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Absolutely true story here... Funny now, but not at the time.

I was driving a little Plymouth Horizon Hatchback on Rt 15 from NY into Pennsylvania. Had just crossed the border into Pennsylvania when a big doe ran across the highway and a tractor trailer truck hit the deer.

It only hit the head, which spun the deer around and it lay on the edge of the road. It was dead. The only damage was to the deer’s head and it was bleeding from the mouth, so I tied two plastic grocery bags over the deer’s head so I didn’t get any blood in my car.

The doe was so big, it was all I could do to flop it into the open hatchback. I drove down to Williamsport and was on the bypass when I heard this loud snorting sound. I looked in the rear view mirror to see this plastic grocery bag bouncing off the ceiling. The deer was not dead, but only knocked out. It was trying to stand up in my little car and couldn’t as the ceiling was too low.

Scared the crap out of me.

I managed to knock it out again with a tire iron I had on the floor of the passenger seat in front, this time making sure it was dead. (Had changed a tire that morning and thankfully was too lazy to put it back in the garage)

When I got home I immediately butchered it, finding two fully developed fawns in it, ready to be delivered. That was why it was so heavy.

I now laugh every time I think of looking in the rear view mirror and seeing the plastic grocery bag bobbing around!