@sarge12 wrote:
@sarge12 wrote:Ok...this is a true story.
I'm riding my Honda Goldwing down I-26 which has 2 lanes each way doing about 60 mph in the right lane. A tractor trailer is in the left lane at about the same speed. From my right I see a deer coming onto the highway in my lane. I brake frantically while my but cheeks tighten. Unfortunately so does the truck beside me which causes the trailer to sort of jacknife into my lane...so I speed up to keep the trailer from killing me. In the mean time the deer gets hit by the truck which propels the deer airbourne, slightly over my head in my lane. So first I almost hit a deer, then almost got hit by a truck, and then almost got hit by a flying deer.
The really good thing was in this case the only casualties were the deer and my underware!!
LOL! Okay, okay, I am going to share why a turkey vulture is the worst thing I've hit. I was driving on a winding mountain road, came around a curve, and there was roadkill with about 5-6 vultures feeding on it. As I approached, all the vultures took flight, but one poor !#@$#@ didn't quite make it. I hit him with my windshield and there was then all this red stuff on my windshield. I pulled over to clean the windshield, and it did not smell good at all. Later some co-workers from the road job I was doing traffic control on told me that turkey vultures have an instinctual reaction where they regurgitate when they are frightened. Turns out that the bird was fine and must have flown away, but threw up road kill all over my windshield. It was nasty. 
I'll bet not a lot of people know that about turkey vultures. I sure didn't.
@Anonymous wrote:
@sarge12 wrote:
@sarge12 wrote:Ok...this is a true story.
I'm riding my Honda Goldwing down I-26 which has 2 lanes each way doing about 60 mph in the right lane. A tractor trailer is in the left lane at about the same speed. From my right I see a deer coming onto the highway in my lane. I brake frantically while my but cheeks tighten. Unfortunately so does the truck beside me which causes the trailer to sort of jacknife into my lane...so I speed up to keep the trailer from killing me. In the mean time the deer gets hit by the truck which propels the deer airbourne, slightly over my head in my lane. So first I almost hit a deer, then almost got hit by a truck, and then almost got hit by a flying deer.
The really good thing was in this case the only casualties were the deer and my underware!!
LOL! Okay, okay, I am going to share why a turkey vulture is the worst thing I've hit. I was driving on a winding mountain road, came around a curve, and there was roadkill with about 5-6 vultures feeding on it. As I approached, all the vultures took flight, but one poor !#@$#@ didn't quite make it. I hit him with my windshield and there was then all this red stuff on my windshield. I pulled over to clean the windshield, and it did not smell good at all. Later some co-workers from the road job I was doing traffic control on told me that turkey vultures have an instinctual reaction where they regurgitate when they are frightened. Turns out that the bird was fine and must have flown away, but threw up road kill all over my windshield. It was nasty.
If the bet was with me you would win...never heard of a turkey vulture. Is it any good with dressing and cranberry sauce. bon appetit.
Definitely a coupla books to be written here. Think I'm gonna grab a snack. 
