Plime/1Ugh... : ATOM 0.3Ugh... : ATOM 0.3www.plime.complime@plime.com2008, www.plime.com.2008-08-30T00:03:15+01:00<![CDATA[Moe @ 5/14/2008 3:52:29 PM]]>257323 There is ALWAYS one more lagging behind the group. Wait for it.
That practice has saved me several times from a wrecked car.]]>2008-05-14T15:52:29+01:002008-05-14T15:52:29+01:00 There is ALWAYS one more lagging behind the group. Wait for it.
That practice has saved me several times from a wrecked car.]]><![CDATA[eLJay @ 5/14/2008 1:35:42 PM]]>257231«pocksucket : Diabetes & obesity excepted...Killjoy! :P]]>2008-05-14T13:35:42+01:002008-05-14T13:35:42+01:00«pocksucket : Diabetes & obesity excepted...Killjoy! :P]]><![CDATA[vexingmodstwo @ 5/14/2008 1:17:42 PM]]>257218«sparklyeyedgal181 : I visited the woman this morning (her name is Margie). She's doing OK, she still feels very guilty, but the initial shock of it is ov...]]>2008-05-14T13:17:42+01:002008-05-14T13:17:42+01:00«sparklyeyedgal181 : I visited the woman this morning (her name is Margie). She's doing OK, she still feels very guilty, but the initial shock of it is over. She told me that if I hadn't been there, she probably would have tried to move the deer like the animal services b*tch told her to do.
Her car is a little banged up, nothing serious. Her left headlight was broken out. I told her I'd swing by AutoZone and get a new one for her and install it. Margie said she's bake me cookies. I think it's a fair trade.
No one removed the deer last night, so the coyotes got to it. And now there's a dead coyote by the side of the road too.
I'm planning to write a letter to animal services. I checked the laws(I live in Colorado) and while you are encouraged to move anything you hit, you aren't supposed to remove it if it's going to pose any danger to you or other drivers. That woman was way out of line, especially for the telling Margie that it was her responsibility to move it.
Thanks for the kind words, folks. Have an upvote, on me.Make sure you follow up with that letter. That operator was definitely out of line and was instructing someone in an emergency situation to endanger even more people. I mean, it's just a deer, but the situation was dangerous being in traffic like that.]]><![CDATA[sparklyeyedgal181 @ 5/14/2008 1:12:36 PM]]>2572132008-05-14T13:12:36+01:002008-05-14T13:12:36+01:00 Her car is a little banged up, nothing serious. Her left headlight was broken out. I told her I'd swing by AutoZone and get a new one for her and install it. Margie said she's bake me cookies. I think it's a fair trade.
No one removed the deer last night, so the coyotes got to it. And now there's a dead coyote by the side of the road too.
I'm planning to write a letter to animal services. I checked the laws(I live in Colorado) and while you are encouraged to move anything you hit, you aren't supposed to remove it if it's going to pose any danger to you or other drivers. That woman was way out of line, especially for the telling Margie that it was her responsibility to move it.
Thanks for the kind words, folks. Have an upvote, on me.]]><![CDATA[restlesschicken @ 5/14/2008 12:32:07 PM]]>257188 anyways, one afternoon a couple years ago, mom pointed out to me a deer t...]]>2008-05-14T12:32:07+01:002008-05-14T12:32:07+01:00 anyways, one afternoon a couple years ago, mom pointed out to me a deer that was walking past our house, away from 75th street. it didn't look hurt, but it was walking slowly with a limp. so mom and i didn't leave the house, but made a flurry of phone calls to any service we could think of that could help with an injured deer.
finally reaching a wild animal rescue organization, we were told that, by the sounds of the injury, it may be best to just leave it alone. it would survive just fine with three legs. anyways, by that time, it already made it down our dirt road, past our neighbors and into the back woods.
ten minutes later, we heard a rifle shot. well, that's the end of that.
big hugs to everyone who posted before me, who had to deal with injured deer more directly than i did.]]><![CDATA[Bandit @ 5/14/2008 12:22:16 PM]]>257181«browntrout : So New York requires you to knock his ass out before tying him to the fender??Mynd you, moose bites Kan be pretti nasti...]]>2008-05-14T12:22:16+01:002008-05-14T12:22:16+01:00«browntrout : So New York requires you to knock his ass out before tying him to the fender??Mynd you, moose bites Kan be pretti nasti...]]><![CDATA[chinook @ 5/14/2008 12:12:27 PM]]>257175
I had to shoot a deer once, too. We saw a car hit her, and we stopped to see if the family was okay. As we were helping them and checking out their car to see if it was drivable (they were bewildered city folk), I noticed the deer in the opposite ditch. She was trying to get up, but her hind legs were shattered and her intestines were starting to pop out of a horrid gash in her side, which I'm assuming was from the broken hood. We had a gun in the truck (this is Saskatchewan, after all), so I loaded it and shot her. I cried so hard, but I knew there was nothing else to do. It was dusk, and I figured a gun was a nicer death than the hungry coyotes sitting up on top of the hill, licking their chops.]]><![CDATA[pocksucket @ 5/14/2008 12:09:49 PM]]>257174«eLJay : and as far as I'm concerned, it fixes most anything.Diabetes & obesity excepted...]]>2008-05-14T12:09:49+01:002008-05-14T12:09:49+01:00«eLJay : and as far as I'm concerned, it fixes most anything.Diabetes & obesity excepted...]]><![CDATA[eLJay @ 5/14/2008 12:07:12 PM]]>2571722008-05-14T12:07:12+01:002008-05-14T12:07:12+01:00<![CDATA[vexingmodstwo @ 5/14/2008 10:23:17 AM]]>257116 One of my uncles is only three years older than me (my grandmother had him late in life, obviously). Anyway, he was in col...]]>2008-05-14T10:23:17+01:002008-05-14T10:23:17+01:00 One of my uncles is only three years older than me (my grandmother had him late in life, obviously). Anyway, he was in college and I was helping him move back home for the summer (along with his girlfriend and her sister). So we're driving through upstate NY with a full stationwagon and we see this car pulled over on the side of the road with the driver standing behind it waving us down. My uncle decides to slow down and see what he wants. Keep in mind that it is about 11:30 pm on a secluded road in the middle of nowhere, basically.
So the guy turns out to be an older man and he's lost. Realizing that it is kind of a sketchy situation, and so as not to have us think he was up to something, he comes around the driver's side and stays a good distance away from the car and asks for directions to this town called Mount Kisko. The guy is basically standing on the double yellow line in the middle of the road.
My uncle gives him directions and the guy starts repeating them to make sure he's got it. While he's talking, about half way through the directions BAM!... a car coming from the other direction hits him. One second he's there talking and the next he's gone. It took me a good 3 or 4 seconds to realize what I'd just seen.
The chicks in the car were screaming... I was in shock... my uncle is going "HOLY F$#K!" and we all scramble out of the car to see if the guy is still alive. He was. He was very banged up, but he was alive. And then a van came around the bend and ran over his leg and arm and came about 8 inches from running over his head... all this as we're walking over to where he wound up after getting hit the first time. Needless to say, I almost puked.
All this was before the days when everyone had cell phones too. Luckily the van was a shuttle for a mental hospital and had a CB radio and they called for help. The car who hit the guy the first time came back and there were some people in the van so we all fanned out and made sure no other cars came down and got into another accident while we waited for the ambulance and the cops.
The man lived, btw.]]><![CDATA[clscott645 @ 5/14/2008 10:20:37 AM]]>257111 This terrifies me. I know 4 people who have been involved in serious accidents due to deer running out into the road. 2008-05-14T10:20:37+01:002008-05-14T10:20:37+01:00 This terrifies me. I know 4 people who have been involved in serious accidents due to deer running out into the road.
I can't believe that woman was such a twat to you.
Did you ever call the elderly lady to see how she was doing? How are you making out?]]><![CDATA[TraumaMamma @ 5/14/2008 10:05:36 AM]]>257099 At least in Ohio, our police are very good about dispatching the animals if they are still alive. (my one g...]]>2008-05-14T10:05:36+01:002008-05-14T10:05:36+01:00 At least in Ohio, our police are very good about dispatching the animals if they are still alive. (my one good police friend due to retire could NEVER shoot a deer....he said he could shoot people, but never a deer)
If you hit one and your car is drivable, they suggest you drive to the station and fill out a report. I have never EVER heard anyone tell anyone to move a deer. Liabilty wise, it would be foolish to tell anyone that. It could still be alive, you think it is dead, and all of a sudden you have an injured motorist on your hands. Their hooves are very sharp! Not to mention the fact that anyone in the road trying to move such a large animal could be distracted in the process and hit by another car. What that lady went thru was insane. Where do you live?
Two yrs ago, I was taking my grandma home from my aunts house as she lives close to me. I saw flashers up ahead, my grammy is riding shotgun and is a total animal freak. She hates that I hunt. She ain't a vegetarian either.
I see a cop with his gun sighting in on something near OUR side of the road and then I see a deer flopping.
I am thinking "Oh s**t, let him kill it before we get up right next to it..." (as it was one lane of traffic now with the cop blocking our lane) Grandma had NO idea there was a deer hit. I prayed she didn't look out the window.
Uh, nope. As soon as we were right next to it, I see the cop waiting for the deer to be still, the deer raises its head up, I hear a pop, (which blessedly grandma is deaf)
She didn't look for some odd reason and didn't hear the shot. I wished I or my kids hadn't seen it though. Sad to see something suffering waiting for someone to finish it off.]]><![CDATA[pocksucket @ 5/14/2008 7:59:04 AM]]>257028«browntrout:So New York requires you to knock his ass out before tying him to the fender??Yes. And especially if you're planning to transport the...]]>2008-05-14T07:59:04+01:002008-05-14T07:59:04+01:00«browntrout:So New York requires you to knock his ass out before tying him to the fender??Yes. And especially if you're planning to transport the Berkowitzes that way.
Can't check it here as I'm at work, but everything suggests this is the routine in question:
]]><![CDATA[browntrout @ 5/14/2008 7:55:44 AM]]>257025«pocksucket : ...There's a law in New York State against driving with a conscious moose on your fender, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. 2008-05-14T07:55:44+01:002008-05-14T07:55:44+01:00«pocksucket : ...There's a law in New York State against driving with a conscious moose on your fender, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.
*yeah, I know, it's a deer, not a moose, but don't tell me no-one else thought of that*So New York requires you to knock his ass out before tying him to the fender??]]><![CDATA[pocksucket @ 5/14/2008 7:54:04 AM]]>257023«browntrout : You should have tied the deer to your car and dragged it over to animal services.
I mean that's what any good citizen would...]]>2008-05-14T07:54:04+01:002008-05-14T07:54:04+01:00«browntrout : You should have tied the deer to your car and dragged it over to animal services.
I mean that's what any good citizen would do.
(Good on you for having the decency to stop and help that lady!)...There's a law in New York State against driving with a conscious moose on your fender, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.
*yeah, I know, it's a deer, not a moose, but don't tell me no-one else thought of that*]]><![CDATA[browntrout @ 5/14/2008 7:42:01 AM]]>257018 I mean that's what any good citizen would do.
(Good on you for having the decency to stop and help that lady!)]]>2008-05-14T07:42:01+01:002008-05-14T07:42:01+01:00 I mean that's what any good citizen would do.
(Good on you for having the decency to stop and help that lady!)]]><![CDATA[horsefeathers @ 5/14/2008 7:00:57 AM]]>257013 At least you and the elderly woman are ok.]]>2008-05-14T07:00:57+01:002008-05-14T07:00:57+01:00 At least you and the elderly woman are ok.]]><![CDATA[muppet @ 5/14/2008 5:19:44 AM]]>2570022008-05-14T05:19:44+01:002008-05-14T05:19:44+01:00 and so, i can't imagine what it's like to hit a deer. was there significant damage to the woman's car? yeah, you are responsible for moving a deer you hit off the road, but i can't believe a passer-by didn't stop to help you guys out! i can't imagine just passing by an elderly woman, and a (severely) pregnant woman stopped on a highway. i am especially disappointed in the person who smacked the deer into the middle of the center lane and didn't stop to help move it out of the road. or any of those people who hit it after that! it's common courtesy! the animal dispatch lady should have sent someone out to help move it out of the road. if you guys couldn't move it, and no one was helping, it wouldn't have been hard to get back on the line with the cops and have one of them move it out of the road. again. lack of common courtesy. where do you live sparkly? remind me not to visit. we should kidnap you and your family at the plime convention. you have two really great choices! florida. or idaho. floridas got the beach and hurricanes and all, but idahos got potatoes. delicious, delicious potatoes.
anyway. i hope you're not too stressed about it. you can always have some o'douls. it's really nice that you stopped. bravo for that! :)]]><![CDATA[CheZ @ 5/14/2008 3:06:03 AM]]>2569852008-05-14T03:06:03+01:002008-05-14T03:06:03+01:00
<![CDATA[sparklyeyedgal181 @ 5/14/2008 2:56:16 AM]]>4199 I was driving to a friend's house at about 8:30, so it had just gotta real dark. I pull out of the neighborhood, and I see a car just up the hill slam on their brakes. Then two deer run across the road (from th...]]>2008-05-14T02:56:16+01:002008-05-14T02:56:16+01:00 I was driving to a friend's house at about 8:30, so it had just gotta real dark. I pull out of the neighborhood, and I see a car just up the hill slam on their brakes. Then two deer run across the road (from the neighborhood side to the prairie side). The deer make it safely across, and as the lady starts to go again, another deer comes up and essentially trips over the front of her car.
The road is one lane, and there is now a severely injured deer laying in the middle of the other lane (and it's at the top of a hill, so almost impossible to see until you're right on top of it). It's moving its legs, but it's hurt bad. I was in such a shock, I was stopped in the middle of the road screaming "Oh. My. God." The driver, a very elderly woman, gets out of her car, tears streaming down her face, in a panic. On the sidewalk, there is a family of four riding their bikes whose jaws are completely dropped.
I thought she needed help, or at least a hug, so I parked behind her, turned on my hazards, and got out to help her. The family left very quickly. As she called the police (we didn't know what else to do), a car comes the opposite direction and slams in the deer, throwing it behind us into the center lane. At least it was dead then. She's hysterical trying to tell dispatch that she hit a deer, and no she's not injured, but if this deer keeps bouncing all over the road, it might cause an accident.
The emergency dispatcher connects her with some b*tch from animal services who tells the lady to move the deer. The driver is in her sixties, and they wanted her to walk onto a very busy street (with a speed limit of 45) in the dark and drag a dead, heavy deer to the side of the road. At this point, I grab the phone and tell her that's just not possible. She tells me that since she hit it, she oughta move it. When I explain that she's an elderly woman, she says I should do it. I tell her I'm 30 weeks pregnant, to which the b*tch replies "why did you even stop?" She then tells me there's nothing they can do till morning, and that we really shouldn't have bothered emergency services for a dead deer.
Meanwhile, at least three other cars have swiped the deer. I tell the woman that we need to move our cars, as people were going into the middle lane to avoid us, and then hitting the deer. The lady didn't want to leave, but I finally convinced her that it's the safest option. I give her a great big hug and tell her I'm following her home. I got her name and number and told her I'd check on her tomorrow. Poor woman was a mess.
When I came home (about midnight), I see the deer is still in the road, in a different spot than I left it, meaning at least one more person has hit it. It better be gone in the morning, I don't really want to see it again.