Chicken hit by car doing 70mph but you’ll never guess what happened next
A plucky poultry played chicken with a car travelling at 70mph (112 km/h) – and the car came off worse.
Driver Huang Lingyong, 31, was at the wheel when the bird-brained pedestrian suddenly crossed the road in front of him. But instead of squashing the chicken and leaving it as roadkill, the bird smashed a huge hole in his bonnet, where it stayed until the car stopped moving.
Huang said: "I braked because I am an animal lover and didn’t want to harm the chicken. But it was too late. I heard a sickening thud and I thought the chicken had gone to meet his ancestors. I stopped the car, got out and walked around to the front. There was a hole in the bodywork and the chicken wedged inside. I thought it must be dead but then I heard a cluck-clucking and bent down to look closer. It was a little shaken up and its feathers all ruffled, but otherwise OK."
He added: "It seemed to me to be a very good advert for the durability of chickens and a very bad one for the quality of the car that I was driving. I took some video with my phone and uploaded the pictures on the web and I was not surprised when there was a lot of feedback from people who shared my opinion of the car."
The car manufacturer, a Japanese company, have insisted the bumper of the car, which was so easily destroyed by poultry, is not part of the original design, but is actually a cheap Chinese copy.
source: www.mirror.co.uk
to do 70 mph – 70-nel menni
poultry – baromfi
to play chicken – két autó egymás felé hajt, és az a “gyáva nyúl” = chicken, aki előbb elkapja a kormányt
to come off worse – rosszabbul jár
(steering) wheel – kormánykerék
pedestrian – gyalogos
instead of – helyett
to squash – kilapítani, összenyomni
roadkill – elütött állat
bonnet – motorháztető
to brake – fékezni
thud – puffanás
ancestor – ős
wedged – beékelt
to bend down – lehajolni
to be shaken up – megrendült
feathers all ruffled – a tollazata zilált volt
otherwise – egyébként, máskülönben
advert(isement) – reklám
durability – tartósság
to upload – feltölteni (számítógépe, internetre)
feedback – visszajelzés
manufacturer – gyártó
bumper – lökhárító
to destroy – tönkretenni
Match the driving vocabulary with the definitions.
1. to brake | a) the metal flap covering the engine |
2. bonnet | b) the object drivers use to turn left or right |
3. bumper | c) to travel at a certain speed |
4. steering wheel | d) to slow down a car |
5. to do 30 km/h | e) protective device at the front and back of a car |
answers: 1-d 2-a 3-e 4-b 5-c
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