I don't think he could live with himself after hitting a loved one. If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers
I didn't actually hit a raccoon earlier this week, I am just busting Duffy's balls. But I did hit one once and I did not bother to stop. I was driving about 120 kph (~75 mph) at the time. There is no way it survived more than a few seconds. How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?
Saw a two for one deal driving home on I-95 yesterday. Or at least I assume it was the same car that got both of them. Nice change of pace from the porcupines that seem to routinely get squashed.
Blep and TheForge were hunting in the Canadian wilderness when a jealous moose attacked Blep. TheForge called 911 and the conversation went like this.
The Forge: My buddy was attacked by a moose, and I think he's dead. 911: Are you sure he's dead? The Forge: No, but he's pretty mauled up. 911: Can you make sure that he is dead?
Shoulda skinned it. With your cold ass winters I'm sure you can never have enough hats. -------------------------- The secret of a long life is you try not to shorten it. -Nobody
I've seen that before. Pretty sure it's not real. The car hits it brakes after the guy lands on the roof and and somehow he stays put rather than becoming a forward moving projectile.
It doesn't have the same ring when you do it. "In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway." T Durden
I ran over an opossum a few months back. Was heading to work late at night, and was stopped at the signal light before turning into the building's parking lot. Saw an opossum run out just in front of the car, but couldn't see over the hood where it went. Light turned green, and I waited a bit and looked around to see if the thing was out of the way. Couldn't see, but assumed that it was gone, since it was dark and I couldn't imagine it just handing around. Started to make the turn, and immediately felt the front wheel roll over something. Sure enough, the next day, there was a dead opossum in the road.
But such winners, one of the few marsupials to survive and thrive rather than being driven to extinction by placental mammals when the S. and N. American continents joined up.