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If it makes you feel better, here is my tale of woe from last april:
I was on my way to my girlfreind's (now fiance) and had to travel from one side of New Hampshire to the other. Of course, just my luck, there was a freaking sleet storm in early April....:rolleyes:
I was being a good boy and staying under the speed limit, driving my sweet-ass silver jetta. i had just gotten it almost exactly a year before, it was a GL with a sport package, black leather interior, V6 engine (same one as in the audi A6), heated seats, sun-roof, every thing that you could possibly get in a VW, plus 17" wheels. I loved it the way a fat kid loves cake.
At any rate, an hour and a half into the trip, exactly halfway between home and my girl's, a fucking moose walked out in front of my car. I hit the brakes, but since there was ice and sluch all over, it didnt do shit. I turned to the left, just barely realizing there was no one in the opposing lane (thank god), but still clipped the front half of the moose.
Now, if anyone has ever seen one of these things in real life, you know they are fucking TALL. i under-cut her, swiping her legs out from under her and slamming her body into my hood (right where it meets the windsheild). The passenger side of the car crupled in so that the roof and windsheild met with the head-rst of the passenger side. If anyone had been in that seat, they would have been killed instantly. If i hadnt swerved onto the wrong side of the road, she would have gone strait through the windsheild.
My car ended up getting totalled. the damage to the interior and frame was so extensive that it would have cost more to replace it than to buy a new car.
The moose died instantly, they said she was about a 600 pounder. The passenger side door was so crumpled it would onlyopen an inch. Moose hair was all over the inside in clumps (i put my hand on one right after it happened and freaked the fuck out.....) It took me about 2 hours to stop shaking. Lucky for me, the one person who heard me hit her was an off duty EMT, and the 911 operator was awesome, as was the cop whop helped me. It took me about a month to stop seeing moose in front of me whenever i closed my eyes.
Hope that helps :)
oh, yeah, and to tell you what kind of hicks live in new england, close to 15 people stopped and asked the cop "has anyone claimed the moose yet? if not, here's my number, give me a call."
"oh yeah, how's the guy who hit it, did he live?"...... Every last person asked this of the cop, with me sitting in the passenger seat of the car, RIGHT NEXT TO HIM...
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