i need to buy my integra some flowers, so i can make up for being so abusive

[beyelzu]

on my way to work, i hit a fucking deer. the vermin of the fucking south.

I was doing about sixty, came around a curve, and there two of them were standing. i hit my breaks and managed to miss one of them and clipped the other. i turned around and came back home. i called in to work.

i figure about 5-600 to get my car okay to drive, i need to call my buddy who does body work in the morning. i should go into work, but I just don't feel like it now.

mutherfucker.

[beyelzu]

fuck, liv or vm can you edit, by to buy, i am a fucking retard.

[slimshady2357]

fuck, liv or vm can you edit, by to buy, i am a fucking retard.

No worries, I read it as buy without even noticing until you pointed it out.

Sorry to hear about your car (and the deer). Don't worry about work, fuck 'em.

[mickthinks]

bey, you can edit the thread title yourself. It needs the full monty edit form. which you get to from the quick edit form by cicking the <Preview Post> button. A whole load of new options comes up including, near the top of the page, a text-entry box for the title.

[beyelzu]

i went out to look at the car and noticed a puddle of oil underneath the car.


now i am really worried. cat won't be up for a few hours.

[Naru]

fucking deer

[Legs]

Glad you weren't hurt, bey. :ouch:

[Dingfod]

Maybe if you had hit the brakes instead of the breaks ... ?

[livius drusus]

My mom hit a deer last month. She was going very slowly, though, because she saw an earlier deer cross the road, then a second one ran out and she hit it.

Even a mild bump (20 mph) crumpled her grill and pushed the hood back. I think the repairs were $2500, but insurance covered it all 'cause it was force majeur.

I'm glad you were unharmed, bey. Those buggers can destroy a car and its passengers.

[vremya]

That totally sucks, but at least you weren't hurt.

[ceptimus]

Hitting a dear is even worse than hitting a deer. :P

[pescifish]

:dammitsign:, bey! I'm really sorry about the total crap you've had to go through in this! It completely sucks. With an iron fist.

As an owner of a 11 year old workhorse Integra GSR still in service, I just don't see why a few typos should earn you this crapfest from the Internet peanuts! My sympathies for having to deal with such harassment! :wink:

Oh and I'm real sorry about your car, too. :(

[livius drusus]

The typo was mine, actually. Dear and deer is one of those weird spelling things that are just set wrong in my head.

[The Lone Ranger]

Glad to hear you're okay, beyelzu!


Deer can be amazingly tough animals. A couple of years ago, in Wisconsin, I saw a deer run into the road and right into the vehicle ahead of me. Fortunately, it hit the front corner of the truck, so the damage to the vehicle wasn't too bad. The deer was knocked into the air and did a complete 360, then ran off, apparently uninjured. (I'm sure it had a heckuva bruise, but I saw no blood, and it obviously hadn't broken any bones.)

Still, considering the number of dead deer I see by the side of the road, it's obvious that many of them aren't that lucky. One of my colleagues had a collision with a deer last week, and it went through her windshield. Had it been a couple of feet to the left, she'd have been killed.


We need more wolves, coyotes and cougars, to cut down on the deer population.



My grandfather hit a moose once. He told me that his truck was totaled, but the moose just turned, looked at him, then strolled away as if nothing had happened.

Cheers,

Michael

[pescifish]

The typo was mine, actually. Dear and deer is one of those weird spelling things that are just set wrong in my head.
I just developed one of those recently that's really freaking me out. Their and there. Never ever ever been a problem before, but I'm screwing it up all the time these days. :eep:

[Dingfod]

I smacked a deer with my brand new Jeep Grand Cherokee early one morning in Salt Lake City. A small herd of mule deer ran across the road from the Congregationalist church yard on Foothill Blvd. to the tender delicious shrubbery surrounding the LDS ward house on the other side. I pushed on the brake pedal as hard as I could in an attempt to avoid hitting them and damaging my Jeep. It felt like I stood that thing on it's front tires, such was the front-end dive caused by the immensely effective disc brakes. The grade was downhill, lending to the effect.

The herd ran across in front of me as the Jeep slowed. The very last member of that herd was hit in the rump by the very breakable plastic chrome grill of the Jeep. The deer rolled over once, jumped up, ran off the road, jumping over the aforementioned shrubbery in its escape. I stopped to check for damage.

There was an almost perfectly circular ten inch hole in the plastic grill with the broken out portion pushed into the less breakable ABS plastic about one inch behind it. The total for repair was about $87, all for the grill, not including about two minutes of my time to remove the old one and install the new one using a medium sized straight-bladed screwdriver. Most vehicle deer accidents do not end with so little damage.

[The Lone Ranger]

You felt like you nearly stood your Jeep on it's front tires?


Cheers,

Michael

[Dingfod]

Thanks, I needed that.

[beyelzu]

dark liquid was power steering fluid and according to cat, my very good friend and mechanic, no big deal.

he can get it driveable for me, no problem.


So it could be worse.

[viscousmemories]

I read "according to my cat..." :laugh:

Glad you weren't hurt, bey. I've never hit a deer but I understand shock (to person and to wallet).

[Doctor X]

My cousin was bitten by a moose once. . . .

--J.D.

[ChuckF]

OP was :tealdeer: so I hit it with my car.

[Dingfod]

... according to cat, my very good friend and mechanic, ...
http://www.bbcprograms.com/pbs/catalog/reddwarf/thumbs/t0503redd.jpg

[Leesifer]

My cousin was bitten by a moose once. . . .

--J.D.

møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti

[beyelzu]

I got my car back, it is repaired. It still has some dings and dents but it runs.


yay.

[Naru]

I got my car back, it is repaired. It still has some dings and dents but it runs.


yay.

A CHALLENGER APPEARS

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4601&stc=1&d=1228183047

[godfry n. glad]

My cousin was bitten by a moose once. . . .

--J.D.

møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti

Youz bin hangin in Moosie's Euroforum again....it shows.

[ceptimus]

My cousin was bitten by a moose once. . . .

--J.D.

møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti

Youz bin hangin in Moosie's Euroforum again....it shows.
It's from the credits of the film 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' (http://www.smouse.force9.co.uk/monty.htm)
:psst:

[Kyuss Apollo]

My cousin was bitten by a moose once. . . .

--J.D.

møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti

Youz bin hangin in Moosie's Euroforum again....it shows.


Oh dear.

[Stormlight]

I hit a wild boar a few years ago (and no, it was not at the airport! :glare:). The car was totalled and the boar just ran away. :shakeboar:

[Sock Puppet]

I got my car back, it is repaired. It still has some dings and dents but it runs.


yay.
AND yer eatin' venison tonight! Thazza Wee-in/Wee-in rat thar!
:cletus:

[Dingfod]

I got my car back, it is repaired. It still has some dings and dents but it runs.


yay.So, you got the breaks fixed, huh?

[Smilin]

I got my car back, it is repaired. It still has some dings and dents but it runs.


yay.
AND yer eatin' venison tonight! Thazza Wee-in/Wee-in rat thar!
:cletus:

I've ate deer, but have never had Moose,,,yet!

How does one prepare Moose?

I've hit 2 deer in the last month, the first just dinged my fender, the second one took out my passenger light and dented the hell out of my passenger door.

I'm paranoid to the max now driving into work!

[Dingfod]

Moose is good, like really lean beef, only better tasting. Anything you can make with beef, you can make with moose meat, chili, steaks, roasts, ground meat, tenderloins (mmm, my mouth is watering for that). But, if you hit one with your car, you're probably going to have to consume it through a straw, if you survive, that is.

[Smilin]

Moose Shake?

:shakeshake:

[Dingfod]

Mmmmooose!

[Smilin]

I imagine that hitting a moose would be the same as hitting a cow in the road....

I've done that before....and the Nissan Sentra was totaled! I survived since I was wearing my seat belt!

[Dingfod]

Cattle have a lower center of gravity. Moose are all legs up to about four feet or so. They have the tendency to crash right into the windscreen.

One time, late at night on the highway though the Ashley National Forest between Vernal and Manila, Utah, I came around a curve and saw nothing but legs in the headlights, elk legs, there was a small herd crossing the road*. Good thing the Corolla had good brakes, I might well have tickled their bellies with the roof.

http://www.navar.net/images/blogger/timsstupidxterra.JPG

[Ensign Steve]

Nom.

[The Lone Ranger]

Moose are indeed big critters. They can be more than 7 feet at the shoulder and weigh well over half a ton. What's worse, during the rutting season, males tend to be aggressive and will sometimes deliberately confront vehicles.

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e218/Pix999/Misc/Moose-02.jpg


http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/988/50252244.JPG


Cheers,

Michael

[Stormlight]

Holy shit! I had no idea they were that big! :freakout:

[Qingdai]

I like the people running from the moose in your picture, TLR.

Elk can "walk" over a good 4-5 foot fence with little effort.
We used to get elk in the country where I grew up. We'd go around the bend and they would casually walk over our neighbors fence out of the road.

Picture of elk with cars in it for size comparison (http://farm1.static.flickr.com/25/43025145_28cadd2ff7.jpg?v=0)

And moose are much larger!

[Ensign Steve]

Picture of elk with cars in it for size comparison (http://farm1.static.flickr.com/25/43025145_28cadd2ff7.jpg?v=0)


That elk doesn't have cars in it. :nope:

[Qingdai]

Nom om nom.
Now it does.