Bucks and Montgomery Counties, PA - Hit 23 geocaches and 1 deer

[mortonfox]

Just finished a phone call to GEICO to initiate a damage claim. Hit a deer in Bensalem on my way to the last geocache of the day. I hit the deer in the last place I would expect to hit a deer: in a strip mall! I guess the deer had just gotten some Star"buck"s and was running off to the woods. It ran across Horizon Blvd right in front of my car. There was no time at all to react. I slammed on the brakes and the deer went under the car.

Worse yet, the deer somehow damaged two vehicles. It took out the underneath protective cover on the front right side of my car. It also bashed in the left headlight of the car that happened to be next to mine at that moment. Yeah, it was a big deer. It was a gruesome scene because there I was, in a stopped car in the middle of the strip mall road with a moaning deer below. And boy, did it moan. Obviously, trying to move the car forward wouldn't help. The car couldn't move in that direction anyway with a deer stuck under the wheel. So I tried to back up a little and suddenly, the deer sprang up and was gone in a flash.

We got a police officer from Bensalem PD to do a report. I took a look at the damage. To my untrained eye, nothing seemed broken apart from that protective cover. No dent in front. There was, however, deer blood and hair on the bumper.

Anyway, aside from the deer incident, it was an above-average day of geocaching. In spite of the shorter daylight and in spite of spending too much time on a few 4-star and 3-star geocaches, I managed to find 23 geocaches. (which I'll log online later) Also tried a restaurant in the Oxford Valley area that I hadn't tried before and stocked up on Wawa iced tea.

Comments

[thomasj.livejournal.com]

It lived? Guess you can't put a victory kill emblem on the car...

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

yikes. glad you and the deer lived thru it. summa them seem to have a death wish.

[wildfox34.livejournal.com]

I can still remember when my Grandfather hit a deer with a car that he only owned for a few months. Somehow, the car managed to not suffer any damage.

Even worse, I still remember when I was traveling up to a football game back while I was in High School. We hit a deer with the charter bus...but just kept going like it was only a bump in the road. o.@

[cowbert.livejournal.com]

doesn't mortonfox drive an Escape hybrid these days? So much for the ground clearance...

[mortonfox.livejournal.com]

No, I don't have an Escape Hybrid but I don't think it was ever claimed to be deer-capable either.

[cowbert.livejournal.com]

You could make your car like a cop car and add a brush guard for those "prepare for ramming speed!" moments.

Merf

[sunfirelion.livejournal.com]

Many times, deer get hit, run off into the woods and die from their injuries after a short time. You're quite lucky that the damage was minimal as deer can do some major damage! In any event, I am sorry for that unfortunate incident.

[skippyfox.livejournal.com]

If it died, you'd have an extra item to deposit in a cache.

Oh wow did I just say that!?

[mortonfox.livejournal.com]

Well, perhaps the horns. We aren't supposed to leave food in caches. :)

[goldwing.livejournal.com]

At the mall... how odd.

[mortonfox.livejournal.com]

Yes, I never expected that to happen there.

[digoraccoon.livejournal.com]

Whoa. O_o I hope you'll be alright. I can't imagine that the fright check on that was high.

[mortonfox.livejournal.com]

Fright check? Is that a RPG term?

[was1.livejournal.com]

Damn, that's freaky about the deer. I'm glad the damage wasn't too bad, certainly a lot better than it could've been in hitting a deer.

[kaysho.livejournal.com]

Oddly appropriate for Bucks County, I suppose ... :)

Glad the damage to you and your vehicle weren't all that great, though!