Trucker attacks bear.

I do most of my driving at night. I can't count the number of times out West I've been tailgated around 1:30am. I'm assuming the bars closed and these people are following my tail lights.

Once I kept bumping my cruise down from 65 to 40 and the person would not pass. So, all of a sudden there's a dead deer in the road. I cleared it no problem and then there was no lights or car behind me anymore!

I feel like getting a bumper sticker

"I can clear a dead deer. Can you tailgater?"

 

Don't that just sort of warm the "####les of your heart?"

I used to have a friend that did crew transport for the railroad. He was lead van in a two van convoy, (no crew on board either of them,) and was tooling down I-25 somewhere just north of Trinidad, CO. Somewhere around Odark thirty in the morning. His van got T-Boned by a bear. Unbelievable amount of damage to that van. I guess it knocked the bear silly, he was down for almost a half hour, and right after CSP arrived on scene, (hadn't even got out of his car yet,) the bear got up and staggered off into the woods. Anyway, my pal was lucky, he kept it upright and had no injury. He was also kind of lucky that the accident was witnessed, as who is ever going to believe, "I got that damage when a bear ran into my van!"

 

I use to ride a horse way back. I was just standing there on the edge of a meadow and a deer walked right up next to me. I didn't move a muscle then all of a sudden I yelled really loud. That freaking deer must have jumped 6 feet straight up with his legs running in mid air.

 

600lb would be like hitting a pig. I had a tailgaiter in MO on 60 westbound with a load of iced down sweetcorn. The guy would not get back and I called him on the CB cuz I saw an antenna. He didn't answer so I said, "I've got a load of battey acid on this truck and I think it's leaking but there's no place to pull over. He got on the CB and started swearing at me so I told him the Co 800 no. and to call them and they would pay for any damages. It was a an older Oldsmobile with faded paint so I bet he was thinkin fat wallet. The dispatch sure wanted to know what happened when I got to OKC. Lot's of laughs over that fool.

 

FALSE ADVERTISEMENT..........I thought a trucker actually attacked a bear with his bare hands, turns out it is just another road kill story.

 

I was actually thinking the same thing, was like I wanna see this guy.

 

Warn't that guy that thar Danal Boone who kilt him a bar when he wuz only three?

 

I want to wear a bear costume while I drive now...