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[pooks]

Also, snakes.

I suppose if you ran over a snake it would probably flip you?

Ever since I saw that pic of a rattlesnake crossing the highway that MTNKITCHN (I think that's right) posted in the "what you don't ever leave behind" thread (because she never leaves her camera behind -- I believe she probably does leave the rattlesnakes behind) -- I've wondered about snakes in the road and if they'd just be a "bump" or if you'd go flying. Probably depends on the size of the snake.

I don't want to find out.

[xeney]

I've run over two snakes. You don't even feel them.

[pooks]

That's a relief. I guess they were probably small snakes, though?

[emily_in_nc]

What about a boa constrictor? That might send you flying!

[Kitsune06]

I'm guessing if you unweighted your front wheel, you'd almost not feel 'em. But it'd certainly feel you, so go *fast!*

Deer. Grr. Growing up in WI and learning to drive with that sort of "Is that a little reflector on a mailbox or a deer?!" paranoia as soon as it started getting a little dark (or in the spring... or the fall... or all summer...) and having to stop on rural roads and counting 5-10 of them cross in front of my little car, after not seeing a SINGLE one while out hunting... I don't feel too bad for them when they're in those midwestern states where they breed like rabbits and just wander from corn field to corn field... (or soybeans, or alfalfa, or...) but I do feel for them when in the 'new' suburban communities (like the ones called "Oak Grove" etc where the actual oak grove was bulldozed to pop up about fifty houses that all look alike?) and they seem so lost, because just last year that was a decent habitat...

Turkeys are SOLID and I would NOT want to hit one. All the same, they're also more wary than deer tend to be.

...squirrels are suicidal.

[Lise]

...squirrels are suicidal.

I know. I saw one come out from under a car the other day, pause, and decide to turn around rather than run out in front of me. I most certainly would have hit him had he not decided to turn back. What an ignomious death that would have been. For me. I would have ricocheted off his furry little body and been flung into traffic. No doubt he would've shaken it off and run in some other direction.