Posted on 08/16/2006 12:12:13 PM PDT by Mr. Brightside
We hit its hind quarter and sent it flipping in the air where another car coming in the opposite direction hit its front section. Oddly enough both cars had no damage and neither of us stopped and just kept driving.
LOL!
60 days detention and an essay!! For breaking four bones of one person and braindamage to another!! Holy crap, I got that punishment for stealing a pack of smokes when I was a kid. Times have changed.
Shamefully, I once did this sort of thing in a much younger age. One evening I found a 3 foot doll that had been pitched out with the someone's trash. I stood her up in the road and then hung back to see what would happen. Fortunately, my conscience got to me and made me put it back. I just KNEW it would be fun to see someone wipe it out and then come shrieking from their car in grief.
A year later I married my conscience. She is a wonderful person, an excellent cook and has had her work cut out for her ever since.
Buddy of mine was paralyzed when he hit a deer in his 280 Z. It came into the vehicle, much like that picture, and broke his neck.
Dreadful, but I can see how if he was awaiting trial, a public school had no choice legally but to treat him as "innocent". This case, on the other hand, involves boys who have been convicted, so neither the judge nor the school has any justification whatsoever for allowing these boys to resume their regular ego-tripping activities in front of cheering crowds (putting this high school's students in the unenviable position of being forced to either root for the criminals to win or root for their school's team to lose).
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'Tain't funny, McGee!
(I won't call you a "dumb@$$", but my first reaction was to do so...)
I've seen deer jump at the last minute and come right through the windshield.
On a typical trip into town here in northeastern Texas, we have to avoid from three to eight deer on or near the road. I keep my high beams set extra high, so I can see as far down the road as possible. I have even threatened to get a set of those over-the-cab lightbars like Baja racers use.
Of course, the rednecks in these parts would probably have shot that decoy to shreds -- season or no season...
How fast and out-of-control do you have to be going in order to crash your car into a pole to avoid a totally passive object the size of a deer placed in the middle of the road? It's not like it jumped out in front of him. It was a stupid prank, but no one should drive with so little attention to road hazards that a plainly visible object in the road causes them to crash.
That pic is from Costa Rico.
Yep.
And it doesn't have a car wrapped around it like the one above so presumably people drive with enough care there that they avoid it.
I agree with you.
The driver is as much at fault for the crash as the pranksters. I think 60 days is pretty stiff, but since someone got hurt its fair.
Yup, 60-days and a 500 word essay covers it. And they don't have to miss a game.
When I was a kid, I was in the family car when we hit a deer. It was 1972 LTD, (a lead sled), and we didn't have a bumper after impact. We didn't have a radiator, or grill, just an engine and a couple of fenders and a buckled hood that my father could barely see over. Of course, we were going over 40 MPH and the deer was at least a 12 point buck.
....so presumably people drive with enough care there that they avoid it."
Was that your point?
This morning, when we walked our granddaughters to the school bus stop, there was another dead deer -- and plastic headlight fragments -- lying beside our driveway...
Maybe Dodge ought to bring back the reinforced top/windshield frame.
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