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I saw this happen a couple of years ago. The poor thing was flailing around in a lot of pain and the rider had to put it out of its misery.
Glad yours had a lucky escape.
Edit: I posted it on here! https://www.lfgss.com/comments/13036118/
skidlidsid-
Wow, glad I didn’t have to deal with something like that.
Saw a friend come as close as is possible to being slapped in the face by a pheasant last weekend in Essex, they seem to see you in plenty of time but are then drawn to you.
Wildlife is a nightmare.
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What method of dispatch did he use? The only time I've faced a similar incident was after seeing a duck hit by a car, my friend and I settled on a hammer to put the still writhing bird out of it's misery but, when using the claw side to drag it out of the road, the body came clean away from the head. Turns out what we took to be pain was the headless chicken effect. I was quite relieved at not to having to stove it's head in with a hammer but it's left me still unsure if my squeamishness would have got the better of me when it actually came to it.
MisterEd
middleofnowhere
Starting my ride to work this nice sunny morning, slowly rolling along just a minute from my place and I see a cat chasing a squirrel from the corner of my eye.
They squirrel is zig zagging trying to lose the cat but it’s fine as there’s plenty of space around and I’m going pretty slow.
Squirrel seems to take a course directly at me, still zig zagging, and I’m relieved when I see that it’s not gone for my front wheel but has ducked behind, a split second later I feel the back wheel bump over something that I can only think was squirrel :(
I saw it run out the other side still pursued by the cat so fingers crossed I just caught the squirrel’s tail or something...
(To be fair it wasn’t wearing a helmet or hi viz and I think the sun might have been slightly in my eyes so I should be ok, right?)
Sorry squirrel/10