Bad Me
Weird feeling huh. We were headed back from a boat race from bakersfeild to san jose And doing about 90 when a deer shot out in a light fog.Dont know how we avoided it but we did.That animal just stopped like a cardbord cutout the instant it caught our headlights in its vision. If it wasnt a 4 laner we would have had venison stew on our old chevelle. Just 3 years ago my bud Mark had no such luck.While on route back from Reno to Portland up in the shasta range a buck flew over a fenced field and cratered his one year old mustang. He was ok but the poor ford suffered serious ouch and the deer ended up road kill.Count your blessings it was a lil one.
BTW,Did ya make it to the lanes after all that?My first thought was did you pick it up? But I forget, does NJ have a road kill law? Here we can do it, and then pay for the license and fees w/o penalty. And I do believe MI has a road kill law too.
Sorry but as we slide into the last week of income - yeah I will be looking locally but given the economy and that it was 1998 the last time I was employed for a paycheck (gov job at that)I’m not holding my breath - so the decision to go hunting was nixed for this year. And every time I hit the big roads or the back roads I hope someone around me hits one and yes, I will call 911 for them as I drag the body into my minivan!
Believe me, there are days I’ve considered a well placed shot out behind me - but a shot big enough to drop a deer, would attract too much interest and I’d be in the slammer for a while.
I’ve hit two deer so far. #1 took off my driver’s side mirror with her head. She jumped out of the cornfield to my left and headed straight for the front of my car. I steered right, and hit the brakes to avoid her, and didn’t quite. Her head hit the driver’s side mirror and her body bounced off my driver’s side door. Didn’t have the good graces to die either, just ran off leaving me with a dented driver’s side door, and a smashed up mirror, and deer shit by the tail-light. I replaced the mirror myself, and lived with the door dent, it’s cosmetic only, and isn’t too bad.
The second was much as Drew described except that the deer made it past the oncoming car, and I was fairly blinded by the guy’s headlights. Next thing I know, WHAM at 50MPH and I see the deer go flying off into the woods on the right. Smashed out the grill and damaged the headlights. I replaced the headlights myself, and the grill I had done a few years later when we found one fairly cheap. The deer? An impact like that broadside on the deer, and she’d be dead as a doornail. I was too god damned angry at the time about my car to think about the carcass.
I have no love in my heart for deer. They’re not romantically noble or honorable, they’re just dumb animals that seem to love to commit suicide-via-tiger’s-car. The next one I hit is getting beaten to death with a tire-iron.
Yes, we made it to bowling, where we lost 2-5. We had a good time though the other team was totally unsocial.
No, you can’t pick up roadkill in NJ.
Wardmama - bow and arrow makes no sound!
hit my first one last nite also. almost stopped in time, she slipped on highway and my bumper knocked her 15’, she got up a ran into woods while i damn near got rear-ended by the car behind! they are everywhere here in Cincy!
Drew you are now an honorary Utah resident too. Don’t feel too bad. Lots of deer are bi polar and suicidal. When they can’t take anymore they jump in front of cars to end it all.
Invest in some deer whistles. They are cheap and they work.With a girlfriend once, about 10 years ago, she was driving, near San Antonio, when a mama deer and Bambi came across the road. I heard GF say “Oh no” and told her “Don’t swerve!” because she was a softhearted soul who would swerve without thinking of the consequences. Mama made it, and baby would have but got clipped by a car ahead and in another lane, threw it right under us. Thump.
I had her pull over, and said I’d go check out Bambi; the highway was divided with concrete barricades and I saw a cop of some sort up ahead on the other side, and didn’t think twice about him. Went back, pulled Bambi outa the road and he was still moving a bit, but had obviously non-survivable injuries.
Ok, I’m a softhearted sap too, and don’t like seeing animals suffer. I pulled out a pistol and shot it in the head. Went back to the car, and it was my turn to drive, so we just sat there a second while GF sniffled a bit.
As we were about to resume our journey, the Bexar Co. Sheriff’s deputy I’d seen across the road was shining his flashlight at us; I rolled down the window as he crossed the road and approached and asked if we were alright. I gave him the story and when I told him I shot the deer he said, “Oh, that was what that was! I thought a tire blew. Where’s the deer?” So I took him back to it, and then we walked back to the car. He wished us a safe trip; never asked me ‘what’re you doing with a gun in the car’ (and the law was waaaay unclear back then), never even asked me where the gun was and to put it in the car while he walked back with me.
God I love Texas.
Posted by baboy
12/22/2009 at 11:28 PM
Texas ever secedes, I’m moving there. It’s only 10 miles East.
baboy - after our first stint in Texas - I vowed never to live there again. Our second stint made the first look like a walk in the park, so I wasn’t so sad to leave.
Within a month of being here - I remembered why I love this place and why I left the day after I graduated from HS - and that does not even begin to include all the family bs.
So now - we are seriously considering a move back to Texas (hubby graduates in the coming year).
As to the bow and arrow - Yes Drew it would but we should have bought one when we had disposable income - right now that’s not happening and I am sure some of my neighbors would rat me out with the carcass hanging next to the shed. It’s a Nature Preserve and I’m sure there is some rule or law about killing their animals - although I did not hesitate with the nasty little groundhogs and am seriously considering the squirrels too.
Cmblake, you’re welcome here. Even if you or I turn out to be jerks, it’s a big state, we can avoid each other. ;) We need more conservative folks here; overall Texas is pretty conservative, but all the border areas are, if not leftist, certainly pro-illegal immigration. Houston is essentially lost - that’s who keeps putting that jackass Sheila Jackson-Lee into office. Dallas isn’t much better, and of course has John Wiley Price for leftist obstructionism and entertainment. Tyler is an area known among plaintiff’s attorney’s (as well as another couple of counties on the Mexican border) as a plaintiff’s dream - largely find against any corporation no matter the issue, and award big bucks, so if something can be filed anywhere in the US (like, you want to sue Coca Cola), they like to file in Tyler. Austin is, well, Austin! Other than those areas, Texas is fairly solidly conservative, but if any secession is going to be successful, we need more. That’s a big step, weaning outselves off the federal teat, and many won’t want to make that move.
Wardmama, where’d you live when you were here?
Posted by baboy
12/23/2009 at 10:41 AM
12/22/2009 at 09:07 AM
