Post by: crt360 on July 20, 2008, 10:43:00 PM
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Man Released After Motorcycle Collides with Cow
Posted: July 18, 2008 07:15 AM
Updated: July 18, 2008 04:59 PM
by Lauren Keeffe
CHILTON- A man is in the hospital after he says he ran into what he thinks was a cow while riding his motorcycle.
Police and rescue crews were on the scene early this morning on Highway 77, near Chilton.
The motorcyclist was sent to Scott and White Hospital where he was treated and released.
Officers are still investigating the wreck.
Posted: July 18, 2008 07:15 AM
Updated: July 18, 2008 04:59 PM
by Lauren Keeffe
CHILTON- A man is in the hospital after he says he ran into what he thinks was a cow while riding his motorcycle.
Police and rescue crews were on the scene early this morning on Highway 77, near Chilton.
The motorcyclist was sent to Scott and White Hospital where he was treated and released.
Officers are still investigating the wreck.
Did he hit it so hard that it was also unidentifiable by the police and rescue crews?
Post by: wmenorr67 on July 20, 2008, 10:54:08 PM
Post by: LadySmith on July 20, 2008, 11:40:26 PM
Post by: seeker_two on July 21, 2008, 01:08:36 AM
The cow could have not been injured and left the scene of the accident.
Then she should get a ticket for that....
Post by: Jamisjockey on July 21, 2008, 02:40:30 AM
Ouch. And I thought that bicyclist who got hit by a deer in my area was bad.
I know a guy who hit a moose on his mountain bike. Broke his cavicle.
Post by: Lennyjoe on July 21, 2008, 03:12:33 AM
Post by: El Tejon on July 21, 2008, 03:39:30 AM
I nearly clipped an Axis deer in Mountain Home one foggy morning. Good thing I was driving a little slow and was tensed up like a cat.
Post by: JimMarch on July 21, 2008, 04:13:47 AM
This doesn't mean the guy was DUI or anything...could have been, but trust me, just the hit to the head will mess up memory.
Post by: Manedwolf on July 21, 2008, 04:36:05 AM
The cow could have not been injured and left the scene of the accident.
Then she should get a ticket for that....
mooing violation?
Post by: MechAg94 on July 21, 2008, 04:53:01 AM
Guy probably suffered a concussion that screwed with his memories. It happens, even with a good helmet...been there, done that.
This doesn't mean the guy was DUI or anything...could have been, but trust me, just the hit to the head will mess up memory.
I think it means he was going pretty fast and didn't get more than a glimpse of the cow. This doesn't mean the guy was DUI or anything...could have been, but trust me, just the hit to the head will mess up memory.
Yes, in Texas, if it isn't deer or cows, then little things like possum or squirrels will get you. If you get out in rural areas, you used to see a lot of farmers with big steel guards on the front of their trucks.
Post by: Tallpine on July 21, 2008, 07:06:27 AM
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2 riders on a Harly hit a cow elk doing what the lady passenger said was 50 mph.
That's a pretty fast elk
Just FYI: Montana is still "open range" by law, so if you hit a cow you have to pay for the cost of the cow as well as your own damages and injuries.
Post by: 41magsnub on July 21, 2008, 07:14:27 AM
I'd rather have hit a cow than a grizzly bear on a bike. Just think how screwed a guy might be if the bear lived:
http://www.nohippos.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3027
A Saskatchewan motorcycle rider who struck and killed an adult grizzly will live to tell the tale.
The man, who was riding a motorcycle that he had purchased just two weeks ago, was riding through Kootenay National Park on Tuesday night when he hit a bruin that was trying to make its way across Hwy. 93, said Columbia Valley RCMP Cpl. Brent Ayers.
"He was heading north towards Canmore when a grizzly bear ran across the road in front of him," he said.
"He was unable to avoid hitting (the) grizzly and (the) bear died on impact."
Post by: BobR on July 21, 2008, 08:32:00 AM
One dark night right after I went over the cattle guard into the refuge I sped up and didin't get 100yds before I broadsided Mr Buff. It folded my front wheel under the engine, bent the forks, my legs bent the handle bars and I went flying over Mr Buff. He commenced to lay on the road and make these strange grunting sounds, much like I was making as I tried to get air into my lungs.
He recovered before me, got up and wandered away. All the time I was worried that after he got up he would come over and stomp me into a greasy spot on the road. I eventually got up, dragged my bike to the side of the road and sat down to think. About that time a Highway patrolman drove up and asked what happened. I told him, and he LAUGHED at me!
The only evidence i hit the guy was my bike was crunched and both the clutch and front brake lever had buff fur in them, there were a few other tufts here and there.
I had some friends fishing down the road so he took me there to get my frends truck to haul my bike away. He must have felt sorry for me, I didn't get a ticket...but then again, neither did the buff for failing to yield.
bob
Post by: Tallpine on July 21, 2008, 08:39:28 AM
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The man, who was riding a motorcycle that he had purchased just two weeks ago, was riding through Kootenay National Park on Tuesday night when he hit a bruin that was trying to make its way across Hwy. 93, said Columbia Valley RCMP Cpl. Brent Ayers.
What is scary is that I went backpacking for several days in KNP about 30 years ago. No guns (of course!) and my black lab mix tagging along.
Maybe that's why I'm so paranoid any more about always carrying a gun. I figure that I have already used up all my luck.
Post by: Manedwolf on July 21, 2008, 08:42:44 AM
Post by: Marnoot on July 21, 2008, 08:54:42 AM
Post by: seeker_two on July 21, 2008, 09:08:02 AM
The cow could have not been injured and left the scene of the accident.
Then she should get a ticket for that....
mooing violation?
At least they won't tag on an "improper use of horn" violation.....
Post by: coppertales on July 21, 2008, 12:04:17 PM
Post by: Monkeyleg on July 21, 2008, 12:47:08 PM
Nothing like coming around a curve too fast and finding 800 pounds of beef standing in your way.
Post by: BobR on July 21, 2008, 02:58:47 PM
We just called them slow elk, didn't matter whether it was a cow or a horse.
bob
Post by: Headless Thompson Gunner on July 21, 2008, 03:05:04 PM
I grew up in Amish country. Amish car wrecks usually resulted in a horse carcass blocking traffic, and a county sheriff scratching his head about how to move it. I don't think they ever had a good solution.
Post by: grampster on July 21, 2008, 03:12:57 PM
Post by: BobR on July 21, 2008, 03:24:56 PM
Whatever was left behind fed the various carrion eaters for while.
bob
Post by: Firethorn on July 22, 2008, 04:08:01 AM
I don't think they ever had a good solution.
Why not? Assuming the carcass is mostly intact, wrap a noose around the neck, tie to vehicle, drag off of road. If nothing else, the tow truck shouldn't have any problem. If it's that common, have tow packages installed on the cop cars so they can hook the line to the hitch.
Water truck if you really want it clean, and the highway department can take the corpse if they really want to(IE it's in an area you can't just wait for the scavangers).
Post by: MechAg94 on July 22, 2008, 06:37:42 AM
What do you do with the dead cow after it gets hit?
I grew up in Amish country. Amish car wrecks usually resulted in a horse carcass blocking traffic, and a county sheriff scratching his head about how to move it. I don't think they ever had a good solution.
I guess a fork lift would work. I grew up in Amish country. Amish car wrecks usually resulted in a horse carcass blocking traffic, and a county sheriff scratching his head about how to move it. I don't think they ever had a good solution.
A rope and a ramp up onto a low trailer would do it.
It is probably good that most land where I grew up was fenced. I think more teenagers ran off the road due to being drunk and driving too fast than anything else. The road I lived on was a well maintained and fairly wide 2 lane farm road. It was deceptively straight in spots and it looks like you could go 120 MPH with no problem....until you get to the next curve and clear the barbed wire fence as you go flying off the road....or hit a patch of sand/dirt that the nice gravel trucks left for you.
Post by: Tallpine on July 22, 2008, 06:38:41 AM
I don't think they ever had a good solution.
Why not? Assuming the carcass is mostly intact, wrap a noose around the neck, tie to vehicle, drag off of road. If nothing else, the tow truck shouldn't have any problem. If it's that common, have tow packages installed on the cop cars so they can hook the line to the hitch.
Water truck if you really want it clean, and the highway department can take the corpse if they really want to(IE it's in an area you can't just wait for the scavangers).
That sort of thing requires logical thinking and a bit of initiative ...
Post by: roo_ster on July 22, 2008, 06:45:30 AM
The several tow trucks would wrap the cable around the bovine's neck and drag it off the road. Seeing that done to the dead ones was no biggie. Seeing it done the the live injured but not ambulatory bovines was creepy.
Post by: Headless Thompson Gunner on July 22, 2008, 07:44:12 AM
I don't think they ever had a good solution.
Why not? Assuming the carcass is mostly intact, wrap a noose around the neck, tie to vehicle, drag off of road. If nothing else, the tow truck shouldn't have any problem. If it's that common, have tow packages installed on the cop cars so they can hook the line to the hitch.
Water truck if you really want it clean, and the highway department can take the corpse if they really want to(IE it's in an area you can't just wait for the scavangers).
That sort of thing requires logical thinking and a bit of initiative ...
A forklift might work, but forklifts are hard to come by in backroads northeastern Indiana, particularly late at night.
Post by: Tallpine on July 22, 2008, 07:51:42 AM
We heard the whole deal on the scanner: sheriff's and deputies from two counties and a hiway patrol-person busy for a couple hours dealing with loose, injured, and dead sheep. (they shot several of the severely injured ones) Several local citizens also jumped to the rescue bringing their personal stock/horse trailers to contain the animals that were still running around. (I never did hear who lost the sheep in the first place)
Oh - the life of a rural Montana sheriff
And then there was the time my wife was headed to town on the back road and came along some lady with a pickup trying to load some pigs. They weren't her pigs - she just found them in the road and was trying to keep them from further harm and/or straying. Turned out the pigs belonged to the local "Hoot" colony. They had just bought them and were trying to bring them home.
We used to have a paint mini-horse that could let himself in or out of any fence. Neighbors would call and say that he was out by the county road, and I would just reply that he would come home for suppertime. Usually by the time they called he was already back home anyway. We finally sold him at xmas time to some folks who had a little girl to ride him.
Post by: Firethorn on July 22, 2008, 10:23:03 AM
They tried the rope around the horse's neck thing. Once. It resulted in most of the horse carcass still in the road, and a horse head tied to a rope bouncing along behind the truck.
A forklift might work, but forklifts are hard to come by in backroads northeastern Indiana, particularly late at night.
A forklift might work, but forklifts are hard to come by in backroads northeastern Indiana, particularly late at night.
Did they jerk it? Somebody else mentioned successfully hauling cows off the road with a tow truck. A horse should work as well. Maybe it had a damaged neck? Regardless - in that case you wrap the rope(not cable!) around something else. It's not like you're worrying about damaging it more.
Oh, and I'd have put the cows down first before dragging them.
Post by: El Tejon on July 22, 2008, 10:31:29 AM
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A forklift might work, but forklifts are hard to come by in backroads northeastern Indiana, particularly late at night.
They build the Hummer there. Just put a snow blade on a Hummer and push it off into the ditch.
Post by: Manedwolf on July 22, 2008, 10:36:54 AM
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A forklift might work, but forklifts are hard to come by in backroads northeastern Indiana, particularly late at night.
They build the Hummer there. Just put a snow blade on a Hummer and push it off into the ditch.
GM might discontinue the brand, according to the CEO.
Post by: zahc on July 22, 2008, 11:54:56 AM
Post by: seeker_two on July 22, 2008, 12:18:45 PM
What do you do with the dead cow after it gets hit?
Wait for it to swell up and shoot it with .22lr tracer rounds.....
Post by: crt360 on July 22, 2008, 08:33:15 PM
I hit deer once when i was skateboarding an night. Jumped right in front of me when i was going about 25.
You know that deer has been telling other deer about the time he was jumping along on his merry way when a person going about 25 ran right into him. "Yeah, the kid was haulin' ass, came out of nowhere, and the funny part is - his legs weren't even moving. Go figure?"
Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on July 23, 2008, 05:03:40 PM
Post by: LadySmith on July 24, 2008, 03:14:50 AM
The several tow trucks would wrap the cable around the bovine's neck and drag it off the road. Seeing that done to the dead ones was no biggie. Seeing it done the the live injured but not ambulatory bovines was creepy.
They tried the rope around the horse's neck thing. Once. It resulted in most of the horse carcass still in the road, and a horse head tied to a rope bouncing along behind the truck.
Thanks for the new nightmares, guys.
Post by: Rovi on July 24, 2008, 03:53:30 AM
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The several tow trucks would wrap the cable around the bovine's neck and drag it off the road. Seeing that done to the dead ones was no biggie. Seeing it done the the live injured but not ambulatory bovines was creepy.
Unless there was some immediate and obvious danger to humans that absolutely required that these injured livestock be treated this way, I hope that whoever was responsible for that particular stunt felt the full force of whatever animal cruelty legislation was applicable.
Anyhow, here's a local newspaper report about a car/horse interaction from a few years ago-
The driver would have been in the right side seat, by the way.
Post by: roo_ster on July 24, 2008, 05:17:33 AM
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A forklift might work, but forklifts are hard to come by in backroads northeastern Indiana, particularly late at night.
They build the Hummer there. Just put a snow blade on a Hummer and push it off into the ditch.
GM might discontinue the brand, according to the CEO.
Man, this sounds like the 1980s Cadillac decision to downsize all its autos...just in time for $1/gal gas.
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The several tow trucks would wrap the cable around the bovine's neck and drag it off the road. Seeing that done to the dead ones was no biggie. Seeing it done the the live injured but not ambulatory bovines was creepy.
Unless there was some immediate and obvious danger to humans that absolutely required that these injured livestock be treated this way, I hope that whoever was responsible for that particular stunt felt the full force of whatever animal cruelty legislation was applicable.
I am sure it was at the behest of the Georgia State Troopers, who were on the scene. It would not have take much to dispatch them. They were a hazard, but I also expect some trooper unwilling to discharge his weapon to put the bovines out of their misery. Either a fear of being held responsible for the cost of the animals or some draconian GST policy about discharging their weapon.
The several tow trucks would wrap the cable around the bovine's neck and drag it off the road. Seeing that done to the dead ones was no biggie. Seeing it done the the live injured but not ambulatory bovines was creepy.
They tried the rope around the horse's neck thing. Once. It resulted in most of the horse carcass still in the road, and a horse head tied to a rope bouncing along behind the truck.
Thanks for the new nightmares, guys.
FWIW, I recall most of it dimly, save one particular cow which was pretty damn clear, as it kind of embodied the entire grotesquerie in a snapshot. I'll spare you THOSE sharp details.
Post by: Tallpine on July 24, 2008, 06:11:12 AM
Somehow at the very last minute, the moose decided to step out of the way of this screaching little bug. I hadn't been driving all that fast, maybe 60mph but it was dark.
Post by: wmenorr67 on July 24, 2008, 06:47:21 AM
Post by: Tallpine on July 24, 2008, 07:46:39 AM
Would you have made it under its belly between its legs?
Probably not quite. But in that split second I was wondering if it would just flip over behind the car. If you hit their legs, they usually flip over on top of the car, smashing through the windshield and landing still alive and kicking and very put out
It was a "borrowed" car. I was doing some free work for a guy on his cabin about 40 miles from where I lived. The deal was that I couldn't afford to buy gas for my pickup to do free labor. (the fellow had a heart attack and died suddenly just a few years ago
)While I was up there, I heard a tale about a couple guys that hit a bear in a 4wd p/u. The p/u bounced up on top of the bear. The story was that they were sitting high centered with the bear still alive underneath and bouncing the p/u around.
Post by: crt360 on July 24, 2008, 09:42:15 PM
While I was up there, I heard a tale about a couple guys that hit a bear in a 4wd p/u. The p/u bounced up on top of the bear. The story was that they were sitting high centered with the bear still alive underneath and bouncing the p/u around.
That happened to me once, but instead of a bear it was a folded queen size mattress.
Post by: Regolith on July 24, 2008, 11:05:13 PM
Anyway, one day this trucker was hauling down the road and didn't see the pronghorn in time. As he slammed on his breaks, his truck began to jack-knife and the rig took out the entire herd in one fell swoop. I think the body count was around 20 or 30 animals when it was all over. That must have been a pain in the butt to clean up.
Post by: seeker_two on July 25, 2008, 01:40:49 AM
While I was up there, I heard a tale about a couple guys that hit a bear in a 4wd p/u. The p/u bounced up on top of the bear. The story was that they were sitting high centered with the bear still alive underneath and bouncing the p/u around.
That happened to me once, but instead of a bear it was a folded queen size mattress.
What caliber does one use for folded queen mattresses?
Post by: Jamisjockey on July 25, 2008, 04:07:20 AM
Some of these stories remind me of something that happened a decade or so ago on Highway 95 between Burns Jct. and McDermitt in Oregon. There is (or was) a fairly large pronghorn herd in that area, and during the winters they would sometimes congregate on the highway because it was free of snow and somewhat warmer than the surrounding area.
Anyway, one day this trucker was hauling down the road and didn't see the pronghorn in time. As he slammed on his breaks, his truck began to jack-knife and the rig took out the entire herd in one fell swoop. I think the body count was around 20 or 30 animals when it was all over. That must have been a pain in the butt to clean up.
Anyway, one day this trucker was hauling down the road and didn't see the pronghorn in time. As he slammed on his breaks, his truck began to jack-knife and the rig took out the entire herd in one fell swoop. I think the body count was around 20 or 30 animals when it was all over. That must have been a pain in the butt to clean up.
Buddy and his family decided to move out here from Utah. They chose to do so in Jan.....he told me that somewhere around Rock Springs, WY, there was an entire wiped out herd of Pronghorn....said it was like a war movie. Some were just dead, some were disemboweled...some were missing legs. All were sticking out of the snow in various poses of death. And a large section of the roadway was stained red.
Post by: Manedwolf on July 25, 2008, 04:21:59 AM
While I was up there, I heard a tale about a couple guys that hit a bear in a 4wd p/u. The p/u bounced up on top of the bear. The story was that they were sitting high centered with the bear still alive underneath and bouncing the p/u around.
That happened to me once, but instead of a bear it was a folded queen size mattress.
Someone did that in Florida, but the catalytic converter set the mattress on fire. The person ran away from the car, which then exploded.
Post by: Jamisjockey on July 25, 2008, 05:30:46 AM
While I was up there, I heard a tale about a couple guys that hit a bear in a 4wd p/u. The p/u bounced up on top of the bear. The story was that they were sitting high centered with the bear still alive underneath and bouncing the p/u around.
That happened to me once, but instead of a bear it was a folded queen size mattress.
Someone did that in Florida, but the catalytic converter set the mattress on fire. The person ran away from the car, which then exploded.
Was Jack Baurer involved?
Post by: Tallpine on July 25, 2008, 06:57:08 AM
While I was up there, I heard a tale about a couple guys that hit a bear in a 4wd p/u. The p/u bounced up on top of the bear. The story was that they were sitting high centered with the bear still alive underneath and bouncing the p/u around.
That happened to me once, but instead of a bear it was a folded queen size mattress.
I'm not sure I want to ask what was inside the fold of the mattress that was making your vehicle bounce around
Post by: crt360 on July 25, 2008, 10:27:05 AM
While I was up there, I heard a tale about a couple guys that hit a bear in a 4wd p/u. The p/u bounced up on top of the bear. The story was that they were sitting high centered with the bear still alive underneath and bouncing the p/u around.
That happened to me once, but instead of a bear it was a folded queen size mattress.
I'm not sure I want to ask what was inside the fold of the mattress that was making your vehicle bounce around
I don't think anything was in it. I was going about 70 up I-35 in the New Braunfels, TX area when I saw the Honda Accord in front of me fly up in to the air. This big mattress came shooting out from under it and before I could do much it had double up under my vehicle which was now partly skidding down the highway. To make things worse, there was an 18-wheeler right behind me and the shoulders were blocked off with concrete construction barriers. Miraculously, the barrier on the inside shoulder ended just about the time I was finishing my slide and I somehow got off the road. I could already smell burnt mattress, so I started rocking my vehicle back and forth, shifting between 1st and R and accelerating. I finally got enough traction to get off the mattress and continue down the road to where I could stop and inspect my car for damage. The retard who lost the thing had his truck pulled over about a 1/2 mile up the road and was walking back to find it. I was very tempted to stop and kick his ass.