Living in a town that still has some farms left and a great deal of wooded areas still intact, can lead to unexpected animal encounters. A few years ago, when our beloved dog Moses was still with us, I took him outside to do his business early one evening, when what should be walking down my street, but a huge brown and white cow!
It was so unexpected and really caught me by surprise. The cow was moving fast, seemingly headed for some special destination. I quickly went back inside, Moses in tow, and called the cops. By the time I got back outside to see where the cow was, he was out of sight. No doubt that one of the local farms was shy one cow that day.
One creature I'm never surprised to see in our area are deer. Our town is overrun by them and you can see herds of them, groups of 10-12 deer, at any given time.
It's a weekly job in every season but winter, to go to the back yard and pick up their deposits. One warm, sunny afternoon in the spring a few years ago, I was headed home on Route 202 and when I was almost at my exit, I noticed that everyone ahead of me was hitting their brakes. I slowed down as well, and saw that several deer were
crossing the highway. Everyone in my direction avoided hitting any of the deer.
But, it was a different story on the other side of the highway, where there was less traffic. A speeding
car in the other direction, hit one of the deer with such impact, that the deer was propelled up in the air like 30 feet and it began rotating in the air, end over end in an arc over the highway.
By pure chance a convertible, with it's top down was heading in the deer's direction, as it made it's inevitable downward descent. The deer landed in the convertible's back seat, positioned perfectly like a stuffed animal, it's head resting against the side cushions. If you had manually placed the deer in the back seat, you could not have done a better job at situating the deer so perfectly!
The horrified couple in the convertible quickly
pulled over to a nearby shopping center and hastily exited their car. I called the police on their behalf. As you can see, I've made some bizarre calls to the cops over the years.
