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Almost nailed a deer today...

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I don't post too much but this am I locked up the brakes and skidded about 10-15 feet after bambi ran in front of my 69mgb. It apparently wanted to be with its sibling and mom on the other side of the road and decided the best way to get there was cut in front of me. I barely missed it...definately would have ruined my day. I must say the mg skidded nice and straight though...alot more impressive then my rolling junkheap (a 93 geo tracker) that I've nearly rolled in my last 2 encounters with near misses...
 
Gald you and the car are ok. I friend of mine hit a deer awhile back with his fully restored el camino...That hurt.
I've only had one close call, in my Camaro....I would never have had the chance to stop in time, fortunatly the deer decided to run when my car was less than a foot away from it!
 
I hit one in 1976 w/ a 1963 Galaxie. The Galaxie won, hardly a scratch. The deer died on impact but was lying across the hood. Had to drive and lock up the wheels to get it to slide off. I laugh about it now but at the time it was a terrifying experience
 
We saw a LOT of deer in lower Wisconsin and northeast Iowa last weekend. In fact, it is so overpopulated with deer that they are experiencing "wasting disease". The DNR has apparentaly asked that hunters help with some eradication...without much cooperation.

Two years ago, we hit a coyote with the B/GT on one of the Abingdon Trials road rallies in Kentucky .

Thump-thump and it was all over...only damage..bent the valance
 
Deer around here are bad enough but on top of that we have black bear and elk. I don't even want to think what it would be like if "Molly" hit an elk. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
 
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Deer around here are bad enough but on top of that we have black bear and elk. I don't even want to think what it would be like if "Molly" hit an elk. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

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That reminds me of a guy in Canada who had a "two moose day." He was driving his regular car around a bend and hit a moose that was crossing the road. He was okay but his car was totaled (as was the moose!). He borrowed a pickup truck and, about two hours later, as he rounded a curve - you guessed it - another moose and he hit that one which totaled the truck (and that moose, too!).

So the next time you feel bad, just think of the guy who had a two moose day! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/lol.gif
 
Two moose, or not two moose. That is the question...rather it is nobler..........
 
The elk up on the Olympic Penensula here in Washington state became such a problem along highway 101 that the game department has put radio collars on a sizable number of temm in the heard, and radio controled warning lights along the highway. It has really reduced the number of elk/car encounters at speed. When drivers see the lights flashing, they know that the elk are close enough to the highway that it is time to reduce the speed and be on the lookout.
Cheers,
 
I had a business associate who hit 2 deer 40 miles apart in one night...I drove the next trip and hit a deer at 55mph in my LHS, resulting in $3200 in damage...thank God we were not in the MG! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cheers.gif

Bruce /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/driving.gif
 
I hit one in my Dodge Dart one night at about 55mph. Didn't even move the bumper. You know you're a redneck when you have to clear out all the toolboxes in your trunk to make room for your newly found dinner... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
One hit my somona right at the rear wheel one evening just before the sun went down....before I could go home to get a knife & gun & return, a hunter and his son had finished the deer off & were loading it...."Was this your deer?" he asked me when I got out with my gun....he then went on to say that he had allowed his son to shoot it so he'd get his first kill...some kill - bet the kid was real proud of shooting a deer that couldn't move!...I started to tell them to put it in my truck or pay for the bodywork - but it wasn't worth the hassle.
 
I almost hit Bruce Springsteen at his mailbox when he lived in Holmdel NJ (maybe 25 years ago). His house was an old farmhouse that sat off of Telegraph Hill Road in Holmdel. His mailbox was the rural type situated on the brow of a hill just around a blind curve. I came roaring over the hill and had to swerve quickly to avoid hitting him. My friend sitting next to me said, "Do you know who you almost killed?" I am very lucky that I didn't!

I was thinking of taking my MG down to the "Stone Pony" in Asbury Park, NJ and taking an early morning photo in front of Bruce's old hangout.

Jim

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You can't hit Bruce... he was "Born to Run".

Billy Joel was hang'n out with his motorcycle at Oyster Bay, L.I.'s Tuesday Night Cruise again this week. Yes, I DO remember those days hanging out at the Village Green.
 
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