Pete The Elder: Terrorist Deer

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December 01, 2005

Terrorist Deer

Rick Brookhiser was a also a victim of a suicide terrorist deer attack over thanksgiving. Unlike my attack, his happened in civilization and he called the police. I am still not positive which county I was in when I hit the deer and our cell phones were not picking up any service so I could not have called the police if I wanted to. Also his car stopped working, while mine was just dented. My father in law banged out the dents for the most part and I am thinking of using a hacksaw to cut off some of the plastic to make the front look even, but the car still works fine. Brookhiser writes:

My Thanksgiving was dominated by the killing of my first deer--not with a manly rifle, though it is deer season (WELCOME HUNTERS say the signs on all the bars in my neighborhood) but with my car. The accident happened on Wednesday. The doe ran across a busy two lane road an hour before dusk. Didn't quite make it across the second lane--I struck her with the right side of my car (a Subaru Outback Impresza, going about 50-55). I saw the impact with my own eyes, and yet I can't remember where exactly she was hit. I have an impression she spun, or sprang up, but that may be an illusion. She fell in the front yard of a house along the road, as we pulled over, and lived for perhaps five minutes.

After watching more deer over thanksgiving, I think the deer I hit might have been a full grown doe, but that Texas white tail deer are a lot smaller than the mule deer I am used to so I thought it was younger than it was. Anyway here are some pictures of potential terrorist deer I saw over thanksgiving and a picture of my car. Here is a link to the original car picture to see the change.

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