I was driving to work one morning doing 50 or so and a seagull flew right across my windshield, couldnāt believe he made it with how close he came. It was literally me going āholy shit!ā as he cleared, and then the softball hitting the corner of the windshield sound of him not making it. The timing still makes no sense to me cause I had time to react and take a breath before the hit. Glitch in the matrix or something.
It was just raining feathers behind me.
I was riding motorcycle once and there was a female rider in front of me. She hit an owl head on. The rain of feathers was incredible.
These stories are epic gentlemen, epic!
I hit some bugs driving in the south onceā¦
I also saw a deer get hit on Rt 80 eastbound morning commute, do a flip and a half, with a twist, LAND, get back UP, jumps ON the hood of a car, launches over the barricade to the westbound lanes and run off (no traffic westbound really at that time).
I scored it a 8.9, thought its final launch over the barricade was weak.
Something similar happened to me, was driving to work at 5am one morning, giant buck hits my old Dodge Ram right in the front quarter panel while Iām doing like 75km/h the screech of his antlers was nuts, he flipped across the hood on his back slid off the other side into a metal fence, got up, shook his head, ran in a semi circle and straight up cleared the entire 8ft Iām thinking metal fence and bounds across the highway with a piece of its rack dangling, stopped all six lanes of traffic as he couldnāt figure out where to go until he found his way to the canal. Crushed my truck, crushed it.
Deer are dangerous as hell. Specially in the fall of the year.
I was hanging with a friend during Bikes, Blues &BBQ in NW Arkansas. He decided to to a little jaunt at dusk with his wife. I was too loaded so I stayed back. He was cruising he said about 50 or so. A deer jumped out in front of him and he T-boned that deer on his Harley. With his wife on the back. And they never laid the bike down. The front of that bike looked like a freight train hit it. Plus Gary and his wife were covered in deer guts and deer shit. But no one died. Thatās a good day.
I also almost killed my entire family when I swerved to miss a deer when both of my boys were babies and I was driving to work in the early morning on the backroads, turned, deer jumped out, I swerved a bit to miss it but caught the gravel car started to spin right into a huge 6-7ft drop down into a semi new growth forest. Found the biggest tree and totalled my brand new 7 mth off the showroom floor grand am gt , my wife was unconscious and I carried her to the road side along with my baby boys in complete shock , a can came by and found us snd called the cops/paramedics. I didnāt drive for 5 years after that, still prefer not to tbh. Almost killed the love of my life , and could have lost my kids. Trust me, HIT THE DEER !
Definitely a blessed day. Wow, on a bike no doubt, ouch!
with a car, youāre pretty much always walking away I dont wanna imagine hitting a deer on a bikeā¦
I was always told insurance covers you if you hit the deer, not if you swerve and hit the tree. Iāve had some close calls but all I do is slam on the brakesā¦
They did cover me that day, thank God!
Does it count when I was in NYC, driving on FDR heading South at night and be crashed by a NYPD car which was trying to avoid hitting a car stuck on the FDR?
Just picture yourself having to say, āitās ok!ā to a cop in blue? Awkward to say the least!! No feathers and or antlers flying around though! Weird! 
It made me lol for sure!
But consider a 10 lb bag of potatoes in the face while doing 60?
Fucker is tough as nails!
Just spotted something I have not seen in a while on the free seeds thread 
That one went quick!
jesus thats scary and why i always try to teach new drivers to just hit the deer so glad things went well for you man that must have been alot of emotions to deal with. i get huge anxiety from driving myself
I almost hit a deer on my bike doing 80+ an hour on the highway at 3:30am. It just appeared a couple feet away in my headlight and was gone in a split second. Heart was pounding the rest of the ride to work. Change the timing slightly and I would be history.
Also had a turkey clip my windshield and graze my shoulder once. Saw the turkey go down in my mirror but I kept going.
Alright, now I KNOW thereās a hundred users on right now, so lets keep the chat here so poor @G-paS doesnāt have a ton of chatter to sort thru on @misterbee 's thread!
Someone sure knows how to get the anticipation up! Thank you @misterbee !!
His give-away has me feeling like:
I feel for you, I almost hit a deer on Saturday. Was going down the road at the lake and came around the corner into blazing sun, could not see at all. Hit my brakes and slowed right down and when the direct sun hid behind a tree there was a deer inches from my bumper running across the road. Man was I glad I slowed right down or it would have ended up in my lap. Pretty common on that road, always deer around.
Yeah it scared the shit out of me. Pitch black on that part of the 404 north of Newmarket.
Iām going to have to keep checking on my phone for the list to go up. Of course today of all days is the one where I have to learn to navigate on mobile!