A friend of mine just e-mailed these pics and when I opened them,a chill ran down my spine.I nearly hit one of these things in a brand new Mustang GT in 1982 and looking at these it all came back in a flash. Supposedly the woman who was driving the car suffered only a broken wrist and needed a good bath afterward.Probably a change of underwear too. PETA will probably be suing her next week for ***ault with a deadly weapon.
my ol man put his daily beater in a ditch in central minnesota back in 1990 or so avoiding a moose. everybody thought he musta been drunk or something cause there AREN'T moose in central minnesota! we lived in alaska for years, we know what moose are! turns out the moose had some disease that disorients them and they wander, the DNR was tracking the monster.
Never pull a Thelma and Louise and try driving next to a herd of running horses either. They'll end up thru your windshield as well. Cows are another problem. If the body doesn't crush you, the hooves will usually dice you into small bits and will certainly destroy your vehicle. I saw an F550 after a horse went thru it.........it destroyed the entire truck and almost cut the head off the driver. If I were her, I'd eat it, ala carte.
man, and you thought a deer did damage... those mooses are BIG. it's like hitting a Chevette with legs.
Ive Seen One In New Hampshier Years Ago While Riding My Harley Through The White Mountains Threr Are Friggen Huge Looks Like A Buffalo With Girraffe Legs
Another reason why I like CA... only animals out in the road are cats and rats. Back in WV, I ran parts for a Ford dealership for a while. There was one body shop out near the power plants, which had large open fields surrounding them. The kind deer love. That shop had about 20 cars in it, every one of them was deer damage. They were booked 3 months solid. Some of them almost had the frontends wiped off of them, but nothing like that!
problem with moose and horses is they are tall and you take the legs out from under them, they then roll over the hood and come right in the car with you
Yeah, all we need to watch out for are undo***ented (illegal) immigrants (aliens) running across dark roads.
They are definitely big!A good sized cow can top 1000 lbs and a trophy bull will run 1500 to 1600 lbs.
Dang, that pic is brutal. I was driving down the road the other night and caught something up ahead in my headlights....and so I started slowing down. I've seen people, deer, dogs, you name it in the middle of the road before and I thought these were two people walking down the yellow line with black clothes on. Turns out once I got up to them (now doing maybe 15 mph) Its TWO COWS running side by side right down the yellow line. I was like WTF!?!?!?!? I slowed way down because there was no where to go and the cows got spooked and bailed over an embankment. I stopped and went back to the nearst house to tell them about it. I figured someone could get killed with a bunch of black cows running around on the highway at night! When driving at night, I normally look for eyeshine and movement along the ditches. Bodywork by deer....****S. ....and if you see one deer cross the road, slow down and keep looking because you'll likely see another one or two come right along behind it.
Aw they were just runnin'for,"pinks"or maybe they were sick of all the,"********"at home and were running away! Seriously though you really have to be careful at night.I remember after the incident with the moose I had just got the car back from the body shop(removed part of the side with a tree avoiding the moose)and I was coming out of downtown Boston one night ratracing with a BMW 3 series.On the upper deck of I-93(which is about 50 feet above ground level with limited access)I'm looking in my rearview trying to figure out how far ahead of the beemer I am when I run over what feels like a telephone pole in the middle of the highway! I'm doing about 80 and the car is sliding back and forth across the road nearly hitting the concrete retaining walls.In the mirror I can see a vague shape of something laying in the road.I finally get the car under control and look back to see the BMW's headlights doing exactly what mine were doing a few seconds before. I get the car stopped and look underneath to see if there is any damage.The only thing I can see is some hair stuck to the lower control arm. I turn off at the next exit and make my way back to see what I had run over hoping it wasn't human.I get back and find the body of a huge German Shepherd.He must have fallen from the back of a pickup truck or something because it would have been virtually impossible for him to walk up there. I dragged him to the side of the road and then headed slowly home;calling the State Police to inform them of what happened.They just took my info and said they'd take care of it and i'd be hearing from them.I never did. I can't even imagine what it would be like to hit something that large.I can't imagine that woman actually survived.
I hit one, it dented my grill and walked away. Another wasn't so lucky next to our farm and the warden said my Dad could have it so we ate Bullwinkle. Tales from Northern Maine.
I did some church building in Alaska and we also supplied them a new chain saw for their roadkill ministry. If someone hit a moose, they got the call and chopped it up.
They always have the biggest and tackiest lookin stripes done...........makes me wanna buy a Kentworth.
i had one trot out in front of me while on my motorcycle in the back dirt roads of maine this year......i tohught it was a horse at first then got on the binders and said ****.....that thing is HUGE!!!!!! by the time i got my camera out it was pretty far ahead...but it made my bike trip to maine really worth it!
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