You Can't Make This Up!

[BilletHead]

24 minutes ago, Flysmallie said:

 

My wife hit one at the intersection of West Bypass and Mt. Vernon at around 5:30pm several years ago. It can happen anywhere, anytime. 

          Probably worse in an urban than in rural as they are so much more used to people and vehicles. Kind of like squirrels. In town and in my mom's yard they look at me like I am just another nut (yes insert joke here) while in my neck of the woods they run like heck as they know a slow or still one will end up dinner . Starting tomorrow if they are in range of the back window it will be grocery shopping in BilletHeadVille,

   BilletHead 

[ness]

Sorry to hear about all that John, especially at an already stressful time. Best of luck to you. Probably better that they were in a pretty tall car with a blunt nose. 

A guy I work with hit a deer on I-435 and Holmes. That's our main outer loop and a major north/south artery in KCMO. In town, but with some forested area nearby. The deer jumped and his roof line sliced the deer in two, with the body going over the top and the guts coming into the vehicle between his sister and him and into the back seat. Nastiest freaking pictures I've ever seen, with blood and guts and half digested green stuff everywhere. He and his sister were lucky as heck they didn't catch that in their face; who knows what would have happened. He said the insurance company immediately totaled it because of what was inside, not so much because of the damage. 

The father of a grade school classmate of my daughter's was fatally injured when a deer came though the windshield not too far from where I live, on a road I travel almost every day. I not only use the high beams, but I take it slow and really scan the sides. 

 

[dan hufferd]

Well shoot we never got that fishing trip in, now you up and moved away !

I still have your phone number, so I can bug you when ever I want.😁

Everybody is safe and healthy, that is a good thing !

[Johnsfolly]

1 hour ago, dan hufferd said:

Well shoot we never got that fishing trip in, now you up and moved away !

I still have your phone number, so I can bug you when ever I want.😁

Everybody is safe a healthy, that is a good thing !

Dan

Should still be headed back to MO regularly. May have an opportunity to fish together. Feel free to bother me anytime 😀.

[Al Agnew]

We hit a deer in Montana, driving to Yellowstone Park.  Totally wrecked the grill and headlight area of my old pickup.  Got it fixed for about $3000.  High deductible on insurance, so we payed most of that.  That was a couple years after a friend borrowed the truck and hit one, doing about the same amount of damage.  Our part of Montana is REALLY scary for deer, because the roads are mainly in the river bottoms, which is where the irrigated fields are, which is where the deer from all over the whole country congregate much of the year.  You'll see literally hundreds of deer as you drive along a 30 mile stretch of highway, any time of the day but especially early and late, and at night all those deer are roaming across the highway.  After this last time, I had a heavy duty deer-catcher grill and bumper assembly installed on the truck, so the next time it happens the deer will suffer but hopefully the truck won't.

Not only that, but now that they are allowing the bison to come out of the park and winter in the Gardiner area, there's about a 15 mile stretch of the highway there that is likely to have bison in the middle of it, not to mention elk.  REALLY don't want to crash into one of those.

[Ham]

7 hours ago, Al Agnew said:

Not only that, but now that they are allowing the bison to come out of the park and winter in the Gardiner area, there's about a 15 mile stretch of the highway there that is likely to have bison in the middle of it, not to mention elk.  REALLY don't want to crash into one of those.

Add in that Bison and Elk tend to stand and face a threat rather than flee means you’d better be able to stop because said elk or bison is likely to stand their ground in the HWY and take your vehicle on. 

[ness]

Al’s post reminded me of another one. Some guys I work with were riding motorcycles out west around Yellowstone and a deer ran into the side of one of them. He managed to keep the bike upright, but his leg was broken. 

[MOPanfisher]

That sucks John, I cannot even imagine hitting a bison.  A few years ago, about the time I was diagnosed I hit a deer on the way to work, well actually the mini van in the other lane hit it, drove it forward and over into the front left corner of my truck.  So to be neighborly I hit it hard enough to bounce it off the side of her van.  When all was said and done I drove my F150 for another month before it could get into the shop for about $5K worth of work.  Deer hit hard enough that there was deer hair in between the tire bead and the rim of the time.  Other than carrying that headlight in the bed and tying up a few flapping pieces with wire it still drove fine.  Deer are a daily hazard around here.

[ness]

We’ve got them here in Kansas. This is just down the road from me about 90 Miles 😄

Feel a lot safer riding in one of these:

[fshndoug]

Hey Ness did you get my check for the balance on the postage fees?