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.