Deer = The Enemy

[silver_pilate]

Haha...I know what you mean. Up here on the plains, we don't have to worry too much about deer...but we gotta keep an eye out for pheasant.

However, I worked a 6 week clincal rotation in which we did a lot of traveling for home health. Over to Flomot, Matador, Floydada, Quitique, Turkey, etc. In that area of the caprock, you gotta be on your toes. A big mulie can ruin your afternoon right quick and in a hurry.

I've had a couple of people I know get their vehicles crunched by animals (wild and livestock). My father was driving the 80's work suburban through the caprock at dusk and rounded a corner at 70mph into a herd of cattle that had gotten out. They managed not to hit any head on, but they sideswiped a few, and they got one on the head with the passenger bumper. It killed it instantly, flung it around, and the hind quarter of the cow smashed in the passenger door where it couldn't be opened. Also, when it was killed, it immediately lost bowel and bladder control, thus spraying the entire side of the suburban in crap and urine.

Another buddy just finished painting his '84 GT350 (goes by 84gt347 on here) and was down in Possum Kingdom when a deer bolts out of the brush and smacks his door.

And another friend was driving his brand new Xterra when another friend's horse got loose and ran into the road. He hit it, the horse's head came through the windshield and stayed there while the body of the horse was thrown up and over the truck completely smashing the roof in and totalling the vehicle.

Livestock can be fatal if you hit them at high speeds. Not to mention, they mess up your car.

--nathan