Posted on 04/07/2010 9:01:29 PM PDT by cmj328
I have a friend who hit a horse that rolled over the hood of her car and came through her windshield (a big freaking horse at that)!
I once had a deer’s head in my passenger seat. Worst garage sale purchase of my life!
He must have refused an offer he couldn’t refuse.
“Vinnie, you idiot, I said a horses head, not a deer!”
Five seconds!
Friend of mine hit an elk a few years ago. Partially came through the windshield. It was nasty, but he was ok.
That sounds like a typical Mi. road hazard around here.Car vs deer happen all of the time.
“I once had a deers head in my passenger seat. Worst garage sale purchase of my life!”
I did the same thing, $10 bucks. A couple of months later someone told me about a guy with a new bar that was looking for a deer head to hang on the wall. Got $100 bucks for it.
Got $100 bucks for it
You da man!
Especially when the grass on the side of the roads start sprouting up in the Spring.
We drove home from Little Rock one night around midnight and counted hundreds of deer standing on the side of the highway just at the edge of the trees eating away. You just never know when they are going to leap out and try to cross the road!
I hit a cow once. There were snowbanks and the critter had gone over the fence. I was only going around 20 mph. The car spun and the front smashed in. The cow fell down, got up and walked back into the field. I called the rancher and told him. He could never identify which cow had been hit, but my car was a mess.
Thirty couple years ago I hit a pig in the fog down by Ocala. Killed the pig. Just bent the front rim on my Honda CB500 a little and added some scratches to the paint job and to me. The highway patrol sent a van out to get it that looked like it was rigged inside to butcher a hog.
1) Pennsylvania
2) Michigan
3) Illinois
4) Ohio
5) Georgia
6) Minnesota
7) Virginia,, HUH?
8) Indiana
9) Texas
10) Wisconsin
I can't imagine the stats have changed much for 2009.
/Salute
We have a new million dollar unfinished project that is supposed to warn drivers when deer walk across the road in a one mile stretch of highway. After they installed all the fancy poles and sensors, they never did activate it. I guess the state ran out of money.
The state is a laughing stock to locals. They wasted all that money on foolishness while the county is experiencing a 20% unemployment rate.
That's the least graphic photo in the set - the passenger side pic shows all the guts. Weird, though - not a scratch on the Dodge's grille, bumper or headlights. The deer must've been hit mid-leap.
This almost happened to me a few weeks ago.
I was driving on the highway doing about 45 in a 50 MPH zone and a big deer, his whole body was above the hood line and if I clipped him, I might have been a goner.
Out of nowhere this huge deer was in front of my car, luckily I wasn’t switching radio stations, I had a split second to tap the brakes and for an instant his whole body was right in front of the car, how I didn’t hit him I’ll never know. It seemed almost impossible for him to be in front of the car seemingly within inches of the car and no contact. If I didn’t tap the brakes I would have had a face full of huge deer at almost 50 MPH.
Not only are the mountain forests packed with them, but there are lots of tight turns where your headlights don't point in the direction you're going, giving the bastids plenty of opportunity to get in your way.
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