Current Events > Ever notice all the dead animals casually laying on the side of the road

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...when driving through the country/really rural areas?
A large variety too: Raccoons, rabbits, squirrels, cats, dogs, pigs, etc. I've even seen some horses before. Never fails to unsettle me just a bit.

Are you new at driving?

I drive by a rotting deer.

Um. Laying by the road?... Do... Do you not get whet happened?

FolkenRawr posted...

Do you not get whet happened?

a car is a predator against all wildlife on the highway.

ThePieReborn posted...

the death was not quick.

it's true. the one time in which i saw my neighbors dog get struck by a car (dog went 50-100 feet before the car stopped). had to tell it's owner what happened and then the owner got the dog into her car and driven to the vet. couldn't get to there in time.

SaltyWet posted...

Are you new at driving?

No... I live in the city where you would see roadkill every now and then.
Here, I'm talking an uncomfortable series of dead animals laying off on the side of the road. They're not even gored from being hit by cars, they're just laying there dead.

It always makes me a bit sad because I figure that, fairly frequently, the death was not quick.

When I was in high school I used to walk home from school with a friend and there was a dead dog by the side of the road that no one picked up. We basically saw the body decompose everytime we passed it.

FolkenRawr posted...

Um. Laying by the road?... Do... Do you not get whet happened?

Casually laying by the road no less. They are super unconcerned that they got ran over.

FolkenRawr posted...

Um. Laying by the road?... Do... Do you not get whet happened?

ThePieReborn posted...

It always makes me a bit sad because I figure that, fairly frequently, the death was not quick.

For real. It never fails to bum me out. Chalk that up as another reason I hate going through the country.

kingdrake2 posted...

a car is a predator against all wildlife on the highway.

A moose gives no fucks about your car on the highway. Hit that sumbitch and best case scenario is you have an annoyed moose in your passenger seat.

If it wasn't the cars, then what killed them?? :O

A fucking horse?

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I was hoping monsters or aliens.

Pikachuchupika posted...

If it wasn't the cars, then what killed them?? :O

I assume it could be a number things from diseases and fatigue. It's always super sad to see because you just know they suffered.

A fucking horse?

Yeah, dawg.

Why are they almost always on the side of the road? Does the impact send them flying?

In the summer especially, you can see dead armadillos all over the place here out in the country, on the sides of the road, in the middle of the road, as nothing left but little piles of goo, etc.

PoopPotato posted...

Why are they almost always on the side of the road? Does the impact send them flying?

Lol I can't tell the genuine responses from the joke ones itt

One time I saw a dead cow on the side of the road.

Driving through rural areas is wild, man.

ThePieReborn posted...

It always makes me a bit sad because I figure that, fairly frequently, the death was not quick.

I ran over a rabbit once while biking, I dodged him with my front wheel, but he uturn sprinted into my back tire after I turned away from him. I screamed got off my bike a short distance to turn back to see if I could mercy kill the injured thing, but it had run away into the bush probably in adrenaline. I feel awful about it because I imagine it had a long death.