Bugs, usted to be Wolfman's grav tank model

TomB said: Bugs:
> Beth, KV ain't human. Any hillbilly from Arkansas can see that. They do

I doubt hillbillies from Arkansas would talk about them, they'd just shoot
them and go on. Call them "Big Ugly Goobers" (or "Gooks" or "Goons" or what
you will). In any event....they don't surf.

> On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 01:32:20PM -0400, laserlight@quixnet.net wrote:

> I doubt hillbillies from Arkansas would talk about them, they'd just

And further south... "Never mind what you call 'em, them's good eatin'! Get
the file powder ready..."

<cut to K'V commander looking aghast>

> I doubt hillbillies from Arkansas would talk about them, they'd just

Roger:
> And further south... "Never mind what you call 'em, them's good eatin'!
Get the file powder ready..."

Given that their cuisine includes crabs, crayfish, alligators, snails, and
probably other things I don't want to know about....yeah, I can see that.

NSTRH: A few years ago the great state of West Virginia made it legal
for people to pick up/takehome/eat roadkilled animals.

> From: "laserlight@quixnet.net" <laserlight@quixnet.net>

> NSTRH: A few years ago the great state of West Virginia made it legal

Ok, I'm going to really show my upbringing here. That actually can run the
gamut from as gross as it sounds to not so bad. When I was young and poor, my
family hit a pheasant with the family car. It landed to the side of the road.
It was never run OVER, and never on the road, but technically it was
roadkilled. Yes, we ate it. It was delicious. an animal that's just been
killed by a car is no different than an animal killed by a rifle in terms of
edibility/deadness.  It's the stuff that's been lying there that I would

never touch.

3B^2

> At 09:00 5/17/2002 -0400, you wrote:

To be fair here, the intent is so if you've hit something fairly large, like a
dear or a boar, that the meat doesn't have to go to waste.

I know what you're talking about there. (The roadkill thing, not being poor or
eating pheasant.)

While I was an MP in New York, there was a list of people for each county that
would be called when a deer was hit and killed by a car if they person driving
the car didn't want the animal.

The animal was dead anyway... might as well get some use out of the carcass.
How much use could be had depended greatly on what internal organ were
ruptured on impact and how long the animal lay there before being gutted, as
the innards of a deer will begin to seep poisons into the meat shortly after
death, causing it to be less than palateable.

Now, a deer hit by a semi-truck... that's something I'd avoid scraping
up and taking home... The impacts tend to be rather spectacular (based on the
ONE I acutally saw) and the resultant mass is nothing that resembles something
that would be salvageable. And the truckers just
keep driving... I bet they'd mount a cow-catcher up front if they could
get away with it. (I live in Michigan, where deer seem to want to play
chicken on the highways during the fall/winter.)

--Flak

> On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 11:49, Brian Bilderback wrote:

> From: Ray Forsythe <erf2@gte.net>

> At 09:00 5/17/2002 -0400, you wrote:

That's how I read it, but then, I'm from hick genetic stock.

3B^2

From: "Brian Bilderback" <bbilderback@hotmail.com>

> Ok, I'm going to really show my upbringing here. That actually can

> Brian Bilderback wrote:

> From: "laserlight@quixnet.net" <laserlight@quixnet.net>

> for people to pick up/takehome/eat roadkilled animals.

> than an animal killed by a rifle in terms of edibility/deadness. It's

> the stuff that's been lying there that I would never touch.

I remember a case a few years ago when a driver was prosecuted for running
over and killing a pheasant.. out of season. IIRC he was let off because the
magistrate decided that the law (dating from the 16th or

17th C) didn't pertain to cars, since they hadn't been invented at the time it
was drafted!

Whether or not he ate the pheasant isn't recorded :-)

> Flak Magnet <flakmagnet@tabletop-battlezone.com> wrote:
I know what you're talking about there. (The roadkill thing, not being poor or
eating pheasant.)

While I was an MP in New York, there was a list of people for each county that
would be called when a deer was hit and killed by a car if they person driving
the car didn't want the animal.

The animal was dead anyway... might as well get some use out of the carcass.
How much use could be had depended greatly on what internal organ were
ruptured on impact and how long the animal lay there before being gutted, as
the innards of a deer will begin to seep poisons into the meat shortly after
death, causing it to be less than palateable.

Now, a deer hit by a semi-truck... that's something I'd avoid scraping
up and taking home... The impacts tend to be rather spectacular (based on the
ONE I acutally saw) and the resultant mass is nothing that resembles something
that would be salvageable. And the truckers just
keep driving... I bet they'd mount a cow-catcher up front if they could
get away with it. (I live in Michigan, where deer seem to want to play
chicken on the highways during the fall/winter.)

--Flak

> On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 11:49, Brian Bilderback wrote:

When I drove tractor-trailers (only for about a year, it was a "gee I'd
like to try that once" job) I came across another of the company that I worked
for's trucks that had hit a cow. It was a newer model tractor, thus the body
was mostly made out of fiberglass and plastics, to save weight. When I got
there, the police and EMTs were already there, and trying to save the driver's
life. Most modern tractors, at least the ones that are used by the bigger
companies, are built very lightly for such large vehicles, and are not
designed to be able to roll away from crashes, even with livestock. I had the
misfortune to meet up with a kamikazi turkey vulture in Arkansas, and my truck
had to go into the shop for 3 days before I could drive it again. Now some of
the older models out there, I would place odds on them in a collision with an
APC... ;-)

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