Today’s Daily Snippet
Incident Type: Traffic Hazard - Loose Animal
Location: SB BIRD LANDING RD JSO 113
info as of: 2/13/2007 8:21:04 AM
ADDITIONAL DETAILS
7:33AM RP ADV HER EMPLOYEE WHO WAS DRIVING TK CONTINUED, DID NOT SEE WHERE COW LANDED
7:31AM UNK IF COW IN RWY
7:31AM RED 3 AXLE WORK TK VS COW
7:31AM LEFT TURN AT STOP SIGN TOWARDS COLLINSVILLE 2-3 MILES ON CURVE TOWARDS JERICO
Don’t you just love how it sounds like a Mortal Kombat event. Truck vs. Cow. Choose Your Destiny! Animality! Truck WINS! Waaaa ha ha ha ha!
Apparently the truck driver hit the cow so hard it flew and landed somewhere outside their field of vision. Who hits an animal on the road and doesn’t stop to see if it’s ok??
I remember one evening in college, I was driving home from work, and at the time, I lived about 10 minutes away, down a long dark highway…THUMP THUMP!
What the hell was that? Turns out it was a rabbit…I could have cared less about any damage to the car, I was just sick that I’d hit something and probably killed it. Unfortunately, it was so dark that I could not see into the ditch areas to see if the animal was there. There wasn’t any evidence on the highway, other than what I had seen as it ran in front of the car.
A cow is a bit different. I would venture to say that if you hit a cow, there’s going to be significant damage to your vehicle, and there’s no way you could “lose” the cow in the process. There will be plenty of evidence, and likely the cow hasn’t gone very far, given the fact that most of them weigh enough to not remain airbourn long.
I’m the kind of person who saves drowning worms in a rainstorm…call me crazy (and you probably just did), but if I hit something, I’m sure as heck gonna stop and do something about it.
February 13th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
I hit a dog once and cried like some kind of lunatic at the roadside like asene out of saving private ryan. I catch spiders in a glass and put them outside although i have to admit to whacking craneflies with a slipper. Horrible things.
February 13th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
If the worm was supposed to die, and had actually agreed to die, then preventing the worm from dieing could be a mistake. However, if the “rain” was from my sprinklers then I probably don’t want to think about it. I do, however, not add to the worm’s problems by stepping on it… however, I do realize that my vehicle can’t easily navigate around many worms radomly spaced on my driveway.
Cows are usually slow and are not nocturnal, so I don’t think that most people have to worry about now seeing a loose cow. Although it could sneak up on you coming around a corner, I guess.
My roadkill avoidance went up drastically after traveling through Wyoming (or was it Montana). I kept seeing (and ignoring) these “watch out” signs showing leaping deer. I’ve seen these all my life and never with any deer nearby. Sure, I’ve heard stories and even from my Dad, but that was his first wild deer encounter in 50 years of driving. But, when I saw what was best descriped as a swam of deer (antelope) “flying” along a cattle fence trying to find the best place to escape from such an annoying barrier, I was an instant believer. They were so fast that I could well imagine them leaping over the nearest fence and being massed in front of my car before I could stop. Chaos theory at its best. Given enough time, you will hit a cow.
February 21st, 2007 at 3:17 pm
I’m that way with earwigs. Death to all of them.
And black widow spiders. Scary creatures that could kill my cats. Sorry, you’re below me on the food chain..buh bye!