Close to Home by John McPherson for November 21, 2023

That car is gonna overheat bad.

If the deer is not taken out by the bumper the way God intended it will come through thebdriver side windshield

That engine repair bill is going to cost more from overheating than body work.

Ah crap! …I backed over a deer!

I was driving a van full of Boy Scouts up a state road between farm fields and a river. There were deer crossing warnings and I got graphic on deer/car collisions. They fell asleep after dark and I saw a floating golden glowing golf ball, then I saw a lot of them heading toward the road. I hit the brakes and stopped as they crossed in front of me. The boys woke up as the deer lingered around us and looked into the car. We got to camp and they told them how a herd of deer almost killed us.

If you drive long enough in Wisconsin, hitting a deer becomes inevitable. It’s almost like a rite of passage.

Fear and deer – that rhymes!

I just read about a young woman in Wisconsin who died when the vehicle she was riding in struck a deer which then crashed through the windshield striking her and severely injuring the driver.

She needs to extend the pillows around the sides too. Once watched as a deer tried to cross the road and ran into the driver’s door.

Halloween, going down the street in the truck slowly because it’s Halloween. See my neighbors looking at something across the street, but I don’t see anything. Looking at them, I hit something!! Oh god, I hit a kid! Nope a deer ran out in front of me. It ran off, I saw it the next day in the back, rubbing in the $3000 bill to fix the truck. Cops were upset at the scene, hoping for venison, LOL!

Hi, Bleeb. Nothing much to see here. Move along.

Well the deers eyes will not get caught in the headlights.

Then let Noreen pay the bill for the new engine when this one overheats and you warp the heads. After doing that, she will intentionally run down the next deer she sees.

with the cost of all the license fees, it’s almost cheaper to buy a car to kill them!

Talk about a “comfortable hit”

Sunday I slowed for a doe crossing the rural road I was on. Fortunately, I waited a few seconds to continue driving as a huge buck came running across the road after her. He was in a hurry!

Deer Whistles are inexpensive and they work.

My brother-in-law in Missouri hit two different deer that jumped in front of his pickup truck during a one-mile trip down a wooded road last week. $5,000 worth of cosmetic damage to the front of the truck. One of the hazards of driving on country roads during the mating season of the deer. They have one-track minds, you know.

Around 1997 I was driving my wife’s ’73 VW Superbeetle near the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Delaware. Broad daylight. Bunch of deer teleport in around the car from the left. One hits the driver side door and shoves the car over almost off the road. Good thing that was a putt-putt car and not a speed demon one. Oh, and spouse up there showing how useless he is by not even understanding how car engines are cooled.

And she’s using the good linen.

Ha! I’ve always thought airbags should be on the front bumper!

Dear me…

Ummm a deer can total a car….even though the pillows are there….LOL

Yeah and that will restrict air intake to cool the engine. Unless it is an electric car, in which case it will burst into flames after running out of juice far from a charging station.

Good for you, Noreen!!!❤️