There are 61,000 deer-related car crashes a year in Michigan alone. But those are just the reported ones! Like rape-rape, many vehicular deer accidents go unreported. Hence to raise awareness, this new website from the Michigan Deer Crash Coalition, for which it spared no expense in its HTML quest to save lives both ruminant and hominid. Also there are wonderful instructional videos about how you should never swerve when you are hitting a deer as that is how you die. (Not from the antlers in your windshield, apparently.) But what does a deer crash look like? Oh, YouTube, you do not fail us.
It's just hard to know who to root for. We have always loved our deer! But also cars? Cars are so nice.
Obviously this is something you never want to try on a motorcyle.
At least some of our deer friends get away.
Christ, what a whiner in that first video. And these seem to have all been small deer. Sometimes they are not so little and that's when they come in through the windshield. Grow up in the rural midwest and this is a rite of passage... as long as, you know, it doesn't kill you.
As my dad used to say: "Hit all the deer you want, but don't ever hit a moose. Those things will kill you." Truer words were never spoken.
This is true. I almost had a moose charge my car on a narrow back-mountain road. I was stoned as fuck and just got out of the car and hid in a ditch until the thing left.
"swerved for a deer" is a favorite excuse for teen drunks who crash cars in wisconsin (and everywhere else nearby i imagine)
Young Jeezy, in XXL earlier this year:
"My other nigga, Boo Rossini, got in a fucking car wreck and broke his neck. He said it was a deer [laughs]. But we all know better than that. It may be some Belve-dere, but it wasn’t no deer."
Well, good to know Young Jeezy and Young Jerry from Mequon have something in common.... Though the latter certainly was not having any Belvedere. More like McGilicutty
Wasn't it Lord Venison who said "He makes no friends who never made a doe?"
Seriously, this is a horrible compilation of carnage.
I'm kind of expecting the next random mass shooting to be perpetrated by a regular contributor to RescueHumor.com.
Servicey. And way dark.
as a former michigander, i've had a couple of encounters with deer, including "the year of deer" when 3 out of my 6 family members either hit or wrecked their cars in an attempt to avoid hitting deer, all on the same patch of road right by lindsey hunter's house. i was the last of my family to have a car/deer encounter and the only one to have it result in deer death. the thing is, the deer didn't die when it was hit, b/c my car is so low to the ground and i'd slowed down enough (and also done the swerving thing) that when the impact occurred i ended up kneecapping the deer. i swear it didn't owe me any money, but i had to call my sister's boyfriend's dad (the deer finisher) to come and "take care of it" because otherwise the deer would have been on the side of the road for days starving to death. what i didn't know was that there are laws about when you can shoot a gun to kill a deer so the SBD had to knife it, but not before being kicked in the shoulder by this deer that i had accidentally taken out mafia style.
there's no point to me saying this, other than there really are a ton of deer in michigan, and i've never quite gotten over the guilt of looking that deer in the eye and knowing he was thinking "thanks, asshole. i was just trying to get across the street."
The poor deers. They were probably heading downtown to blow a couple of bucks.
I-79 between Pittsburgh and Erie is a 4 lane slaughterhouse.Deer, coyote, woodchucks, you name it. Nearly creamed a Bald Eagle that was feeding on a deer carcass once.
The Jackrabbit Dighway, between Van Horn and Marfa, Texas. I don't drive that way much, but I'll never do it at night again.
I remember driving with my dad in his pickup and all the sudden we felt a 'thud' but didn't see anything. We pulled over and saw a deer lying in the road, and a 6 inch diameter dent in over the rear tire well. The deer had ran into the side of the truck, which I found odd.
early archery season starts Thursday in the dirty mitten! now with crossbows!
http://www.detnews.com/article/20090926/SPORTS07/909260355/1435/sports07/New-regulations-draw-hunters-to-crossbows
"Crossbows can be used during any gun season for any game statewide. Any hunter age 50 and older can use a crossbow during the early archery season. And in southern Michigan, where an oversized deer herd
wreaks havoc on crops and car fenders, crossbows can be used in any season for any game by anyone age 12 and older."
Ohhhhhh Freddd Bear!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aopqfl1srpk
Look. Do those crazy sonic deer repellents work or not?
Ha! everyone used to have those things. seems to be the radar detector school of useless car shit.
I realized my mom was a tough lady when, after hitting a dear but not killing it, she threw it into reverse and did the poor beast a favor.
In the Princeton area they had to hire all kinds of sharpshooters because the deer were becoming such a major problem.
Boring "this one time" story ... After picking me up from middle school my dad hit a deer and my peripheral vision thought it saw a child on a bicycle. So I started bawling-crying, screaming at my dad to turn around, and my dad was like BE QUIET KATIE and it was one of those situations where we were totally misunderstanding one another. I thought my dad was a child killing monster and he thought I was a deer loving hippie. I think he judged me more than I judged him.
The whole front of the car (big boxy Volvo) was completely busted up, btw. Those deer do NOT mess around.
I want to know more about the wild animals of 'The Princeton Area'
Re: sharpshooters, "urban hunts" are very big here. One town is trying the sharpshooter approach, and the deer consultant (really) asked if they could use silencers so as not to alarm the deer or humans living nearby. The police chief reminded everyone at the meeting that silencers are illegal, but I cling to the image of deer assassins prowling the suburban woods.
When I was 10, a deer jumped through a neighbor's front window - we're guessing it saw a reflection of trees and thought it was jumping into the forest.
It raced around the Pizzos' first floor, bleeding everywhere, until it finally died in the kitchen. Some other neighborhood kids were having fun sliding around in the blood, but not me.
Channel 7 Eyewitness News came, and I got to meet Tim Fleischer.
Poor deer? No. They're vindictive, and their accidents are premeditated. I coast down roads this time of year and watch them all lined up along the road watching me, planning the perfect moment to dart out and destroy my car. But then I'm from West Virginia, so they might be Deliverance deer. That's actually a really good way to picture them.
My Michigan dwelling mother smoked a deer last night in a Dodge Ram last night, doing 60mph. Not enough left for a decent venison stew.
I agree with most of the sentiments here though, deer are vindictive, depressed creatures with suicidal tendencies - sort of the drama club of the forest.
How true is that Teen deer video? His face goes through the entire range of human emotions of fucking up your first car. Also, what about the bragging sesh about their MAGNUM GUN until the 'deer incident' cuts them off. NATURE!