Splatterflies

Are wildflowers planted by the side of the highway some twisted way to lure butterflies and insects into one area so that we can smash them at high speeds with our cars? Look at your windshield after a nice drive throught the hill country and you will see what I mean. Who created this plan to trap the little creatures?

Lady Bird Johnson. Birds love to eat insects. I think it is clear that she had it out for the insects when she planned this highway “beautification”. Who can see how lovely the flowers are when your windshield is covered with grasshopper guts?

I need to wash my car…


Comments

Brett

2004-05-06T14:27:41.000Z

What’s really nice is when you have enough decaying grasshoppers on your car to create a strong odor…
Someone needs to invent a hood-mounted bug zapper. It’d be like playing a game; you’d aim for the bugs while you speed down the highway.

I happen to be lucky enough to have a nice tree above my driveway where birds have a comfy place to sit while they shit all over my car. I don’t know what’s worse, having your windshield covered with bug guts or having your entire field of vision obscured by one-single-huge bird shit. I kid you not; it had to have been at least a foot wide.

William Rene

2004-05-06T17:26:17.000Z

I smell a conspiracy.  Or perhaps it’s a sort of butterfly extreme sport, crossing highways just after they’ve pollinated.  It’s probably similar to the game squirrels like to play.  They sit there and wait just until your car is about to pass and then they dart right across the road.  Sometimes they loose their nerve and they get about half way out and dart back or the poor little daredevil will just freeze up as he just watches the Honda civic bare down on him, his friends chattering at him to “RUN YOU FOOL! RUN!  Nature can be twisted.

Mica

2005-03-23T02:32:55.000Z

Well, I have dead rabbitt on my tires…thats right i hit a rabbitt and i feel like total shit…i hope my car wasn’t tainted..

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