Posted on 09/01/2009 9:57:40 AM PDT by JoeProBono
"...Someone out there owes us an explanation. Someone not human enough to stop Sunday evening after they ran over my cat not three yards from my driveway.
Thankfully, the cat didn't suffer. As I gently scooped my orange-furred pal off the road, I wondered what kind of person drives away after killing a member of my family.
His name was Doctor. I'm not a cat person, but if you knew Doctor, you didn't have much of a choice. He threw himself at you until you had no recourse but to love him. His eyes were slightly crossed and he drooled when pet more than 30 seconds. There were times I went outside at night to commiserate with him, when he was the only living thing willing to listen to my problems. The raccoons just hiss at me.
At the very least, his killer could have summed the courage to come to the front door and explained why they couldn't evade a slow, 10-year-old cat who was three-quarters the way across the street....
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
Yes, there are many different sets of circumstances, and I certainly wouldn’t suggest that swerving is *always* the right move. But if there’s a reasonably safe area to swerve into, that’s a better option than hitting a deer head-on at high speed. In heavy traffic, slamming on the brakes could cause a chain reaction of vehicles slamming into each other.
On a more amusing note, there’s a little house along a very busy, narrow road near King of Prussia Mall (Pennsylvania) that has recently sprouted a new pair of lawn ornaments: a life-size, life-like doe and buck, right next to the road and in a posture that suggests they’re in the process of heading *onto* the road. Probably the most effective reducer of traffic speed I’ve ever seen.
Brilliant!
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