I got off the phone with my mom a little bit ago. She said she had just been talking to my dad a minute earlier as he was driving home from work. She said she had rushed to get off the phone because, as she told him, it was cold and clear so deer were likely to be everywhere, and she didn’t want him to be distracted if one ran out in front of him. <\/p>\n
My dad has to drive home through a 40-minute expanse of country \u2014 just fields and woods as far as the eye can see. Or, at night, can’t see. <\/p>\n
And, sure enough, just as my mom had uttered her warning, she said she heard screeching tires and a thud and all sorts of harrowing stuff you don’t want to hear from the other end of the phone. My dad had hit a big ol’ buck. He estimates that he was a 14-pointer, at least. It crumpled up the front of the car pretty bad, but he was able to drive it home. He said he got out but was unable to find the deer. <\/p>\n
Between the two of them, my parents have hit FOUR deer now in the past few years. My mom and the insurance company have a little running joke going because she hit two (or maybe even three) in the span of a month or so, and each time, the deer caused the exact same damage to her car. <\/p>\n
So, what have we learned here? A) My mom’s kinda psychic and B) Deer in Hardin County are not safe so long as Turners travel the roads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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