Oct 29 2007
Bambi Visits The Morgue
We got back to Austin safe and sound this evening. However, we did encounter an unexpected surprise: A deer decided to t-bone our car. Evelyn was looking over to me and suddenly sees a deer heading right for the car. I see a flash out of the corner of my eye, and a huge series of thumps along the left side of the car. I say “Don’t tell me we just hit a deer….” Evelyn confirms. “Ah, shit.” (We had just been talking about how dangerous this one stretch of road was–I had seen 4 dead deer on the way out.)
So, my door barely opens, and the whole left side is screwed up. The front-left panel, driver door, driver passenger door, and rear-left panel are toast. Plastic rubbing against the tires, body parts flapping in the wind. Driveable, but a bit of a mess. No blood, though, which is odd. Evelyn says the deer got away, though I thought I saw it in the road.
I’m thinking of getting a little silhouette of a deer and sticking it to the side of the car, just like the “number of kills” they put in the side of fighter planes. I’ll tell you one thing, after that experience, I feel like hunting. Gimmie my mini-14, I’m out to blow Bambi’s brains out! Fucking deer.
4 Responses to “Bambi Visits The Morgue”
BAMBI attacked you guys? I’m glad you and Eve are find. That is a little scary though.
Yea, the deer ran into us. It freaked out Evelyn, since she was looking over to me and saw the deer running right toward the drivers door (I was driving). I didn’t see a thing, and just heard the thudding as the thing slammed into the whole left side of the car. No broken glass or anything–I think it was Evelyn’s most pleasant car accident!
Deers mover far faster than any human being. That deer ran so fast that it didn’t give me
a change to say the next word before it impacted the driver’s side. That image of the deer coming to us and hitting us keeps playing in my mind. I keep seeing his eyes. I’m grateful that the deer didn’t get infront of us. Now, that would’ve have been a very different ending.
Is it hunting season? Deer will move more then and be less careful. I had a deer suicide on my back side bumper (thank god, no damage, bumpers are good for that) in WV during hunting season. The deer sticker is a good idea. I’d never killed even one animal until one summer in WV, where all of these critters suicided: a few squirrels, a BIRD, the deer, etc etc. I swear I wasn’t aiming for them. Justin wanted to put little animal stickers on the car denoting each kill, er, suicide.