Hey, deer are supposed to be in the left lane!
Nothing a semi-trailer tractor truck rolling along at 65 mph hauling several tons of cargo can’t handle. The deer would become airborne and land right in SF Bay. That would clear traffic in seconds. As for Bambi and friend, fish food. A nice, green, ecological friendly end, no?
Do’h!
/johnny
What’s the toll for deer?
No rack. Not even appealing...
In Northern California, the Deer and the Brown Bear outrank our State Bird as far as Disneyized sentimentality. You would not believe how excited and enthralled most the Bay Area people were about the Deer on G.G.Bridge moment. It was talked about on the radio for hours.
You don’t want to be the careless driver who would dare to ‘harrass’ the Deer by using your car bumper to gently herd or goad them into hurrying up. Woe be to the one who (gasp!) actually hits one or both Deer. I guarantee, you would be well known and infamous in this area by the next hour. The status of your employment just might be effected by the Twitterverse.
My father-in-law was a great hunter.
I remember visting him when he was very sick and dying. The TV was on, and he didn’t say a word until, for whatever reason, a picture came on of a very nice deer.
He looked at the TV and said “Bang.”
I think that was the last time I spoke to him.
Anyway, whenever I see a deer on the TV I always say “Bang.”
Some low-level civil servant in the California Highway Dept. is gonna get a severe reprimand for failing to post adequate “Deer Crossing” signage on the approaches to the bridge to let the deer know which lane(s) they were supposed to use.
Of course, Californians would be worried about the deer and not the people who could have been killed but whatever.
Heck, where I live, I used to have to get out and kick them with a steel toe boot to get them off the road when the acorns were falling. Pikers.