DEER SUCK

CRINGE.......I couldn't imagine what would happen if I hit a deer while riding. I wrecked my bike once due to road debris and inexperience. That was minor. A deer would surely mess me up good.

 

I was concerned about the motorcycle guy coming toward me. I wasn't sure if he saw the deer or not. It could have been a nasty collision.

 

I hit the carcass of a frozen deer in Pa about 5 years ago... I was driving back to Atlanta in my 308, at about 5:45 AM in late October... and this idiot in an old supra merges on to I-79 just south of Neville Island... and starts to pull up & pass, then slow down... clearly wanting me to race him... and I aint falling for the bait... so that makes him really mad, and he is just even with me.. I'm on the left, him no the right ... just as we crest a slight rise in the hwy... and there it is 3 large hunks of truck slaughterd deer in the road... so the supra guys goes wide right. and all I could do was straddle the smallest part... ouch!!! when you hit a frozen deer carcass at 70 MPH the soud was terrible... like smashing crunching glass.... That was the euro spoiler... the next is the feeling of the chunks hitting the bottom of the passanger compartment.... I remember looking out the back of the window and seeing all this stuff flying around in the dawns early light!

so supra idiot just powers away... I start swearing Mother..... and look at the temp gauges thinking there must be a hole in the rad... so gauges look good, wiggle the steering ... all seems to work... put it in neutral and shift back to 5th... all systems go... so pull off to the 1st rest area I see, get out and look at the damage.... yuck!!! literally hunks of deer meat, fur, skin and blood & guts ( thankfully frozen by the 30F ambient air temp) all over the car, whats left of the spoiler sagging ... so I break out my trusty racer tape, scrape off what I can with my shoe... do a team Penske tape job... and drove the rest of the 700 miles back to Atlanta.... by Charlotte you could smell a nicely spit roasted venison aroma coming from the engine compartment... when I took it in to FOA... they did not believe me till they put it up on the lift... and started taking burnt bits of skin, fur, and charcoal briquettes of deer meat from under the nooks and crannys of the engine & gearbox..... over all caused about $2000 worth of damage... radiator eventually cracked, hoses clamps, spoiler repairs, paint, etc.... but could have been worse!

 

Deer are everyplace, here in Michigan. Many collisions with all kinds of vehicles, with the beasts. There are Body Shops, every 20 miles or so, up here in Mid-Michigan! The State of Michigan Flag, has TWO Deer, on it!

We need a front bumper, that functions similar to a cow catcher, on a Railroad Locomotive. Now there is an aftermarket product, that should be on every vehicle, at least in Michigan. The Australians, have a Roo Bar, that does have a protective function for their Trucks and Utes.

Ciao...Paolo

 

I think we are giving Dick way too much credit. He obviously can't hit anything he's actually aiming at.

 

More scary than hitting a deer is hitting a child. I worked for a company in Maryland that was in a building with no parking structure, so we all parked on a residential street. I got in my MGB to go home after work, pulled out onto the street, got up to about 10 mph, popped into second gear and pulled out to pass a double-parked, unmarked Chevy delivery van. As I came alongside the van (white, no windows, unmarked, no warning of any kind), a young boy ran out into the street directly in front of me. I hit him square in the chest. I can still see his shocked face to this day. I hit the brakes and stopped in a few feet and did not run over him. His backpack cushioned his fall. That was 40 years ago and I will never forget it. I got out and helped him to his feet and the teenaged driver of the van came to help. He was not injured, but I was in shock. Scared me silly. The van was a bus for a daycare business. Why was the van unmarked as a school bus and why did the driver let the little man out in front of traffic?
Ed

 

welsboro !! I grew up in harrison valley which was right in between westfield and ulysses if you know where they are at ! over potter county knoxville is in tioga county right ? deer are insane up there glad to hear the TR came thru ok.

and for all you folks with the deer habitat ... we encroach on them crap there is nothing up there hardly any humans live in that area. also the natural preditors the mountain lions have been dead for who knows how long at least the last 20 years as I lived there back in the 80's anyhow the deer do breed like rabbits and they starve to death en mass every bad winter because there is not enough winter food for them, they do eat the bark off the trees and survive some but that injurs the trees. hunting them thins them out some but not enough in my opionion. they should have 2 hunting seasons a year on them.

ive been out spotlighting and seen 150 deer in a field up there the numbers of the things are staggering.

 

oh yea and the deer whislers are a scam everyone we knew that had em hit deer one person even had 2 sets one set on the bumper and 1 set on the roof and still totalled their car which was the 3rd car they totalled on a deer in 5 years, they lived off a dirt road though. the deer see the lights and get mesmerized and just stop and stare. my family was lucky enough to only hit 1 deer, though we did have one jump all the way over the car once, and to many to list of close calls.

we also go to new england a lot and the moose problem is the worst everyone has bumper stickers that say "I brake for moose" trust me you dont want to hit one you will die they can way over 1000 pounds deer arent normally more than 200 though some of the biguns can be a bit more also moose are taller your car hits the legs and the 1200 pounds of meat hit your windshield crush it then crush you.

 

Out here in suburban NJ the deer are everywhere. Even fully grown they are too stupid to avoid the cars but at this time of year it's worse: they have just foaled (or whatever it's called) and their young - the size of large dogs - are even more clueless. You see deer carcasses on the side of every major road, where they usually remain for quite a while thanks to a new law that makes municipalities, rather than the state, responsible for cleanup. The only upside is that the deer are more effective than an unmarked radar car at keeping speeds down.

I've never hit one but I've come close. Once I was behind a car that hit a buck at full speed on I-95. The deer went over the car and landed in front of me. It looked like the cow that the Frenchies launched at King Arthur in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail". Fortunately, I saw the whole thing develop and was able to swerve out of the way.

The track chairman of our PCA region nailed one in his Boxter at Summit Point not too long ago. For some reason we all thought this was very funny. He got off with some sheetmetal damage - it was at the slowest part of the course. The deer didn't do as well.

The deer whistles really don't work, but hunting is pretty effective. We let a couple of bow hunters hunt on our property last season and they said it was almost too easy.

 

At my former company, I had to park in a parking lot off campus and ride a shuttle in. One day, the owner of the shuttle company was riding along for inspections. He told me that his son was out in California driving a shuttle down a street and all of the sudden WHAM - he hits a guy and the guy dies.

Apparently, the guy had just proposed to his girlfriend and she said no - so the guy said to her "Since you won't marry me, I'm going to just throw myself in front of this bus, I'll be better off" and actually did it.

Unrelated but strange.

 

That's pretty emo.

 

Deer vs Motorcycle and it appears deer wins.

http://media.putfile.com/Deer-vs-Motorcycle

 

Here's a few pics of the spoiler after I cleaned it up
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