Hitting Critters
i bet your running out of work trucks
Posting Guru
Joined: Nov 2006
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From: Louisville,Ky.
Normally we got 3 box trucks and 1 van, NOW we're down to 2 box trucks and the van. The super told me they "MAY" total it,,,,,I hope not! It's only got 252,500 miles on it! They don't trade them in until 300,000 - 350,000 miles! Good ole $$$$$$$$ Bottom line!
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Joined: May 2004
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From: The hills of No. Calif.
I've lived in the country most of my life. Critters are simply a sometimes unavoidable road hazard out here. I've hit so many that I don't even keep track, though a few are memorable. My first was a dog, I was only 14 and joyriding in my sister's car (never told her!) and this little dog appeared out of nowhere and tried to take on the car, lost when it flung itself under the rear tire. Broke its back, the owners had to put it down. I felt terrible but they didn't blame me, they knew there was a leash law and the dog was a car chaser.
When I was about 19 I hit a fawn one night, broke its lag. My buddy who was with me adopted it and we splinted it, seemed be doing well and had gotten very tame, then was just dead one morning.
Hit a big doe with my old Nissan 200SX, it just came running up a hill next to the highway and appeared out of nowhere in the air in front of me. I was carrying so I dispatched it, figured it was better than trying to put it out of its misery with a tire iron...
I won't even mention the puppy I squashed...
Driving my Mustang one day along two-lane roads through the valley farmlands, the road was straight as an arrow and I could see for miles in all directions and no traffic so I cranked it up to about 100. Hit a bird, it went right through the grill and radiator fins, did no damage as it was practially vaporized, just shredded by the fins. Nothing left but feathers and goo.
I'm just glad I wasn't this guy:
(It would kinda suck to be the horse, too...)
When I was about 19 I hit a fawn one night, broke its lag. My buddy who was with me adopted it and we splinted it, seemed be doing well and had gotten very tame, then was just dead one morning.
Hit a big doe with my old Nissan 200SX, it just came running up a hill next to the highway and appeared out of nowhere in the air in front of me. I was carrying so I dispatched it, figured it was better than trying to put it out of its misery with a tire iron...
I won't even mention the puppy I squashed...
Driving my Mustang one day along two-lane roads through the valley farmlands, the road was straight as an arrow and I could see for miles in all directions and no traffic so I cranked it up to about 100. Hit a bird, it went right through the grill and radiator fins, did no damage as it was practially vaporized, just shredded by the fins. Nothing left but feathers and goo.
I'm just glad I wasn't this guy:
(It would kinda suck to be the horse, too...)
i wander what went throgh that guys head when he hit that
Post Fiend
Joined: Mar 2004
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From: San Francisco, Ca.
And no one can talk to a horse of course
That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mr. Dead.
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From: McKenzie River
Since we are on the subject of hitting critters, I once drove thru a area where the grasshoppers were so thick on the road, I decided to touch the brakes at 60mph. You guessed it,.............SSSLLLIIDDE!, grasshoppers are slick!
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From: McKenzie River
Could have been ugly, once off the road you have your choice of barb wire, posts, heifers, or all of the above.