Thursday, July 28, 2005
In your face nature
It was a welcome to nature moment. One minute the road was ahead of me the next just antlers and a furry face staring at me from the hood of my car.
After reporting from a large wild fire just a couple miles from downtown Boise all day, Joeja and I drove out after work to see the fire at night. We were driving down Warm Springs road in a transitional zone with some housing and a lot of open grassland, a young buck walked in front of my car and then stopped. I tried to stop, too, but was too late and hit it going about 20 mph. I've heard horror stories about how much damage a deer can do to a car so I was waiting for a huge impact but Bambi just sort of slid onto my hood, went up and over the side of my car and landed on his hooves before gingerly walking off.
Somehow, my car was fine. The only sign of the impact was that one of my headlights was slightly pushed in and there were hoof marks through the dirt on my hood. It was actually my second violent encounter with an ungulate as I had pounded a Moosehead earlier that day.
After reporting from a large wild fire just a couple miles from downtown Boise all day, Joeja and I drove out after work to see the fire at night. We were driving down Warm Springs road in a transitional zone with some housing and a lot of open grassland, a young buck walked in front of my car and then stopped. I tried to stop, too, but was too late and hit it going about 20 mph. I've heard horror stories about how much damage a deer can do to a car so I was waiting for a huge impact but Bambi just sort of slid onto my hood, went up and over the side of my car and landed on his hooves before gingerly walking off.
Somehow, my car was fine. The only sign of the impact was that one of my headlights was slightly pushed in and there were hoof marks through the dirt on my hood. It was actually my second violent encounter with an ungulate as I had pounded a Moosehead earlier that day.
# posted by Druz @ 10:32 PM 
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We hit a cow once with my little Mazda. The car, and the cow as far as we know, survived.
There was one case up here of an elk being hit by a plane on the airport runway. That elk did NOT survive, but I think the pilot got a salvage permit. Elk jerky for months.
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There was one case up here of an elk being hit by a plane on the airport runway. That elk did NOT survive, but I think the pilot got a salvage permit. Elk jerky for months.
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