Dumb deer... someone please shoot them...
 

So my string of bad luck continues. A deer decided to play crash test dummy with the front end of my car last night while I was driving home. Luckily I was able to nearly stop from 60mph, but I still whacked it pretty good.

The crap part is its my new car.

I was driving it rather than my old commuter car b/c the stupid seatbelt latch got messed up the night before and I hadn't fixed it. (Thought I'd do it on the w/e.)
This is the same commuter car that was broken into two weeks ago and had the window smashed and some stuff stolen. This occured on the same day my coworker died of a heart attack, leaving two small children behind.

Lastly, my fraking 6yo washing machine broke, and would cost nearly $400 to repair, even if I bought the parts and repaired it myself. This was a $550 Kenmore btw... Still got to buy a new one, but they will have gov't rebates...

when it rains its pours I guess.

Sucks - Bambi tried the same last night with me but was in a 35 and was able to stop...

That makes 3 Finnster - if you believe that stuff?

Damn. The deer are an absolute menace. They are all over all the roads I drive. I must see at least 3 or 4 new goo piles by the side of the road everyday. They sit and wait until you are just about to drive by, then they decide to bolt. Evolutionary forces don't seem to be working fast enough on them yet, lol.

We've just had daylight savings time here, so the clocks have changed, and now it gets dark earlier. Its the time at dusk where the deer completely lose their mind and are really dangerous. One pole vaulted into my commuter car last year...

@PBO: After seeing those pix of the kangaroo feet you posted, I'm just glad we don't have those to crash into. :)

sounds like you need one of our Australian roo bars!
the big 5 post Roo Bars that destroy the animal but leave the car alone.

the only close encounter with an animal in a car i have had was a turbo chook (native hen) in our own drive way :lol:

Well I would have to mount them on the side, as the deer always seem to aim for my doors.
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Maybe just some nice pikes so I have kebabs when I get home.

Venison is meant to be very tasty, cant beat fresh meat :yes:

Eh.. I don't like it so much. Lamb is good, venison just grosses me out a bit. Too gamey (elk on the other hand is fantastic.)


OTOH, my coworker said he saw someone yesterday trying to load a dead deer into his van parked on the side of a highway. Said he was having some trouble with it, and it looked like he was humping the carcass to death.


hmmmm...road kill. Its what's for dinner.

That sucks! Hopefully the car wasn't too damaged.

I had a deer cross the highway on a dead run at dusk once. Plowed into it at 60MPH. Destroyed the front of my van--was a total loss. We couldn't find the deer afterwards! It got up and walked away! That's where the evolution has come into play, they've learned to survive being hit by a car.

Finnster - sorry to hear that man. Just glad your smart enough to not swerve into the ditch to avoid them - that's one thing I beat into my daughters heads.

Thought about at least trying those deer whistles? I've seen evidence that they may actually work to some extent. Nothing is failsafe, but if it diverts at least one, maybe they are worth it.

Hey, it coulda ended like this

[YOUTUBE]UT6TP6jSH_A[/YOUTUBE]

Or this

[YOUTUBE]VyxqTYlW1FM[/YOUTUBE]

Or this......:rofl:

[YOUTUBE]rrO8AFGi_rc[/YOUTUBE]

Solid advice for everyone...funny how many people swerve for animals. Might be worth a gamble if it's a horse or cow but anything else is tasting grill!! & those 5 post bars dice up anything into manageable bits

Finnster, hope your car is repairable, that's a really tough way to get the first scratch!

When I was a kid living in upstate NY my dad hit a deer head on and it flipped over the car, he stopped to get over the "WTFS" I was looking out the back window and saw a man with a pick up stop and throw it in the bed. I said " is it going to be ok dad" he said "yes that mans taking it to the vet" LOLOLOL took me years to realize that dude grabbed it skinned it and ate it rofl

I actually laughed out loud at that first video.... :lol:

OMG..that cop car exploded that deer!

The one I hit was more like the last one. I saw him from a long way off prancing at the side off the road thinking about running across. I was the one on the brakes yelling at him. Dumbass didn't listen.

Thankfully the deducible is only a couple hundo. The damage does not look too bad, but I bet it will still run $1500-2000+.


One summer job I had was working for a car dealership. There was this one car that looked like it was stomped on by Godzilla. I asked what happened to it, and they said the driver hit a mule deer (much bigger than the whitetail around here) on the highway.

That car wasn't fully repaired by the time I left in Aug.

Here's a current kangaroo story from Sydney...



Bondi Junction motorcyclist hits kangaroo, slides into path of oncoming car
November 13, 2009 - 6:29AM

A motorcyclist has died following a collision with a kangaroo on NSW's south coast.

Police said the 39-year-old man was riding his Harley-Davidson motorcycle south along the Princes Highway in Nowra about 4.15pm yesterday when a kangaroo jumped onto the road.

The animal hit the rider, causing him to fall off the bike and slide into the path of an oncoming Toyota Landcruiser, police said.

The man, from Bondi Junction, suffered extensive injuries and was pronounced dead on arrival at Shoalhaven Hospital.

The road was closed while officers from Shoalhaven Local Area Command examined the area.

The kangaroo was not found at the crash, police said.


Bloody roos!!

There should be electric fences along the roads in populated areas where there is heavier traffic a more chance of a collision.

Its the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.. what did they ever do with the bulk of it? I say we put it back up around the hwys, machine gun nests and all.
Waste not, want not. Should be a good jobs program too.

roo catchers FTW!! dad hit a 8pt buck with his 2500HD: truck-1 deer-0 --josh

You could always just go buy a Ford F450 Super Duty and then not really worry about hitting anything.... :lol:

At least this didn't happen:

Not for a weak stomach!

one more.

I'd call that totaled. :yes:

awesome....--josh

Haha...kangaroos aren't smart animals

What the news report didn't explain for international readers is that it jumped onto the guy riding the Harley...they like jumping, they do it a lot. Thinking...not so much

They'll jump over any fence less than 4m that's built & we just accept that they're dumb jumpers & do our best to avoid them

um,just snow ballin here,what about taller fences? LOL--josh

5 post roo bars & forget about riding bikes

http://www.tuffbullbars.com/Uploads/...modore-(6).jpg

WTF? all that on a holden version of an El-camino? is that a real pic?--josh

Josh, that my friend is a UTE - designed in Australia. The camino is your version of the original

Yes it's a real picture, as has been said by the Aussies, kanga's are tough bastards & you need something like this to protect your car

Here's the website http://www.tuffbullbars.com/

sweet!--josh

Ha! They've got one for my car! Its the same as the Ford "Terrortory" Mine didn't come w/ that hoodscoop tho, and they gave it a stupid name. I'm calling it the Terrortory now. :mdr:

If I had the sidebars that would have saved it. Luckily with my driving I was able to avoid him hitting the front, and instead he rammed the side/wheel (they done it twice now on two cars...)

http://www.tuffbullbars.com/Uploads/...itory-(3)-.jpg

whats a UTE? all i knew was its a commodore with a truck bed right? or is it an S-10 with a different body?--josh

UTE is Aussie slang for 'utility vehicle'...as in "I'm takin' the ute to watch the game"

Who built the first utility - where - when...
by Gary Warner
The story of the utility truck or coupé utility– the ute – began in 1932, when a letter was received by Ford Australia’s plant at Geelong, Victoria. It was written by a farmer’s wife who’d had enough of riding to church in the farm truck and arriving in saturated clothing;

‘Why don’t you build people like us a vehicle to go to church in on a Sunday, and which can carry our pigs to market on Mondays?’ her letter asked.

Bank managers at the time would lend money to farmers to buy a farm truck, but not a passenger car, hence the plea from one very fed up woman!

It arrived on the desk of managing director Hubert French who, instead of dictating a polite dismissal, passed the letter on to sales manager Scott Inglis.

1934 ute brochure.jpg (18314 bytes)He in turn showed it to plant superintendent Slim Westman, and the two of them took it to Ford Australia’s design department, which in 1932 consisted of one man…

Lewis Thornet Bandt was 22 years old and had already been singled out for bigger things with Ford.

Interviewed shortly before his death in 1987, Bandt recalled the moment when Westman and Inglis came to him with the letter.

The brochure for the first utility"

The whole thing had already started to germinate," said Bandt.

"Westman quite rightly reckoned that if we cut down a car and put a tray on the back, the whole thing would tear in half once there was weight in the back.

"I told him I would design it with a frame that came from the very back pillar, through to the central pillars, near the doors. I would arrange for another pillar to further strengthen that weak point where the cabin and tray joined. I said to Westman `Boss, them pigs are going to have a luxury ride around the city of Geelong!’ "

Bandt began by sketching the coupé utility on a 10 metre blackboard, depicting a front view as well as side and rear elevations. When they were seen by Westman some weeks later, he told Bandt to build two prototypes.

1934 ute restored.jpg (29293 bytes)On a wheelbase of 112 inches, with a rear tray that was 5ft 5ins long and had a payload of 1200 pounds, they were the first vehicles to also offer a comfortable all-weather cabin.

On first sight of the prototypes, Scott Inglis authorised a startup production run of 500 vehicles. Westman asked for – and got - £10,000 for tooling, and the first coupé utilities rolled off the Geelong assembly line in 1934.

Born out of a woman’s frustration with car designs of the day, the enclosed cab utility was initially regarded as a luxury. But the `ute’ was quickly accepted as a necessity of bush life, and won recognition around the world as the ideal farmer’s or tradesman’s vehicle.


We have a national ute event...http://www.deniutemuster.com.au/

And IMO this is the best ute in the world - ignoring the colour

http://pictures.topspeed.com/IMG/jpg...-r8-ute-2w.jpg

If it makes you feel better and you have an iphone, download deer hunter 3D. Great game.

Just FYI, I live in Texas slightly outside San Antonio city limits and it's horny time for the deer. About three weeks ago I saw two of them knocking it out in the middle of the street. It didn't last long, they got out of the way quickly, but it does show how stupid they are.

Coincidentally, last week I finally had my first contact with a deer while in my car. I have been driving for 16 years in the hill country, has some close calls, but never hit one. Well, actually, I still never hit one, this one ran into me. I slammed my brakes, was only going 40 something and he tried to jump my car. He slammed into my drivers side door and his face slapped against my windshield. No dents, no scratches, just slobber on the windshield, fur everywhere.....and a completely busted side mirror. I have an '04 350Z which I baby the hell out of. I am going to repair it myself, OEM parts and labor are just plain rape. Can't wait to take the door apart :cry: