien Liberals have when it comes to cash stuffed envelopes at election time.
( just had to get that Quebec connection into the blog,Yeh)!
At 250 plus K per hour hitting something the size of a beaver would have made the Kubica crash seem tame. A Champ Car driver hit a deer on a track in Wisconsin last year and damned near died.
They showed another driver avoiding a brown rodent larger than a gopher (woodchuck maybe)- that would do enough maage at any speed.
Joe,
Have you tried running a hose from your tailpipe into the burrow??
JCL
Call in (actor/comedian?) Tom Green. He's an expert on roadkill.
The race was reinforcing her Canadian patriotism by unleashing her beaver.
Sweet.
Now if we could only turn it into a catchy fad.....
Save a race car, eat a beaver.
Mind you, he would have had to stop a lot more for fuel
I'm not sure, but I think the truck may get better mileage than an F1 car.
Trevor:
The comment was written tongue in cheek. However, the metaphor is surprisingly not that far off reality.
Honda's F1 car (BAR Honda) gets about 4 mpg. The Dodge 3/4 or 1 ton with the welder in the back at 140? Probably not that much better. 8? 10? 12?
He should consider himself lucky that he wasn't racing in the Thai Gran Prix.Thier national animal is the elephant.
"Ward, I think you've been a little hard on the Beaver!"
One less Carbon emitting lifeform. If we could just get the Goreical's supporters to hop in front of car we may be able to avoid the $0.20/L green tax we've got comming.
I guess it's COOL to be white again!
A CANADIAN beaver in SEPARATIST Montreal? Nope, nada.
ROADKILL ITS ROADKILL splater gose the beaver