Brush with a deer

[zrayr]

My brother was once driving home after a company picnic in the country outside Oklahoma City. He was driving a company pickup that had the bed filled with ice and beer cans. Coming over a rise in the road he hit a motorcycle. Soon the police arrived & the scene was complete chaos. Their were dozens of beer cans everywhere all over the road. The motorcycle was lodged under the pickup. The rider had been decapitated and was some distance away laying partially in a ditch. His head was still in his helmet. It looked like my brother's career as a CPA for a medical corporation was over.

But one policeman was taking a good look at the helmet/head of the motorcyclist. He noticed a small piece of strange debris lodged in the face mask. Something so small it might have fallen away when the head was moved. It was a piece of cow hair. The cop started looked beyond the immediate accident scene. He soon found a cow in the field that was dead.

The police were able to reconstruct the timeline as follows: The cow wandered on to the road & was hit by the motorcyclist. The rider was immediately decapitated. The cow wondered off and died. Soon thereafter my brother crested the hill & hit the motorcycle.

The road is a dangerous place, we all have to be on guard as much as possible. You never know what is over the next hill.

Z. Ray