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marlowe
from Antarctica on 2004-08-08 05:42 [#01298613]
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Last night it was ever so misty as I drove home from Huntly, 40 miles away from Antarctica Heights - I could only see four or five white lines ahead of me as I hurtled along the country roads at 90mph. I was very tired but after having spent a fab evening, I was feeling mellowly happy.
But then, something awful happened.
I was driving along a straight when I saw a deer run into the road. I braked, but the deer seemed to lower her head and ran straight under my car wheels, crunching as its body was crushed. I felt absolutely awful and very upset. The thought that I had just caused the death of this poor animal was so saddening. One minute it was alive, and the next, its consciousness was wiped out forever. :(
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big
from lsg on 2004-08-08 05:58 [#01298619]
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uhm yeah that's life im afraid at least it didnt suffer i wish you strength to come over this and turn it into a positive experience somehow
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FlyAgaric
from the discovery (Africa) on 2004-08-08 07:01 [#01298632]
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*sniff*
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hobbes
from age on 2004-08-08 07:19 [#01298640]
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:(
if you really were doing that speed in the fog then at least i'm glad you are alive.
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The_Funkmaster
from St. John's (Canada) on 2004-08-08 07:39 [#01298645]
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I hope you took the deer home and cooked it for dinner! No sense wasting it...
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qrter
from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-08-08 07:43 [#01298647]
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I believe it's only legal for the next person that comes along to do that.
or that may be in Amerricarr.
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dariusgriffin
from cool on 2004-08-08 07:47 [#01298649]
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My father did that once. What a punk.
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marlowe
from Antarctica on 2004-08-08 08:08 [#01298658]
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Jon, I am a vegetarian, so deermeat is not really my gig -- I hope I do not read about someone crashing into a deer corpse and spinning off the road, dying - that would really be a pisser.
hobbes - I was not consistently doing 90mph - sometimes I slowed down to 70mph.. misty evenings are great - the other night Fiona and I were parked by this Nature Reserve, and when I went into it to take a leak, it was really eerie and scary, and I heard voices shouting across the shrouded landscape. Awesome.
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big
from lsg on 2004-08-08 08:20 [#01298664]
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i hope the deer doesnt come after you wearing a scary mask saying 'i know what you did last summer'
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marlowe
from Antarctica on 2004-08-08 08:22 [#01298666]
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I did have fleeting thoughts of Animal Spirits as I drove on last night -- however, it was an accident and I feel suitably cut up about it. I was thinking about the deer's family :(
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big
from lsg on 2004-08-08 08:23 [#01298667]
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i hope that'll save you you'll be in my prayers tonight and the deer of course
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qrter
from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-08-08 08:29 [#01298672]
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do deer have a strong sense of family ties?
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marlowe
from Antarctica on 2004-08-08 08:32 [#01298676]
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I really cannot say - but if she has offspring, I am sure that they will mourn her absence :(
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big
from lsg on 2004-08-08 08:33 [#01298678]
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so you didnt move the remains off the road? i always find it so said if those animals keep being run over
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marlowe
from Antarctica on 2004-08-08 08:39 [#01298680]
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I did not stop, no. I think it would have been very dangerous to stop, considering how misty it was... a car might have come carousing around a corner and *splatted* ME.
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