holy crap! i cant believe there are no marks on the bumper or grille.
anyway, i hit a deer about the third week in july this year.
I was driving back from this girl's place after saying "wow i hope i dont hit a deer on the way home hahahah" around 10 PM. It wasnt that horrible dusk time that brings all the deer out, but much later, so i figured i was okay.
I was driving along at about 110 kph when i saw a doe jump out in front of me about a hundred yards down the highway. I let off the gas and covered the brake.
It gets off the road so i think i am out of the frying pan...then all of a sudden i am in the fire. Another MUCH larger doe is now directly in front of my car about 150 feet out. (going about 80 kph at this point.)
I slam my foot on the brake and get as far below the dash as possible. (my car has that fancy ETS system so i know it will go straight and i dont have to look
)
I end up hitting this 2 year old doe right in the ass.
I back up down the highway and look for blood or body parts on the road, but i dont see anything. So i grab the old 4 D cell maglite that i keep beside my seat and go hunting.
I look aroud for about 5 minutes 'till i find the poor girl in the ditch. Her H bone is obviously broken but the rest of her is fine. She is making these god-awful sounds. At this point i puke (dont know if it was shock or not.)
So i haul arse back to the nearest gas station and get the dude to call the RCMP. I would have done it myself, but i was shaking a bit too much. I explain what happened to the receptionist lady and i requested that an officer come out to put down the deer.
She then asks me if my car was damaged. I told her i dont know and i dont really care.
She then tells me that as long as the deer isnt on the road it isnt a problem. I lose it and yell "ma'am this deer has been fatally injured but is not dead.......IT IS A PROBLEM."
The woman then tells me that she can't locate an officer to come take care of the deer. I tell her that it is "a whoopee good thing i wasnt hurt, because if that was the case i guess i would be F*cked" Then i hung up.
I then called the Moose Jaw City Police and the girls there totally freaked out. They were genuinely concerned and wanted to help, but the call was out of their juristiction. They told me they would get ahold of a conservation officer and call me back asap. They asked if i could stay at the gas station, and of course i obliged.
They called back in about 5 minutes and told me a C.O. was on the way and asked if i could go wait by the deer. Of course i agreed.
I waited by that dieing deer for 2 and a half hours.....and no one showed up. I wasnt going to try to kill the deer myself, as i have heard many a horror story of people getting mauled by injured animals. Finally i had to leave as it was about 2 in the morning and i was getting extremely tired. I left with the deer still alive but wounded...it was a hard thing to do.
Long story short...next time i will say i was drinking heavily, at least that way i would get some help. "oh yes i have been drinking..water...all night"
