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[Diomedes]

That looks WAY too familiar...

I had a close encounter with a deer one early evening that resulted in almost that. In a Toyota Corolla, thing ran out into the middle of the road, I smacked it head on. Fortunately, the hood crumpled in the middle and deflected the thing up and over the passenger compartment, or I'd have had a deer in the car with me.

And yeah, we were able to drive the car the rest of the way home afterwards - it was all body damage, nothing structural actually was hurt. Of course, dried deer blood on the white roof didn't look too good, either.

I used to live in the interior (British Columbia), in a reasonably sized city of ~100 000. Pretty much every year someone would die from hitting a moose.

Small cars are actually more likely to survive with less damage from a moose strike for the above reason. The animal tends to be thrown over the roof and miss the driver. A higher vehicle however tends to strike it head on, which is bad for the driver. I'm pretty sure we have statistics on this sort of thing.

On the other hand, I've seen more bears at my place in the Vancouver area than I ever did in town up north.

Also very frightening but cool: me and dad in a 12ft aluminum boat fly fishing. Just brought in a small trout and are in the process of releasing. Big bald eagle, probably 6 foot or bigger wingspan decided he liked the look of that and hovered just off to one side of the boat. It would not have gone well if that eagle wasn't so patient...

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