Dreaded Deer...

I missed most of a show that talked about Deer & car/Bike get togeathers. They said it happens 1,500,000 times a year! (Yes that's 1.5 Mill) mostly between 5am to 8am and 5pm to 8pm on two lane roads. Deer kill more people than any other animal, Bamby doesn't seem so nice anymore. In fact she was a mass murdering crazy little bitch!!!

gtsun said:

I missed most of a show that talked about Deer & car/Bike get togeathers. They said it happens 1,500,000 times a year! (Yes that's 1.5 Mill) mostly between 5am to 8am and 5pm to 8pm on two lane roads. Deer kill more people than any other animal, Bamby doesn't seem so nice anymore. In fact she was a mass murdering crazy little bitch!!!

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LMAO

sometimes you are luky...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZAjJ-g0UDw

Driving home today in my cage seeing bucks just leaping across my path i began thinking of analogy to relate the impact deer deliver, hitting 3 bouncing bowling balls at once about covers it. Divorce hit or deer strike, shit just surprise me.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90QRkG21_DE[/video]

let the bodies hit the floor
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyWtjrYG52M[/video]

Bambi is delicious.

...and in season!

-simpson

gtsun said:

They said it happens 1,500,000 times a year!

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Makes you wonder how many croak from hitting 'roos here.

I bet the # of Roo strikes are pretty high but you'll never know. I hear they just stuff the wrecked car & all the people in thier pouches and hide them..

Roo's are by far most dangerous animal in OZ.

13 human deaths
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/2948 ... ie-drivers
There were 13 human deaths in almost 2,100 crashes involving kangaroos between 1996 and 2005, with a person treated for injury from such a crash once every three days, he said.

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Now these are crash bars mates.

gtsun said:

I bet the # of Roo strikes are pretty high but you'll never know. I hear they just stuff the wrecked car & all the people in their pouches and hide them..

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Think you're getting confused with dropbears there GTSun. I'm sure far more people lose their lives to this most deadly marsupial.

i've hit 3 deer in my life, all within a month and a half period and all with the same vehicle (a vw bus). the last one i hit was around 2 a.m. in the morning, it was still alive after i hit it and was trying to crawl down over the bank. being the third one i hit, i was so mad that i jumped out of my bus with a gerber dagger i had under the seat and stabbed it in the neck a couple times, then dragged it into the vehicle and drove to my parents house, woke my dad up and we butchered it right there on the spot. good times :mrgreen:

these days, i'm seeing deer out and about during hours of the day that you normally don't see them. i can't imagine hitting one with a bike although its very likely around this area.

i was so mad that i jumped out of my bus with a gerber dagger i had under the seat and stabbed it in the neck a couple times, then dragged it

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Brother do I related to this... 2nd deer "That Hit Me" only broke my foot, not my neck and other major joints like the 1st, so was able to return to it flopping on edge of road with half its skull crushed - it was biggest doe I've ever seen and beautifully built - but rage at it ruining my cycle life and its own life, I went cold blooded inside and started stabbing it in the upper neck brain stem and yelling at it to finish it off and release my own emotions, just when people from my village pulled up to see what was happening. Next day I held about the mad man that jumps deer to dispatch by hand.

You may be able to avoid some you see ahead of time but not the ones that leap so fast and close into you, its like an arrow if seen coming ain't nothing you can react to in time, then the pain and lightening hits hard as bowling balls or run through by a spear. I am always in fear state now knowing its just pure luck if I ever make it back. Reading of new strikes and rider deaths in our county newspaper re stimulate the horror and make me think I'm stupid or crazy to go back out...

This spring a young bear ran into a big twin rider, it twisted - broke his lower leg so couldn't keep on foot rest but didn't major injure him and bear ran back into woods.

I aim aggressively at every deer I see, mainly so no matter which way they go its away from me and hope to impress them to freak out on traffic and motor sounds. The ones that live around my home I chase in pastures reving and beeping and trying not to crash getting carried away. I told Wes about it and he said watch out as they will sometimes stopping and attack bitting and kicking with chisel like hoves. He related a story of his big Doberman taking off after 3 deer and they turned on the dog which turned tail and shot home with whole new view of deer danger.

I can avoid traffic and blind hazards by my own wits and discipline to behave and have reserves going into or over blinds but no way can I avoid deadly deer torpedo's [or roos'] nor can any of us... ugh goats either.

had my first close call on a bike last week, a small deer ran across the road and I missed it by less than a foot with my Norton, was foolishly riding through a wooded area of town at dusk (that I know to be deer infested) to experience the curvy road....it happened so fast that I had no time to react, saw it out of the corner of my eye an instant before it was nearly touching my front wheel

Wife and I were coming home after her birthday dinner one December, road was icy. I was going maybe 35 came over the hill and 4 bambi in the road, head to tail, they started running, 2 slipped and went down, I went over 2 of them breaking their backs, other 2 got away. Only dented the license plate a bit. Went home got the P/U, came back slit their throats and took them home and gutted and hung them that night. They were just little things too, but the filets were good and had a couple of good rump roasts too. I've had maybe 3-4 other hits, but not for years now, but luckily not with M/C. Trouble is, they usually hit you. It's a big car business around here, when the time changes from standard to savings and visa-versa.

Be careful out there.

Dave
69S

You can not avoid deer but by not riding. Like DogT saw they really don't know how to handle ice or THE Gravel so when I try to run em down its common they fall down spun out or run into each other to go down and then I must dodge the bodies on the ground or blast right over them. A cycle under hi acceleration tends to lift front tire over them and other objects to carry on after the rough bumps passed over. My 1st kill got eaten by a friend who helped load bike remains.

hobot said:

I went cold blooded inside and started stabbing it in the upper neck brain stem and yelling at it to finish it off and release my own emotions, just when people from my village pulled up to see what was happening. Next day I held about the mad man that jumps deer to dispatch by hand.

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DANG!! :lol:

I remember going over one at about 70mph in my 240Z on I66 going to work one morning in the dark, I think it had already been mushed by a truck and the commuters, so there was just blood and hair all over the bottom of the car. It smelled disgusting for about a week. Kind of like Pâté. Felt like driving over a speed bump at 70. Then there's nature's speed bump, the possum.

Dave
69S

I hit some deer roadkill last weekend. I was in the mountain twisties and no time to slow down. The thing had been runover a few times already and I was able to get the bike upright before I hit it so I didn't go down. I stopped and dragged it off the road. I have a hard time understanding the logic behind the way the government manages the deer population. You would think they are an endangered species. That, or the NRA has better lobbyists than the auto insurers.

Deer populations have spiked over last 8 yr, everywhere. I think is the banksters plans to depopulate major areas of America so that mandate has trickled down to ineffective hunting rules that only up deer population by reducing competition in remaining bucks. I know too well about surprises in blinds, animal grease/blood to speed bumps. Hit dead on and under some power does wonders to get on over and land upright with just fright to get over. My '06 helmet-headlight deer strike was worse than on my on my head with bike hi side at 120 mph at corner school. This was d/t unexpected wheelie in a straight not leaning turning glee. Almost daily I tell myself one more deer strike and I'll have to hang up my spurs as too expensive recoveries for me and bikes to keep up with. Look up Agenda 21 for reasons I think its on purpose.

Today in cage chased off two buck but the real zinger was a young deer leaping from behind into my front fender which I jerked car out the way to slide and drift a bit to avoid the dings, if on bike I might not be writing tonight. I was only going 35 at the time.

I took bad chiding from other lists that I was being careless to strike a deer then a few weeks later the most famous MC safety writer editor was killed in Texas by deer strike. I think I'm older now than he was then. If you ride you risk life and limb no matter what.

I don't envy you lot over there, this is madness........
Roos here are no where near as bad or dumb as your deer.
Roos tend to hang aroung the road side during dry months and feed on the green grass that grows beside the road. Because it gets mowed regularly, it greens up.
They will usually run along beside you for a while then can jump across your path. Mostly dusk and dawn.
graeme