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[WinterDeere]

I'm just remembering now, the time my brother hit an elk in his Jeep Wrangler. Telluride Colorado, he comes over the crest of a hill in the snow, and there's an elk standing in the middle of the road. He hit the brakes, and did a slow slide into the elk, and hit it probably doing 10 mph.

The elk stumbled back a bit never losing its footing, looked at him like "why'd you hit me, you a$$?", and trotted off into the woods.

So, my brother puts the Wrangler back in gear, starts driving, and hears this rubbing noise coming from the front right. So he gets out to check, and his front bumper is folded back hard against the tire. The elk fared better than his Jeep!

 

[Renze]

I had a colleague who had an 81 chrysler... dont remember, it was **** brown and the 5.9 put out only 180hp he said.

Anyways, he saw a hare, heard a thunk, got out, walked around and saw nothing. Went home with friends, drank one last beer at home after a night out with friends. When the first went home, the automatic sensor light at the house switched on. Then he saw a hare hung up with its head in the grille right under the bumper, feet dragging the street...

 

[goeduck]

I'm just remembering now, the time my brother hit an elk in his Jeep Wrangler. Telluride Colorado, he comes over the crest of a hill in the snow, and there's an elk standing in the middle of the road. He hit the brakes, and did a slow slide into the elk, and hit it probably doing 10 mph.

The elk stumbled back a bit never losing its footing, looked at him like "why'd you hit me, you a$$?", and trotted off into the woods.

So, my brother puts the Wrangler back in gear, starts driving, and hears this rubbing noise coming from the front right. So he gets out to check, and his front bumper is folded back hard against the tire. The elk fared better than his Jeep!

Elk are so dang tall, it would probably end up in the cab if he was going much faster. But then we have the Roosevelt elk out here, a fair bit larger and taller than they are back your way.

 

[Renze]

Elk are so dang tall, it would probably end up in the cab if he was going much faster.

Ah yes, you guys have elk and deer.

We have roes and deer. Roes being like pygmee goats on long legs. Our deer subspecies is smaller too, than the North American Wapiti deer...

Roes usually just cost you a headlight or grille. Deer can end up in the rear seat if hit hard enough.

 

[Renze]

Newish cars are designed to reduce pedestrian fatalities.

Benz designed their three spoke star hood ornament used in the 50s to 80s to fold back flat easily, to prevent pedestrian injuries.

 

[WinterDeere]

We have roes and deer. Roes being like pygmee goats on long legs. Our deer subspecies is smaller too, than the North American Wapiti deer...

Google can be a misleading little devil, as searches of deer weight in Germany keep turning up 300 lb. numbers for mature stag. But every deer I ever saw in Germany was tiny, like the size of our fawns at full maturity, probably under 80 lb.

Across PA bucks average around 120 - 130 lb. field dressed, meaning roughly 150-160 lb. live weight. But reported live weights of 200 - 250 lb. are not uncommon, and in traveling the state a lot over the years, the deer I see in the northern Philly 'burbs up thru the Poconos seem to trend toward the larger end of the scale.

 

[Rockbadchild]

hey you can’t park there!!

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I told ya
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I went by yesterday and it was frozen over and the haul truck is still there, I would assume at this point it will stay there until spring .

 

[bmaverick]

 

[ptsg]

Oversized load right here.

 

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Oversized load right here.

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Guessing that that pipe being corrugated, it may flex enough that the windows don't get knocked out when they make a turn in an intersection