Sad task earlier today

[BlueKota]

Someone hit a wild turkey with their car in front of my house and killed it. Luckily my sister was here and she and I got it off the side of the road and threw the carcass in our field. We didn't see who hit it.

Hopefully the scavenger critters will at least get a few meals out of it.

Too many of the people who drive on this road think they can drive 75, when the speed limit is 45.

[lastlib]

1. Take some consolation from the fact....

that they got a helluva dent in their grill that will cost beaucoup bucks to repair, to say nothing of the inconvenience.

Very sad. They are magnificent birds.

[BlueKota]

3. I will take comfort in that.

I agree too that they are magnificent.

[soldierant]

7. If their insurance policy includes ":Comprehensive,"

I hope they have a ridiculously high deductible.

[erronis]

2. Not sure if the turkey would care if it were 45 or 75 MPH.

But yes, people do drive too fast (not me!!!)

[BlueKota]

4. Good point about the speed

not mattering to the turkey.

Unfortunately,I think the speeding happens here because this road used to be rural, but then a lot of the farmers sold to developers. The people who move into those housing complexes even after all these years haven't figured out that when they drive past the still undeveloped fields, they need to slow down because chances are fairly high that some sort of wild animal is going to dart out in front of them at any time.

[erronis]

5. And children and pets and bicyclists, etc.

The change of rural areas where everyone really understood the underlying rules to these new mixed rural/developed areas always causes big problems.

I definitely saw that in Northern Virginia during the 80s/90s as the development scourge spread out across the DC environs. Plus these people tend to think of themselves as better than thou - entitled.

[AllaN01Bear]

6. hem. we got speeders in our apartment complex parking lot and its our own rezes.

[BlueKota]

8. Definitely true about children, bicycles, and pets.

[soldierant]

9. It would have mattered to the turky only

if it were low enough tosee and miss him/her. I don't know whether 45 would have done that, not knowing the road. But it might have on some roads.