Re: Deer.

[David Marshall <quattro@volkswagen.org>]

I hit a rotwiler - chow cross (BIG dog) with my 5KQ and the damage was
apprased at $2500 almost a write off.  I hit the dog doing 80km/h and threw
the dog a good 50m into the ditch - very dead.  The passanger fender was
bent, the cruple zone was pushed in, busted light, cracked bumper, boken
air box... a real mess.  I hope yours turns out better than mine.

At 01:19 10/31/98 -0500, Brett Dikeman wrote:
>Yep.
>
>Just hit one.
>
>Driver's side headlight, chrome strips, front grille possibly, side marker 
>light, and the hood has a huge dent in it and is now warped(and has deer 
>fuzz all over it.)  On the good side, it needed to be repainted anyway.  On 
>the bad side, there probably isn't a paint shop around that will match the 
>Panther Black correctly.
>
>As the cop said, "I've seen worse.  Much worse."
>
>I was probably going less than 10 mph by the time I made contact with the 
>deer; had been doing about 25.
>
>He then said:
>"Shouldn't be over a thousand bucks."
>
>That was almost as insulting as "This is your parent's car, right?"
>
>Talk about ways to end a 10am->12:30am workday :(
>
>At least the lady who's house I was in front of was very nice.  She came 
>out with a flashlight, helped me look around to see if the deer was still 
>around(wasn't) and called the police at my request.
>
>
>This means I'm definately out of the Sunday foliage tour.  One headlight is 
>totally gone and aiming at a 45 degree angle. Not suitable for night 
>driving.  I'm debating not driving the car at all.
>
><sigh>  Maybe one of Glen's pizza slices will cheer me up.
>
>Brett
>PS:I'm sooo happy the damn airbag didn't go off...
>
>91 200q20v (a la Deer.)
>------
>Brett Dikeman
>brett@pdikeman.ne.mediaone.net
>~)-|
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>happy to be on their way." - Mark Twain
>
>"Oh no.  Not again." - The bowl of Petunias
>
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>enough hammer." -- Sun System & Network Admin manual
>
>Statler: "Hey, this one sounds cute."
>Waldorf: "You old fool, that's not the personals, it's the obituaries!"
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>
>

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