Holy Cow!! and I do mean Holy Cow!!

[WOWZY]

I got home from work tonight and noticed blood all over both sides of the road in front of my house. It happened only an hour before I got home.



My wife said it was "Pandalerium"



A red compact loaded with "LOADED" teenagers, hit one of my neighbors 1200lb Black Angus steer at an estimated 60+mph All 5 of them had to be taken to the hospital, 2 was serious.



Of course my wife didn't think about taking any pictures of the car. I'll check the local towing lots to see if I can get some pics of the car. The wife said it was pretty bad. Hope the kids will be ok.



I guess a Black Angus is pretty well camouflaged at night standing in the road huh?

 

[DRR-24V]

Smiles !

On a dark night you won't see that sucker unless he smiles.

 

[Bigsaint]

We still have our share of those collisons in town, the last one that I recall was also a black angus (calf). The car was destroyed and so was the calf . Poor 'little fellow' happened to wander through a open gate. The farmer got his bucket loader and we loaded him in. I did get a good laugh when one of our rookies tried to pull the calf off the road like a struck deer. Guess he didn't eat his weaties that day .



Scott W.

 

[Joe G.]

One dark rainy night in KY we saw a car with its nose in the ditch so we slowed down. Then we noticed a large black lump in our lane. Just about that time the law appeared with lights and siren. The car had hit an angus steer. Both the car and the steer really looked bad. We left because there was a real gathering of official vehicles. It didn't look good for the people in the car from the looks of the damage.

 

[Briar Hopper]

Why didn't y'all stop and get some free steaks?

 

[Joe G.]

Didn't want to fight the cops for a place to cut them off. They were hogging all the good cutting places!

 

[CGoyette]

hey enough my kid loves cows

my heather and bandit the herd monster... does dare cows is fraid of that little ball of hair

 

[Oliver88]

CGoyette,

That picture looks more like the north Ga mountains. Your little girl is precious. I have a 14 month old boy and one on the way. Kids are special.

Greg

 

[CGoyette]

Its actually wisconsin on her grandpa's cattle farm. My wifes family own a valley and my daughter loves the animals and they seem to love her really wierd ... I mean theres a thing about my kid and animals. Dads go this horse that is meaner than a snake but loves little heather and will whinne his tail off when she is with in sight kickin the fence and heather goes and gets him some corn and walla there buddies. You'd have to see it to belive it. Dog is a healer that don't cotten to most folks either but loves heather.

 

[LSMITH]

Saw a late 80's IROC Z that hit a cow elk at 65, t-tops blew out of the top and the a-pillars collapsed dropping the top on the people and letting the elk in the car. Both of them died. The car just scooped the legs out from under the elk and it slid up the hood into the car, there was virtually no damage on the front of the car up to the a-pillars.



If you drive where game or livestock is around it pays to be careful, especially in a car. Hope those kids are OK.

 

[DRR-24V]

Not fit to eat !

Almost any animal hit by a car is ruined for eating. Had a little buck get his head struck by the headlight of a vehicle, breaking his neck. No other injuries. We took him home, skinned him and saw that the meat was Bloodshot clean back into the Ribs. Also long legged animals (Horses, Moose,etc) will usually come thru the windshield with Fatal results. As a sidenote a wild pig will rip the front A-Frame clean off a 1990 Caddy. !

 

[EOliver]

My little brothers girlfriend had a 1994 Z-28 that her brothers borrowed to go to town. On the way back home (at night) they came along a herd of Black Angus steers on the road (about 25). The old camaro killed 5 of em! The car had seen better days for sure, the car only had liability on it and was paid off. My brother and I took out the motor and transmission last weekend. We are gonna put the trans into his 79 Vette. The motor... . well we have lots of ideas for an LT-1 with only 65000 miles on it.

 

[SLittle]

I had a similar close call 20 yrs ago in my 69 mustang, twinkly lights in the road ahead, I thought "there's no fireflys in Arizona", locked up the brakes and slid up to half a dozen black cows, man was I lucky.



Another time outside of Flagstaff rounded a corner and had two elk butts in my windshield, the road was slick so I was going slow and they took off running but I was right on there heels for 20 feet or so.



I should have never sold that mustang, it helped me survive my college and partying years.



Scott

 

[Jff24Gordn]

Almost any animal hit by a car is ruined for eating

Ive had some deer that was killed out fo season. it ws still pretty good.

 

[GSchlegel]

When I was a kid on the farm, we had a Brown Swiss milk cow get out on the highway one night. She was hit by a VW van doing 65. The van was pritty much totaled. She lost one horn! We kept her around couple more years - she made lots of good milk.



In the late 70s I was landing at a small airport in North Carolina that was basically cut out of the forest when a deer walked out on the runway in front of me. I'd slowed down enough that there wasn't enough room to take off again and I was going too fast to stop before I got to it. I figured I had to get the deer to move off the runway. Airplanes don't have horns , the only noise I could think of was squealling tires so I stood on the brakes. At the last second (maybe 2 or 3) it heard me and ran off the runway. When I taxied in, the shop had a twin that had hit a deer the week before. The deer took out the left prop, engine and landing gear.



Gene

 

[WOWZY]

I noticed in this morning that the driver might have seen the steer before he hit it. There was 5ft. of skid marks in front of one of the pools of blood or maybe the force of the impact drove his feet on the brake.



GSchlegel, As long as you weren't hurt, I wouldn't have minded seeing what a propeller could do to a deer Just goose the throttle for Deer puret!! You could've bragged that you're the only man to have hit a deer with an airplane!



Now what deer accident story could top that!!

 

[Joe G.]

WOWZY,



The Arcata airport in Humboldt County, CA (it's in McKinleyville and is where you fly to get to Eureka) has a BAD deer problem! There have been several deer hit the last few years and some wrecked airplanes. The county got a grant from the FAA to build a tall chain link fence to keep them off the airport. Nobody has been killed yet, but there have been some injuries.

 

[LarryB]

Ok, Ok, since you guys asked. Ill tell it again



Friend of mine hit a fish in a supercub once at 2000ft in SE Alaska. Scared an eagle so bad the eagle dropped the salmon, the fish hit the wing putting a large dent in the leading edge. Talk about a freak accident. Try explaning fish guts on your plane to the insurance agent.

 

[Mark_Kendrick]

I had a Chevy Metro, my wife went hunting with it. One shot, One kill . She got her an 8pt buck and I got me a new truck!!!



You should have seen the look on the salesman's face when we went to trade in the metro on my 3500 ETH 4x4 QC

 

[Joe G.]

Larry,



How about explaining having your car roof crushed by rotten whale blubber?



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