Do you know what I love about Texas?

[Fenris]

I was driving home tonight on the 1-35 southbound access road, on a particular stretch of pavement that isn't lit. About 300 feet in front of me I see this thing moving in the dark. From a distance it looked like a human walking near the side of the road. As I got closer I saw it wasn't bipedal and thought it was a dog. About 50 feet closer, I realized I was driving straight into a Longhorn steer.



I turned the wheel a bit abrasively.



:scared:



I've lived here all my life and I have never faced a cow on the road head on like that. He had some friends with him too. Some idiot farmer must have left the fence open. Almost gave me a fucking heart attack!

[No2W2004]

1. Yikes!

All I ever had to deal with was the occasional possum or armadillo.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

2. Oy. That was close, huh? Same thing happened to me in ME

only with Moose.

Scary shit on a dark night.

[flamingyouth]

3. That's amazing, Fenris!

Several people not far from here had a tragic run-in with a few elk on I-90 on their way into Seattle recently (you don't want to know the details).

I've never been to Texas. An old friend of mine lives in San Antonio. He used to live in Austin.:hi:

[Fenris]

4. I live between the two cities.

San Marcos is about halfway between Austin and San Antonio.:hi:

Elk, eh? Canadian terrorists!

[Wickerman]

5. In my time in Texas I encountered deer, armadillos, drunk humans

and once a really freaking big rattlesnake - hut I never had to deal with Longhorns. That would've left a mark had you banged into him. I get cows and horses and such here in rural Minnesota - but hell, its more their road then mine so ya watch for them.

[Fenris]

6. Yeah, hitting a longhorn is like hitting a small car.

Not fun.

[johnnie]

7. When I was a child...

I lived very close to the stock yards and some of the cows got loose. We were going out to eat and we got stopped by a few of the cattle walking across the road. And that is up here in Cleveland, Oh...I feel your pain.

[exJW]

8. So you were gonna kill the dog?

[Fenris]

10. Yes. That's exactly what I was going to do.

:wtf:

[Fleshdancer]

9. now THAT's a speed bump

I've never seen a longhorn on the road before, but when I was a kid, the cows at the ranch a few blocks from my house would break out of the fence. One time they were in the street, and another time they were in our backyard (before we had it fenced in). Nothing is funnier as a kid then having cows in your backyard. They were nice enough though.

[CatWoman]

11. My brother was living in Oklahoma

a few years ago, and I visited.

He took me up this trail to some visitor's park, and right there in the middle of the trail was a fucking buffalo.

A fucking buffalo.

Bigger than the car.

I started screaming.

It was funny as hell :D

[Fenris]

12. Oh, when I was younger

We lived in Tulsa for a while. There was an Indian museum called the Gilcrease that you'd have to drive through the prairie to get to. Lots of bison out that way. When you're a child and your parents sit you on top of one, I dare you NOT to cry hysterically.x(

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. There used to be a buffalo farm not far from my house.

One day a few of them got out. One started charging cars driving by. They're pretty temperamental creatures.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

13. You sure it wasn't the Chupacabra...................

in a Bevo costume? Its a wily fucker, I've heard tell.

[Fenris]

15. If it was Bevo, I would have hit it

Top-tier money-funnel cow! LEave some education dollars for the 3rd tier schools, dammit!

[jus_the_facts]

16. My sister and her husband hit a COW then a PIG on Friday the 13th......

....it was dark and they were in the road...the cow hit and bounced off the windshield...then just splattered the pig...."why did the pig cross the highway...'cos he was followin' a frickin' cow???"...her little Chevy Monza was totaled too. :crazy:

[IronLionZion]

17. TEXAS!!! Hell I see that in PA

all kinds of crazy animals. Even Llamas and Emus

[lagniappe]

18. I live in a suburb of Houston and I am still surprised..

at the variety of wildlife my wife and I have encountered. We've seen skunks, rabbits, raccoons, hawks, and deer. Just the other day I found a baby dove in the back yard. We tried to take care of it for a couple days, but it's health started to deteriorate. Luckily there is a well organized wildlife rescue network in the area, and we found a nice lady just a few minutes away who could help with the bird. It turns out that the little guy had an infection that causes the throat to swell. This is fatal, and unfortunately we did not get help in time to save the dove. The infection comes from contaminated water such as bird baths (so keep those baths clean).

Anyway, when we visited this lady, we found out that there are 4 species of owls that live in the area. She was rehabilitating several types of owls. One species is white and has a vicious hiss. Even though I know they are nocturnal, I was shocked since I had never seen nor heard an owl in my 14 years of living in Houston.

[No2W2004]

19. Really?

I lived north of Houston. Bats. Lots of 'em. The owls kept after the bats. Then, there were deer, skunks, rabbits, giant fat raccoons that got in our garbage any chance they'd get, lots of hummingbirds, snakes, possum, armadillos, and the occasional snake.

All in all, just like "Wild Kingdom" without Marlin Perkins.