Have you hit a deer?

[Nebe]

I was doing about 70 behind a car on RT 4 in my old Tacoma one night. The car in front of me T-boned a deer and the deer got launched up above the cars roof and forward ... the deer did several horizontal rotations in the air like a moon station in what seemed like slow motion before falling back down so earth behind his car and in front of me. I straddled it with the truck and pulled over to check on the guy in the car. It was one of the coolest examples of Newton’s laws of physics and gravity that I have ever seen.
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[FishermanTim]

Ran over a couple that had already "kissed a car".
One on rte 3 north before the Braintree Mall (intact carcass)
One on rte 128 near the rte 24 off ramp (what was left after it met up with a big rig)

Needless to say my truck was a little gamey afterwards (hot summer days).

My friends and I had a close encounter with moose up in NH.
First time the moose charged his car (probably because his bike on the roof rack looked a little like antlers) That one was close enough to see moose knees in the passenger window!
Next year the car in front of us narrowly avoided a broad-side hit when they spun out as the moose ran in front of them.

Nature can be one scary creature, but also fun to watch from a safe distance.