Animal Jihad!

G'day Everyone!

On Sunday night of November 11th, I came face to face with an incident that made my life flash right by me in an instant. An instant was all I needed to scare me and yet, thank God I am still here. I had just passed the exits of Gettysburg, PA area on Route 15. A busy yet almost interstate type of a road these days. I was in the right hand lane doing 70mph as usual. In the left lane, an SUV had just passed me and almost gone nearly a car length ahead of me.

It was just an instant that it was that just needed for a young FULL GROWN BUCK to flash across the road at a full break-neck speed. It darted right in front of the SUV that was doing 75-80 mph! It flew right past it and barely a heart beat, it was in front of me! Then, like a super-buck, it flashed right off the road! I was like "My God, what the heck was that buck? " or "what was the hell was THAT CRAZED BUCK?".

Neither the SUV nor I tapped our brakes. But I think we both hoped that no other bucks were crossing the road at that point. The old saying is.. if you see one buck cross the road, be alert that a herd might be right behind it!

I thank God I am still here. But it gave me an idea for today's post. "Animal Jihad" or Animal Natural Terrorism.

For years of the human race, we have been confronted by the facts that Animals do a" natural jihad or terrorism" on human beings.

First, we had to worry about Bird Flu Terrorism. Whenever a bird gets sick, there's a chance that "flu" will infect a human. It's been proven that humans can contract Bird Flu! Now that's dangerous!

Then we've have to worry about Rabies Terrorism. We know that Squirrels, or dogs, or raccoons would eventually contract rabies and without sane built-in natural animal thinking that they are suppose to have, they attack humans aggressively. Which eventually leads us to get the painful rabies shots. OUCH!

Next, we have suffered the terror by the pit bulls (and other various dogs) that were killing either humans or other animals. There are still wild dogs that roam out there. Mostly Pit bulls. What about the dogs that Micheal Vick raised to be "killers"? Can they be truly be re-trained to LOVE their human masters? I do not think so. The dogs of Michael Vick are due to be put to death. I support that Michel Vick's dogs should be destroyed because, once you train a dog to kill another dog, you are already in danger. I pray those that brought Michael Vick's dogs will return them and have them put to sleep. There's NO SUCH THING as a dog re-rehabilitated. Once a dog learns that a human has hurt it, it will turn on it's next human master when it gets that chance.

There's many other forms of Animal Jihads (terror) going on these days. Too many to count. But now, there's bear hunting season happening. So the bear hunters are doing a jihad to cull the bear population.

In less than a few weeks, the deer hunters will begin a Jihad (Terror) on the deers to cull that deer population. It needs to be done because not only the deer population is large, but it's delicious venison!

But in the meanwhile, anytime you see a wreck on the road caused by a deer, it will say that the deer was successful to cause a bit of terror and send a message to the hunters : "Don't mess with the bucks! We own the woods!". (yeah, right. Yer dying all over the roads anyhow and leave people to pay for expensive car repairs).

Unfortunately, these deers are stupid enough to take on a full size truck. I was at a rest area one evening a few years ago, I was just watching the road. The woods was to my left. A full grown buck was just eating the freshly mowed grass (which was the last of the mowing season) in the center lane between the highway. In the very far distance, a truck was coming. I watched as the deer picked up it's head and stared intently. Less than200 yards that the truck would have passed the deer safely, the buck made a sudden move. It darted RIGHT INTO THE PATH OF THE TRUCK!

WHAAAMMMMOOOO!!!" With the truck horn desperately sounding, it smacked into the deer full speed. The deer stood for micro-seconds in front of the truck's fender before it got thrown under the wheels and run over. The truck slowed down to the right shoulder of the road and pulled over to inspect the damage.

I will not forget the moments that followed. That buck had the guts to stand back up in pure defiance despite that it was dying right in the middle of the road. It never saw another truck that loomed right behind it and crushed it, full speed. The driver didn't even slow to inspect any damage it had. It kept right on going.

The time I raced over and talked to the truck driver, he was OK. But he stood shocked that his fellow driver would crush that very injured deer. By the time we able to get to where the deer was laying, several trucks had run over it's body. Using hooks, we managed to drag over to the side of the road of a strange looking "RUG". The deer was crushed and pancaked down to a THIN layer! "What a waste of a good venison" I said. The Truck driver agreed with me.

We looked for the deer's head, but we could not find it. Then the Truck driver said "Oh shit. You don't think....?". I told him.. "Yep! Somewhere out there on that super slab is a deer's head embedded into the very fenders of that truck that never stopped. It will be one hell of a conversation of discussion if that poor feller gets stopped by the bears (State Police)".

Sadly to say, animals will still be wild out there. But they are unaware of having caused a "animal Jihad" or "animal terrorism" on human beings. We may not co-exist side by side with animals. But one thing is clear. We are a part of their circle of life.

As hunting season draws near, I'm wishing I could be a "hunter terror" on those animals (deer) because I want my venison as well. But then again, when will I ever get a day off to do just that? Oh well. I'm hope a friend of mine bags a buck and a doe.



Till next time, hope we don't see any animal jihads today! Semper FI!