754 Subj : Re: This Train Just Went Splat! To : alt.tv.er From : DawnK Date : Fri Sep 23 2005 14:27:34 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er "Banty" wrote in message news:dh1faj0js3@drn.newsguy.com... > In article , > rhythmking2004@yahoo.com says... >> >>On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:50:49 -0500, darrenthornton@webtv.net (Darren >>Thornton) wrote: >> >>> Too bad the first driver didn't call the police. What did Alex >>>tell him? Have Luka and Sam get there a little too late. What if >>>they'd been driving down the road, and saw him in that truck? The crash >>>was too realistic. How come the airbags didn't go off? Wouldn't the >>>owner of the antelope be liable? That's assuming there was one. When do >>>they get the car back? >> >>> Sincerely, >>> Darren Thornton >> >>What I don't get is why they were on country roads in the first place >>to hit the thing. When I drove from a couple hundred miles south of >>Chicago to Reno a few years ago, we were on interstates the entire way >>there. The interstate should have taken them straight to Colorado (I >>remember that we got off the interstate right before we left Nebraska, >>drove through a little bit of Colorado to say we'd been there, and >>then got back on the interstate - we were off it no more than 20 >>minutes). My wife identified the town they were near (North Platte?) >>as being in Nebraska, so they should have still been on the >>interstate. > > ?? > > Antelope can, and do, find their way to interstates (and runways, and...) > > Banty > While all the deer I hit, were on county or state highways, there are deer signs on the interstate as well. Heck we saw deer standing in someone's driveway, a few years ago, in the next community to the west of me! Dawn Dawn . 0