Don't underestimate the pigeon

[Bender]

https://nypost.com/2025/03/11/lifestyle/onlyfans-model-mercedes-valentine-suffers-memory-loss-after-crash/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

 

 

[Simon Davey]

Strewth, what a mess. 

[ChrisBiggsUK]

“I wasn’t being clever and was going very fast down a residential street" 

And;

"“I’ve realized, though, it was my stupidity that landed me here and I really hope people learn from my ordeal to take care when riding motorbikes,”"

 

Wow.  Accountability.  Have to give her credit for that.

 

[RideWithStyles]

Surprised she rides motorbike, which is great but Shame it now has a negative impact. Great she knows and learn .

was wearing a fashionable openface and not a full face helmet?

 

i remember when a sparrow caught my fingers at about 50-60mph and knew about it and only weighs about 20-40g.

Pigeons are pretty solid/chunky and robust birds (work college shoots them), so no doubt it would make an impact.

I know pheasants can damage a car pretty well too .

[Bender]

1 hour ago, ChrisBiggsUK said:

“I wasn’t being clever and was going very fast down a residential street" 

And;

"“I’ve realized, though, it was my stupidity that landed me here and I really hope people learn from my ordeal to take care when riding motorbikes,”"

 

Wow.  Accountability.  Have to give her credit for that.

 

Yup but she did something most idiots don't do, she owned upto it and didn't blame a mystical unexpected throttle or the sun or millions of other excuses.

 

Lucky to be alive and lucky no one else injured or killed 

[Yorky]

"Now, she wakes up every day feeling like someone different."

 

Can I put my name on the list??

[Bender]

45 minutes ago, Yorky said:

"Now, she wakes up every day feeling like someone different."

 

Can I put my name on the list??

Don't tell the wife that.....

[Capt Sisko]

Don't underestimate the robustness of a Wood Pigeon. I've shot hundreds, no thousands of the buggers over the years, you hit one, you see feathers come off and the bugger keep on flying. There's not much meat on a pigeon, two small breast and whilst they're no fillet steak they do make a decent enough stew. Mixed in with the dog food though and the farm dogs loved it.

[bud]

I did wonder if she had a helmet on with the damage to her head. But it was a carbon fibre full face.

She must have been really going to land 260ft down the road.

[Mickly]

I don’t think it was the pigeon that did the damage, it was the swerving to avoid it and hitting a parked car that did the damage, which was compounded by an existing medical condition.

Still, fair play to her accepting culpability, it seems these days, not matter what’s happened, it’s always someone else’s fault.

[Bender]

Yup 6 houses is some distance, just as well she didn't skimp on the lid

[Capt Sisko]

Given she was wearing a full face lid I can only assume that to have got that much eye & nose damage she must have been riding visor up and just damned unlucky the pigeon went into the open gap. If it was beak first she was lucky she didn't loose an eye. A closed visor ought to have stopped it. 

"New for 22.06 is the impact testing of visors to ensure they can resist penetration. In this test, a 6mm steel ball is fired at 80m/s or 180mph at the visor. It must stop the ball going through the visor, and if the visor breaks, it shouldn’t shatter into shards."

 

The news article say she also lost three litres of blood. We've only got five. A 40% loss and it starts to gets dodgy as to whether you'll survive, at 50% your heart usually stops and other organs shut down. She lost more than that. She's very lucky to be alive and owes the NHS a big thank you.

Edited March 13 by Capt Sisko