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- From: rlopez@loanstar.tamu.edu (Robert Lopez)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Attraction by Re: Deer Whistles
- Keywords: eat more moose
- Message-ID: <1k72mkINNlg4@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 22:35:00 GMT
- References: <QfN31pG00WB3Mhtkhf@andrew.cmu.edu> <55590012@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
- Sender: rlopez@loanstar (Robert Lopez)
- Organization: The Hosequarium South
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- In article <55590012@hpscit.sc.hp.com>, spikes@hpscit.sc.hp.com (Bill Spikes) writes:
- |> Oh YES! They do attract deer.
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- |> The deer looks up and stares at us, I turn off the lights and start to
- |> disengage the warp engines. As we get closer, the deer shakes its head,
- |> grabs some food and looks back at us as we are still approaching.
- |> By this time we're at about 30-40 MPH. The deer is still standing there
- |> staring at us, and then, as we pull along even with him (we're doing less
- |> than 30 MPH now) he/she runs straight at the van, full bore, and I hear a
- |> thunk in the left rear 1/4 panel. The thing RAMMED us!
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- |> No, he wasn't blinded by the headlights, they weren't adjusted up high enough
- |> and I turned them off as soon as I saw the deer. He was attracted by
- |> those deer whistles or he didn't like Dodges.
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- Well, you probably just had the buggers installed backwards or the
- voltage reversed.
-
- smirk.
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- Robert E. L\'{o}pez | Internet:
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