black and white lives matter

onefarmer · Aug 16, 2016

No not them..... cows. This isn't too far from me. Read it.....
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onefarmer · Aug 16, 2016

Another report
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Greg K · Aug 16, 2016

So do black olives lol

PaGlenn · Aug 16, 2016

When those cows hit the roadway they had no chance against the idiots going 80mph while staring at their cell phones or in-dash video monitors.

rrlund · Aug 16, 2016

I don't find that hard to believe at all the way those idiot drive. There could have been 15 people standing in the road waving their arms and some moron still would have driven through it all at 60 miles an hour.

ss55 · Aug 16, 2016

We always figured any dog, cat or cow out on our busy road would be dead soon unless we got it off the road real quick, and that was a main gravel road (40 to 60+ mph coming over the hill). A cow on the road is almost as bad as a car parked in the middle of the road with no lights on. There may not have been any way the farmer could have known they were out, but I hope the farmer has good liability insurance.

OldFarmall450 · Aug 16, 2016

I thought the standard answer was..."Cows, what cows? No, I'm not missing any cows, those aren't my cows."

OldFarmall450 · Aug 16, 2016

I thought the standard answer was..."Cows, what cows? No, I'm not missing any cows, those aren't my cows."

Elmo · Aug 16, 2016

My uncle had a 1954 IH pickup two years old. He had been up to visit and on his way back home to Baker, LA at night he hit a herd of black angus cows in the road, seven were killed and some more had to be put down. Totaled that tough IH and put him in the hospital for weeks! He said he couldn't see them until he was right on them!
Elmo

OldFarmall450 · Aug 16, 2016

My dad pointed out to me years ago you never see a charlais on the road at night, always the black Angus.

My Lt. Was headed home from a 12hr shift when I heard him on his portable call out officer needs help. I raced down the road he took home and he told me to slow down for cows. I found him about two miles from town kneeling and spitting up blood. An angus calf had crossed the road and his momma followed after him. Lt was running about 65 and saw her a split second before impact. He jerked the wheel, missing her body but severing her head and neck with the doorpost. It came thru the window and hit him full on in the chest. The impact bent his trauma plate and his vest definately saved him. A DPS trooper and I removed the cow head /neck from the car. It was all we could do to pick it up.

I'd say it was like having a bag of cement hit your windshield at 65mph. Like I said earlier, the cow wasnt branded and no one claimed it. The land owner said the land was leased, the lessee said no stock was missing.

fixerupper · Aug 16, 2016

When I was 19 or 20 years old I was scooting down the road at my normal faster than the speed limit with my 59 Chevy just after dark when I came up on a herd of angus and baldies standing on the road. I dodged the first one only to be facing another one and then another. I got through the herd OK but I saw the glow of approaching car lights just over the hill ahead of me. When the car came over the hill I flashed my lights at it and it flashed back and kept going. They weren't so lucky. The front end of a 62 Fairlane got bashed in and four cows died or had to be put down. The passenger cracked the windshield with his head and was sitting there rubbing the goose egg on the top of his head. They were young like I was and from my home town. Both are still around here and we bring this up once in awhile in a casual conversation.

It happened on opening day of pheasant season. We suspect some hunters left a pasture gate open or spooked the cattle through the gate.

RBoots · Aug 16, 2016

Yep, no surprise. An officer set by a 30" maple tree across the road here in the middle of the night a couple years back, had his overheads on, and was waving at a guy trying to get him to stop and he run the front of his car underneath that tree at about 45mph. Good thing the tree was only about 2' off the ground, it just totally squashed his car between the tree and the road.

RBoots · Aug 16, 2016

Bellingar's had 15 fair cows get out Thursday or Friday night, I can't remember which. There was guys on horses, quads, pickups going up and down the road, through the fields, over the hills, everywhere. A couple had gotten onto 127 and they had to close it down until they got them off the highway. They shot one in our corn field, which is where they all headed first. They still had 6 missing last I knew. Not a good place to lose them with all of the thousands of acres of state land and river swamp. And the river is only about a foot deep right now due to it being so dry for so long, and everyone pulling irrigation water from it, so it'd be real easy to cross. Saw some guys with rifles yesterday looking for some.

howdy1960 · Aug 17, 2016

And people act like I'm a loser when I tell them how slow I drive at night on country back roads in KNOWN deer country in my 21 yr old rot box.
One of them people shortly there after totaled out a 7 yr old Suburban hitting a deer doing 60 in a 50 zone. He drives slower now.
A few yrs ago a motorcycle/crotch rocket went past the house at about 1 AM doing no less than 120 MPH (don't ask how I know what that speed sounds like ~grinz~) in an area where each year at least 1 deer mangles a car's front end.

onefarmer · Aug 17, 2016

I remember hearing about that.

CCer · Aug 17, 2016

My cousin and I stripped down his Dodge R/T for a repaint. While at the paint shop, there was a fire, they got the car shoved out ok. They got the repaint done. Brought it back to my shop to refit all the chrome. Got it all done, late one night. He took it down the road for a "spin." He came over a rise, and hit a steer that was standing in the middle of the road! The guys at the paint shop were quite surprized to see it in front of their shop again the next morning! The car required new front sheet metal, bumpers, and paint.

Leroy · Aug 17, 2016

Why does it seem everybody has to out drive their lights. No way in the distance the lights show that they would be able to stop.

Karl in MD · Aug 17, 2016

An old friend was in Canada on a NASA project and was a passenger in a '68 AMC station wagon when it hit a moose at about 50 mph. His description of the crash will split your sides.

OldFarmall450 · Aug 18, 2016

(quoted from post at 06:43:13 08/17/16) Why does it seem everybody has to out drive their lights. No way in the distance the lights show that they would be able to stop.

I didn't look at the video, but if you've been on a blacktop road on a moonless night miles away from any light source you don't have to be speeding to hit something..be it cows, deer, moose, you name it.

I hit a deer going to a disturbance call a while back. My in-car camera was running so we, (my chief deputy, sheriff and I) analyzed the footage and saw where the deer stepped out from the head high Johnson grass and into the roadway. Using the center stripes for reference we determined the deer was 67 feet away from the car when it entered the roadway. At the posted speed of 70 mph you travel 102.67' per second. It takes on average 1/4 second to recognize a threat in the roadway, 1/4 second to take evasive action, and 1/4 second for the vehicle to respond, ie slow down.

According to my calculations for me to have been able to avoid the deer I would've had to drive 46 mph, or 67.46 feet per second. Now, if your drunk brother-in-law is whaling on you do you want me to drive 46 mph across the county to your house?

That's why they call them accidents...some things just happen.

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