jceman 1 #1 November 15, 2003 or "Kris, My Purple Bro -- We Have Something Else In Common" We live on the outskirts of Flagler Beach and the road to our housing development is very rural; deer crossing signs all over the place, etc. To make a short story shorter, on the way home from supper tonight when we turned onto the rural road leading home, I turned my fog lights on to make it easier to spot our beautiful four-legged friends. It didn't help. No more than 150 yards from our entrance, one darted from the left right into us. I had no time to react. I had just slowed to about 45 mph when she hit my left front. Bottom line, one dead deer and one PT Cruiser with a totally wrinkled and bashed left quarter. The air bags didn't deploy as it was a glancing blow. Lynn and I are fine, though shook up. The deputy took his rifle over to where the deer was lying in case he had to end her misery, but thankfully, she needed no help. I don't think Lynn, myself or the big strapping deputy wanted to see him have to dispatch her. I got cleared by my ortho doctor to jump this last Wednesday, but was going to wait until Thanksgiving. I think I'll call my rigger and see if he can't have it ready for me tomorrow. I need an air bath real bad! Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money. Why do they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flyangel2 2 #2 November 15, 2003 Oh, so sorry. It's always a terrible feeling when you harm an animal. Glad to hear that you and Lynn are okay.May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. - Edward Abbey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sunshine 2 #3 November 15, 2003 Give TLML an extra hug from me tonight. And have her give you a pinch on the butt. Glad you're both ok. Now git yer bitch ass in the air!! ___________________________________________ meow I get a Mike hug! I get a Mike hug! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lawrocket 3 #4 November 15, 2003 It's Wabbit season! My wife is hotter than your wife. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dagny 0 #5 November 15, 2003 So sorry to hear that, man. I really don't like hitting animals, either, but at least you and Lynn are safe and uninjured. At least your vehicle wasn't totalled in the incident. Now get up in the air, already!!! (gonna be a) Doctor's orders! Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic. -Salvador Dali Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DeNReN 0 #6 November 15, 2003 Hitting animals really sucks...I got a large buck last year...tore the left headlamp and fender off. The g/f came opon a deer hit tonight..poor thing had a broken leg etc....managed to hobble off the road into a ditch with traffic roaring past it...she called me..I called the dept. of lands and forest...got a call back a little bit ago...they found it alive...put it down on the spot Fyi...you could hit a 1200lb moose and not have your airbags deploy....it takes a severe deceleration(not sure of the actual G's) to trip a airbag....but..they do not or are not supposed to trip for minor inpacts. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,070 #7 November 15, 2003 December 31st, 1990. My sister broke her femur skiing. The hospital in Glens Falls couldn't do an IM rod, so we had to transport her back to Long Island somehow. The problem was they couldn't figure out how to transport her - no one had designed a portable traction splint that could be used in an ambulance that would keep someone in traction while keeping their knee bent. (The Hare splint requires the patient's knee to be straight.) The doctor had some notion of a series of dangling weights and pulleys, but thinking about the Hutchinson River Drive in winter I knew that wouldn't work. So I struck out to build one. It being 8PM on New Year's Eve, we had to break in to local hardware stores. A cop stopped us once, but my mother was with me, and hell hath no fury like a mother with an injured daughter, and the cop was soon chased away. Back at a friend's house I cobbled together an adjustable traction splint out of lumber, hinges and garage door opener parts. Much fun was had by all as I tested the thing several times on said friend's drunken daughters, trying to make sure I hadn't forgotten anything. Jan 1, 1991, 5am. We set up the splint, borrowed an ambulance and started the drive down. We had made it perhaps an hour when the ambulance hit a deer grazing on the deserted roads. (No one on the roads at 6:30am on new year's day for some reason.) The ambulance wouldn't start and we had to wait for the state police anyway, due to some sort of insurance thing. Me and the ambulance driver hiked back to the deer, figuring we could put her out of her misery with whatever was left in the rig's kit. (Anne had already run through most of the morphine.) As we approached the deer, she sat up and ran off, missing one leg and a good part of her intestines. I felt bad, but I had other things to worry about at that point. We fixed the ambulance mainly by disconnecting things that looked smashed until it would start. The state trooper took two hours to show up. I tried to speed up the process by driving the wrong way down the highway a few times, on the theory that you always see cops when you don't want to, but to no avail. We finally got her to NY, fixed her leg, and ended up paying for part of the repairs to the ambulance. (As they hadn't charged us anything for the ride it seemed only fair.) I figure at least the deer got to go off on her own to die; seems more dignified than dying by the side of the road. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 226 #8 November 15, 2003 I was riding a bus back from school one spring and the damn bus hit a HORSE broad side - that was a mess to clean up.I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
leroydb 0 #9 November 15, 2003 good thing you are safe! hitting a deer can be dangerousLeroy ..I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jumpwally 0 #10 November 15, 2003 How does one break into a hardware store,chase a cop away and borrow an ambulance? WOWsmile, be nice, enjoy life FB # - 1083 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kris 0 #11 November 17, 2003 Ouch, Jack! Glad to hear that you and Lynn are okay. If it makes you feel any better, you weren't the only one to hit something that evening. I went with a friend to a skydivers party in Tulsa Friday night. On the way back at 2am on the turnpike, doing the speed-limit (75mph), the biggest, fattest, raccoon I have ever seen ran across the road. This thing had to be every bit of 40-45 pounds. I hit him dead-center and there was the most god-awful thunk. I pulled over into a lighted area and the lil' bastard had split my front air-dam in two. So now I get to play with epoxy and touch-up paint some time this week. I got this car just a few months ago after totalling my beloved red Tiburon on a deer. 13K miles and I've already damaged her. Sigh. So, in short, I feel your pain, Jack.Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydiver51 0 #12 November 17, 2003 Oh-oh, sorry to hear about your car Kris....see, you should have spent the night and just got up early to head home..... Jack---glad you and Lynn were both okay, but sorry about the little car. x's and o's, Robin Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
