Posted on 08/25/2025 12:59:34 PM PDT by Red Badger
SORRY-—THEY DIDN’T USE ENOUGH DIFFERENT EXAMPLES:
HIT A FULL GROWN PIG & IT CAN LAUNCH YOU A LONG DISTANCE.
LIKE HITTING A BOULDER
Hit a deer back in the 80’s, did $2,000 worth of damage.
Woman dead after her motorcycle hit a deer in Maine
The 63-year-old woman died at a Bangor hospital following the crash.
August 25, 2025
A woman died after striking a deer with her motorcycle in Maine on Saturday.
At 7:30 p.m., Dexter Police responded to a motorcycle accident on Route 7 northbound.
Police reported the 63-year-old motorcyclist hit the deer as it crossed the roadway.
The woman, whose name has not been released, sustained life-threatening injuries and was transported to Northern Light Medical Center in Bangor.
She was reportedly in critical condition and later passed away
Around here, you probably also own a local rancher for the value of the cow. Open Range laws.
I hit a plain old white-tail deer in a minivan going 40 mph, and it totaled the car.
It appeared to be only fender and quarter-panel work, but it also cracked the engine mounts, which boosted the insurance repair cost over the book-value of the car.
Today’s body panels are slightly more than foil. An Anorexic Badger collision could total a car made today. The only thing keeping the body panels rigid is the cured paint layer.
I drove from Vermont to Maine on a smaller highway one night. I think we passed four moose. They were almost black. It seemed to me if I hit one, it’s long legs put its mass so high up, I would effectually have something near the weight of a milk cow coming right through my windshield instead of having the front of the car take the brunt of the hit.
“Cows not at the top of my list,” Hershberger said. “Horses, elk, and moose will do more damage. But I was going to hit any of those, I’d want to be in a truck — the chance of putting the animal in the cab with you is greatly reduced.”
Do you get to keep the meat?
Hitting a cow can derail a train...
As it often did in early railroad history...
See “cow catcher”.
Depending on the state, you may have to pay for the cow!............
A moose can take out a big rig and kill or injure the driver.
And they just stand in the road with a ‘You think I’m going to move’ attitude.
I love moose; my mom’s place in Montana had a mother moose that raised her kids there.
An Army buddy hit a bull moose in Alaska, my buddy was driving a Toyota pickup, that monster rolled up the hood, rolled up the cab, and rolled over the bed and broke off the tailgate. The cab was flattened and all the windows and windshield where gone. He said the moose just laid there bobbing his head for a few minutes, then got up and walked away.
You're saying a moose raised you?
Since the steer won’t steer, you will have to.
The steakholder is stronger than the stakeholder.
It won’t moooooove, so you will have to.
Hitting a person can cause a lot of damage to your car, let alone a cow.
I hit a doe on I-70 in Kansas near Kansas City in 1974.
Nearly totaled the car, a PINTO!...........
“You’re saying a moose raised you?”
Mom’s place, not mom.
I tell my wife constantly: “Hit a deer head on. Swerve to miss an elk, you’re better off rolling the car than have the elk come through the windshield.”
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