Out of the Blue

Happy Valentine's Day!

There are many aspects of life one can only experience from behind the wheel of a car. One negative such experience that I am yet to experience is being responsible for any of the road kill that decorates our highways (unless you count insects, which are notoriously hard to avoid). This came close to changing two nights ago, as while driving along on a deserted road I found myself on a collision course with a doe. I came to a tire screeching stop leaving me practically face-to-face with Bambi, who had not moved from the spot where I first saw her (directly in my path). Of course, on this occasion I happened to be in MrsBlue's little car, rather than my own somewhat more substantial truck, so I have a feeling the car would have ended up worse for the encounter than the deer had it come to that. So I sat there staring at the beast. She blinked... I blinked. Repeat. No movement. More waiting. No movement. Around this time I started to get nervous, since I wasn't far past a blind turn, and was beginning to picture the carnage that would occur if someone rounded the corner behind me. I put on my hazards, and tried honking the horn. This had the opposite of the desired effect, as the spooked doe now seemed even more rooted to her spot, so I just had to wait it out. I'm sure that it was less than 30 seconds before she made her way off, but as you might imagine it seemed like an hour. Anyway, this whole experience makes it that much clearer why so many deer get hit... with the way their instincts work against them in these cases, I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often.

R.I.P.: Country Music Rebel Waylon Jennings Dead at 64. Legendary C&W artist, and the man who gave up his fateful airplane seat to the Big Bopper.

Link of the Day: Spellcasting 101: Don't Try This At Home. Thanks Zdim and Steve Jackson.
Story of the Day: The Jesus Action Figure … And Other Toy Stories. Thanks Jamie Fullerton.
Weird Science: Laser Diagnostics. Thanks Shane.

View : : :
28.
 
Another story
Feb 14, 2002, 15:49
28.
Another story Feb 14, 2002, 15:49
Feb 14, 2002, 15:49
 
Just be lucky it wasnt a moose blue. Those things are tall and heavy close to a ton at times. And when you hit them you take out their legs and they fall through the windshield. I have seen many a people killed by a accident from a moose. A funny story though. A friend of mine was moose hunting and didnt have any luck. So on the way back home, he nails this huge moose with his truck. Totaled his truck, but he was okay. But when he got out of the truck, he was so happy he got a moose. It was one of the funnier moments.

Date
Subject
Author
1.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
anon@198.103
6.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
anon@207.139
9.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
29.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
anon@68.39
11.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
14.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
anon@64.2
15.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
anon@216.54
16.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
13.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
anon@140.192
2.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
3.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
4.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
anon@217.82
5.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
anon@68.1
7.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
anon@32.100
10.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
34.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
anon@66.168
8.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
12.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
anon@141.154
17.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
anon@129.130
24.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
25.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
anon@209.98
26.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
   ha
31.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
   Re: Bambi
32.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
    Re: Bambi
anon@194.82
27.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
18.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
anon@209.86
19.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
20.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
21.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
anon@24.65
22.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
anon@64.81
30.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
anon@147.9
23.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
anon@63.23
 28.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
Another story
36.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
37.
Feb 16, 2002Feb 16 2002
anon@208.1
33.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002
35.
Feb 14, 2002Feb 14 2002