Quite Popular in Rural America and Australia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadkill_cuisine
In Alaska it's a great way to eat Moose. In Australia Kangaroo tastes good I hear.
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That's just plain mean.
Drivers in Hawaii face the lowest odds of striking a deer – just 1-in-10,281.
oh deer!
I’ve taken 3 Michigan deer on my driver’s license.
I guess the Buck stops there.
I came back from a gig in central KY last summer at midnight to my home 40 miles away and counted the deer near or on the road. In groups of 2 to 5, they numbered 37. I had to brake for some but I’ve not hit a deer in the three years I’ve been here, and I’ve come within inches of a couple.
I do a LOT of night and dusk driving. And I don’t text.
‘Do not rely on devices such as deer whistles.’
A friend swears by them. I’ve never hit a deer so they must work. But I’ve seen deer do really stupid things. Do they even have a brain?
Please let it be Al Franken.
Quite Popular in Rural America and Australia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadkill_cuisine
In Alaska it's a great way to eat Moose. In Australia Kangaroo tastes good I hear.
Would Laz hit a deer?
Actually I am a member of the “I hit a deer” club. Driving along Pacific Coast Highway on my way to work in Malibu.
A long time ago.
At one point I hit four different deer in a five year span. I occasionally had to creep through herds of deer. Where I used to live and commute to work, every evening (I worked the night shift) was a “where are the deer?” experience.
“In Minnesota the most frequent months for deer collision are November and October, when hunters are afield and deer are mating and moving more, followed by June, when newborn fawns are beginning to move around.”
In Coastal Californicator land, our best time to get hit by deer starts in August and goes until our first rains.
Summer and early fall, Archery and firearm seasons drive the bucks into the suburbs during the early annual part of “Watchout for Deer”.
Then, as our normal summer/fall drought continues until the first hard rains, usually in November, food for the grazing deer continues to get harder and harder to find.
When our moon nights, reach half full moon to full moon and back to half full moon. At night our roads are packed with deer grazing by the roads or trying to find a grazing spot in the moonlight.
If we go out after dark during this period, we will often see over a dozen deer in our block and immediate roads.
During these nights, Bambi loving drivers learn the hard way, if they don’t kill themselves, to never drive off the road to avoid a deer. Trees and rocks can take a fatal or serious toll on those who do this.
In one year, a soft hearted doctor, drove off the road to avoid hitting a deer and spent a couple of weeks in the hospital. Then he did the same with a bunny. After talking to him, he bought a big Ford Diesel F250 4X4, and according to rumors, he carried a butchering pack in his truck to remove back straps from deer not smart enough to get off the road.
I’m very careful to scan for sets of eyes glowing in the headlights anywhere near the roadway. The deer are so numerous, I know all the “runs” on regularly traveled routes, and they’re not always marked by a state sign. You get so you can sort of “feel” them, I move to the center of the roadway, put my foot on the brake, slow down and coast through those areas if at all possible.
I’ve only hit one, low speed, the remainder of a hurricane was blowing through with wind and a lot of standing water on the roadway, it jump out from behind a large Forsythia bush on the side of the road. Little damage to the car, crazed the paint on the soft plastic bumper, knocked a foglight askew. The deer went spinning on it’s side for about twenty feet, hopped up and leapt off into the woods.
A deer hit me and knocked out my electrical system and bashed in my door. Then had the nerve to stand up and trot off into the woods!
Perhaps it’s time to take down the deer crossing signs, so that the deer will stop crossing near them. /s
Oh deer!
Family members and I have all hit (or been hit) by deer. By the way, Garage the damaged car (w/deer remnants attached til the adjustor arrives).
But best “claim” story I’ve had...several years ago, deer went into neighbors above ground 24 foot round swimming pool (how, we do not know—jumped up & over the wall?). It panicked, kicking the wall out, deer (and 13k gallons of water) rush downward (along w/some bushes) to damage our PARKED in the driveway car.
Took awhile for adjusters to figure that one out.
IH8Bambi !!!
I was driving along a two lane road at sunrise. I saw a buck off to the left grazing in a field. For some reason, he took off like he was on fire on an intercept course with me. There was nothing else to do but hit the brakes and close my eyes. I heard a small thud on the roof off the car. I opened my eyes and saw the buck hauling donkey up the hill on the right. I pulled over to examine the car. Nothing on the front of the car. On the front of the roof of the car was a small dimple. That stupid deer had vaulted the car! I looked up the hill and there were three other bucks holding up signs with “9” on them. I looked across the road back to the field, and there was another buck chalking up his hooves. Stupid gymnast deer. Got nothing better to do.