watch out for cattle

[baddis]

well my day started off pretty good . i got a phone call on the way to work and have a job interview at 930 am . well i was thinking about it on the way home and was passed by an ambulance. pull out and looked in the mirror when i am up to speed and see more lights coming pull over again no big deal. look as i am getting ready to pull out and see more coming so i wait. finally i get to go and get about 2 miles down the interstate and traffic is at a dead stop. then i realize i am first in line. cop comes up and says i have to take a side road. again no big deal i am in a good mood cause of the pending interview. so i turn down the road and get maybe a half mile and holy s#$* cows in the middle of the road. i turn around to tell the deputy and he says he will get to it when he has time. so i see a kid turning down the road and warn him about the cattle and we make it through without problems. i get home and let my wife know and she says she will be careful . about 10 min. after she left my cel phone rings and i am thinking crap she hit a cow but she let me know what the mangled wreckage that i couldn't identify was an ambulance on its side in the median and a semi facing the wrong way on the other side of the interstate. so not only deer will tear up your rig but so will cattle

 

[Explorin94]

I was a Sheriffs Deputy from 96 to 01 and I was up in Chicago picking up a person wanted on a warrant from the county I was from. Coming home I was on I55 running about 70-75 MPH listening to a chase on ISPERN. Look down to adjust the volume on the chase radio, look up and there stands 5 calfs (1 white, 4 black) in the middle of 55. Hit the brakes slide the car sideways, hit a calf not the black ones.....yes the white one. Takes out my passenger side headlight, fender, door mirror and when the mirror was broke off broke out the window. I had a rookie I was training sitting in the passenger seat and the prisoner in the back. I back the car up acativate my lights, call it in and get out to see if the cow is still alive. I tell the rookie to stay with the car and prisoner and I get to the cow and it is laying on 55 still breathing so I must have knocked it out. I have steel toe boots on so I figure what he hell and kick the cow in the head. As soon as I hit it it jumps up and is bleeding from it nose. By this time the shift comander shows up and so does the State Police. Soon after that the farmer who owns the cows shows up. By that time we have the cows back into the pasture where they belong. Come to find out the State boys were doing fence repairs along 55 and forgot to close a gate that lead to the pasture. I get back and fill out an accident report and go back to the road. The next moring I go get estimates on the car. $6000 dollars damage and the car only has 1200 miles on it. The future of Mcdonalds (cow) had it's nose ripped off as was doing fine.

 

[Mac]

I was out in the state of Washington with my boss on a trip way out in the boonies, he must never had gotten too far from home. I had to explain what the sign "Open Range" meant. Just said that there are no fences to keep the cattle in so better slow down, there were like 30 hairpin turns in 17 miles in the mountains. He did slow down.
Dave

 

[ozzy85]

Cows can screw up a car worse than a deer can. They weigh a lot. My Dad sometimes repairs sheriff cars and I remember one coming in that had an encounter with a horse. It just about flattened the roof and splayed the window frames on the doors. The deputy driving the car drove over a hill at about 50mph to find a horse in the middle of the road.

 

[LIMA BEAN]

I hear that we got the monster moose and buffalo, narrow roads in most places and lots dark most of the year at this lattitude. Bad thing about moose is you hit their long arse legs and they come right through the windshield, screw airbags in that case DUCK. Not to mention all the Caribou and bears hence why I have enough bad boy lights to light up a small city on all the rigs.