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What a croc!

[Keith in Iowa]

The local airport here has had deer encounters with aircraft - one I know of took out a prop on a plane - they taxied back and found alternate transportation for the passengers.

[Gordongekko909]

The crocodile died in the collision and was given to local Aborigines, who ate it,

Never had crocodile. But alligator sausage is wicked yummy.

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this Upper Midwest outdoors list, please FRmail me.

[ansel12]

Deer hate humans, killing more Americans than any other animal. The most common method of attack is to leap through the windshield of an automobile to get at the passengers.

[SandRat]

Well this one didn't work out to well

CarHorseOOPS Die Aufnahme vom 16.04.2003 zeigt einen spektakulären Verkehrsunfall im mittelfränkischen Hausen/Forchheim, bei dem ein Pferd durch die Frontscheibe eines Fahrzeuges geschleudert wurde. Vier Pferde waren am Abend von einem benachbarten Grundstück auf die Straße gelaufen. Ein Haflinger wurde vom Pkw gerammt und landete auf dem Beifahrersitz. Der 26-jährige Fahrer blieb außer einem Schock unverletzt, das Tier wurde getötet. Foto: Klaus Ponner dpa/lby

The picture of 16.04.2003 shows a spectacular traffic accident in Franconian/Forchheim in which a horse was hurled into the windshield of a vehicle. Four horses had run in the evening of a neighboring plot of land on the street. A Haflinger was struck by the automobile driver and landed on the passenger's seat. The 26-year-old driver was unharmed, but in shock, the animal was killed. Photo: Klaus Ponner dpa/lby

[jra]

The Bessemer airport hasn't always had that fence. Before it was there, I used to take my telescope out there.

[Jeff Head]

When in Anchorage visiting in the early 1990s, I came upon an accident just a few minutes after it happened where a small foreigh sporstcar had clipped the legs on a Moose. The large animal fell sideways onto the hood and went through the windshield, instanly killing the driver and a passenger.

Emergency people were already there...but there was nothing to be done.

[OldPossum]

Such incidents involving wildlife are not uncommon, especially on runways in rural areas...

There's an old saying to the effect that if you know something about a subject of a newspaper article, you can detect at least one falsehood in it. In this instance, I am doubtful about the Bessemer airport being in a "rural area" unless it was relocated. Bessemer is a densely-populated city right next to Birmingham (the airport in the latter city could be 20 miles away from Bessemer since I think it is northeast of the city itself).

I write all this since the article gives the impression that Bessemer is located in a rural area. It is not.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

A clear case of survival of the fittest. Evolution in action. The car won so its offspring will survive, at leat until the next "fittest" comes along.