"Tad Perry" <
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> Clave wrote:
>> "popinjay999" <
paulpo...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
>> news:73331190-45f4-4b33...@t9g2000pbc.googlegroups.com...
>>> On Aug 23, 8:27 pm, "Tad Perry" <
tadpe...@comcast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> And Paul, I know you love animals and so do I. I just wanted to say
>>>> that how
>>>> fast you drive has nothing to do with how dangerous cars are to
>>>> animals. If
>>>> that's a true concern, it's best to just give up driving at all,
>>>> because even a steady 30 mph is bound to take one out every now and
>>>> then. tvp
>>>
>>>
>>> Let's be rational. Ok? We're not going to completely give up
>>> driving. That's a given. But personally, I now drive much slower at
>>> night when I know a little animal can dart out in front of me at any
>>> time. By doing so, I better my chances of being able to stop or
>>> adjust in time. On the other hand, we were talking about driving
>>> really fast in the other thread, and that is both dangerous to
>>> yourself and to animals. So we're both adults, and we can talk about
>>> this calmly and rationally. But I'm right and you're wrong, so just
>>> don't fucking do it. Case closed.
>
> Empty message alert.
Gosh, I already knew that, but thanks. I had no intention of even opening
this post for reply, much less sending it.
Turns out my laptop's touchpad was active despite my having a wireless USB
mouse, and my inadvertent pad-touching was responsible for a bunch of other
misbehavior before I figured it out and disabled it. I apologize for any
confusion the blank post may have caused you.
<...snip unnecessary rudeness...>
If it makes you feel better, and it's only happened a couple of times, but
if I hit an animal it affects me for days. Out in the sticks where I live
it's essential that you be vigilant for deer, dogs, cats, coons, possums and
smaller, and even the odd coyote, cougar or black bear -- I rarely go a week
without one or more jumping out of the brush in front of me. I don't drive
slower than I would otherwise, but I do pay a lot more attention to what's
going on to the sides of the roads going 25 mph than I do when I'm in
Redmond/Bellevue doing 40.
Story time: once I stopped on an arterial in suburban Minneapolis, blocking
both westbound lanes, while I carried a 10-pound snapping turtle from where
I was about to flatten him over to the south side of the road, closer to the
river.
He wasn't terribly happy about it and tried really hard to take my fingers
off (I know how to handle snapping turtles), but a few people behind me
actually applauded when they saw what I was doing.
Jim