Wife hit a bear today (gory pix)

[JMH1950]

Dark rainy morning....... black bear.........









Already dead on the road but it sure made a mess under the car.

Guts and flesh hanging down from the front suspension, cats are having a feast.

[irkwerks2]

D@MN!!! You guys up north really do have some serious road hazards.

[Pontiacdad]

Bears are the worst thing to run over, they usually roll under the car causing the car to roll over.
Glad to hear the there was no significant damage and Margret is alright.

You may want to hit that with a pressure washer once the cats have they're fill

[PRD2BDF]

Is that healthy for the cats?

Glad your wifey is ok

[Gumball]

for a second I thought that cat was part of the bear.

Ick

[Ragsdale]

for a second I thought that cat was part of the bear.

Ick

Me 2 lol.
Didn't need to see that will eating my Subway lol.

[petraman]

Wow, I can just imagine Margaret freaking out over that, too

I assume she's ok, what about the car? I just had a bit of an encounter with a deer myself... The Impy needs a new headlight and a new hood, and it's STILL NOT FIXED after a week and a half... Oh well, hopefully you'll have better luck with repairs (if it needs any), and hopefully you won't need to drive your brother's POS Camry to work every day with a battery that decides to die on you on a busy two lane highway

[TenGHz]

for a second I thought that cat was part of the bear.

Ick

OMG Until I read this, I thought that actually was a piece of fur too...

Nasty. Glad the car survived though.

[pearl_bonnie02]

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew!

I too thought the cats head was bear leftovers until I looked better at the picture.

[GonneVille]

That is one happy cat...
Def take a pressure washer to that, and when you do, you should probably take the splash panel out and clean it out inside. That thing can build up nasty stuff inside after just your average commute. I don't want to think of bear blubber after a couple weeks of fermentation...
Hosing out three-day-old woodchuck is bad enough.

[radomirthegreat]

Make sure no cats are there when you go to start it. A cat tail in the belt track is probably not healthy for both parties.

[2000Silverbullet]

I can't believe it didn't damage the front bumper.

Reminds me of when I hit the deer. Imagine if that was a human.

[yourgrandma]

I was coming home from work on night and noticed the truck in front of me lost a headlight and swerved a little. Then I saw a big lump in the road. Then I heard "SQUISH". The guy had hit a deer and I straddled the remnants, leaving the same pattern of fur and meat dangling from the underside of my 92 SSE.

[00Beast]

I was coming home from work on night and noticed the truck in front of me lost a headlight and swerved a little. Then I saw a big lump in the road. Then I heard "SQUISH". The guy had hit a deer and I straddled the remnants, leaving the same pattern of fur and meat dangling from the underside of my 92 SSE.

You said in a post that you ride motorcycle a lot? Imagine hitting a deer on a MC. My dad hates driving in the dark on his Harley for that exact reason, because on a bike, you and the deer have a 99% chance of dying.

[yourgrandma]

I've kicked deer on my bike. No good. There are a lot of stories and a few sets of pics of people literally cutting deer in half on bikes. More often that you would think, the rider doesn't go down in these cases.

Birds and squirells are the more common, day to day dealings. I hit birds every year.

By the way, night time isn't when yu have to worry about deer, its dusk and dawn when they get all suicidal.

[JMH1950]

I seen the aftermath of a Harley VS deer encounter a few years ago.

Half a deer on one side of the road.

Half a deer on the other side of the road.

Pile of guts in the middle of the road.

Harley bent up badly by deer and a tree.

Rider back on a new Harley a month later. He was wearing appropiate riding gear and a real good helmet.

[yourgrandma]

I seen the aftermath of a Harley VS deer encounter a few years ago.

He was wearing appropiate riding gear and a real good helmet.

Rare for a Harley rider. I wear full leather, real riding boots and a fullface every time I ride. Sort of one of those semi-religious pillars of my lifestyle. I fail to see the gain to be had in riding unprotected. But I digress...

[GreenGiantSSE]

i feel a lil bit slow because i thought the cat head was the dead bear head

[Alibi]

A bear?? Whoa... glad there isn't too much damage! The worst we have around here is deer. I see them all the time smashed up along side the road. I've had a couple close calls myself but no dead deer yet for me. I have taken out a couple opossum and an armadillo though.

I thought the cat was part of the carnage too...

[JMH1950]

At the risk of jinxing myself........ I have never hit a deer with my personal vehicle.
Up until 5 years ago I had never hit a deer at all.

Within days of starting a new job 5 years ago, I hit my first deer and within 6 months hit 5 more. Since then I've got about 3 a year. All with the company truck or trailer. Got 2 at the same time once but they ran under the trailer and sort of exploded as the loaded tanker ran over them.