well, that was weird,I got hit by a deer..

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I was on the way home from easter dinner at my parents,driving down the main road, stopped for a red light, and "THUMP".
something smacks into the side of the car,at first I thought it was the guy behind me, checked the rearview mirror..
He's too far back for it to be him..looked to my right and I see two deer standing about ten feet from me..
Now it's about 6 in the evening, still bright & sunny lots of traffic, and in the middle of town.
I'm looking at the deer wondering how they got so far back from the car, then slowly I see this deer head start to rise up in the window, it looked at me and turned and took off running with the other two in the other direction..
Strangest thing I ever saw...
 
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I've had that happen to me, as well as having a turkey fly into the side of my pickup, and an owl fly head on into the grill of the same truck.
 
That sort of thing runs in my family, I guess.

My Dad, my wife & I have all had deer run into the sides of our vehicles.

In my Dad's case a nice buck left half of his rack sticking in the side of
his truck bed. My Dad looked but never found that deer but did comment
that if it survived, it must have had one heck of a headache.
 
I've had a deer run into the side of my '88 K-5 Blazer while I was at a dead stop, during deer season. He knocked himself silly. I did the only humane thing I could do. I pulled the 45 out and shot the ground. Scared him enough that he got the hell out of there.

I also hit a bat with the same Blazer. The bat covered the Chevy bow tie on the grill. Yeah, I was driving the "Bat Mobile".

The only other thing I remember hitting or hitting me, besides lots of bugs was a bull. He was a halter broke Brahma and was as gentle as a new born lamb. He got out of his pen one night to go visit the "Ladies". The next morning I get a call to come get him and help fix the neighbors fence. Not wanting to hook-up the trailer I just tied a rein to the halter and tied the tag end to the trailer hitch. Seems he took offense to the situation and caved in the tailgate and broke the rear window out of the Blazer.

The strangest thing I have ever had a deer do was JUMP IN THE BOAT. Don't believe me? Take a look at the crappy cell phone picture below.

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Lat November on the way home from work I had a 4 pointer run right into the front of my Jeep to the point where he busted his jaw and knocked himself out cold. He had to be dispatched (one .357 into the neck). He was chasing a doe. Where I was I had no cell service and while I was waiting with the state troopers my wife drove down looking for me to see what happened and almost hit the doe that he was chasing because she had gone only a few hundred yards away and was standing next to the road. Strange things those whitetails are.
 
About fifteen years ago, I was driving home to Berea through the Cleveland Metroparks from a friend's house in Lakewood.

It was late at night and I was tired, so I didn't see the 3-4 deer in the middle of the road until I almost hit them. I stopped in time to avoid hitting them. One of them was on the driver's side of the car. He had that entire side of the world to run off into, but instead chose to run directly into my driver's side door from a dead stop. He then turned and ran off into the park, having left a minor dent in the door.

Deer are DUMB.
 
Not only dumb, but we have TOO many of them in the populated areas of Ohio. They can be a real hazard.
 
I was driving back from my cousin's house one night. As I was going through a curve, my headlights were shining across a pasture and I saw a doe heading across it. I figured that she and I would intersect at the road so I slowed down a little but she did too. As she came over the fence, she did a 90 degree turn and was running down the side of the road right beside my passenger side window for a few seconds. I slammed on brakes allowing her to pull ahead and she cut across in front of me disappearing into the trees. She never hit the side of my truck but the "miss" had to be a matter of inches.

CW
 
Early November I was driving in a wooded area and a nice 230lb 4X4 barreled out of the woods at full speed and hit the drivers door of my pickup as I was driving by at 50mph. It was like getting hit by a cannon ball - I swear the truck moved 4 ft sideways. The window shattered, glass blew everywhere inside the cab, the outside mirror was broken off and ended up in my lap, and I got a nice puncture wound in my bicep from an antler tine (and about $3400 damage to the truck)....the only contact I have ever made with a deer in nearly 40yrs of driving through deer paradise. It neatly broke the deer's neck, and he was not even bruised (ask me how I know!)..
 
My most exciting auto/animal adventure was having a pheasant sucked down over the windshield into the passenger compartment in my TR3 at around 60mph.:eek:
It took us a little while to determine just who the car belonged to.......;)

Also, you haven't lived until you are batting along around 70 on a hot, muggy evening and strain a skunk through an air intake.:mad:
 
I hit a bear that crossed the road near Flagstaff, Arizona. I was doing near 60 when he darted across the road. After I hit him, I stopped. He got up, wobbled around a bit and got his land legs and walked off. My Toyota pickup's grill and hood was caved in and I had to be towed. This happened years ago. The insurance guy said he had lots of claims for deer and elk hits, but never in 30 years had he heard of anyone hitting a bear. Lots of hair in the grill, no blood. They gotta be tough.
 
Where I grew up (SW Oklahoma) there is a wildlife refuge with free range buffalo on it. Many years ago. on a dark night I was scooting through there on my 250 Yamaha when I hit one of those things. It was like hitting a brick wall. The bike stopped, I went over the handlebars and buffalo, the buffaslo was laying in the road grunting, I was laying on my back grunting knowing I had to get up before the buffalo did and decided to stomp me. Fortunaly I won that race, the buffalo eventually stood up and wandered off, and I sat there until a car came by. The bike did not fare weel, folded the forks back against the engine, bent the handlebars with my legs I believe, and had this thick coars fur stuck in the clutch and brake levers and a few other places. If it hadn't been for the fur I don't think any one would have believed me.

I can tell you one thing for sure, buffalo DO NOT reflect any light at all.

bob
 
cmort666 said:
About fifteen years ago...

He had that entire side of the world to run off into, but instead chose to run directly into my driver's side door from a dead stop. He then turned and ran off into the park, having left a minor dent in the door.
Click to expand...

Guess he showed you! :p :D

I have seen deer do some crazy things but I have never seen anyone want to be close to them when they are doing it. What is with the "boat" picture... :confused: (???? - for Fishslayer's benefit)
 
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