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Posted by Jim.UT on November 02, 2004 at 09:41:08 from (64.122.18.247):
In Reply to: Be careful out there boys and girls, I hit a deer posted by Midwest redneck on November 01, 2004 at 02:33:27:
I haven't got mine yet this year. I still have 2 months to find him! Out here in the west, especially in Eastern Utah and all over Wyoming, you have to watch for antelope. Those critters are just plain suicidal. I used to work for an electrical power coop (G&T). We built a 400mw power plant out near the Colorado border. The water for the plant was pumped out of the Green river to a high point reservoir and then was gravity fed from there to the plant. During the graveyard shift, it was the job of one of the control room operators to get in a pickup truck and drive the 10 miles to the reservoir to take some guage readings. One night in the dead of winter (it gets way below zero out there) he came around a curve and his headlights showed an entire herd of antelope bedded down on the asphalt. I guess it retains some heat from the daytime sunshine. He was only going 45 mph (highway patrol investigation confirmed his speed). Guess how many antelope died that night? (scroll down)........
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TWENTY SEVEN DEAD!! Div of Wildlife Services and BLM both were on the scene and counted up the carcasses. Some didn't have a mark on them....just ran off and died of heart attacks, I guess. Damage to the truck wasn't that extensive: grille, headlights, hood. It was still driveable. If I hadn't seen the pictures and talked to the eyewitnesses, I wouldn't have believed it either.
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