</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">Originally posted by HCMP:
<strong>In high school one of my buddies had a minced deer land in his lap that was launched there from a car that hit it coming the other direction. Straight through the windshield! damn.

...when the unconscious deer got up and ran straight in the passenger side door and got it's head right about where the passenger's foot was.
So he's standing on the deer's neck trying to keep it away from himself while it's trying to thrash about. He wisely jumps out of the car and the deer gets up and starts kicking the crap out the interior before finally exiting thru the driver's side door on the other side.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">I have a similar story, although mine involves a blackbird, no damage, and no intention of trying to kill anything... Funny story nonetheless...

I'm driving under an overpass with a busy intersection on either side of it, neither one with a traffic light -- very very common place for people to have accidents in my area. Anyway, I get thru the first intersection, and while going under the overpass, I go to light a cigarette. (How did anyone guess my story would involve smoking?) I take my eyes off the road for about a second to light the cig... Now, it's winter and my window is cracked about an inch and a half to flick my ashes, when all of a sudden while lighting the cig, WHAMMO! First instinct was to slam on the brakes cause I thought I got into an accident crossing the second intersection. Nope, no accident... Instead I'm bleeding from the side of my head and there's a HUGE blackbird sitting on the passenger seat next to me. This freakin' thing flew in my window that was cracked open only an inch and a half, whacked me in the head and landed in the passenger seat. Then the thing proceeds to flap its wings and FLY into the back seat! It's trying desperately to get out the hatchback, with at least a 2 and a half foot wingspan, if not more... I quickly jut into a parking lot, slam it into park, and bail out to go around back and open the hatch, and in the meantime he flies out the driver door that I left open in my haste.... It was quite the scene. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" />

Funny thing is, I had a MUCH MUCH MUCH better chance of winning the lottery than having this thing fly thru an inch and a half cracked window, hit me in the head and land in my passenger seat! But no, I don't win the lottery -- I have this happen instead! I'm not sure if this means I should PLAY the lottery cause I can beat the odds, or if it means I've already exhausted all my odd-beating skills and I should just stay away from the lottery. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" />

-Chris