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Not over. The guy behind me saw it, and said the deer did a complete spin. Plus, it impacted on the right side of my bender, and wound up on the other side of the road.
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I am glad I don't drive outside the city now.... Having moved a couple hundred miles south makes missing the deer a nice thing....
Any bets on how soon #4 takes place???
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Jeez, Snay. I think it's time you put that "Darth Jeep" tagline up again.
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this will continue for quite some time
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Almost got one myself yesterday...the bugger came all the way up to the edge of the highway (thankfully it was pretty empty) and stopped. I had seen it running up and stopped as well. We kinda looked at each other as if daring the other to move for almost a full minute before he ran off the way he came and I went on my way to work once again.
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Ever wonder why it's dead quiet in a forest when you trample through? Because we know there must, statistically, be hundreds of small, medium and large animals all over the place.
Deers, like every other forest mammal, freeze when they see or hear something that can be a potential danger. In nature, freezing makes it very hard for the predator to "lock on" to the prey.
Nature hasn't caught up to human technology yet, so the deer have no choice but to believe that if they freeze, the bad will go away.
Same old story, with power comes responsibility.
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What I don't get is that neither me nor anyone in my family has ever even come close to hitting a deer (or an elk, or a mountain goat, or a bighorn sheep, or a moose, or a mountain caribou, or pretty much anything else that's hairy and runs across the road), and we live in one of the deeriest places on the continent.
You ain't normal, dude.
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quote:Originally posted by The_Tom: we live in one of the deeriest places on the continent.
Now you're talking, sailor!
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