GRIPES

[Jerry_Atrick]

Hobart.. mainly

 

[Marty_d]

Ah yes IMAS. I was thinking of the Australian Maritime College which is up north.

[red750]

@Jerry_Atrick   You might find this interesting.

 

https://transport.vic.gov.au/news-and-resources/news/free-weekend-travel-across-victoria-this-summer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Jerry_Atrick]

Hit a deer last night on the drive home from London. Bugger!

 

Did it on the A303, wgucg us a dual lane carriageway (where I hit it), travelling at c. 70mph. 

 

Deer went under the car as far as I could tell. I thought I hit it middle on, bit it was slighlty left of centre (or its inertia took it that way as it was coming right to left). 

 

As it was in the A303 in a live road, the police had to come first to cordon off the lane. They they recovered it, but I have to do the insurance stuff this morning and have it recovered and hopefully repaired. Airbags didn't deploy, so hopefully not a write off (getting value for a like for like replacement is almost impossible). 

 

On the positive, car did astonishingly well; driver unharmed, buut radiator and no doubt some of the undercarriage is stuffed. Would say a minimum of £3k damage:

 

 

Edited 8 hours ago by Jerry_Atrick

[onetrack]

That'd give ya the shz. 😄 

 

Deer couldn't have been too sizeable? When I read the first line, I expected to see a Mini totalled.

[pmccarthy]

Thank goodness you weren’t on the bike.

[Marty_d]

Did you at least bring home a haunch of venison?

[red750]

1 hour ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

wgucg us

???

[onetrack]

That's exactly what he said, as the deer went under.

[Jerry_Atrick]

2 hours ago, onetrack said:

That'd give ya the shz. 😄 

 

Deer couldn't have been too sizeable? When I read the first line, I expected to see a Mini totalled.

The insurance company want to total it.. I am discussing it with them now.. It wasn't a huge deer, no... 

 

2 hours ago, pmccarthy said:

Thank goodness you weren’t on the bike.

Agree.. Although I still should have taken the bl@@dy motorway!

 

2 hours ago, Marty_d said:

Did you at least bring home a haunch of venison?

More burger or stew than haunch (in one piece)... 

 

2 hours ago, red750 said:

???

No idea! Should probably have been "Was on..", but sometimes I wonder if it is me or the Bluetooth conenction from the keyboard getting signals mixed.

[red750]

I interpreted it as 'which is'. 

[pmccarthy]

Did you say 'deer oh deer'?

[Jerry_Atrick]

 

Have heard that one at least 100 times this morning alone...