Two Seconds. Maybe Three.

[Alien]

Mt Panorama, a tourist road when the big race is not on, not a deer but this what we get to put up with.

A few weeks ago my daughter wrote off her car when she hit a wombat, it is said that wombat is an aboriginal word for large hairy rock.
Daughter OK but neither the wombat or car lived to see another day.
I hit an emu in a Toyota Hi Ace van, van was a write off, it was like hitting a solid feather mattress, huge cloud of feathers and couldn't see a thing for a while.
Phoned the office and told them I hit a bird, didn't elaborate at the time, it's like hitting a 100lb roast turkey on crutches.

One trip out west I came across a bloke that had just hit an emu. The car was totally destroyed. Feathers from A to B. I stopped and asked if he needed any help or a lift. He said he was OK thanks. ?? Maybe he was in shock but I took him at his word.
Always wondered how he got on as he was in the middle of nowhere.

 

[TheMan419]

Glad you are ok man. I thought the head line was about my sex life.

 

[SouthernSky]

https://www.kalb.com/app/2021/11/15/deer-captured-inside-olol-hospital/

Deer gets hit by car, walks into hospital and takes the escalator.

 

[JasperFrank]

There are certain roads in south eastern Oregon, Nevada and Utah, where the Black-Tailed Jackrabbits are suicidal. For years, I use to make the attempt to swerve to avoid them, only to have them switch their running line right back into the car. Now, I only make the slightest of adjustments to my line to avoid them. One would think that simple evolution by now would favor the ones that stayed off the road when they saw headlights or heard an automobile coming, yet this doesn't appear to be the case.
Drove one time X-country with my mother and had to have the conversation that we "will be hitting rabbits, and I'm not stopping every time we do so." First four or five times we hit one, she was a bit shocked.

 

[PILOON]

There are certain roads in south eastern Oregon, Nevada and Utah, where the Black-Tailed Jackrabbits are suicidal. For years, I use to make the attempt to swerve to avoid them, only to have them switch their running line right back into the car. Now, I only make the slightest of adjustments to my line to avoid them. One would think that simple evolution by now would favor the ones that stayed off the road when they saw headlights or heard an automobile coming, yet this doesn't appear to be the case.
Drove one time X-country with my mother and had to have the conversation that we "will be hitting rabbits, and I'm not stopping every time we do so." First four or five times we hit one, she was a bit shocked.

Around here it is big black squirrels.
For some reason they love running across any paved roads but then they were transplanted from the city by the tree hugger community that did not want them in their back yards.
But then it takes all kinds,
Heck (I'm rural) some want to live trap beavers and move them elsewhere. Yeah move a rodent!
Wonder if those same good folks live trap mice and rats and export them also.
Next we'll have to trap wasps and skitters.

 

[k0ua]

Ever notice - a deer will stand by the side of the road or just off in the brush until you are coming. Then they DASH across. Hoping to not get hit.

It's so common to see deer - early AM or dusk - I won't drive that time of day unless its really necessary. I've come so VERY close - more times than I can count.

Up where AquaMoose lives - it's a bloody nightmare. They ARE everywhere up there also. It's not called Deer Park for no good reason.

Those things are as stupid as a squirrel. I have so many close calls near the house. We all need to shoot a lot more of them during deer season.

 

[Jstpssng]

some want to live trap beavers and move them elsewhere.

That's been common practice here for years. There was a time when beaver were a staple of the economy, and it was worth it to relocate them. Often the same people who live trapped them in summer would move them to a place they liked to trap, then go back and catch them for good in the winter.

 

[PILOON]

Those things are as stupid as a squirrel. I have so many close calls near the house. We all need to shoot a lot more of them during deer season.

Yep, and with the food prices heading the way they are we'll need bigger freezers, that is if we can afford ammo.
The best meat pies I've eaten (tourtiers*) was deer/pork based.

*Tourtierre is a french Canadian meat pie most frequently served Xmas eve reveillon.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Early one morning I was heading for Newport, Oregon with two buddies to go on a chartered salmon fishing trip when a doe hooked her front leg out on my passenger side rear wheel well. I stopped, cut her throat, tossed her in back, and headed off to go fishing. As it turned out I didn't have time to take care of the carcass before getting on the boat for a 6 hour fishing trip. When we got back, the deer was gone. It was the 4th of July weekend, and the waterfront was nose to tail cars, but there was a bench full of codgers in front of my pickup who smiled, waved, and stopped traffic so I could get going. What a friendly town!

I puttered in granny gear to the end of the block, where a state cop was waiting for me. It was a cartoon moment as he freaked out. He could have walked over and told me to pull over; I was moving that slow, but instead he jumped in his car, started the engine, and lit up. I was probably six car lengths ahead by the time he got into line, which had stopped dead because, you know, emergency lights. At the end of the street I took a wrong turn to 101, and had to turn around to head back into town. There was the cop, heading the other direction at high speed with his lights flashing. Another cartoon moment, when he saw me. The guy could have been Bugs Bunny.

By then I had figured out what was going on, so I let the guy catch me. He couldn't figure out how I knew the cops had taken the deer. My response was, "Who else would want it?" I didn't think of the crab bait potential. He cited me for illegal possession of a game animal, a Class A misdemeanor. Big oops. Fortunately, the DA laughed his head off and dropped the case. Good luck finding a jury that would convict on that one in a rural area.

And that is the story of how I got popped for illegal possession of a deer while I was 5 miles out to sea.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

I’ve killed 5 deer with motorcycles

A friend once killed a bull elk with his motorcycle helmet. He survived with severe brain damage. We knew each other well, but could never remember me after that accident. It took him years in rehab to get back to a normal life.