Darwin Spares One
As a Monday Morning quarterback, you are right----but
as an animal lover you are not............. The “moment”
governs our actions........The better question would be IF
his pregnant wife and dog BOTH fell in the water, who would he rescue?Posted by oldcatman
08/16/2004 at 10:46 AM
Yea a deer can really screw up your paint work. However never, never if you can help it hit a pig. Your paint work will be the least of your worries.
I once worked a scene on I-75 a little north of Ocala that was started by somebody hitting a pig that killed two people, totaled 13 vehicles and started a 22 acre fire that toasted another 30 hogs. That is just one of my hog v. car war stories…
You have been warned....
Posted by Ric Brandt
08/16/2004 at 10:52 AM
Wow old catman that still depends on how good a dog v. how bad a wife issue.
Just a thought but maybe the dog was makeing that supreme sacrafice to rid the world of that particular gene strain before it caused any further problems.
Posted by Ric Brandt
08/16/2004 at 11:00 AM
Sorry guys. I’m a total moonbat when it comes to my cats, and other local wildlife. I once stopped traffic-by hand,I don’t drive -to rescue some ducks.I don’t regret it. I also don’t eat veal-haven’t in 20 years- because of the way the calves are mistreated-oh AND I’m against sport-hunting-even though I’m pro-2d. I have a soft spot for cute little animals. Hippees on the other hand....
BARB*cat-mom*Posted by annoying little twerp
08/16/2004 at 11:01 AM
I go out of my way to try to hit squirrels, rabbits skunks, etc. Deer of course I avoid, but one ran into me one time. Another animal to avoid, moose. They are high enough off the ground to go in the windshield and out the back window. There was a pic making the email ciruit a few months ago of an example of this.
When my dog got run over i managed to bury it without severe emotional trauma. My wife however is a moonbat about this type of thing
Posted by Giraffe
08/16/2004 at 01:33 PM
Barb,
I don’t disagree. I have also stopped in the middle of the road to get turtles out of the way or if sandhill cranes are crossing the road, I stop to let them pass. Those are situations where I was aware of the surroundings and knew it was safe to stop.
Other situations found me driving OVER turtles (not “over” as in “splat") where all wheels missed them when there were cars behind me and to stop would have been unsafe.
OCM: there have ben MANY times (remember, this is Hernando County, Florida and wildlife is all over the place: snakes, deer, bear, foxes, hawks, cranes, turtles, cats, dogs, raccoons, possums, wild pigs, wild turkeys, etc. are EVERYWHERE) where I’ve been in those “split second” decision scenarios of having to evade or maintain course. In those “moments” where I was not sure that it would have been prudent to evade I just gripped the wheel firmly and hoped whatever critter was in the way would be able to get out of the way.
My situational awareness is VERY high whenever I drive. Poeple even go so far as to comment that I never look at them when I talk in the car. On the contrary, my eyes are everywhere----on the road in front, to the sides and behind.
Which explains why I can be such an “offensive” driver. I do NOT drive defensively. I am agressive and generally either get people to get out of my way or manuever my way around them.
And for the record---36 years behind the wheel. No accidents. Nor ever caused one.
That’s not to say that tomorrow a deer will take me out!
But, maybe the guy had a life insurance policy worth over $500,000. For that kind of money and what she would have gotten from Social Security, providing he was a taxpayer, she could have done better without him, financially.
Posted by Bob
08/16/2004 at 02:24 PM
Me, I run over anything that gets in my way. I have wracked up two deer, a cow, numerous squirrels and a bajillion armadillos. Not to mention a giga-jillion possoms and several hundred snakes. It’s my road. The animals have an obligation to stay the fuck off it. So there!
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest.” - Thomas Paine
Posted by Jack
08/16/2004 at 05:13 PM
Allan - that cow must have been really pathetic. I hit a cow with a pickup truck (I was really trying not to since it looked big) and the truck was totalled, and the damn cow was just dazed, and actually ran BACK across the road to the field whence it had come!
Posted by Oscar
08/16/2004 at 05:46 PM
The cow was on the dinner table three nights later and my truck was toast. That heifer went down like a ton of bricks and the engine almost ended up in my lap.
A deer once got in the way of my Dad’s car - we got to keep it & had venison for months.........I, myself don’t worry about hitting the rabbits & squirrels- too damn many of them anyway........We have signs all over the place DEER CROSSING and GEESE CROSSING.......everyone stops for those G-D geese crossing the road.......the geese are the ones that should be taken out- they are all over, goose-poop is everywhere & they get mean during mating season!!
Posted by Dottie
08/16/2004 at 09:15 PM
Hood Ornament,?
Hell,I’ve got enough kills to be a WWII Ace.
The only thing i want to know is where i can buy roadkill decals for my car door?
Count to date:
2 dogs , 12 cats , 8 snakes , 4 doves , 2 quail ,
1 vulture , 2 wild hogs.
all were unavoidable accidents , except for a couple of the cats!i really hate cats
Posted by Stan
08/16/2004 at 09:39 PM
You HATE CATS?! You sir, are no gentleman!
BARB*Throws arms around her purry chlidren to protect them from such evil*Posted by annoying little twerp
08/17/2004 at 08:31 AM
The dog is a black lab. I guess nobody told the guy that labs are excellent swimmers. Probably better than him. I saw him interviewed and it seems that when the rescue boat from the ferry picked him up he went back in the water after the dog. They pulled him out again after he got the dog in the boat.
I can just imagine the conversation at his house when the phrase “you love that dog more than me” comes up. Maybe we’ll be reading about the wife going off the ferry next. Any bets on whether he’ll go in after her?
Posted by StinKerr
08/19/2004 at 01:49 AM
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