Oh Dear, Dear Me

[Azman]

Hi guys,

Nursing a bit of a sore pride this morning but I have got a question that really does need answering.

First a little story.

I left home last night at ten to go to work in Peterborough. Picked up two mates for the 60ml trek and of we popped down the A47. Everything was cool having a laugh then we got to the borough. At this point I must say I was not in my coupe but in my wifes PT Cruiser (better on fuel for the journey), anyway we hit the perimeter road and cruised just like the name at just (read into what you like) above the limit as there are cameras.

Here's the painfull bit. We spot a dear in the fast lane (where I am) and there is no other traffic on the road, he looks up at me, I slam on the anchors and move to the hard shoulder as quick as poss.

Here's the killer (no pun intended). Just and I mean just about to pass the little ( he was the size of a great dane (thinner legs though and I know dogs don't have horns) s**t when he decides to chew a great big hole in my front bumper. Now with dear firmly planted where he shouldnt be and parts of the bumper splattering the windscreen, the girls blouse sitting next to me screaming down my lug hole and a bridge support coming towards me I stopped.

Now the question is why? I was at least 2-3 cars width away from the thing. Why decide to suddenly have a quick look at it's reflection. Why choose my bumper. Why not the 18wheeler behind me? Why did it make such a big hole? How was the bas***d still alive? Why didn't I reverse and get revenge for the hole? Why did I ring the stealers this morning to find out how much the parts are going to cost? Why next time Bambi fancies crossing my path do I feel obliged not to turn the wheel the other way?

Anyone else had this sort of experience? Perhaps we should club together and contact Mr Attenborough to see if he can shed a light on a dear's need to park itself in the bumper of 1.6tons of car moving a damn sight quicker than it ever will?

Ho hum. Glad that of my chest. No pics sorry. But I don't think the police who turned up would have appreciated it.

Cheers for listening.

Aaron

[rotoryboy]

the girls blouse sitting next to me screaming down my lug hole

lmao, well at least you wern't in the Audi

[dan_b]

Oops - just thank the maker that you weren't in the S2 at the time?

I don't think there's any real explanation for why some of the less intelligent prey animals seemingly run toward their doom when they're being stalked by fearsome hunters, but perhaps it's some sort of evolution in action, survival of the fittest? If the animal is so dumb as to actually throw itself in front of a car/ fearsome hunter, then it's clearly too stupid to deserve to survive and pass on its DNA, therefore improving the fitness of the species?

[Fat Audi 80]

They don't know what cars are and just want to play....

Unlucky, but on the other hand, It COULD have been the S2 and it was only a Chrysler...

Cheers,

Steve

[S2central.net]

Worse things happen at sea !

[Jas11n]

Try getting hit in the chest by a pheasant at 40 mph on a motorbike, and then put up with getting the mik taken out of you at work for the next month due to not being able to move cos of the pain of 5 broken ribs
Not to mention the paramedic taking the mik out of the feathers stuck in my lid.
Pheasant didn't survive

I echo what the lads say, least it wasn't the cq20v at the time, and you're lucky it didn't come through the screen that would have been nasty.

[rotoryboy]

lucky it didn't come through the screen that would have been nasty.

Aye, he wouldn't have screamed like a girl then

[S2central.net]

JHC - is that photo for real ? All of a sudden my lunch wants to come up - just thinking about that !!!!!


Paul

[ubernugen.com]

Same thing happened to me in Idaho picking up my mate's new B4. I was driving and narrowly escaped an entire family of elk (deer as big as horses) on a twisty river side road with new asphalt and no cops and, ahem, everything that entails... Later on after dark, I was driving 5mph BELOW the limit because I was paranoid about deer in the road. Rick opined how the odds were slim that we'd see another thing in the road and I replied that it was the height of the rut... which means that the critters are positively out of their gourds with sex hormones. Sure enough, a head popped up in the bushes up ahead and I jabbed the brakes, did a little jink about as far as I could go without putting a wheel off the the damn animal lauched itself straight toward the car, butting it's head on the A-pillar.

Dead: Winshield, mirror, wing, deer.

[shadquattro]

Try getting hit in the chest by a pheasant at 40 mph on a motorbike, and then put up with getting the mik taken out of you at work for the next month due to not being able to move cos of the pain of 5 broken ribs
Not to mention the paramedic taking the mik out of the feathers stuck in my lid.
Pheasant didn't survive

I echo wh,at the lads say, least it was the cq20v at the time, and you're lucky it didn't come through the screen that would have been nasty.

k a c


Out and about last week a fella on a bike went into a cow on the road, the cow was dead and the bikey guy was covered in cow sh*t , bike was a right off and he has 3 broken ribs and both legs are broken, I cleaned him up best i could but omg did he stink

[Stick Insect]

Aye, he wouldn't have screamed like a girl then

Left Hand drive car rotaryboy...

Not nice to think what would happen to the passenger!

Girlfriend had two deer collisions in one month.

She's a vegetarian
David

[volcano rs]

he just wanted a ride