Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy Date: 10 Nov 2024 19:25:22 GMT Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <38b4c4eb-2ab5-df94-0baa-c2d7fcdda60d@example.net> <7c5edef0-d4ec-a8fc-3f70-8ffa2a2b1df0@example.net> <2132040480.752628420.877076.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <10a1e4fa-c029-1ce7-173f-da67ddf34c16@example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net n8SeOYnWENNFeL+ohUyT2QHTfooBmdoyYWVNebtsEny5seKODw Cancel-Lock: sha1:/m+uOe7tmGQJcL5VBM6ieJqU3v4= sha256:NfcreAOBMMpdaaMdyIxI+308zjAwTs0XhZWb/UXB6aw= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:228810 comp.os.linux.misc:60860 On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 09:09:49 +0000, Pancho wrote: > Don't you get deer everywhere? You get them in the outskirts of London, > certainly just outside the M25 (the London ring road). They seem wild to > me. I've never seen them look before crossing the road, and I have > actually collided with one when driving. I was lucky and managed to > brake, but I know a lot of people who have seriously damaged their cars My previous car had custom bodywork done by Bambi Inc. It was a brief encounter but I had a deer sprawled on the hood at about 60 mph. The deer left the scene apparently uninjured. The hood (bonnet) still functioned and I could tie some plastic bits together with nylon ties. The ones that live in the city are used to vehicles, bicycles, and people so they may look up as a car goes by before resuming grazing but they don't do anything stupid. Rural deer are more likely to panic and run across the road.