Road kill

[Boondox]

Was driving home tonight and saw a tourist in a truck hit a doe right in front of us. The driver took off, probably scared the heck out of him. We pulled over to check on the deer. She was a smaller one, probably 80# dressed, killed instantly from massive head trauma.

Anyway, a minivan full of a family from Massachusetts saw us pulled over with a dead deer in the road right in front of our car. The driver rolled down his window and asked if we needed to use his cell phone. I looked at him, his concerned looking wife, the two pretty teen girls in the back...and something came over me. I can't help it. It's just this urge I get to torment tourists now and then.

"She's mine!" I snapped at him, holding the dead doe protectively. "I found her first!"

My bet is another story about the savages in Vermont was born tonight! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Pete

 

[Anonymous Poster]

A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do to keep them dang tourists out of decent country.
Nice Move

 

[alco141]

well played boondox, that terrrified family will be telling that story for the next 30 years at the greenpeace, earth first and peta metings, not to mention the years of psychotherapy they will need for the emotional scarring you caused in one calous moment. i am truely envious of your ability to cause such emotional wreckage in one spit second of brilliance.

alex

 

[BigDave]

Now that you tickled our taste buds, what did you do after the tourist left? /w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif

I knew a guy who was quite found of road kill, in fact you could always smell a strong stench coming from his truck, since there was always the hide of some critter that he had found along the road sitting in the bed along with a couple of dozen empty Bud cans. He even had a skunk hide dangling from his antenna for awhile. He said he was airing it out. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[s1120]

<font color=red>"She's mine!" I snapped at him, holding the dead doe protectively. "I found her first!"</font color=red>

ROFLMAO!!! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Oh,YA! Them people are going to have some REAL good storys! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Boondox]

BigDave -- It was very fresh meat, and our intention was to take it home and have it in the freezer in short order! As luck would have it, the local high school just down the road was featuring "The Logger," a show poking fun at tourists. There were so many tourists on their way to be insulted at the show that the wife and I didn't feel comfortable scooping her up and tossing her in the back of the car!

I wonder what the fellow in the minivan would have said if I asked him to help me load the body in the Subaru? What's really funny is that roadkill features prominently in The Logger show!

Pete

 

[Thomas]

Welcome to the country. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Thats why some of us still grow tomatoes,chop wood,skin a deer,and if we don't know ya..leave us alone.

Ahh yes Boondox..what were you wearing for clothes at the time..old comfortable jacket,wool shirt,work boots,blue jeans,TBN hat..if so I bet those city folks /w3tcompact/icons/eyes.gif /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[cstocks]

Almost four years ago in January my wife got hit in my pickup by a li'l toe headed buck about a mile from my uncle's house. She turned around and came back with this big, sad look on her face, proclaiming that she had just killed Bambi. I looked at the damage on the driver's side of the extended cab behind the door and it was muchly caved in. I asked her if the deer was dead and she did not know so I grabbed my .22 and she, my nephew and I drove back to the scene of the accident to see it we could find it. I wanted to put it out of it's misery just in case it's collision with my truck did not kill it.

It was right at dusk and took us a few minutes to find it and sure enough, it was not dead. I dispatched it with a single shot to the head and surveyed how badly it was mangled. It's neck was broken and the rear end had a severe case of road rash but it looked salvagable. I am not much on picking up road kill but since I knew that this was fresh dead and especially since it had just done several hundred dollars damage to my truck we picked it up, tossed it in the back, carried it back to my uncle's and dressed it in the dark w/ a flashlight. We managed to salvage on shoulder, one hind quarter and both back straps. I know the law says I am not supposed to take game like that but I just could not see letting good venison go to waste. Fortunately no one drove by while we were picking it up... would have hated to have to go where you went w/ the Tourists, Pete!/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Will_C]

Can't pass up cheap venison! As I inventory my collection of clothing, boots, and rifles, each pound of meat I get hunting costs $25.00 a pound /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif.
The same thing always happens to me when I see a fresh road kill, Pete. I am either on my way to work, with my loafers, shirt and tie on, or I have to be someplace and don't have time to care for the carcass.
Will

 

[DUMBDOG]

My brother hit a doe a couple of weeks ago, thought it was dead, went the rest of the way to the farm, a half mile, to pick up a knife, went back to the deer, but it was gone, no other traffic. So it was only stunned, good thing he did not put it into his explorer, can you imagine driving down the road and having a deer come back to life in a confined space.