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Your chances of hitting a deer are greater than ever
AJC ^ | 14 Sept 2015

Posted on 09/14/2015 9:56:58 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

The odds drivers will file a claim from hitting a deer, elk or moose are 1 in 169, according to the latest numbers from State Farm.

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Oh! The have such beautiful eyes!

So what if they have eaten everything that is green and now starve, never shoot Bambi or her kin, ever, no matter what!

Car wrecks? Too many cars already!

1 posted on 09/14/2015 9:56:58 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I’ve hit 3 of them myself over about 20 years.

Its a Michigan road hazard.


2 posted on 09/14/2015 9:59:33 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I hit one in North Carolina. I can’t believe that the states haven’t been sued by the auto insurance company for incompetence. They put big restrictions on hunting and do nothing about the deer population and the auto insurance companies are getting slammed year after year with claims. It is a travesty that the states are ignoring this worsening problem.


3 posted on 09/14/2015 10:00:13 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Walker for President 2016. The only candidate with actual real RESULTS!!!!! The rest...talkers!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I was driving at night in rural Florida. Suddenly a deer leapt out and was hit by a truck in front of me. The truck in front of that one and the one behind it pulled over instantly. As I passed the drivers were all racing toward the deer. In the lead truck a guy was pulling out a chainsaw. Nothing goes to waste here. My neighbor, a woman, regularly stops to inspect dead deer. If there are no flies on it, it’s heading home in her trunk.


4 posted on 09/14/2015 10:01:20 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Yeah, ...and they never obey the Deer XING signs!! /s


5 posted on 09/14/2015 10:02:29 AM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

We drove through northern Michigan last year and I was shocked at the number of dead deer on the side of the road, in various stages of decomposition.

Cows have nice eyes, and chickens are cute when they’re tame as well. Our family hunts and deer are plentiful, so we have no problem turning them into food.

Car wrecks hurt people - better to thin the deer population.


6 posted on 09/14/2015 10:03:35 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: DUMBGRUNT

My niece hit a deer a few weeks ago. She lives in suburban Georgia.


7 posted on 09/14/2015 10:03:47 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: cripplecreek

Two and counting for me. It’s a part of life here in the hill country.


8 posted on 09/14/2015 10:05:06 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Dear liberal... BAM!


9 posted on 09/14/2015 10:05:42 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: Liberty Valance

They flock (I know that is the wrong word) along the interstates here in the Memphis area.


10 posted on 09/14/2015 10:06:05 AM PDT by Ingtar (Capitulation is the enemy of Liberty, or so the recent past has shown.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

RODNEY DANGERFIELD: “My wife is a terrible driver. The other day, she hit a deer.....it was in the zoo!”


11 posted on 09/14/2015 10:06:14 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: napscoordinator

My dad....at age 80....having lived his entire life in a rural area of Alabama....had a deer-truck accident about four years ago. All those years, probably over 1.5 million miles driven, and that was the first one.

I live in Germany. On the road between my village and the nearest urban city (over 100,000)....which is barely six miles....we have this safety sign that went up three years ago. They note that since 2010 (they keep a track of this), there’s been roughly 100 deer-vehicle accidents on this six-mile stretch over this time-period. I’d say well over ninety-percent are in the evening hours.

You’d think that people would ask questions and demand hunters get aggressive....but nothing occurs.


12 posted on 09/14/2015 10:06:26 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Liberty Valance

Just one, and it was glancing hit. The deer and vehicle both survived. But, it is challenging out here in the Hill Country!


13 posted on 09/14/2015 10:07:44 AM PDT by SuzyQue
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They are everywhere here in Fairfield Country, CT. Already had some close calls. They are especially active around dawn and for a couple hours after dusk.

I know the numbers are up because people don't go deer hunting like they used to. Almost everybody I see out there during hunting season are over 40 years old. Very few young people go hunting these days.

14 posted on 09/14/2015 10:08:08 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (A businessman gets things done with own money. A politician takes money and gets nothing done.)
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To: Liberty Valance

I think its a lot less likely for me these days because I’m usually home before dusk.


15 posted on 09/14/2015 10:08:47 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: Cvengr
Let me hyper-link that for ya...


16 posted on 09/14/2015 10:16:36 AM PDT by wtd
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I got hit by a flying deer here in Washington.
It bounced off another Truck.
The meat looked a bit tainted to me so I passed, but the truck driver took it home. I told him he had dibs as the launch vehicle.
My old S10 pickup was easy to find a fender and hood and grill for so I made no claim. I even found them in the right color for $200 on craigslist.
I tend to scan back and forth a little further on the road now.


17 posted on 09/14/2015 10:18:39 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: napscoordinator

They really need to have bigger deer hunting seasons in areas where the deer population have caused a lot of damage to the local flora.


18 posted on 09/14/2015 10:22:39 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Ingtar
I see deer and turkeys on the Natchez Trace every time I go home. I was coming back a few years ago and a deer jumped the car in front of me. I really need to get down there but am having my 3rd surgery on my eyes on Thursday. The dr told me I would be awake for this one. Yeah. Just what I wanted. : (
19 posted on 09/14/2015 10:25:44 AM PDT by MamaB (Heb. 13:2)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
I have had some close calls (just clipping the deer a couple times), but it took a bit over 40 years of driving before one charged out of the ditch after sunset and ended up hitting the left headlight, sliding across the hood, then sailing over my right outside mirror. How he managed to get up and limp off into the weeds I'll never know, but he did it.

We had to replace all the front sheetmetal/fascia/lights/grille/windshield, but luckily the antlered idiot had enough momentum going crosswise that he didn't cave in the windshield and mess up me or my passenger.

From what I've seen so far this year, when the farmers start stirring the critters up during harvest, there are going to be some body shops keeping busy.

Mr. niteowl77

20 posted on 09/14/2015 10:29:29 AM PDT by niteowl77 ("I wish I had better news for you, but the truth is that this thing is not worth fixing anymore.")
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