Kamikazi duck

[Tom Nas]

Mike Arman <armanmik at n-jcenter.com> wrote:

One of the ducks, evidently not yet properly rated for night flight, and
>evidently also overcome by the beauty and rhapsody of flight (which is fine
>- I've been flying for 25 years, and I still am) ran out of altitude,
>airspeed and ideas all at the same time, and came to grief smack (!) in the
>center of the driver's door on my 86 5KS. (Required Audi content, and the
>only reason this incident is reportable at all..)
>
>I saw only a flash of something brown or black, and heard a huge thump!!!!
>- like someone had hit the door with a baseball bat. There was a secondary
>thump as the window rattled, and it was over. Even deducting 50% for
>startle factor, the noise was LOUD.
>
>When I arrived at point B (traffic precluded stopping), I found feathers
>and duck poop all down the left side of my car, but no obvious damage.

I can tell you from experience that getting aforementioned duck head-on 
onto your door mirror costs you a mirror glass.

The duck was nowhere to be found, and there were blood and feathers all 
over my car.

Tom