Posted on 06/11/2022 11:46:14 AM PDT by beaversmom
My son drives a semi. He and I were talking about this video and he told me that one day he clipped a downed cone with his semi and flipped it upright.
Probably couldn’t do it again with practice
Oh wow...for a minute I thought you were going to say he clipped a bear with his semi. I’ve seen some of those videos, too. Not good.
I don’t think he’s ever hit any animals. Of course, those are never the driver’s fault.
I used to drive buses. If an animal steps on the road, you just keep your course and never swerve.
That was cute, and odd. I was expecting an accident, but that bear clearly knew what it was doing. It’s hard to imagine what it was thinking. The only thing I can come up with was that TV show, “Monk”.
Right. I don’t think I’d make a good bus/semi driver. One year to Utah my family and I saw so many dear killed alongside the road. I think we stopped counting at 30. Poor animals.
*deer...
LOL...that’s hilarious! Give that bear a Good Citizen award!
Thanks for posting, Mom.
Bear has a mild case of OCD, he’ll be fine.
A few decades back, I had just landed at Logan and was driving to my hotel in some Boston suburban town on a fine late spring day. I moved into the left turn lane which had a red left turn arrow and I was probably below 10 mph when a squirrel ran in front of me. Seeing that there was nobody behind me, so I slowed a bit quickly to avoid squishing it.
Just then a guy pulled up on my right and started screaming at me “We don’t stop for squirrels around here!!!”
Welcome to Boston!
Some have been there for decades.
There was an article today with a bunch of bleeding hearts whining after some roadie at a concert kicked a squirrel off the stage at an outdoor concert.
If there was a squirrel onstage moving slow enough some guy could kick it, there was something wrong with that squirrel and it was a potential danger to the talent and crew.
Living in the Eastern Sierra for 15 years I’ve got 8 deer in my old 4Runner. One in a VW and one in front of the lodge at Yosemite. Never swerve to avoid them.
I saw that article! People getting all weepy about a rodent. Sheesh.
When I had a backyard hobby orchard of about ten trees, the squirrels would devour the majority of my fruit before I could eat it. What was especially infuriating was that they would take one or two bites from a piece of fruit a day away perfect tree-ripeness, something you just cannot buy in a market. They would drop the nibbled fruit to rot on the ground.
I finally had enough, bought a “Hav-A-Hart” trap and caught 75 of the tree rats. The first one I caught I did the humane and recommend thing — drove him 10 miles into the hills around us and let him go. Then I came to my senses and gave the next 74 tree rats their “final swim” in my very small squirrel pool.
After that, I able to eat most of my own crop and the infernal squirrel noise went away.
I always laughed at my use of a “Hav-A-Hart” trap.
Ditto!!
I have traveled East,
And I have traveled West;
And, I hope to travel some more!
But, I have never seen anything like that before!
My son was on summer staff at a camp. They had a skunk problem. They caught several in Hav-A-hart traps.
One day he sent us a video of a skunk in the trap as he was singing “hi ho, hi ho, skunk killing I will go”. Splash
A couple of months ago an acquaintance of my daughter’s at high School brought two baby squirrels to the school. Of course, my daughter knows me being an animal lover, so she contacted me immediately and asked me what to do. I just said contact the animal control. Ask them.
I don’t want to be involved in this. Anyway, he still had them the next day and she’s calling me that we got to get to them to this wildlife rehab place that she located or they will die.
I knew I was going to end up being involved. So this wildlife place is way the heck and gone in rural Brighton, Colorado.
I thought we would never get there. It was kind of a little adventure and we got to see this neat place where they rehab animals. They had all kinds of farm animals out there and a bunch of dogs. So I was glad I was roped in.
But thanks for the reminder about squirrels as they said they are going to have a shindig this Spring and that reminded me of it. Turns out it’s this weekend so I’ll have to try to go tomorrow morning before I take my daughter to her summer college camp.
https://sfrwildliferehab.com/farm-events
When he was a boy around 1933 (he was 10), he trapped skunks for pelts in Westchester County, NY (north of NYC). He always told tales of getting sprayed and his mom giving him tomato juice baths afterwards. He always cracked me up with those stories.
Looks like a fun event! Glad I prompted that memory for you.
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