January 19, 2007
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I Hit a Moose!
Now there’s a phrase you don’t hear every day–at least, not outside of Alaska. I have been driving here for quite a few years, seen dozens of them a long the highway, and had a few close calls–now I actually hit one of the critters.
I was driving into the Big Lake Library, going slowly since it was snowing. Suddenly this immense bull just came running from my right–those things move fast!– and was right in front of me.
I jammed on the brakes–thank God for anti-lock brakes–and executed a controlled swerve, and darn near missed the big guy altogether. As it was, I grazed his hind legs and knocked him down sprawling, but he quickly regained his footing and ran off.
There was no damage done to the car, my beloved Mazda MPV (Michael to his friends), but I will stop in at the local trooper station when I am done here and tell them what happened. Probably I will not need to file a formal report, but being a responsible and respectable (ahem!) citizen, that is what I think is the thing to do.
Maybe by then the adrenaline spike will have subsided and my vital signs will be back to normal. Wow–what a rush!
Comments (7)
HAHAHAHA for local wildlife in unpopulate areas. Damn! A moose would be a pretty intense thing to hit. You are lucky it didn’t do any damage. My friends on the way to work hit a horse, but we live in Wyoming(makes sense doesn’t it as we have last wild horse heard, in America I think). Good job on being a good citizen. I guess my friends car got fucked up so they had to wait for the HPs.
CALL ALYCE REGARDING CASH
That was a close one. I’m glad you were being cautious and watchful.
Wow. Those things are huge! Glad you were able to swerve and not take a direct hit. I did that once with a buck deer, just bumped him in the ass hard enough to knock him down. Didn’t hurt my truck at all and I don’t think I hurt the buck, either…
The last deer I hit, though… I was almost able to drive around her, but she turned and ran back in front of me. No body damage to the truck, but I rolled her under the front end. She got up and ran, but I found her the next morning in a field about 50 yrds from where I hit her. She did almost $1000 worth of damage to my front suspension, too.
Holy crap!
..reminds me of the only time i’ve ever heard the brakes lock up on a greyhound
…missed coming in the front window by two feet.
dAMN
That does sound exciting.