White Curse
 

I've been driving defensively for a year now with this white car. Knowing that it would be a matter of time until the curse struck. It happened yesterday. On my way past the prison (for those that know the area) a turkey darts out from my side of the road and will easily make the other side. Upon noticing the white car he pretended to be afraid of a car on the other side and came back at me. At 50mph he hit the driverside mirror.
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Housing is fine, it bent back like it can. The turn signal mirror glass didn't make it. On my way back home hours later a rabbit ripped across mere millimeters in front of the tires. Not wanting to lose the one remaining foglight, I invoked near 5g's of stopping force and averted the crisis.

So, you now having turkey for dinner?

That's the downside.. bastage didnt' stop, so I didn't either. By the time I located a mirror that still worked to look out of, he was out of sight.

yeah after a collision with a side mirror, i'd be interested in seeing what the turkey looked like.

Me too..cause if he was smiling...I'd really be in a "fowl" mood.

LOL!! oh here we go thats strike one. two more and we'll have ourselves a "turkey".

I looked in the rearview. If he was laying in the road. I'd be eating turkey for lunch. Then...I'd be the one smiling. :rad

Ouch. Are the puddle lights and turn signal arrows okay?

The only animal-related incident I've had this year was when a deer and I were going down the road side-by-side. I raced it. Beat it by a mile.

I always hit things in the most random places and times. Hit a deer, already dead in the road because I wasn't paying attention. Hit a ladder stretched out across all lanes of the highway in the middle of the night. Hit a cat running across an 8 lane divided highway going 80 (thought I was going to find fur in the intercooler on that one but ended up getting away clean).

The best though was when I saw a car right next to me smack a deer. It's not often you see half a deer go running by. The car didn't even slow down.