[msterling]

Steve,

Golf score was lousy but somehow I won $50. Musta been all the free beer. I needed something to steady my nerves. This was AFTER the deer encounter. I did sober up before driving the P-car home that night. The deer was not there when we passed the scene of the crime.

I think we WERE pretty lucky. Also, if I had been driving a Cavalier we would have hit that deer a lot harder. Good brakes are a good thing.

My wife's deer whistles were crushed mercilously by a deer's head at 70mph. $2500 damage to the Sabb 900. She didn't have the whistles on her Audi 90 and the deer acted about the same to the tune of $6000 (and that car was never the same). She drives more than me during the dangerous hours of the day.

Ohio is near the top in deer hits due to overpopulation. No natural predators and no way for normal hunting in metropolitan areas leaves the job up to us "vehicular homiciders".