And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Had something similar happen once, wherein all of the deer except a young buck managed to avoid the soft top HMMWV in which I was riding. That guy was able to hit the cross bar in the rear canvas door - essentially the only metal in an entire fabric frame- square between the eyes and at speed, breaking his neck while getting tangled in canvas. > My driver (looking at the fella bleating his last): What do we do? What do we do?!? > Son, *WE* don't do anything. *I* get on the radio with HQ and explain we'll be late and get other things moving. *YOU* get the mattock handle out of the pioneer tool set under the truck and finish him off. > eyeswide.exe
If that driver had stayed in his lane, instead of trying to dodge them, his car wouldn't be damaged as badly. They generally travel in groups, dodging what you see is not useful in most cases. That deer probably has internal injuries now.
I told my wife, never dodge them. They think you're trying to get them so they might change direction at the last second. We were talking mostly about squirrels but I think that tracks with most wildlife. All I know is that she nailed more squirrels than I did.
Having lived in SE Pennsylvania for quite a while, I believe that the annual reported car - deer collisions numbered around 46,000 per year in PA alone!!!
In my 20 years there, I had one collision while I was only doing less than 30 MPH. It was in my BMW 330, and it cost the insurance company over $6,000 for repairs.
WoW indeed. Didn't break that windshield.
ReplyDeleteThat last buck busted his balls on the fender. No wonder he's buckin' like a bronco.
ReplyDeleteNo cars.Let’s stand quietly in the woods.
ReplyDeleteNo cars. Let’s stand quietly in the woods.
OMG cars! Everyone panic and run out in front of them!
^ No kidding.
ReplyDeleteHad something similar happen once, wherein all of the deer except a young buck managed to avoid the soft top HMMWV in which I was riding. That guy was able to hit the cross bar in the rear canvas door - essentially the only metal in an entire fabric frame- square between the eyes and at speed, breaking his neck while getting tangled in canvas.
> My driver (looking at the fella bleating his last): What do we do? What do we do?!?
> Son, *WE* don't do anything. *I* get on the radio with HQ and explain we'll be late and get other things moving. *YOU* get the mattock handle out of the pioneer tool set under the truck and finish him off.
> eyeswide.exe
"yeah, I'm gonna need your dashcam footage for my insurance company"
ReplyDeleteIf that driver had stayed in his lane, instead of trying to dodge them, his car wouldn't be damaged as badly. They generally travel in groups, dodging what you see is not useful in most cases. That deer probably has internal injuries now.
ReplyDeleteI told my wife, never dodge them. They think you're trying to get them so they might change direction at the last second. We were talking mostly about squirrels but I think that tracks with most wildlife.
DeleteAll I know is that she nailed more squirrels than I did.
Having lived in SE Pennsylvania for quite a while, I believe that the annual reported car - deer collisions numbered around 46,000 per year in PA alone!!!
ReplyDeleteIn my 20 years there, I had one collision while I was only doing less than 30 MPH. It was in my BMW 330, and it cost the insurance company over $6,000 for repairs.