Welcome to Northern Ontario "check the plate"....I see dead moose and deer all of the time up here. You should see the spray pattern when a semi hits them!
Two summers ago we were in Parry Sound, Ontario on the weekend they have this big motorcycle event up there (don't know what the event is called) and someone on a cycle got killed by hitting a moose. I saw one up there on the lake we stay at and even from far awy it looked huge , I can't imagine running into one of them.
About 20 years ago my dad's secretary was broadsided by a buffalo cow... in eastern NC. She was doing 55 when the cow charged and hit her Buick just in front of the driver's door. Knocked her car completely off the road and across a ditch. Killed the buffalo, demolished the car and put her in hospital for 3 months with multiple facial fractures, both legs broken and internal injuries.
I used to work in a body shop in college, and one day this guy comes in for an estimate. He had hit a deer the previous week. Guess who got to clean the car so the owner could get close enough to write the estimate. I will never forget that smell.
Years ago my dad hit a buffalo bull at night in the Black Hills. He came around a curve on a road that had a ditch and mountain on one side and a drop-off into a lake on the other. He sheared off a wooden guard post and sat the pan of the powerglide in his '55 station wagon on the stub. He and his hunting partner were in the ditch loking at the damage when dad remembered the buffalo. They shine the flashlight up the bank and there stands the buffalo next to the car watching them. They both pile in the other side, back off that post and take off down the road. The car got about a mile before the trans quit. First person along was a deputy sherrif whose brother ran a transmission shop. He'd seen the bull, too, unhurt, and followed the line of transmission fluid.
Here's a ford coupe that took out a moose in British Columbia, Canada. The guys survived. The coupe now has a 41 body and nose on it. The frame was ok. Pat.
A couple of days ago my friends son hit a naked,deranged,high on crack black man on Sunset blvd going about 45 MPH...about 5 AM. The guy lived,but the car is junk.The whole windshield landed in the front seat,,shattered.
My Dad works for the WA DOT and there have been 2 moose hit near here in the last 3 days a med bull(800-1000 lb) and a cow about the same size. and we aren't even in moose country all wheat fields so just be carefull everywhere all of these animals will migrate and show up unexpectadly. Drive safe Chris
Last Friday night on the way home, I missed three deer, unfortunately, I hit the next two. Car is driveable and the damage is only $2700. That translates to $569 of wholesale parts and $2150 of labor. I will fix it myself as I got their check. Obviously a moose hit is a total. TGFI. Thank God For Insurance. \ Kermit
Bullwinkle... "Hey Rocky... watch me pull a car out of my ass...! Rocky... "Again...??? That trick never works...!" Loud crashing noise later... Rocky... "Well I'll be... it almost worked....!!!!!!!!"
In a town called Porcupine SD, 5 people were killed on the same day but in seperate incidents, a family coming back from Christmas shopping smoked a horse in the night 2 people died there, I think it was black too....then not long after down the road a ways a lady smacks a deer....then she stops to inspect the damage, a car pulls off on the opposite side to help and another car coming runs over the lady who hit the deer and the two who stopped to help. Sad day too, they were good people.
*all seriousness* I knew a guy who decided to drive his VW bus up to Alaska several years back. He got within a 100 miles of the Alaskian boarder when he saw a moose on the side of the road. He stopped to shoot a picture but every time he went to shoot the picture the moose would turn it's head. After about four attempts he decided to honk the horn on the bus to get the bulls attention. I guess the moose didn't like the sound of the horn because he dropped his head and rammed the bus...knocking it over on it's side! My buddy waited for an hour until another vehicle came along to help him tip the bus back over!
I was driving my 62 Fairlane and a rooster pheasant hit the grill, it went through it and the radiator I could not believe the damage.
35" tires and a ranch hand bumper are my first line of defense on my daily driver. The deer are thick around here. Just a matter of time before I drive through one, been lucky so far, just a few clips. People look at you funny when you have a gun pointed at a deers head on the side of the road, but they do not need to suffer any longer than necessary.
Some friends were headed to a hunting lodge in Canada. They were driving a then new 67 Country Squire wagon and pulling a speed boat borrowed from their out door store. Running about 80 MPH in the wee hours of the morning, they hit a moose. The moose tore the top off the wagon back to the c pillar and completely demolished the speed boat. The whole rig wound up in a ditch. The moose had all 4 legs broken and died a short time later. The 4 passengers were scared shitless but miraculously suffered only one broken nose and minor cuts and bruises. Seeing the pics it was hard to believe anyone could have survived.
reading through this again reminded me of a few stories... i was born in montana and one day we came across a moose that had been hit by a car but was still alive. this lady was there with her kids and was letting them pet the dying animal so my dad went up and told her how dangerous that was. "that's ok," she said. "i've got this!" she then proceeded to pull a derringer out of her purse...yeah, that's gonna stop a fucking moose few years ago there was a kid i knew that hit a horse doing about 100 on a bullet bike. there were orange circles from the cops 200yds from the impact point. the mess on the pavement was unbelieveable and the paramedics said you could barely tell the horse from the man... driving down the road one night in a high deer area i see this MASSIVE fresh explosion of gore, i mean it took up 2 lanes and was a good hundred feet long of bright red with brown bits in it. then at the end of the splatter there was a bloody trail about 4ft wide that went on for another 300ft or so and off to the side of the road where there was HALF a deer... biggest thing i've ever come close to hitting was a very large bull elk one night out in the uintah basin. i saw him just in time to stop thanks to the new halogen high beams i'd installed the day before. i needed new underwear when i got to my destination.
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