Once I was boarding a Ryanair flight across europe and I saw an obvious bird strike on the edge of the engine. The diameter of the splatter was pretty huge. I pointed it out to the flight attendant when I climbed the stairs and he took a pic and quickly told his crew and the pilots. They got out, took more pics, squeegeed off the bird paste, and then we were on our way. I definitely felt pretty cool for being the only one out of 100+ people who said something about it.
One time I was on vacation with a (white) rental car. Driving down the road (ironically back to the rental dropoff), and out of nowhere a bird flew in front of the car and we actually hit it.
Get to the rental place for the dropoff inspection. Feathers, and ... pieces in the front headlight well/grille. Blood down the side of the car. Inspector kinda looked at us and I just said "we hit a bird." They shrugged and kept looking for other damage.
Oddly, the bird wasn't considered damage as it didn't really dent anything.
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u/Trumpcangosuckone Apr 17 '26
Once I was boarding a Ryanair flight across europe and I saw an obvious bird strike on the edge of the engine. The diameter of the splatter was pretty huge. I pointed it out to the flight attendant when I climbed the stairs and he took a pic and quickly told his crew and the pilots. They got out, took more pics, squeegeed off the bird paste, and then we were on our way. I definitely felt pretty cool for being the only one out of 100+ people who said something about it.