your times coming

Missed a bear on my bicycle by a few feet... my friend wasn't so lucky... he T-Boned it....

This was years ago in a Nothern California state park of US 1. Long story... in the end, bear won..

Long downhill, we must've been cruising about 30mph... took out his bike, tossed him many feet, all his gear (camping, clothing, etc.) tossed all over the road.

The bear took off...

Originally posted by datto_240z

a big red kangaroo jumped in front of the truck doing 100kmh, Cheer'z'

Chris

The Roo's are fast!! LOL

Originally posted by MikeW

I saw this bumper sticker the other day:

"Brake for Moose, It Could Save Your Life"

Thats generally a Maine/New Hampshire thing. Now the funny one I have seen though is

"Don't brake for moose, it could fill your freezer"

Thats NH for you.

SuDZ

dont evan mention bulldogs

Originally posted by billramsey2002

dont evan mention bulldogs

Why? Do you have one in your freezer?

yup dinners going to be good tonightROFL

I hit three deer in one night in my first HSL30. Made a muss of the hood. But that was when I was a kid--and my parents live in deer country (Mt. Lassen). The worst thing you can do is try to avoid. Up there it is a constant event. I was driving home on Thanksgiving morning once and found a Honda Accord parked in the middle of the road (two-lane-highway). Papa had gotten out, but mama was still sitting in the passenger seat holding two pumpkin pies in her lap. Unfortunately the windshield was covering the pies like Saran-wrap! Grandma and kids were still in the back seat--covered in deer hair! Deer was ghost!

Anyone here listen to Don Imus? He plays a reading from a book written by an older woman in the southwest. Can't remember the name. He uses it for a bumper. Goes something like this: "'Mother always stopped for roadkill. She said it was a crime to let good meat go to waste. Possoms, coons, rattlesnakes. She would cry, "Pull over!" to poke at a fresh victim of the highway. She drew the line at armadillos. "Too stupid to eat." she said.'"

steve

Originally posted by hmsports

I didn't think Racoons could run that fast

The raccoon must have been in a ZX.

Originally posted by Zvoiture

I hit three deer in one night in my first HSL30...

...The worst thing you can do is try to avoid...

If that's the worst thing you can do, I'd hate to see the best thing you can do... Try NOT to avoid?

Or is that one of those phrases like "Wrong place at the wrong time?" That one really gets me.

Originally posted by Mike

If that's the worst thing you can do, I'd hate to see the best thing you can do... Try NOT to avoid?

Or is that one of those phrases like "Wrong place at the wrong time?" That one really gets me.

I had always heard that saying about it being best to not try to avoid a deer standing in the road when i was going up. When I asked the logical "WHY?" question, I was told that you're less likely to die from hitting the deer than from swerving into a tree or mountain-side whilst trying to avoid the deer. Someone else told me that (at night) the deer will follow your headlights when you suddenly swerve and you'll hit them anyway. I don't know if any of this is true, but that is what "old timers" told me when I was a kid.

ZVoiture, Do those "deer horns/sirens" really work? Thought you might know since you grew up in major deer country.

Here in North Jersey, we also qualify as deer country... i often refer to them as forest rats as they're so abundant.

While I can't swear by them, I know SOOOO many people who use the deer whistles/alerts/sirens (insert name) and haven't hit deer that I presume they work.

I don't know anyone who has the whistles/alerts/sirens (insert name) who has hit a deer.

Leaving my home for work, especially during the rut and fall season, I can expect the pass close to half-dozen along the roadway (not yet roadkill) each day.

My freezer is typically full of venison (deer meat). No, I don't bring home the roadkill.