took one for the team

[BikerGeek99]

Bummer, but glad you're OK.

My work commute is aboot 35 miles, 99% highway. Last fall, on my way into the office one morning, I was somehow completely alone on the highway. I saw two small-ish deer on the side of the road. As I approached, the stoopit things started doing to whole I'm-gonna-cross-no-I'm-not-yes-I-am crap. I had slowed way the hell down and, as they turned away from the road, I thought I was good.

No! The ******* things decided to make a run for it just as I was passing 'em and - WHAM! - one of them ran smack-*** into the passenger side of my Jeep. There is just a small dent in the rear-passenger door, and I had deer snot and fur along the passenger side. So, technically, I avoided the deer but the deer ran into me.

Stupid f'n deer.

 

[FJRay]

Glad you are ok, the truck can be fixed, $4,000 in this day and age is not a lot of damage.

Right you are John, I just put most of it back in order with some zip ties and Gorilla tape. I need to drive it while waiting for parts. It will be in the shop while we are at YFO.

Fred, it is the aluminum body . You can read the Budweiser label where the paint is missing.

 

[rogdeb]

Sorry about the truck, glad you two are okay but...thanks Ray!

--G

Amen

 

[Fred W]

Chickens are dumber, but not by much, and they make less of a mess when you run 'em over.

Long story shortened, I hit a white tail buck in ME, with my father's prized Harvester 3/4 ton, while on my way to a date's house in Springvale. Didn't want to mess with the carcass, so I let a passerby in a ratty old station wagon take it. My date's parents were completely pissed that I hadn't brought the deer to them. Hey... what did I know? Just a city kid from the Boston suburbs.

That buck guard looks like a great idea. The cow catcher just looks like it would toss the deer up into your windshield. That's the one place you don't want those things ending up.

 

[HotRodZilla]

Deer are stupid. Glad you guys are good. I've already seen 4 live ones on this trip. Each time, next to the freeway. That's not cool!

 

[grnarrowe]

We saw 5 on the side of the road yesterday while riding back from Rockton, WI

All were dead but I kept an eye on them anyway. They're to stupid to know they're dead.

 

[steveoreno]

Last summer we would see a young deer on East Washington Street, (US 40), standing next to the entrance ramp to I-465! In Indianapolis. The stupid thing was watching traffic. It was there about 4 or 5 times when we rode or drove through. It has not been there for quite awhile I would assume Darwinism has caught up with it.