I would just like to take a moment

[shocksyde]

Originally posted by: Bignate603

Originally posted by: shocksyde

Originally posted by: moshquerade

don't blame the deer. deer were here long before roads and cars.

OK, I'll blame Bush.

People seem to be happy doing that about the economy even though the stuff that destroyed the credit market was in motion during prior administrations.

Take a chill pill, buddy. I was kidding.

 

[shocksyde]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: shocksyde

Originally posted by: moshquerade

don't blame the deer. deer were here long before roads and cars.

OK, I'll blame Bush.

awesome :laugh:

but really, i've hit deer before. they are all over here. it sucks, your insurance company pays for it. i feel bad for the deer. one time the deer lay struggling on the side of the road and a guy came out of his house nearby and put it out of its' misery. i was glad for that. the guy was a bit scary looking though. :Q

Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure the deer was injured. I looked back after I pulled over and didn't see it, so maybe it scampered off somewhere.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: waffleironhead
Thats what you get for swerving. Anything smaller than an elephant ram full on(excepting humans).

You know nothing.

 

[Black88GTA]

Originally posted by: waffleironhead

Originally posted by: destrekor

Originally posted by: waffleironhead
Thats what you get for swerving. Anything smaller than an elephant ram full on(excepting humans). If you swerved to avoid a deer and ended up in a lake, I think you would have rather hit the deer no?

That sounds like a brilliant suggestion!

:roll:
hitting a mature adult deer straight-on, can kill you. Forget the deer, the fact that your car can be totaled and the crumpling and almost immediate stoppage could lead to death.
Best to try and avoid hitting large animals head on.

bullshit! A full deer hit will not crumple a car that bad, worse is missing a deer to wrap yourself around a tree or worse yet ending up in oncoming traffic.

False. Destrekor is correct. You do NOT want to hit a fully grown deer at highway speeds.

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[MmmSkyscraper]

These threads always remind me of this one:

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Platypus' story was seriously messed up.

 

[shocksyde]

Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
These threads always remind me of this one:

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Platypus' story was seriously messed up.

Yeeeaaaah that was pretty nasty.

My bro hit a bird once and when we looked at the front of the car you could see some blood, feathers, and pieces of egg shell. I guess the bird was about to lay some eggs. Poor baby birds, never had a chance.

 

[Bryophyte]

Oh, deer!

 

[pstylesss]

Originally posted by: waffleironhead

Originally posted by: shocksyde

Originally posted by: waffleironhead
Thats what you get for swerving. Anything smaller than an elephant ram full on(excepting humans). If you swerved to avoid a deer and ended up in a lake, I think you would have rather hit the deer no?

There was absolutely no time to think in this situation. Your immediate instinct is to attempt to avoid the animal. I know swerving is a bad idea. I didn't have time to think "Hmm, I'm about to hit that deer that is 10 feet in front of my car and I'm going 50mph. I'd swerve, but that's definitely not an elephant, so I'm gonna plow right into it and hope it doesn't crash through my windshield right into my lap."

Sorry man if I came off harsh, bit I live in deer country and we teach our kids to hit deer rather than swerve. better to replace a car part than lose a life.

Hopefully you teach your kids to duck under the steering wheel at impact also.

 

[Balr0g]

Originally posted by: shocksyde
Update: Looking over insurance documents, looks like I'll be able to get this fixed without any deductable, so that's cool. Hope the insurance doesn't go up, though.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Originally posted by: shocksyde
Thanks, Jackass.

I'm pretty sure my car's stability assistance saved my ass tonight. I was driving around 50mph behind a line of cars and the deer appeared out of nowhere. I swerved to the left and clipped it on it's hindquarters with my front passenger side and saw it flip wildly over my car. After I hit it I swerved back to the right and fishtailed pretty violently until I came to a stop.

Had I not had stability assistance, I would have definitely lost control of the car and slammed into a tree or, even worse, this was next to a golf course with a large lake. Just thinking about what could have happened is pretty troubling.

It's hard to tell because it's dark out, but it looks like my headlight, bumper, grill and front passenger quarter panel will need work or replacement. Robble robble.

So, again, thanks, you bastard.

Update: Looking over insurance documents, looks like I'll be able to get this fixed without any deductable, so that's cool. Hope the insurance doesn't go up, though.

Comp claims (unless excessive amounts of them or something) *generally* will not affect your rates. I obviously can't say for certain based on your specific policy, but no company AFAIK will change rates for comp claims like hitting an animal.

Be glad you didn't hit a tree/other object. That would have been a collision loss and you would have rates affected (unless you have acccident forgiveness or something like that).

As a side note. It is going to be better to hit the animal than swerve to miss it and hit a car/tree/guard rail/building/divider/etc. The only exception to this is if the animal will kill you (yes I realize there is no way to know this, and so I would prefer to hit the animal if I have an option). Obviously the natural reaction is miss the animal and swerve, but from an insurance POV hitting the animal is much better.

 

[shocksyde]

Originally posted by: Balr0g

Originally posted by: shocksyde
Update: Looking over insurance documents, looks like I'll be able to get this fixed without any deductable, so that's cool. Hope the insurance doesn't go up, though.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I've never been in a claimed accident, and I'm with state farm, which forgives your first. So laugh it up, chuckles!

 

[shocksyde]

Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus

As a side note. It is going to be better to hit the animal than swerve to miss it and hit a car/tree/guard rail/building/divider/etc. The only exception to this is if the animal will kill you (yes I realize there is no way to know this, and so I would prefer to hit the animal if I have an option). Obviously the natural reaction is miss the animal and swerve, but from an insurance POV hitting the animal is much better.

All of the above is true, but good luck making decisions like that when you have absolutely no time. I have a feeling I would have been in big trouble if I just rammed right into the deer, the front of my car is really low to the ground and i'm guessing the deer would have come flying right into my face.

Anyways, car is at the body shop now and I got out of the situation unhurt, so I can at least be happy about that.

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: shocksyde
Thanks, Jackass.

I'm pretty sure my car's stability assistance saved my ass tonight. I was driving around 50mph behind a line of cars and the deer appeared out of nowhere. I swerved to the left and clipped it on it's hindquarters with my front passenger side and saw it flip wildly over my car. After I hit it I swerved back to the right and fishtailed pretty violently until I came to a stop.

Had I not had stability assistance, I would have definitely lost control of the car and slammed into a tree or, even worse, this was next to a golf course with a large lake. Just thinking about what could have happened is pretty troubling.

It's hard to tell because it's dark out, but it looks like my headlight, bumper, grill and front passenger quarter panel will need work or replacement. Robble robble.

So, again, thanks, you bastard.

Update: Looking over insurance documents, looks like I'll be able to get this fixed without any deductable, so that's cool. Hope the insurance doesn't go up, though.

Dont blame the deer. Blame the landowners who refuse to allow hunting in areas which clearly need a deer population reduction.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Black88GTA

Originally posted by: waffleironhead

Originally posted by: destrekor

Originally posted by: waffleironhead
Thats what you get for swerving. Anything smaller than an elephant ram full on(excepting humans). If you swerved to avoid a deer and ended up in a lake, I think you would have rather hit the deer no?

That sounds like a brilliant suggestion!

:roll:
hitting a mature adult deer straight-on, can kill you. Forget the deer, the fact that your car can be totaled and the crumpling and almost immediate stoppage could lead to death.
Best to try and avoid hitting large animals head on.

bullshit! A full deer hit will not crumple a car that bad, worse is missing a deer to wrap yourself around a tree or worse yet ending up in oncoming traffic.

False. Destrekor is correct. You do NOT want to hit a fully grown deer at highway speeds.

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while you are correct Black88GTA i just want to point out that that 2nd pic isnt a head on collision with a deer, that pic is from a series where the deer was hit on the overpass you see in the background and knocked into the air and landed on the durango going under it

 

[shocksyde]

Originally posted by: sao123

Dont blame the deer. Blame the landowners who refuse to allow hunting in areas which clearly need a deer population reduction.

I guess I'll leave the "Shoot the Deer" lobbying up to you .

 

[AVAFREAK182]

absolute shens called here. OP never updated with pics like he said

 

[alkemyst]

deer came out of nowhere? Was he a blink-deer?

Maybe Hiro from Heroes in disguise.

Hope he is ok for next monday.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: shocksyde
Thanks, Jackass.

I'm pretty sure my car's stability assistance saved my ass tonight. I was driving around 50mph behind a line of cars and the deer appeared out of nowhere. I swerved to the left and clipped it on it's hindquarters with my front passenger side and saw it flip wildly over my car. After I hit it I swerved back to the right and fishtailed pretty violently until I came to a stop.

Had I not had stability assistance, I would have definitely lost control of the car and slammed into a tree or, even worse, this was next to a golf course with a large lake. Just thinking about what could have happened is pretty troubling.

It's hard to tell because it's dark out, but it looks like my headlight, bumper, grill and front passenger quarter panel will need work or replacement. Robble robble.

So, again, thanks, you bastard.

Update: Looking over insurance documents, looks like I'll be able to get this fixed without any deductable, so that's cool. Hope the insurance doesn't go up, though.

This sounds like a Craig's List Missed Connections post.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Project for genetic engineers: Somehow edit the genes of deer so that they learn to fear long, black/gray rocks with big noisy things zipping along them.
I don't know what the hell it is with them in night when they see some glowing orbs moving toward them.
"Hmm, bright glowing things. I bet I'll be safer if I run across this big flat rock right before the glowing things get here. God I'm so darned smart."
*THUD

dear have an extremely small number of cones in their eyes--for color detection. Headlights against the darkness of night more or less fries their rods, of which they have an abundance (for contrast...so very sensitive to light).

This blinds them. They freeze when hit with headlights b/c they are suddenly blinded--the world is like a big sparkly WTF when they look into headlights.

 

[Pepsei]

what happen to the tenderized deer? did you eat it?

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: Black88GTA


False. Destrekor is correct. You do NOT want to hit a fully grown deer at highway speeds.


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[shocksyde]

Originally posted by: AVAFREAK182
absolute shens called here. OP never updated with pics like he said

You're a freak of nature. Calling shens on a "I hit a deer" post? I didn't post pics b/c nobody except you gives a damn. And I don't give a damn about you, so no pics.

 

[shocksyde]

Originally posted by: zinfamous

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Project for genetic engineers: Somehow edit the genes of deer so that they learn to fear long, black/gray rocks with big noisy things zipping along them.
I don't know what the hell it is with them in night when they see some glowing orbs moving toward them.
"Hmm, bright glowing things. I bet I'll be safer if I run across this big flat rock right before the glowing things get here. God I'm so darned smart."
*THUD

dear have an extremely small number of cones in their eyes--for color detection. Headlights against the darkness of night more or less fries their rods, of which they have an abundance (for contrast...so very sensitive to light).

This blinds them. They freeze when hit with headlights b/c they are suddenly blinded--the world is like a big sparkly WTF when they look into headlights.

Haha, nice choice of words.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Originally posted by: shocksyde

Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus

As a side note. It is going to be better to hit the animal than swerve to miss it and hit a car/tree/guard rail/building/divider/etc. The only exception to this is if the animal will kill you (yes I realize there is no way to know this, and so I would prefer to hit the animal if I have an option). Obviously the natural reaction is miss the animal and swerve, but from an insurance POV hitting the animal is much better.

All of the above is true, but good luck making decisions like that when you have absolutely no time. I have a feeling I would have been in big trouble if I just rammed right into the deer, the front of my car is really low to the ground and i'm guessing the deer would have come flying right into my face.

Anyways, car is at the body shop now and I got out of the situation unhurt, so I can at least be happy about that.

I never said it was easy to do I know I have always swerved out of the way.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: Balr0g

Originally posted by: shocksyde
Update: Looking over insurance documents, looks like I'll be able to get this fixed without any deductable, so that's cool. Hope the insurance doesn't go up, though.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

what's so funny? my comprehensive insurance covered it, and my insurance didn't go up after smacking a deer with my car.