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RE: Nerd By Northwest #152 – “Speed Bumps”
I like how you base these on real experiences. You have lived an interesting life. It's bizarre that you ran over so many rabbits like that. I see a few around our country roads, but they seem happy to stay to the sides. I did hit a badger a while back and that made a mess of my car. I didn't even see it, but I found some hair. We also get pheasants who have zero road sense.
I've had bad luck with wildlife on the road. In addition to those three rabbits, I've hit two small birds (actually they flew into the side of the car), a deer, a moose, and some kind of hawk or falcon that hit my bumper so hard it stuck to the bumper and license plate like some macabre hood ornament...
I've had near misses with some small deer. A moose would be really scary, We just don't have much large wildlife. Funnily enough my badger incident was in a Hyundai. Did that bird make the dents?
A guy I knew hit a pheasant once and decided to take it home for dinner. Some way down the road it woke up...
Haha no... the dents on the hood were from the moose. And if the picture showed the passenger side, you'd see the dents from the deer.
Say what you will about those old Hyundais, but while mine lacked in power it made up for being able to take punishment like a champ and keep on runnin'...