Great American Road Trip: More road kill woes and how to clean a car

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7-15-2008 @ 4:30PM

Baron said...

Well, I disagree, many times the animals are that "dumb", which I say in quotes because I think they are just really confused and don't know what to do in the situation, rather than any sense of how dumb or smart they are. I've hit a few things, some of them looking straight at me while they walk/run out into the road. I've spun my car around twice avoiding deer that watched me from the side of the road, as I slowed and watched them and then they run in front of the car. You really want to watch out for them b/c they can certainly come through the window and hurt/kill you.

The only really crazy day of hitting things would be a few years back when I was working on a farm about 21 miles from my house. I drove my old truck most days and I never hit anything, until one day. It must have been something in the air or the time of day/year, but in one 21 mile drive on a dirt road, I hit 7 birds. Most were starlings, a few were blackbirds. Two of them actually hit the antenna on the car and pooffed into feathers.

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