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Holy smokes - are you OK?
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Aye Harvey its the aftermath of something like that.
Never mind the hassle of the paperwork you are still here and breathing!
I hit one at 70 m.p.h back in '89 and even driving home last night from a stamp auction I was conscious of looking out for deer.
Have a couple of whiskies, relax and just think somebody up there didn't want you, (just yet).
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06:33:48pm
Not much of a drinker, but not a bad idea. I'm relaxing by sitting in front of the computer watching some of the first round of the UK Snooker Championship. I'm a big Ronnie O'Sullivan fan, but am watching Neil Robertson from "Down Unda'" do his thing. I used to play a bit when I was a bit younger - great fun, but now "I just watch"!!
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I was about to watch the American Football highlights (Baltimore @ LA Rams) but my satellite box just froze!! Everything has to be switched off and re-booted!!
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06:55:42pm
Weird! We have a person from Great Britain watching American Football and a person from Canada watching snooker. Older Canadians like me got hooked on snooker because back in the day we had about 5 Canadians on tour, even winning major tournaments. Cliff Thorburn was the first non Brit to win the world title!
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I know what happened to the one i hit..it laid in someones driveway for 2 or 3 days. Deer hunting is not as popular as when i was young..today its death by vehicle.
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In this area years ago if someone hit a deer the meat was taken to the local "poor farm" - yes it was called that years ago and some people lived almost all their entire life there. In Queen's County Nova Scotia I remember visiting the place once in the early 1970's. There was one older lady who spent the whole day in her room talking to her dolls. Come to think of it I spend a good part of the day in the house talking to my cats. Maybe things change, but somehow stay the same!
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Years ago I had been waiting weeks for a new replacement company vehicle. It arrived and I was on the NY State Thruway. A herd of deer was grazing on the medium strip of land. I came to a complete stop and a deer crashed into the left front side 
of the car. I immediately called the the company Purchasing Agent to report it. He cut me off by saying "Your company car should arrive any day." What could I say, except, "It's already been destroyed."
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"I'm relaxing by sitting in front of the computer watching some of the first round of the UK Snooker Championship"
Hi Harvey:
It's been many years since I've even heard anyone mention snooker. I grew up in a small town in Iowa and there were a couple of snooker tables in the local pool halls, but I haven't seen a table in in the U.S. in years. Maybe I don't know where to look!
Good to know that it still being played somewhere.
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Glad you weren’t hurt, Harvey. Stay away from those dangerous stamps!
My wife, Susan, and I have been there too, in the early 70s, just outside Painted Post, NY, at night. Susan was driving our Valiant at normal freeway speed when a deer suddenly leaped onto the highway just a few feet ahead of us. The was no time to hit the brakes. We hit the poor thing, which went flying down the highway on its knees with a shocked look on its face.
A New York State trooper soon showed up. He shot the terribly injured deer and arranged towing for us. The impact with the deer destroyed the grill, pushed the fan into the radiator, and buckled the hood so it wouldn’t close. The trooper told us that the deer’s carcass would be butchered and the venison taken to a nearby prison.
Fortunately, we were on our way to Painted Post to visit my paternal aunt and uncle, so we didn’t have ant hotel expenses. A mechanic got the car back in working condition, and we drove back home to Ottawa with the hood tied down with wire.
The same Valiant was later involved in another highway incident. We were waiting to make a left turn onto a highway near our home in Prince George, BC when one of my former students came riding up the side of the highway on his bike, to our left, puffing on a cigarette, one hand on the handlebars, relaxed as can be, and not paying the slightest attention to “road conditions,” one of which was the blue Valiant right in front of him. He hit our car just behind the left front wheel. The bike came to a very sudden stop and launched him, sprawling, onto the hood of the Valiant, with him face, looking very surprised, just inches from mine through the windshield. Sheepishly —very sheepishly — he slid to the ground, recovered his bicycle, and pointedly did not look at me again. We turned onto the highway and he continued his trip, walking; the Valiant wasn’t even scratched, but the front wheel of his bike was headed for the bike scrapyard.
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When I was in high school and still learning how to drive I had a few problems with mailboxes jumping out in front of my VW bug early in the morning on the way to school out on the foggy (or icy) country roads of SW Michigan. I managed to avoid all but one which didn’t do much damage to the bug, but the carcass of the mailbox lay strewn all across the road. Poor thing never had a chance.
(I left a note in the box offering to pay.)
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When my oldest was a very little girl, we would go deer hunting in the Oakland Hills at night.
I would cut the headlights, she'd hang a flashlight out the window, and we'd crawl along.
Lots of good clean fun, especially with the excitement of being out after dark.
One night, after we moved to Dallas, she asked to go deer hunting, and broke her daddy's heart.
Nothing to do but explain that we could not do that any more ... no nearby deer.
I hope the years of keeping all those laying hens made up for it.
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Lotsa deer near us and we've been fortunate not to hit one... knock on wood!
I did tell my wife that if she does hit one and it winds up dead, to claim it. I'll have it taken to the local deer renderer and at least that deer will pay part of it's debt with meat!
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03:37:34pm
Life might be much less complicated
if they moved those "Deer Crossing"
signs to a large well lit intersection
where there is a working stoplight.
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Bwahahaha Charlie! 
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All this talk about deer makes me wonder how the new Tesla pickup would hold up to hitting one. Obviously they still need to work out issues with the "unbreakable" glass windows.
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There weren't any deer where i grew up. Only someone completely blind (self induced or otherwise) could run into a caribou herd... so that left the MOOSE. If you ran into a moose and you talked about it later you came out pretty well.... That being said my parents managed to run into a cow.... Let me tell you about Johnny's nightclub at the head of Salmonier...
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Speaking of moose.
When I worked in Canada for the Hudsons Bay Co we used to get our bread delivered once a week. The truck would arrive around lunchtime, we would have lunch with the driver then unload. One week he didn't turn up until 8 pm.
He had been coming up the 120 mile dirt road and a moose had come out the bush, he slammed on the brakes, grabbed his rifle, opened the side window and shot the moose dead. He then had to wait three hours before another road user came along. (it was not a busy road). They helped him take half the bread out the truck and then drag the moose into his truck.
Yes we unloaded the remaining bread then went with him down the road and got the rest of the bread that he had left in the bush. We got finished at 1 am!!
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Why did he shoot the moose? Did he hit it and it was injured? Or was it moose season bread be damned LoL!
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It was moose season!!
This was the 1970's when you had to paint "COW" on your cattle to avoid them being shot during moose season!!
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On my way to my mother's in rural Alabama with the family driving home for Christmas as we got to within about 400 yards of her home we spotted several deer on the side of the road and virtually stopped the van at which point a deer literally walked into the side of the van, bounced off, stood up, and walked away. Deer can bring new meaning to the term dumb animals!
She would throw corn out in the back yard for the deer and there could be as many as fifteen or so show up in the morning in later years. Plus she had hummingbird feeders and we once saw ten hummingbirds at the feeders.
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When I go to places to collect or exchange stamps, places that I am not familiar with, I always try to be careful when driving.
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Careful Yes.
But you can be driving along minding your own business being careful then some idiot going too fast hits you either from the back, the front or the side.
I was stopped at a junction when I was hit head on. I could not move out the way so in a seconds warning all I could do was to relax the body before the impact. I walked away with a small bruise on my knee. My passengers were not so lucky, a broken collar bone for one and a broken leg for the other.
Of course the idiot was uninjured and uninsured.
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12:08:23pm
I agree with Ian, sometimes there is nothing you can do. I am a careful driver, the deer jumped right in front of me leaving me no time to react. I just heard from the insurance appraiser, he gave up after $16 000 damages, the car is a write off! And as far as I can tell the deer walked (or limped) away. He was nowhere in the road or ditches. Those animals are real tough!!!
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Always loved this driving clip from Smith and Jones, first part of video, classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDn46KL3TmM
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Yeah I can also agree with that, sometimes being careful is not enough. That's why most of the time I just go online and visit https://wheretobuystamps.online/ to see if there's anyone near me selling stamps that I can collect.
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11:33:21am
It should be a good year around here for hunters. I just took my rental car into Halifax for a bit of shopping and saw three deer on the side of the road. I think I'm going to really try to cut down on driving at dusk and at night for a while!
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Harvey, consider yourself lucky. Here you will not hit deer. You hit moose.
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The deer are plentiful here in southern New Brunswick too, just a few hours drive from Harvey. Last sprint my son hit a deer on the highway with his truck. Several thousand in damage. While his truck was in the shop, my wife took him 10 miles down the road to work, dropped him off and started home. About 15 seconds later a deer jumped out of the ditch into the side of her car. She turned her head in time to see its face sliding down the side window with a surprised look in its eye. Another few thousand damage.
You never know what a day brings.Brian
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This deer caused a fatality.
https://www.chrisd.ca/2019/12/07/neepawa-deer-collision-highway-5-woman-killed/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ChrisDManitoba+%28ChrisD.ca+%C2%BB+Manitoba%29
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I keep my eyes wide open all the time for new friends - heres a good pair from my snowy days ...
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Glad that you are ok! I find that the most dangerous part of stamp collecting is my wife catching me bringing my most recent purchases into the house!
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04:44:31pm
My last update! I finally got to return the rental of the last three weeks - a Dodge Minivan that I absolutely hated - and got to pick up my new 2020 Toyota Yaris. I think I'll really like the car as long as I can stay away from deer on the highway. One problem, new cars do not come equipped with CD players (an out-of-date technology) and I love to listen to books on CD as I drive. There's not even the required place to have one wired in. I'll either have to go without or buy a portable that plugs into the place where the cigarette lighter used to be. I wonder if you can still have 8-tracks installed????
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04:48:05pm
Rip your CD's to a flash (thumb) drive and plug it into the USB port in the radio. I'm sure it has one.
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Must be that configuration - most vehicles we looked at had cd and dvd players not to mention every other type of techy add on they could stick in there. Our pathfinder even speaks japanese 
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In a slightly different tone....
Do you hear stories about people going to Las Vegas and blowing all their money on stamps???
Remember stamp responsibly....
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"Do you hear stories about people going to Las Vegas and blowing all their money on stamps???"
Stamp collecting is for people who want to blow money but do not have enough to do it in Las Vegas style. Result is about the same, but impacts are relatively smaller.
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I went to Omaha and blew all my money on stamps...
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12:35:43pm
I'm not saying from who, but I bought an incredible bunch of stamps from a seller about a month ago and had to be careful with my account for a while. Great stamps and no regrets and I would definitely do it again!!
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Harvey I am very happy you were not hurt. Here's a little of deer and philately...
Talk about deer and philately: Last night TCM (Turner Classic Movies) featured The Yearling. The story takes place in wilderness Florida in the late 1800s. Pa Baxter (Gregory Peck) shoots a doe after he was bitten by a venomous snake in order to take the heart and bladder to save his life. His son Jodi (child actor Claude Jarman, Jr.) guts the deer. Jodi discovers a fawn behind the brush and takes it home. Cares for it. The fawn is named Flag. Ma Baxter (Jane Wyman) doesn't like the animal. The fawn grows up and begins to destroy the crops. Pa Baxter had enough and tells Jodi, "Son, do you understand we need the crops to survive?" Jodi understands. He takes responsibility for building a fence and planting the new crop while Pa Baxter recuperates from some injury he suffered while farming (this is a story!). The fawn returns, jumps the fence and eats the crops, again. Pa Baxter commands Jodi to take Flag to the woods, tie it, and shoot it. Jodi cries out sobbing in total disbelief, "Pa! Oh, Pa. Pa. Pa." The child takes the fawn to the woods, and concocts to let it go. Jodi didn't have the heart to shoot the animal he had cared for a long time. The fawn comes back and eats the crops again. Ma Baxter takes a double-barrel shotgun and shoots the fawn, wounding it. Pa Baxter orders Jodi to shoot Flag and put it out of its misery. The child complies reluctantly. Then runs away from home...
The Yearling author.
Albania hunts deer! and Deer crossing Autobahn, Germany
Take care and to all a good night!!!
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26 Nov 2019
05:32:07pm
Hi all, thought I should share my little story. I went out last night to meet my stamp dealer and pick up my bi-weekly stamp order, two really nice US stamps and two Canal Zone. On the way home I hit head on the biggest f***ing deer I have ever seen, demolished the front of my new car. I'm not sure what happened to the deer, I think it walked away. I phoned a friend to come and pick me up and spent all of last night and most of today talking to insurance agents, car rental agencies and the local police to fill out an accident report. I suppose I should be thankful I wasn't hurt, but there is one very sore deer walking around out there somewhere!!! STAMP COLLECTING IS DANGEROUS!
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Holy smokes - are you OK?
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06:29:25pm
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Aye Harvey its the aftermath of something like that.
Never mind the hassle of the paperwork you are still here and breathing!
I hit one at 70 m.p.h back in '89 and even driving home last night from a stamp auction I was conscious of looking out for deer.
Have a couple of whiskies, relax and just think somebody up there didn't want you, (just yet).
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26 Nov 2019
06:33:48pm
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Not much of a drinker, but not a bad idea. I'm relaxing by sitting in front of the computer watching some of the first round of the UK Snooker Championship. I'm a big Ronnie O'Sullivan fan, but am watching Neil Robertson from "Down Unda'" do his thing. I used to play a bit when I was a bit younger - great fun, but now "I just watch"!!
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06:41:30pm
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I was about to watch the American Football highlights (Baltimore @ LA Rams) but my satellite box just froze!! Everything has to be switched off and re-booted!!
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26 Nov 2019
06:55:42pm
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Weird! We have a person from Great Britain watching American Football and a person from Canada watching snooker. Older Canadians like me got hooked on snooker because back in the day we had about 5 Canadians on tour, even winning major tournaments. Cliff Thorburn was the first non Brit to win the world title!
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I know what happened to the one i hit..it laid in someones driveway for 2 or 3 days. Deer hunting is not as popular as when i was young..today its death by vehicle.
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26 Nov 2019
07:53:07pm
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In this area years ago if someone hit a deer the meat was taken to the local "poor farm" - yes it was called that years ago and some people lived almost all their entire life there. In Queen's County Nova Scotia I remember visiting the place once in the early 1970's. There was one older lady who spent the whole day in her room talking to her dolls. Come to think of it I spend a good part of the day in the house talking to my cats. Maybe things change, but somehow stay the same!
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Years ago I had been waiting weeks for a new replacement company vehicle. It arrived and I was on the NY State Thruway. A herd of deer was grazing on the medium strip of land. I came to a complete stop and a deer crashed into the left front side of the car. I immediately called the the company Purchasing Agent to report it. He cut me off by saying "Your company car should arrive any day." What could I say, except, "It's already been destroyed."
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"I'm relaxing by sitting in front of the computer watching some of the first round of the UK Snooker Championship"
Hi Harvey:
It's been many years since I've even heard anyone mention snooker. I grew up in a small town in Iowa and there were a couple of snooker tables in the local pool halls, but I haven't seen a table in in the U.S. in years. Maybe I don't know where to look!
Good to know that it still being played somewhere.
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Glad you weren’t hurt, Harvey. Stay away from those dangerous stamps!
My wife, Susan, and I have been there too, in the early 70s, just outside Painted Post, NY, at night. Susan was driving our Valiant at normal freeway speed when a deer suddenly leaped onto the highway just a few feet ahead of us. The was no time to hit the brakes. We hit the poor thing, which went flying down the highway on its knees with a shocked look on its face.
A New York State trooper soon showed up. He shot the terribly injured deer and arranged towing for us. The impact with the deer destroyed the grill, pushed the fan into the radiator, and buckled the hood so it wouldn’t close. The trooper told us that the deer’s carcass would be butchered and the venison taken to a nearby prison.
Fortunately, we were on our way to Painted Post to visit my paternal aunt and uncle, so we didn’t have ant hotel expenses. A mechanic got the car back in working condition, and we drove back home to Ottawa with the hood tied down with wire.
The same Valiant was later involved in another highway incident. We were waiting to make a left turn onto a highway near our home in Prince George, BC when one of my former students came riding up the side of the highway on his bike, to our left, puffing on a cigarette, one hand on the handlebars, relaxed as can be, and not paying the slightest attention to “road conditions,” one of which was the blue Valiant right in front of him. He hit our car just behind the left front wheel. The bike came to a very sudden stop and launched him, sprawling, onto the hood of the Valiant, with him face, looking very surprised, just inches from mine through the windshield. Sheepishly —very sheepishly — he slid to the ground, recovered his bicycle, and pointedly did not look at me again. We turned onto the highway and he continued his trip, walking; the Valiant wasn’t even scratched, but the front wheel of his bike was headed for the bike scrapyard.
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When I was in high school and still learning how to drive I had a few problems with mailboxes jumping out in front of my VW bug early in the morning on the way to school out on the foggy (or icy) country roads of SW Michigan. I managed to avoid all but one which didn’t do much damage to the bug, but the carcass of the mailbox lay strewn all across the road. Poor thing never had a chance.
(I left a note in the box offering to pay.)
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When my oldest was a very little girl, we would go deer hunting in the Oakland Hills at night.
I would cut the headlights, she'd hang a flashlight out the window, and we'd crawl along.
Lots of good clean fun, especially with the excitement of being out after dark.
One night, after we moved to Dallas, she asked to go deer hunting, and broke her daddy's heart.
Nothing to do but explain that we could not do that any more ... no nearby deer.
I hope the years of keeping all those laying hens made up for it.
Cheers,
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Lotsa deer near us and we've been fortunate not to hit one... knock on wood!
I did tell my wife that if she does hit one and it winds up dead, to claim it. I'll have it taken to the local deer renderer and at least that deer will pay part of it's debt with meat!
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27 Nov 2019
03:37:34pm
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Life might be much less complicated
if they moved those "Deer Crossing"
signs to a large well lit intersection
where there is a working stoplight.
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Bwahahaha Charlie!
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All this talk about deer makes me wonder how the new Tesla pickup would hold up to hitting one. Obviously they still need to work out issues with the "unbreakable" glass windows.
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There weren't any deer where i grew up. Only someone completely blind (self induced or otherwise) could run into a caribou herd... so that left the MOOSE. If you ran into a moose and you talked about it later you came out pretty well.... That being said my parents managed to run into a cow.... Let me tell you about Johnny's nightclub at the head of Salmonier...
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Speaking of moose.
When I worked in Canada for the Hudsons Bay Co we used to get our bread delivered once a week. The truck would arrive around lunchtime, we would have lunch with the driver then unload. One week he didn't turn up until 8 pm.
He had been coming up the 120 mile dirt road and a moose had come out the bush, he slammed on the brakes, grabbed his rifle, opened the side window and shot the moose dead. He then had to wait three hours before another road user came along. (it was not a busy road). They helped him take half the bread out the truck and then drag the moose into his truck.
Yes we unloaded the remaining bread then went with him down the road and got the rest of the bread that he had left in the bush. We got finished at 1 am!!
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Why did he shoot the moose? Did he hit it and it was injured? Or was it moose season bread be damned LoL!
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It was moose season!!
This was the 1970's when you had to paint "COW" on your cattle to avoid them being shot during moose season!!
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On my way to my mother's in rural Alabama with the family driving home for Christmas as we got to within about 400 yards of her home we spotted several deer on the side of the road and virtually stopped the van at which point a deer literally walked into the side of the van, bounced off, stood up, and walked away. Deer can bring new meaning to the term dumb animals!
She would throw corn out in the back yard for the deer and there could be as many as fifteen or so show up in the morning in later years. Plus she had hummingbird feeders and we once saw ten hummingbirds at the feeders.
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11:23:03am
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When I go to places to collect or exchange stamps, places that I am not familiar with, I always try to be careful when driving.
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Careful Yes.
But you can be driving along minding your own business being careful then some idiot going too fast hits you either from the back, the front or the side.
I was stopped at a junction when I was hit head on. I could not move out the way so in a seconds warning all I could do was to relax the body before the impact. I walked away with a small bruise on my knee. My passengers were not so lucky, a broken collar bone for one and a broken leg for the other.
Of course the idiot was uninjured and uninsured.
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28 Nov 2019
12:08:23pm
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I agree with Ian, sometimes there is nothing you can do. I am a careful driver, the deer jumped right in front of me leaving me no time to react. I just heard from the insurance appraiser, he gave up after $16 000 damages, the car is a write off! And as far as I can tell the deer walked (or limped) away. He was nowhere in the road or ditches. Those animals are real tough!!!
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Always loved this driving clip from Smith and Jones, first part of video, classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDn46KL3TmM
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Yeah I can also agree with that, sometimes being careful is not enough. That's why most of the time I just go online and visit https://wheretobuystamps.online/ to see if there's anyone near me selling stamps that I can collect.
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02 Dec 2019
11:33:21am
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It should be a good year around here for hunters. I just took my rental car into Halifax for a bit of shopping and saw three deer on the side of the road. I think I'm going to really try to cut down on driving at dusk and at night for a while!
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Harvey, consider yourself lucky. Here you will not hit deer. You hit moose.
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The deer are plentiful here in southern New Brunswick too, just a few hours drive from Harvey. Last sprint my son hit a deer on the highway with his truck. Several thousand in damage. While his truck was in the shop, my wife took him 10 miles down the road to work, dropped him off and started home. About 15 seconds later a deer jumped out of the ditch into the side of her car. She turned her head in time to see its face sliding down the side window with a surprised look in its eye. Another few thousand damage.
You never know what a day brings.Brian
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This deer caused a fatality.
https://www.chrisd.ca/2019/12/07/neepawa-deer-collision-highway-5-woman-killed/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ChrisDManitoba+%28ChrisD.ca+%C2%BB+Manitoba%29
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11:43:28pm
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I keep my eyes wide open all the time for new friends - heres a good pair from my snowy days ...
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Glad that you are ok! I find that the most dangerous part of stamp collecting is my wife catching me bringing my most recent purchases into the house!
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17 Dec 2019
04:44:31pm
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My last update! I finally got to return the rental of the last three weeks - a Dodge Minivan that I absolutely hated - and got to pick up my new 2020 Toyota Yaris. I think I'll really like the car as long as I can stay away from deer on the highway. One problem, new cars do not come equipped with CD players (an out-of-date technology) and I love to listen to books on CD as I drive. There's not even the required place to have one wired in. I'll either have to go without or buy a portable that plugs into the place where the cigarette lighter used to be. I wonder if you can still have 8-tracks installed????
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17 Dec 2019
04:48:05pm
re: Stamp collecting is dangerous.
Rip your CD's to a flash (thumb) drive and plug it into the USB port in the radio. I'm sure it has one.
Roy
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07:13:48pm
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Must be that configuration - most vehicles we looked at had cd and dvd players not to mention every other type of techy add on they could stick in there. Our pathfinder even speaks japanese
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re: Stamp collecting is dangerous.
In a slightly different tone....
Do you hear stories about people going to Las Vegas and blowing all their money on stamps???
Remember stamp responsibly....
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"Do you hear stories about people going to Las Vegas and blowing all their money on stamps???"
Stamp collecting is for people who want to blow money but do not have enough to do it in Las Vegas style. Result is about the same, but impacts are relatively smaller.
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I went to Omaha and blew all my money on stamps...
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This is my diabetic cat OBI! I think, therefore I am - I think! Descartes, sort of!
19 Dec 2019
12:35:43pm
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I'm not saying from who, but I bought an incredible bunch of stamps from a seller about a month ago and had to be careful with my account for a while. Great stamps and no regrets and I would definitely do it again!!
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11:16:38pm
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Harvey I am very happy you were not hurt. Here's a little of deer and philately...
Talk about deer and philately: Last night TCM (Turner Classic Movies) featured The Yearling. The story takes place in wilderness Florida in the late 1800s. Pa Baxter (Gregory Peck) shoots a doe after he was bitten by a venomous snake in order to take the heart and bladder to save his life. His son Jodi (child actor Claude Jarman, Jr.) guts the deer. Jodi discovers a fawn behind the brush and takes it home. Cares for it. The fawn is named Flag. Ma Baxter (Jane Wyman) doesn't like the animal. The fawn grows up and begins to destroy the crops. Pa Baxter had enough and tells Jodi, "Son, do you understand we need the crops to survive?" Jodi understands. He takes responsibility for building a fence and planting the new crop while Pa Baxter recuperates from some injury he suffered while farming (this is a story!). The fawn returns, jumps the fence and eats the crops, again. Pa Baxter commands Jodi to take Flag to the woods, tie it, and shoot it. Jodi cries out sobbing in total disbelief, "Pa! Oh, Pa. Pa. Pa." The child takes the fawn to the woods, and concocts to let it go. Jodi didn't have the heart to shoot the animal he had cared for a long time. The fawn comes back and eats the crops again. Ma Baxter takes a double-barrel shotgun and shoots the fawn, wounding it. Pa Baxter orders Jodi to shoot Flag and put it out of its misery. The child complies reluctantly. Then runs away from home...
The Yearling author.
Albania hunts deer! and Deer crossing Autobahn, Germany
Take care and to all a good night!!!
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