I was on my way home earlier, going down a back road to my house when I saw an oncoming car that looked like it could have been a cop car. I was going about 10 mph over the speed limit, so I slowed down a bit. shortly after we passed each other, I saw something fly across the road, it was a deer (yes a flying deer). I put my foot on the brake and from experience (I hit a deer when I was 17 or so), I glanced in the direction it came from and sure enough there was another heading right for me! So I locked the brakes up, reaching my hand over to save the milkshakes I just bought from flying in the floorboard (again from experience...that is one mess you don't want...) Anyways, my car came to a stop, and I swear the deer stopped too for a split second, and looked me dead in the eyes standing just inches from my bumper, and then just finished crossing the road. I really want to get a dashcam for situations like this, do any of you have dashcams? recommendations?

Have you had any similar experiences? The deer I hit when I was 17 messed my hood up pretty good, but it ran off and was OK as far as I could tell. I was only doing about 25 mph (mph?? silly American here)

Oh yeah here is SGtools GA, $50 real CV sent and 1.0 ratio

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So tell me, why did the deer cross the road?

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To wreck my car
I will tell you why. I have a really good reason why. You won't believe me when I tell you. This is going to blow your mind. There is only one reason a deer would cross the road. Are you ready to hear what it is? I am going to tell you. Right after

Actually you are the one who crossed the deer's road. Was just being polite.

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I live in a big city in the middle of a lot of forest-land and cornfields (north midwest). Since I drive a lot for my job, I see a lot of deer, but don't think I've ever seen more than one at a time.

I've never hit one -- knock on wood -- but it's quite a frightening experience flying down the highway at 65+mph and one crosses in front of you. The closest I've come was when one crossed in front of my headlights, then immediately turned around and ran back across the road, and the car a little behind me smacked into it. Fortunately no one was injured, but it demolished the front end of his car. :X

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Yeah my brother is a cop and has a dash cam video of him almost hitting a deer. He was responding to a call and was doing 110+ mph and luckily he saw the deer and slammed on his brakes and nearly missed it.

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I can't imagine how he felt haha. I'm usually half asleep on the way to work when I see them. It definitely wakes you up fast.

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I have similar experience but with cat and I ride a motorcycle.

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I forgot all about my Dad wrecking his bike from a deer running in front of him. My mom almost ran him over after he went down, he came away with a broken rib, but was OK after he healed up.

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The road is obstacle to them, they may think "what is this nonsense, hard and no grass! Let's just cross and go to soft land." ^^a
(edit) Thanks for the GA and music. :)

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no dashcam here... not a common thing in my country. But damn, bad story really, i once killed a chicken while i was driving to work.. i still feel bad, but it literally cut my way , suicide instincts? :/ I'm sorry for your bad experience.

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Deer wanted to be your food. They are pretty good and cool animals.
Don't mind me.

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I had a coyote/dog hit my car on the side like that once... I wasn't sure what it was, it was dark, and I was wearing sunglasses.

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it was dark, and I was wearing sunglasses

...Wait what.

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I was going to just put it was dark but I couldn't resist

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Free dinner.

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In Sardinia we have wild boars* crossing the roads instead of deers.
They mostly cross alone, not in group (that second gif!) O_O

* A subspecie called Sus scrofa meridionalis (aka mediterranean boar)

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yeah I have never seen as many as that second gif (no idea where that's from) but I almost always see them in groups of 2-4

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Because we can! 3:D

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nice gif lol

I had a poll option "Because that's what they do, F**** reasons" but I accidentally refreshed the page and lost everything I had typed... like EVERYTHING was already typed out and I had to do it all again lol

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a lot of russians use dashcams as far as i have understood from the thousands videos on liveleak. where do you think all those "fail" videos from drivers saying cyka blyat come from?

A GoPro camera on your dashboard would make the deal, i suppose

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I am guessing the dog ate this one's homework

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Awesome game. :O Where can I find a biofeedback sensor, as long as it's ultra cheap? :P Thank you for the chance. Well, deers in Greece? Not really. Only a few. :P But you can find a lot of sheeps in villages and islands. Still, I never experienced something like this. When I was driving a motorcycle, even if something like that would happen, I would easily avoid it by using the brakes. xD And my speed with the motorcycle was usually around 40-60 km/h (well, not always, but most of the times).

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I am not sure where to get the sensor, or how much it costs. I wasn't really that interested in the game so I didn't bother looking that up.

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I'm glad it ended up well, I know how much damage those deers can do. Hope you'll have a good day!

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That's a really interesting story! Too bad you couldn't film that. I'm also glad the deer and your car is okay, both inside and outside. LOL
Also thanks for the giveaways, I was gonna join it but I'm too fresh to do so so --Nevermind-- ;D
Bump!

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have a good nice bump for the awesome game.

  • we dont have deers at the place where im from. BUT luckily never hit an animal. i would get sad even i cant do anything about it.
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I have a Zeroedge Z2, it attaches to your rear view mirror and also has a reverse camera. It was about 70 bucks on amazon in their holiday deals.

Edit: and my coworker totaled their car by hitting a deer

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Isn't it obvious?

  • Q: Why did the deer cross the road?
  • A: To get to the other side.
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I never hit a deer with my car ... but a deer did hit my car ...

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I suggest mounting your phone on the hood of your car and letting it video all the action

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haha, get out of my thread :P


scurries off to go mount his phone on the hood

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only seen deer around here once, and they were nice enough to wait till i passed before crossing.

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It just wanted to get to the other side...

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I have one for you. When I was younger, 5th grade maybe, I don't really remember but I know I was walking to school. I was walking along a heavily circulated road, on the sidewalk. So, on the other side there was a puppy that ended up going into the road. A car hit it, its head went on one side and its body on the other. It was like a cartoon scene.

I appreciate your decision to save the milkshakes. ( ゚ヮ゚)

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poor puppy :'(

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Now you reminded me of the dog I once killed. It was my first 2 or so weeks that I started driving.
The poor dog, we will never find out why he tried to cross the road. :/

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