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PSA: Watch for deer


Casper

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12 hours ago, what said:

City people thinking deer are cute cuddly creatures of the wood.

 

Rural people that hate deer and everything they stand for, except for the free meat.

Oh, it is far from free. 

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I hit a deer in April 2008 and had all the gear, FF helmet, armored jacket, gloves, boots. Pitch dark at 9:00PM on a two lane road with poor lighting. Hit the deer then a mailbox, the front wheel stopped in a drain ditch and I landed about 15 feet from the bike in the drain ditch. Bike was totaled (see photos), I had broken collar bone, broken shoulder blade, a few stiches from a jacket grommet cutting into my arm and a bunch of bruises. ATGATT for me, if I didn't have the gear, can't believe I would have escaped with minimal medical problems. According to Wisconsin DOT 2% of car-deer accidents end up in human fatalities versus 84.9% of motorcycles-deer encounters end up in fatalities.

BTW, the nurses and doc's in the ER at Metro General cheered when they found I had wore all the gear, a week earlier a MC-deer fatality occurred with a rider without the gear. I beat the odds.

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