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Default 02-15-2006, 12:36 PM

The question is not who wants to die in *insert brand here* car, its who wants to die at all? No one. First thing I learned when driving was that if a deer or something small walked into the road, it might hurt hitting it, but Ill live. If its bigger than a deer(horse, cow, moose etc.) you put your foot on the brake, and push that pedal through the floor.
Pyro I think you live in a more urban setting(correct me if Im wrong) so let me put it into perspective for your feeble mind . Your average deer stands no more than 4.5 feet tall at the shoulders. They weigh in up to I dunno 200lbs or so. Hitting them is probably not going to kill you unless something weird happens.
I myself have seen moose that stand over 6 feet tall at the shoulder, and weighting in well over 1,000 pounds. I have nearly hit 3 moose, countless deer, a bear, and various other animals and I will say that seeing a moose in the road scared me the most. Each time I have managed to stop in time, once within 10 feet of the moose, which from that distance took up the entire windshield. I have also nearly hit two moose at once. I have had a friend die a horrible death because of a moose. He was driving a civic, at night, doing the speed limit, paying attention to the road, but the moose ran out from the woods and he had no time to react.
Most people who have not expierenced things such as the above, or who have not been warned/trained/prepaired to expierence a deer or such in the road might react in a way that causes them or others harm, it happens. However if you are prepaired for it, then you will have a better chances at survival.
Now despite everything, despite any training you've had and everything yo uahve learned. Sometimes when something surpises you, you just react. In the case of these girls They probably justt reacted. Yes they probably would have lived if they went any direction except left, but if your minds eye sees empty road to the left, you in a car, and danger ahead, its goign ot push you to the left. The fact a semi was there did not occur to them nor is it the girls faults. And lets face it, anycar against a semi is basically certain death(look back a few pages to thread about the heavy duty deisel pickup that hit a semi head on). Now stop insulting peoples dead friends, and peers.
AS for cheney, well Ill make a guess hes been hunting for more than that one trip, He has used a shotgun before, he knows the laws and all that. Now, he should also have a mature and well trained mind to know to take that half a second longer than needed to make sure shooting in that direction was ok. From the sound of it, if cheney aimed any higher the guy might not be alive. Thus cheney is at serious fault for this incident, as is the other man for not saying he was walking into the shooting area.
  
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