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| Gary Stadler (Boogiethecat)
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I was driving off to the metal store to get some material for my genset project. As I was happily driving along, suddenly a "flash" of something came out from under the car in front of me. It looked kind of like a plastic shopping bag but before I could completely recognize it I heard a pretty hefty "thump" under my van. Thinking "Hmmm, what was that?" I quickly scanned my rear view mirror and to my total surpise, nothing. Especially surprising because of the size of thump it made! No swerving cars behind me, nothing out of the ordinary on the road, not nothing!. So I checked my oil gauge just to make sure whatever it was didn't punch my oilpan, and drove on my merry way. When I got to the metal store I got out and checked under the van. No leaks, nothing stuck... the mystery continues... I went in and did my shopping, came out and this time went around the front of the van to get in. I got the biggest laugh I've ever had- check this out!!! http://www.heartmagic.com/vanfront.jpg  | ||
| Kevin Allen, Nebus (91flyer)
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Holy heck! That thing looks savage! Good thing it didn't come up a bit higher through the radiator... or worse still, the windshield! -Kevin | ||
| Luis (Sundancer)
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Your lucky day. If it was thrown 1 foot off the pavement it could easily have been 3 feet higher and you would have been in serious trouble. Buy a lottery ticket and hug your wife and kids. | ||
| TWODOGS (Twodogs)
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scary ! !.. | ||
| Gary McFarland (Gearheadgary)
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Leave it there, back home (Oakland) it would qualify as art. It's...like you've been marked by god or sumpthin' Gary | ||
| Bruce Henderson (Oonrahnjay)
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__. Last one of those I got into was 3-4 cinder blocks falling off pickup truck in front of me. I managed to miss them but I couldn't swallow for a few minutes. __. I'm glad you had no big problems with your "highway encounter". Bruce Henderson, Wallace NC | ||
| TWODOGS (Twodogs)
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when I was driveing big trucks...about 70 mph one day a pick-up passed me about 90...got about 100 yards in front of me & his plastic ;pick-up liner blew out ..VERY big object ...hit my windshield...BIG pucker marks on my driver seat afterwards | ||
| Robert Wood (Bobwoodsocal)
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Yeow! Crazy! Thanks for sharing Gary, Bob | ||
| Gary McFarland (Gearheadgary)
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I saw one of those blow out once, sailed about 60' into the air and glided into the median. pretty dramatic | ||
| Bill Cable (Fe2_o3)
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Gary... Looks like you're being told to increase your following distance....Bill | ||
| Gary McFarland (Gearheadgary)
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Oh, was it the piece of steel you were looking for? LOL Gary | ||
| Henry R. Bergman, Jr. (Henryofcj)
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Gary...you are one lucky person. It could have easily KILLED you! Knife! If that had happened, we all would have fought over your Crown! Up here in Oregon, it is the deer crossing the road at night that kills more people than drunks. Plus, very hard on your cars. Good luck. | ||
| Gary McFarland (Gearheadgary)
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My daughter killed about five deer in one year with her BMW 2002 (Tough little car) Yes...In Oregon. Gary | ||
| RJ Long (Rjlong)
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I got a deer one night coming out of Lake Tahoe, CA on US-50 with an MC-9. Dented the front license plate on the coach, and provided lots of roadkill for the scavengers to relish and savor. . . RJ PD4106-2784 Fresno CA | ||
| Johnny Rating: N/A |
The F-550 ramp truck at work was running 50MPH when it tagged a deer. They found it a good 150' away in some guy's backyard. The 550 got a new grille, radiator, & A/C condenser. The driver probably got new underwear. | ||
| Mike (Busone)
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Talk about lucky, watch out for lightning and buy a lottery ticket. | ||
| Cory Dane Rating: N/A |
When I was still working for EXELON (the secret is in the name), one of the retirees sent back a picture that he said we would never beleive. The picture was set along a railway track, this railway track had power line poles along the side of the track. He sent a close up of the top of one pole, there was a deer, deceased, hanging from the top of the pole. We reasoned that a train had hit him and somehow he was thrown to the top of the pole. Hard to beleive but it was in the picture, in color yet. cd | ||
| Jayrjay Rating: N/A |
An acqquaintance of mine had a deer jump through the passenger's windshield of his Winnie at around 60 mph. Broke his wife's jaw and ribs, then it proceded to jump around back inside the coach, while he tried to get stopped. He finally got to a pistol and killed it to stop further damage, and to put it out of it's misery, since it had a broken leg. The old lady finally healed, but the Winnie took almost $8,000.00 to fix Ohio State Patrol showed up, and then called the Ohio dep't of Wildlife. The Conservation officer wanted to arrest him for shooting a deer out of season !!!! The patrolman had to restrain Paul from attacking the dumb*ss. Yup, true story, it happened about 12 years ago on the Appalacian Highway (U.S.35) just west of Chillicothe,OH ...JJ | ||
| TWODOGS (Twodogs)
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yeah...the wildlife people go overboard...I was sawing off antlers of a roadkill one time & they got real aggressive... | ||
| Gary McFarland (Gearheadgary)
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The last one my daughter hit, she broke it's leg/back, but it was still alive. What did she do? Slit it's throat, hauled it home, dressed it out. Yeah, that's the way we do it back home. (She was 16 at the time) Gary | ||
| Brian Brown (Fishbowlbrian)
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Snopes.com (an urban legends site) has pictures of a deer on a telephone pole. Confirmed true pictures (they debunk quite a few fakes on there). Check it out here: http://www.snopes.com/photos/poledeer.asp Glad you and your ride are OK, Gary. FBB | ||
| Johnny Rating: N/A |
My uncle tagged a deer in Vermont about 15 years ago. He was driving his mobile-service truck (a single-axle IH LoadStar 1900), running ~60MPH on a 2-lane highway. He pulled over to get his breathing back to normal & check for damage to the truck. As he got out, 2 guys slammed on the brakes of their truck, jumped out, ran to the dead deer, grabbed it, threw it in the bed, & laid about 10' of rubber as they took off. He said he must have just stood there for a good 2 minutes, completely stunned. Jayjay: Ever considered you might have shot the wrong member of the gene pool? | ||
| Glenn-MC-9 Rating: N/A |
Well, I guess I need to add my story also. Last spring I was returning home one night from a singing here in northeast Georgia. As I topped a hill I saw what I thought was a black dog in my lane. I lifted off the accelerator and brightened my headlights. Well the "black dog" endened up being about a 300 lb. black bear. Luckly there wasn't any oncoming traffic so I started breaking hard and getting into the other lane. I guess he must have decided that he was in the wrong place because as I was moving over.....he did to. I caught him with the right front bumper and rolled him a couple of times down the road. As I'm trying to get stopped, I look and he's getting up and heading for the woods. If he hadn't decided to make that "illegal lane change"...he'd probably been alright. I stopped about a mile down the road and the only damage was a little blood on the bumper. I called the sheriffs' department and reported the incident just in case he was seriously hurt and someone else run up on him. Glenn | ||
| TWODOGS (Twodogs)
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'nuther story...I was going around Denver one time,turned of at Brush ,Colo. headed south,heavy snow,packed roads,black night...this other truck came up behind me & said"WHATS THAT"....after he said it about five times ,I said "what are you talking about"....he said there is something 15 feet long comeing out from under your trailer....I stopped in the next town...it was the guts of two deer that had run under my trailer,had to kick them both loose of the trailer axel.......... | ||
| Gary Stadler (Boogiethecat)
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Corey: Here.... http://www.heartmagic.com/zz8633.jpg and while you're all at it.... oops... http://www.heartmagic.com/zz16738.jpg | ||
| Robert Wood (Bobwoodsocal)
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Must have thought it was an off ramp? | ||
| TWODOGS (Twodogs)
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"I SAID ,GET UP THEM STAIRS" | ||
| BrianMCI Rating: N/A |
Back in Massachusetts, fresh out of high school, I used to hang out at night at the gas station my room-mate worked at. One night a woman pulls off the nearby highway and tells us that she thinks she's run over a dead deer with her car. She was spooked enough alright... we looked under her car and sure enough there was blood and pieces of flesh hanging. When Mike told the woman this, she didn't take it well He told her he'd take care of it for her and had her pull around to the side of the service bay where he jacked the front end up and hosed the underside of her car off then sent her off eternally grateful, on her way. Unbelievably the next day on the news was the top story was of a motorcyclist who lost his life the previous night. It appeared that he lost control of his bike on the highway and was hit by several cars... Yikes! Brian | ||
| Bob Oakman (Bobsbus)
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Hey, That hunk of metal stuck in your bumper looks like something I tore out of my bus a few months back. Once I was driving the company mini-van... Two women in the back seat. Don't start thinking anything now! They were coworkers. Anyway, I hit a Partridge. I figured, lunch, so I grab it and throw it on the floor in the back. A few miles later I hear hysterical screaming and commotion from the back seat. The bird came to and was flying around , bouncing off the girls and the celling. There was hair and feathers everywhere. When I quit laughing enough to gain control of my senses, I stopped and let it out. | ||
| BrianMCI Rating: N/A |
Was one of your co-workers named Peartree by any chance? How just many maids-a-milking was there, really? Brian | ||
| Bob Oakman (Bobsbus)
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8 maids-a-milking, but I can barely handle the one I have now, but since the 6 geese-a-laying, there's one left for you. My cousin had a deer come through the windshield. Half the deer was with him in the front seat, the other half in the back. he lost an eye. Twodogs came by and salvaged the antlers before the Sheriff arrived... kidding. The part about my cousin is true though. | ||
| Rodger in WA. Rating: N/A |
So, here're my stories: Through the years, I've manage to narrowly miss hitting several deer but in '91 my luck ran out. Driving my brand new Acura on a county road in southern IA, I spotted a deer crossing a hundred yards or so ahead of me. I slowed down, thinking there might be more. Passing the spot where #1 deer had crossed and not seeing any more, I began to accelerate when suddenly my windshield was full of brown fur. Another buck - a big one - had leaped off the bank to my right and landed broadside, square on the windshield. Fortunately, it landed perfectly centered, so the frame around the w/s absorbed most of the impact and the deer stayed outside. The windshield even held together, it just bagged in. Besides the smashed windshield, the only damage to the car was a slightly bent hood and the right side mirror was broken. I definitely lucked out on that one. In around '53, in Northern MN, I hit a huge hog with a loaded single axle dump truck. The right front wheel spindle and tie rod bent and the truck ended up on it's side in the ditch. I got a few minor cuts and bruises out of that collision. It was fatal to the hog. | ||
| TWODOGS (Twodogs)
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it's worse to hit a hog...they are the same height standing up as they are laying down.. | ||
| Marc Bourget Rating: N/A |
Hogs have low center of gravities, they ain't "pitched" by the Cow, er Hog Catcher! | ||
| Kevin Allen, Nebus (91flyer)
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Alright, alright... I have to throw this in because there's some funny stories here... When I was a kid a number of years ago (yea, it sucks remembering "when I was a kid"... ugh)... My mom, my brother and myself were in a little Ford Escort going down a backwater road in Minnesota right after a blizzard had passed through... the road had been cleared by a single semi truck that had left ruts just perfect for the car to travel through... The ruts were, in fact, so perfectly done that the steering wheel could be let loose and the car would follow them without hesitation... So, we're cruising along and my mom says "uhoh"... Now, to us kids, this is a big thing, because mom never says "uhoh" unless there's a problem... and when she was driving, she simply didn't say that unless there was something BIG about to happen... So we get up on our knees in the back seat to peer over the dash down the road... a couple hundred yards up ahead, there's a little brown spot moving around in one of the ruts... Now, normally this wouldn't be a problem... it's just a furry little forest critter scurrying around after a snow storm... but in this case, it's a squirrel. Now, my mom and us are nature lovers, we don't like to kill little furry animals unless they're suffering... This particular one wasn't suffering, and in fact was quite inquisitive.... It sat straight up and looked at us as we were bearing down on it. My mother honked the horn... nothing. Squirrel was determined to stay put. We're getting closer, and this animal just doesn't want to move.... She can't hit the brakes, because we're literally riding on ice under the snow... so... To this day, we can just say the words "Thump Thump" and everyone starts cracking up... We teased her about hitting that squirrel for the past 20 years now. -Kevin | ||
| H3 (Ace)
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Same scenario happened to me and a buddy when we were travelling in the wee hours one very cold morning on the way to a big race in Montgomery. I was riding shotgun in a mustang two about half asleep when I heard the words "oh shit"! No movement from me at this time. Then the words "OH shit"! Still half a sleep and still no movement, the words "OHHH SHIIIITT" each time getting louder and louder!!! I guess I decided it was time to look and see what the fuss was all about when the whole windshield on my side was BROWN full of deer! Yep the instant I looked up, BROWN! Then came the glass, EVERYWHERE! We stopped the car a short time later only to find that the deer must have cleared the roof and the little race trailer we were pulling! My buddy said he saw the deer in the road beginning the first of the "Oh shit's" and he was trying to run like hell (the deer, not my buddy) and all he could do on the icy rainy road was spin his wheels (hoofs)! I guess the front of the car was so low that it hit the deer in the legs and flipped him up and into the windshield back first and over the roof clearing the trailer. Except for the windshield being broke, only other damage was a small dent in the window trim from the radio antenna that had a little steel ball on the end. Needless to say, it was a very COLD, VERY awake, ride the rest of the rainy way to Montgomery AND home! Can you imagine how EVERY mailbox on the side of the road looks just like a deer in motion after hitting one? Trust me! ALL mailboxes look like deer in the middle of the night from that time until present. In fact, when I go to Montgomery now, I plan my trip so I don't have to go thru that section after 10pm. It's called Deer Run on rte 231! Very appropiate and Almost always you can find roadkill on that 5 mile stretch! Oh yea we were labled the "deerslayers of the south" from then on! Ace | ||
| Marc Bourget Rating: N/A |
Today Associated Press release on "road kill" claims a daily average of 4000 car/deer collisions 210 were killed in this type of collision last year! Wow, I hit a deer on the Laguna Canyon Hwy back in 1969-70. I can remember a thread years back discussing the merits of the "deer whistles", no recollection of a fatality until this thread popped up! Drive safe! Marc Bourget | ||
| Johnny Rating: N/A |
And people wonder wht I have an F-350 & my wife has a Blazer. Yep, we're in deer country. I know 2 people who have nailed Bambi in the last 3 years. Fortunately, one was in an F-550 & one in a 3/4-ton Suburban. |