You heartless bastard

[mikoyan29]

Well just a deer can cause tons of damage if you aren't careful.....

And if I remember correctly from driver's ed, if you can safely avoid a collision with wildlife, you're supposed to....but then again, you're also supposed to use turn signals when making a lane change, keep a car length for every 10 miles you are doing, check your blind spot when changing lanes and not supposed to weave....

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Well just a deer can cause tons of damage if you aren't careful.....

And if I remember correctly from driver's ed, if you can safely avoid a collision with wildlife, you're supposed to....but then again, you're also supposed to use turn signals when making a lane change, keep a car length for every 10 miles you are doing, check your blind spot when changing lanes and not supposed to weave....

If I'm driving along and I see a deer jump out in front of me and I can't stop in time, I'm going to hit it.

Sucks, but it beats swerving and losing control of my car and either getting hit head-on by an oncoming car or rolling over in the ditch.

[Salted Grump]

My mom hit a deer once. It caused 4000 Dollars damage to the engine and we had 'fenderized venison' in the freezer for 8 months. A big buck was doing the usual 'leap across the road when startled thing' when my mom was Driving home from working late, plus it was November so it was dark out before 4 Pm rolled around.

During mid-leap she hit the Buck, who flipped over the hood of the car, cracked the windshield, and was dead before it hit the ground. The car, however ended up with a destroyed Fuel pump and about 2000$ body damage. (Both fenders, and the radiator was wrapped around the fuel pump, which had been forced into the First Cylinder of the inline-5 diesel)

Frankly, with a little less luck, Mom would have gotten away with worse than a few bruises and a heartrate of about 250 BPM.

[LillFilly]

By deer, I was just giving an example of animals. I've seen the damage they can do (I got extra insurance when I used to live in a wooded area). It's just people just don't seem to care what they hit; cat, dog, groundhog. Wild or domestic. And it's just sad when they hit something that's obviously a pet, and don't bother to stop or try and find the owner. Yeah, the animal probably shouldn't have been out on the road, but you could still try and be a decent person.

[LadyAndreca]

Where I lived in Alabama, it was turtles that had the hatching problem...there was one pond where they'd cross the road to lay their eggs in a nice, cool, damp, shady kudzu patch, then cross back to the pond. Then later in the year the baby turtles would have to make the same crossing. Many, many people, including my mother, would pull over and carry the turtles across the street, because it was a busy road. (I admit I would just aim carefully to miss them.) But just as many wouldn't care and we'd find picked clean shattered shells littering the roadside.

Only animal I've ever hit was a red-tailed hawk. Poor thing was hunting, I assume, and I hit it at 65 MPH on a highway at rush hour. I was 16 and Mom had to talk me through pulling off at the next exit 'to get some gas', but really to get me out of the driver's seat so she could check the windshield (broke a wiper but not the glass) and take over. I cried for hours after that one...the poor thing! I can still remember the tail pattern against the window...

[Andara Bledin]

I once ran over a sparrow. It had been in flight at the time. Silly thing was chasing a piece of tail.

I also once ran over what I think was a ferret, but I can't really be sure. It was small, long and furry, and ran under my tires.

My grandmother, however, once got hit by a cow.

Yup, you read that right; she didn't hit the cow, the cow hit her. Destroyed the front end of the car, too.

Turns out a semi was coming the other direction and couldn't stop in time. The truck hit with enough force to send the cow sailing, and it landed on the front of my grandmother's car.

A near thing; much further back, and there could have been a lot more mayhem than a trashed front end.

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