While working in the Wyoming oil fields I hit an antelope with the water truck / snow plow I was driving at the time. We butchered it and tried to eat it but we had already shot a few antelope in South Dakota a month or so earlier. That Wyoming antelope was nasty by comparison as it tasted like sage brush, the South Dakota antelope on the other hand were pretty much grass and grain fed and tasted excellent.

Funny you should bring this up.

So last night around 10:00 pm I was driving home from my softball game. It’s about a 15 minute drive through some dimly light back roads. I see a quick flash in my headlights of something small bolting into the road - FUMP. I hope that was only a squirrel because if it was a skunk, that will stink in more ways than one.

A couple more miles down the road, I see the flashing blues in my rear view mirror. Ahh, ****. I pull over, and the cop comes up to the car, “License and registration please.”

I hand it over and he walks back the cruiser to, I guess, run my plates and stuff. Then he comes back to my window and asks “Do you know why I pulled you over?”

“No, I wasn’t speeding. Do I have a tail light out or something?”

“No,” he says, “Did you realize you hit a cat back there?”

“Nope, I thought it was a squirrel or a skunk or something.” (I’m thinking to myself, and your point is?)

“We’ll in MA if you hit a domesticated animal, it is the driver’s duty to attempt to find the owner and report it” he tells me. (you got to be sh—ting me). “I won’t ticket you as long as you go back and make an attempt to find the owner of the cat.” No f-ing way, this really ain’t happening. I’m originally from WI and if you hit a cat, you hit a cat.

So I do a U-turn and drive back to the carcass with the cop on my tail. I pick the thing up off the road and start going door to door to try to find the owner with the cop behind me about 10 paces. Let me tell you, people are none too thrilled to have a stranger ringing their doorbell at 10:00 at night holding a dead cat.

I get to about the 4th door and before I can say anything this little old lady in her nightie screams and starts crying (guess I found the owner). I apologize and try to explain the situation to her but she just crying and crying... What the hell do I do now? I look at the cop and he just kinda shrugs.

This is where it really gets trippy. I’m an animal lover with a cat and a dog at home so I feel for the lady. Not really knowing what to say or do, I reach into my pocket and pull out any money I had, around $28 and hand it to the lady. “I’m really sorry, I don’t know what to do but this is all I have with me, please take it.”

No sooner does she take the money from me, the cop shoves me out of the way, cuffs the lady and starts hauling her to the cruiser. “What’s going on here?” I ask the cop.

The cop says to me “You only hit a cat, I’m taking this lady in for selling ****.”

Thanks for starting my day with a laugh Bucky.

Some of you here are real lousy drivers... Be careful 11,000 people die in US from having accidents with deer.

Keep your eye on things that might suddenly come up on you and I will keep an eye on you

I ran over a beer the other day. I had to cry myself to sleep that night. Poor fella.

#24...

and this is why deer shouldn't drive.

Some of these stories seem a tad far fetched not saying they didn't happen but taking roadkill home to grill is wierd unless you just hit it in the head.This did happen to a friend I still think it is a tad odd. I would have to imagine the meat is so bruised up and soaked with blood it wouldn't be any good. But I guess I am not sure about that since I am not in the habit of taking home things I smack on the road. As for cows my god people watch out you are all very lucky you didn't die. Don't try that stuff in a small car or you will be on the bad end of it I can assure you. My buddy hit a cow with his honda civic and man he is in very bad shape to say the least. Massive reconsturction of the face and some brain damage. He will never be the same. So by God people please avoid cows and animals upwards wieght wise of armadillos at all costs. I realize some can't be avoided but don't think just because your in a vehicle your safe in the least. Yes better than us bikers but still in danger.

(Interesting thread)

My brother swerved away from hitting a dog and his camaro rolled 2- 3 times.

All 5 marines ended up hospitalized (none seriously).

I will never swerve.

Which reminds me of the time in DC when a black guy jumped out into the street & slipped on the cobblestones.

He was laying on his back with his leg raised in the air as if to kick my car away when I miraculously stopped my car within inches.

He and I laughed at the absurdity of it all.

# 17, that was 6 vans ago.

Eating road kill deer is dicey at best. The **** etc gets sqished out of were it started and ruins most of the meat.

I hit a partridge once and ate it. We ripped the breasts out (no knife needed) and wrapped them in plastic that was wrapped around the roll of carpet we were hauling. When we got to the job sight we found a make shift pan and used the plumber's tourch to fry the breasts. Maybe the best 1 bite of food I ever had.

squirrel a la road

Nope. No swerving.

If it's dumb enough to walk, run or fly out in front of me, its genes deserve to be stricken from the pool.

I hit a rather LARGE jackrabbit in Texas... I had rabbit guts and fur all over the right front wheel well. Had to clean it with a pressure washer.

Nailed a dog on the freeway too... again, in Texas... it was walking across the grass median and barely missed being hit by the car in front of me as it walked onto the road. I had a car behind me and besdie me, so I had no option but to keep going. When the car in front barely missed him, he pulled up so I thought he was going to stop... nope. He walked out in front of me and I nailed him in the head and shoulder with the left front bumper.

My wife was asleep at the time and she pops up and says "What was that?"

Nothing, honey... just hit a bump.

Sorry didn't mean to imply a swerve is the correct method to avoid roadkill. Just trying to say hitting large animals can kill you and not just dent your car.

Like Andy I have taken deer from the road. The bruised meet gest tossed but if they get hit be a small car most of the meat is good. 18 wheeler don't bother stopping.

Biggest animal I ever hit was a raccoon. Had a goose fly into my truck just outside of Pocahontas AR. Dented the side panel and killed the goose. I left him lay for my AR brethern.

Was that you? He wasn't dead. My wife and I nursed him for the better part of a year before he could gimp around. We call him Leonard, he lives with us and does my taxes. He's ok, but you gotta be careful walking around in your fruit-of-the-looms, he'll cold nose you if you bend over. Tuck

When I was a REAL ass, a few friends of mine and I had a points system for running over animals.

Small Bird 1 pt.

Rabbits & Big Birds 2.

Cats 3.

Dogs 4.

Deer 10

One of my buddies effectively ended the competition when he hit his third deer in two years.

I feel bad about the dogs. Someone should have shot me during the mid 80's. I had absolutely no redeeming value as a human.

Not that I'm a prize now or anything but...

I ran over a big old frog with the

lawn mower the other day.

All i heared was a thump and a big

leg came flyin out.

mmmmmmm frogs legs

Bill