Once I was coming home on the bike trail and I saw a porcupine. It was alive too.I had about 8 more miles to go and I wasn't about to get a flat tire. I mean I once rode my bike 2 miles with only half of set of a peddles (one of them just popped right off) , but that was all downhill.

So I began making my presence noticed. The problem was that as soon as I got within 50 feet, the stupid idiot would lay down and puff up like an idiot. So I got desperate and started to make like snake noises while also saying that I am a snake (I don't know what eats porcupines, maybe trucks?). I sounded like a right jackass. But I was desperate. See, I had to be home before sundown, Or I would not be able to see anything. I failed to make it 4 times and I had to feel my way back home with my feet (trail good, grass bad).

Long story short,
the porcupine eventually got of the trail a third of a mile of me following it  and I got home fine.