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I was just reading the "fastest you've ever been in a car" thread and remembered this incident:

I was at a sales meeting in the cornfields of central Illinois and had taken my 94 Mustang GT convertible. One morning I was driving with an associate to the meeting from the motel down this dead straight, smooth 2-lane between fields of tall corn. He said "How fast is this thing?". I said something like 150+ and jumped on it. At about 130 I shifted to 5th which was a mistake but it crawled up to about 140. I then slowed back down to sixty. Not five seconds later a couple of deer trotted across the road maybe 300ft in front of us! WHEWEEE! We would have been vaporized along with the deer at 140mph.

Kinda makes you think.