I grew up in Michigan's upper peninsula, and the white tail deer there are the same pests, and in the late 80s they introduced moose to get them to regain old territory. The deer were bad enough, I was in 3 vehicles at different times when deer were hit at 60 mph. Scares the hell out of you when that happens and you weren't noticing them about to wreck your car. Luckily, I was never the driver or car owner. Mom and dad were.
My wife encountered three kangaroos near Healsville, Vic last month, and totalled her Nissan Maxima. Roos are big, they're bouncy, and they love the warm road surface at night. Very hard to predict where they'll be. Her next car will have the full Queensland hockey mask!
Yikes! I was in Australia in 1998, and saw herds of the medium size roos, just goofing off around the road side. I can imagine how bad it would be to hit more than one at a time. I grew up in Michigan's upper peninsula, and the white tail deer there are the same type of pests, roadside lurkers and always jumping in front of the cars, then in the late 80s the government introduced moose to get them to regain old territory. The deer were bad enough, I was in 3 vehicles at different times when deer were hit at 60 mph. Scares the hell out of you when that happens and you weren't noticing them about to wreck your car. Luckily, I was never the driver or car owner. Mom and dad were.
Canadians call them moose bumpers.
ReplyDeleteI grew up in Michigan's upper peninsula, and the white tail deer there are the same pests, and in the late 80s they introduced moose to get them to regain old territory. The deer were bad enough, I was in 3 vehicles at different times when deer were hit at 60 mph. Scares the hell out of you when that happens and you weren't noticing them about to wreck your car. Luckily, I was never the driver or car owner. Mom and dad were.
DeleteMy wife encountered three kangaroos near Healsville, Vic last month, and totalled her Nissan Maxima. Roos are big, they're bouncy, and they love the warm road surface at night. Very hard to predict where they'll be. Her next car will have the full Queensland hockey mask!
ReplyDeleteYikes! I was in Australia in 1998, and saw herds of the medium size roos, just goofing off around the road side. I can imagine how bad it would be to hit more than one at a time. I grew up in Michigan's upper peninsula, and the white tail deer there are the same type of pests, roadside lurkers and always jumping in front of the cars, then in the late 80s the government introduced moose to get them to regain old territory. The deer were bad enough, I was in 3 vehicles at different times when deer were hit at 60 mph. Scares the hell out of you when that happens and you weren't noticing them about to wreck your car. Luckily, I was never the driver or car owner. Mom and dad were.
DeleteWhen I was in Australia, near Brisbane and Gladstone, I rarely saw a car that didn't have bumper guards for the kangaroos
DeleteBy the way, I love Larry Niven books too, I think I bought and read them all. Some, I read a couple of times, he had such good story ideas
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