Roadkill / Deer strikes: What've you taken down?

[Forum Wars]

After narrowly missing two decent sized deer about three weeks ago (they ran in front of me and were trapped on the road by a guardrail and I was lucky to stop in time), tonight I come up ass-end on one of these:



...and as he disappears perfectly under the center part of my car I hear a solid thud. All along I'm praying, please be something, anything other than a skunk.

I think you know how the story ends.

I couldn't even park the car in the garage after driving for another half hour, it was that bad.

[Sanlmar]

The usual deer, dogs and cats.

Ran over a cat early one morning on a backroad while taking my kid to hockey practice. Thump. Kid asks what was that? Cat. He got pretty quiet. We had a pet cat.

I took that opportunity when he was prolly only 11 to drill into him the idea that it is better to run the animal over than to attempt some evasive maneuver that will result in him getting head on with on coming traffic or a telephone pole

Kid remembers that incident like it was yesterday a decade later.

[chinamaniac]

I think the closest I have come to hitting something besides road kill was like a 1000+ lb moose

I was driving north deep into NH @ dawn with a slight buzz @ 85 mph and it darted onto the road and I was side by side with it as it was running full speed behind me.

Another time we spotted a moose once on a back road and it ran into the woods. As we started driving by it charged out at max speed and just missed us.

[GrenadaRoger]

an opossum that darted across the road in front of my truck one evening

but what sticks in my mind was what I saw when I looked back in the rear view:

the opossum was airborne and helicoptering to the side of the road

[Dan Druff]

1990: Wilmington, CA. A cat ran in front of my car at night, and I swerved to barely avoid it. My heart was racing, and I thought, "Wow, I'm glad I was quick enough to miss that cat!" Right after the thought was over, another cat darted across the street, and I slammed right into it. It was DD.

1992: Canoga Park, CA. I was 20 at the time, and dating an animal-loving, hippie-type, 22-year-old chick. Cat ran out in front of my car, and I couldn't avoid it. Killed it. Girl was super pissed at me, despite my repeated attempts to explain that there was nothing I could have done. Relationship was DD about a month later.

2015: Desert near Searchlight, NV: Was driving on a road with barely any cars on it. A bird was super-unlucky (or stupid) and crossed the road flying low when the only car for a long time was coming -- mine. Smacked it hard, and the bird guts were all over the windshield. No chance it survived.

2015: Near Bend, OR: Just a few months later, I saw another low-flying bird, and thought I hit it. However, I wasn't sure, as it didn't hit the windshield. When I stopped for gas, I saw a small, dead bird lodged in the grill of my rental car. I took it off and threw it in the trash. Oddly enough the only 2 birds I've ever killed while driving (almost 30 years now) occurred within a few months of each other. I also almost hit 2 other birds in 2015. Strange year.

2016: Between Walker, CA and Coleville, CA (fairly close to Nevada border near Tahoe). Similar to my 1990 cat story, an adult deer ran out in front of my car, I was able to swerve to avoid it, and then its child hopped right in front of my car, and I hit it directly. I watched it roll and land on the side of the road. It was dead on impact. Cleaned up the blood and fur on my car, which sustained some cosmetic damage but was still very driveable, at a Gardnerville, NV casino/gas station called "Wa She Shu". A few days later, I came back that same way and found that all of the deer was eaten except one of the legs.

2017: Near Kamloops, BC. Bear family started crossing the road. Tried to brake and avoid, but two of the cubs just froze. Swerved to the right while braking, but one of the cubs got startled by the braking sound and jumped to the right, and I heard my car hit it while still going about 15-20 mph. Seemed like the bear fell to the ground and was under my car. While I sat there feeling bad about the situation, I looked ahead and saw the bear pop up, and run to the other side of the road. It was now separated from its mother and other sibling, but seemed otherwise okay, and presumably got reunited at some point.

[hongkonger]

I think the closest I have come to hitting something besides road kill was like a 1000+ lb moose

I was driving north deep into NH @ dawn with a slight buzz @ 85 mph and it darted onto the road and I was side by side with it as it was running full speed behind me.

Another time we spotted a moose once on a back road and it ran into the woods. As we started driving by it charged out at max speed and just missed us.

Moose will fuck you up

[hongkonger]

Freshman year of college I hit a deer about 2 am on a state highway. It shit all over my car as it died, and fucked up the front end pretty severely.

Junior year of college I was driving back to school after visiting a friend and a cat ran out from the yard of a house in front of the car in front of me, and the car in front of me ran over it. The car in front of me pulled over and I pulled over too, not sure why but I thought the person might need help. Turns out it was another student heading back to campus, and it was an attractive girl. She opened the door, saw the dead cat and freaked out. Not only because she had killed the cat but because she felt she had to inform the owner who we assumed lived in the house where the cat had darted out from, and she was terrified of their reaction. I calmed her down and went with her to inform the owner. His reaction was totally calm, almost shrugged it off which I felt was odd but whatever. When we returned to our cars the girl thanked me profusely and said she wanted to thank me by cooking me dinner. Obv I snap accepted, and ended up fucking her that night. Never turned into anything beyond that though. Is it bad karma to get pussy through the death of a pussy?

[limitles]

I think the closest I have come to hitting something besides road kill was like a 1000+ lb moose

I was driving north deep into NH @ dawn with a slight buzz @ 85 mph and it darted onto the road and I was side by side with it as it was running full speed behind me.

Another time we spotted a moose once on a back road and it ran into the woods. As we started driving by it charged out at max speed and just missed us.

Moose will fuck you up

This is so true. In B.C. in an around a place called Elkford appropriately highway signs are posted warning of Elk or Moose encounters. Because of their
height and weight these guys tend to come in through the windshield and the car and occupants are the losers.

[Baron Von Strucker]

My father swerves to kill squirrels and other rodents so he can snip there tails off for fly tying. My wife hit some skateboarders bombing down a steep hill, luckily for them they survived. Since that skateboarding not allowed on that hill.

[HoodedN]

Just the occasional dickhead squirrel that can't make up their mind as to which side of the road they would like to go to

[GambleBotsChafedPenis]

german engineering doesn't take down shit...my pops got hit by a deer doing around 50 and he said, 'that goddamn thing just got up a little dazed like it had just been tapped by something'...

$5000 later and he was still picking fur outta his grill months later...

[Sanlmar]

german engineering doesn't take down shit...my pops got hit by a deer doing around 50 and he said, 'that goddamn thing just got up a little dazed like it had just been tapped by something'...

$5000 later and he was still picking fur outta his grill months later...

Had precisely the same thing happen 2 years ago. Driving 45 mph down a dark, wooded New England back road. Wife snoozing in passenger seat. Deer bolts out of the woods and runs right into the front drivers side of the car.

I swear the deer and I looked into each other’s eyes through the windshield.

Destroyed the front end. I forget, easily $5k

Called the police just to get the paperwork. They arrive and I point to the deer 100 yards off. Standing on the side of the road. Cop trains his flashlight on the deer and his eyes shown back. Deer just ran off into the woods.

I cannot fathom how it wasn’t dead on the scene.

I also have no idea why the air bags didn’t deploy. I woulda gotten fucked up. I would have spent the next week with a gun looking to finish the job with that fucking deer

Good times.

[GambleBotsChafedPenis]

german engineering doesn't take down shit...my pops got hit by a deer doing around 50 and he said, 'that goddamn thing just got up a little dazed like it had just been tapped by something'...

$5000 later and he was still picking fur outta his grill months later...

Had precisely the same thing happen 2 years ago. Driving 45 mph down a dark, wooded New England back road. Wife snoozing in passenger seat. Deer bolts out of the woods and runs right into the front drivers side of the car.

I swear the deer and I looked into each other’s eyes through the windshield.

Destroyed the front end. I forget, easily $5k

Called the police just to get the paperwork. They arrive and I point to the deer 100 yards off. Standing on the side of the road. Cop trains his flashlight on the deer and his eyes shown back. Deer just ran off into the woods.

I cannot fathom how it wasn’t dead on the scene.

Good times.

those creatures are fucking amazing...they look so frail with those skinny ass legs, but man can those fuckers take a fucking punch...

love that the deer was just standing there looking at you, probably laughing inside, 'haha fuck you, there's $5K+ up your ass'...

[Sloppy Joe]

Took out a small deer driving on a country road in high school. Felt like I drove into a wall.

Was dreading what happened to the front of my Jeep, but miraculously, the only evidence of anything happening was a small tuft of fur.

The road told a different story the day after. I must have somehow sliced an artery as the road looked like a gruesome murder scene.

Scarier was when going like 15mph on a back road and a huge owl drifted into my windshield and got pinned for a few seconds. Was flapping like crazy and the wingspan was huge. Flew off, seemingly ok

[hongkonger]

Took out a small deer driving on a country road in high school. Felt like I drove into a wall.

Was dreading what happened to the front of my Jeep, but miraculously, the only evidence of anything happening was a small tuft of fur.

The road told a different story the day after. I must have somehow sliced an artery as the road looked like a gruesome murder scene.

Scarier was when going like 15mph on a back road and a huge owl drifted into my windshield and got pinned for a few seconds. Was flapping like crazy and the wingspan was huge. Flew off, seemingly ok

The owl was probably disoriented after being fucked by Chaps.

[mulva]

ditto on those iron clad deer. ran one over completely and it just ran away.

i ran over a huge rat snake and it did nothing as well.

when it rains in my town in the summer all the frogs love jumping all over the pavement in the road. i'm sure i smashed a few of those as it looks like it's raining frogs.

couple of bizzaro things happened.

once i was driving over an overpass and just as i was about to hit the bridge a huge swarm of bees pelted my windshield..i'm talking 100's of them. i had a jeep w/ a rag top at the time as well.'

most recently i was driving late night on a road w/ no lighting something slammed into either my door or rear door or window....all i heard was a loud thump. i didn't see anything. i have no idea what it was. i do think it was flying though

thank god ive never run over a cat..but those squirrels are really fucked up w/ their ufo movements

[Hockey Guy]

My scorecard so far:

Deer
Rabbit
Cat
Dog
Owl
Falcon
Various other unidentifiable birds
Gophers(I used to drive into ditches to get those fuckers)
Squirrels
Skunks
Porcupines
Coyote
Groundhog

[Hockey Guy]

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