I'll let you head to the image yourself in case anyone is squeamish, little bit of gore. Rumor is this is a TSO bus, no human causalities.
http://i.imgur.com/Rrv0r.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Rrv0r.jpg
Apparently they hit a horse...
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I also saw a deer run into the side of a truck going 70mph. The truck jumped several feet into the air as a cloud of green "stuff" (stomach juices probably) blasted out.
The deer 'exploded" with no real damage to the truck-except dented panels. The driver had no idea what hit him-I was following behind him on the interstate.
I ahve hit 3 deer with my cars. The last one got totalled.
I saw a pickup hit a cow once. The truck lost.
I also saw a deer run into the side of a truck going 70mph. The truck jumped several feet into the air as a cloud of green "stuff" (stomach juices probably) blasted out.
The deer 'exploded" with no real damage to the truck-except dented panels. The driver had no idea what hit him-I was following behind him on the interstate.
I ahve hit 3 deer with my cars. The last one got totalled.
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Moose are really scary because despite their size they are really hard to see. Bears are not all that much fun either.
I have seen all types of wild life blasting down back roads in Montana/Idaho at 2:00 AM.
Moose are really scary because despite their size they are really hard to see. Bears are not all that much fun either.
I have seen all types of wild life blasting down back roads in Montana/Idaho at 2:00 AM.
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Had a deer jump out of bushes/hedge from the right side of the road, and when I clipped him, it was with the left front of my old little Mazda pickup truck. I managed to do this in such a way that the deer launched almost the entire width of the four lane road in a flat spin line drive. Bounced once or twice and into the thicket on the other side.
By the time I regained my composure, turned and crossed over to the other side of the street...no deer.
That was hard to believe.
Best regards,
John
Had a deer jump out of bushes/hedge from the right side of the road, and when I clipped him, it was with the left front of my old little Mazda pickup truck. I managed to do this in such a way that the deer launched almost the entire width of the four lane road in a flat spin line drive. Bounced once or twice and into the thicket on the other side.
By the time I regained my composure, turned and crossed over to the other side of the street...no deer.
That was hard to believe.
Best regards,
John
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I hit the Hartford in a Toyota. The deer won. Had to have the frame stretcher pull my radiator outta my fan.
I hit the Hartford in a Toyota. The deer won. Had to have the frame stretcher pull my radiator outta my fan.
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John, I used to drive a Mazda B2200. Great little truck, and it survived being the "weapon" in a late night cow-hunt. In fact, I drove it another 60,000 miles before it got hit broadside & totaled... but the nickname "Cow Killer" stuck to that truck (and me). That was back in 19... uh, lets say "last century."
Fast forward to a couple of months ago... I'm working an IATSE call in video (yeah, I know...). The tour guy I work with looks at me and says "I know you from somewhere." Oh boy. "Could be from anywhere" I say. "Ever been to Memphis?" "Yeah, me and Lyle Lovett and Marc Cohn." "Did you ever commit bovine-o-cide?" The jig is up. Again I relive the horror of killing Elsie the Cow, the sordid trial and the squalor of the county jail. To this day I don't look at the beef section of the grocery store the way I once did.... but deep inside, I want to buy another B2200.
John, I used to drive a Mazda B2200. Great little truck, and it survived being the "weapon" in a late night cow-hunt. In fact, I drove it another 60,000 miles before it got hit broadside & totaled... but the nickname "Cow Killer" stuck to that truck (and me). That was back in 19... uh, lets say "last century."
Fast forward to a couple of months ago... I'm working an IATSE call in video (yeah, I know...). The tour guy I work with looks at me and says "I know you from somewhere." Oh boy. "Could be from anywhere" I say. "Ever been to Memphis?" "Yeah, me and Lyle Lovett and Marc Cohn." "Did you ever commit bovine-o-cide?" The jig is up. Again I relive the horror of killing Elsie the Cow, the sordid trial and the squalor of the county jail. To this day I don't look at the beef section of the grocery store the way I once did.... but deep inside, I want to buy another B2200.
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The closest I came was a couple of years ago when I almost ran into a deer on foot. I was hiking one of the less used trails out at Kennesaw Mountain and going through some thick brush when I turned a sharp corner in the trail and almost ran into a deer eating berries. We stood there looking at each other for a while and then they went back to eating and I slowly (for a few steps and then rather quickly) went on my way.
My closest brush with a bear was also on foot while carrying a canoe on a portage up at the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. Heard a sound off the side of the trail and looked over to see a black bear paralleling us in the woods. Somebody coming up behind us probably would have wondered why there was a canoe laying in the middle of the trail until they looked closer and found us under it.
The deer or the car was totaled?
The closest I came was a couple of years ago when I almost ran into a deer on foot. I was hiking one of the less used trails out at Kennesaw Mountain and going through some thick brush when I turned a sharp corner in the trail and almost ran into a deer eating berries. We stood there looking at each other for a while and then they went back to eating and I slowly (for a few steps and then rather quickly) went on my way.
My closest brush with a bear was also on foot while carrying a canoe on a portage up at the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. Heard a sound off the side of the trail and looked over to see a black bear paralleling us in the woods. Somebody coming up behind us probably would have wondered why there was a canoe laying in the middle of the trail until they looked closer and found us under it.
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It was in fact a TSO crew bus operated by Senators Coaches of Florence, Alabama.
It was in fact a TSO crew bus operated by Senators Coaches of Florence, Alabama.
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It bounced up int he air and crashed back down on the hood.
OH %$@&!!!!!!!! But the van still ran-although I could hardly see from the crunched up hood and the gas pedal kept getting stuck-no power steering and the further I went down the rod the hotter it got and the more it started to smell (loss of fluids).
I finally came around a bend and I saw the lights of a conv store.
I pulled in and called the insurance and the police to get a report. When the police got there-there was a huge flow of all sorts of engine fluids running down the parking lot.
The officer said someone hits a deer almost every night along that same road.
Of course my boss was mad at me because I didn't stop and get the horns.
I was more interested in trying to get down the road-rather than walking with a large set of horns.
I don't know about the buck-but the van was history-but it got me to civilization. I had hit 2 deer with that particular vehicle.
It was late night in a cold Feburary (cold for us anyway) on a backroad in Ga. A long straight away-some Zepplin on the radio and a large buck jumped into the middle of the road and before I could get my foot off the gas I hit it.
It bounced up int he air and crashed back down on the hood.
OH %$@&!!!!!!!! But the van still ran-although I could hardly see from the crunched up hood and the gas pedal kept getting stuck-no power steering and the further I went down the rod the hotter it got and the more it started to smell (loss of fluids).
I finally came around a bend and I saw the lights of a conv store.
I pulled in and called the insurance and the police to get a report. When the police got there-there was a huge flow of all sorts of engine fluids running down the parking lot.The officer said someone hits a deer almost every night along that same road.
Of course my boss was mad at me because I didn't stop and get the horns.
I was more interested in trying to get down the road-rather than walking with a large set of horns.
I don't know about the buck-but the van was history-but it got me to civilization. I had hit 2 deer with that particular vehicle.