Yup. Here is the data... http://www.statefarm.com/aboutus/_press ... -again.asp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;joatmon wrote:that time of year again ...
My wife just got t-boned by a deer in her brand new car, 6000 miles on it. Minor dents and creases, but now i have to do body work and spray paint before the deep freeze. I swear she hits one every year, and like you this deer hit her. Crazy dumb dumbs.joatmon wrote:This time, however, I didn't hit the deer, it hit me. I was going 50 mph,and the thing hit the side of my Vibe, the leading edge of the rear passenger wheel well. Sucker had to have timed it just right. As far as I can tell, no damage to the Vibe.
Flip-Side wrote:My wife just got t-boned by a deer in her brand new car, 6000 miles on it. Minor dents and creases, but now i have to do body work and spray paint before the deep freeze. I swear she hits one every year, and like you this deer hit her. Crazy dumb dumbs.joatmon wrote:This time, however, I didn't hit the deer, it hit me. I was going 50 mph,and the thing hit the side of my Vibe, the leading edge of the rear passenger wheel well. Sucker had to have timed it just right. As far as I can tell, no damage to the Vibe.
Very true, I was on a backroad the other day and came around a bend to see a pickup on the opposite side of the road on the shoulder, he flashed his highbeams at me twice and i figured something was up. Sure enough as i slowed to a stop, one deer bolted right in front of me, I waited, as did the truck, and about 5 more deer came running across the road between us. If you see one deer, assume there are more with it!vibrologist wrote: They move in groups (dens). They will send out a vanguard to check if the open area (road) is safe. As animals that rather flee than fight they developed a strategy of head fakes. You think you could go just around the rear and that dear turns 180 degrees and takes out your headlight. Quite possibly the deer wanted to protect the den by luring you away. It looks stupid but it has been only about 100 years that they had to deal with that new kind of "animal" that is the motor car. They had 10000 to 20000 years to adapt to four legged predators.
I observed the deer in our area when walking the dog. I let him off the leash and he enjoys making them run. When he gets close enough and speeds up two deer that stand close to each other will cross their ways and run in opposite directions. That confuses the predator and make him decide which one to follow. As a result both get away and the rest of the den was never in danger.
I see deer in the industrial park where I work. They are usually out in the morning, going back to their "den". There are a TON of them in my sub division now since the creek behind our house was cleaned out for water run off easements. As more and more young deer are born in urban areas, the less they fear people and cars. These beauties were in my neighbor's yard at 5:30pm. I was maybe 20 feet from them and I had my two dogs with me. The deer could not have cared less. They later sauntered across the road to another yard and did not care about the approaching cars.
My neighbor, James, has a pretty nice vehicle set up. That's his wife's Crosstrek. He drives a three year old GTI. He also built up a '38 Ford pickup that he stuck a 302 cid in. The "old" Ford is what stays in their garage. They are good people too.
Wow, no kidding. I didn't think I was going to make it out of Davis, WV alive ! My dad and I used to string them up in our garage as the racoons circled around us. We'd then put the heads (face up) at the top of the garbage can to get a good laugh when the garbage men would lift up the lid and jump 6 feet. Good times.KingKrab65 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 3:30 am My wife's family is mostly in WV, in the southern part near Beckley. My wife's father lived on top of a mountain in Pax. We have been up their scores of times but I can honestly say that I have not had a deer encounter there.
I've seen that video probably a dozen times now over the last week, and never once realized it was a Vibe the deer jumped over. Btw, you should post this in the "Vibes in the news" thread.joatmon wrote: ↑Sun Nov 12, 2023 8:11 am apparently deer are afraid of Vibes, this article has a video of a deer leaping clean over a parked vibe
https://gmauthority.com/blog/2023/11/de ... ado-video/