Deer jumping car

[RSKY]

My wife and I were returning home last night from a shopping trip. We were doing about 65mph on a divided highway through an area with homes and farmland. I was slowly gaining on a white Cadillac and had (luckily) changed lanes to pass when the Caddy started swerving and a deer sailed over the top of the car, landed on its feet, and ran off.

The Caddy pulled off and I pulled in behind them. Turned out it was a friend who had retired from the place I work. We found no damage to the Cad. He said the deer came from the right side and he flashed his lights right before he was going to hit it. The deer jumped straight up in the air and the car passed under it. My friend said he heard a 'click' as the deer passed over. Since it appeared to me that the deer was spinning in the air I figure a rear hoof struck the windshield hard enough to spin it around and it landed facing the direction it had come from. So it ran off the road instead of in front of me.

Talk about lucky!!

 

[DUMBDOG]

He is very lucky that it did not come through the windshield.

We saw about fifty of those large rats in three herds within two miles coming in from the farm tonight.

 

[JJT]

Last year a big doe ran into the side of my wife's car, $4,500 in damage and the damned thing walked away. They are a nuisance animal around here. It's unfortunate that more people don't hunt them.

 

[goaliedad]

That had to be a sight! several years ago I was trailering our 19 foot boat with a full size van. A stupid bambi jumped into the side of the van, slid off, took out half of the boat windsheild and ran away. Try explaining that one to the insurance agent! At least it didn't come in the side window of the van- that would have been messy for sure.