Oh dear

By Anonymous - 21/01/2011 06:38 - United States

Today, I hit a dead deer that had been left in the middle of the road. My car started to make a funny noise and smell, so I pulled over to check it, thinking I blew the tire on some antlers. The deer had got stuck in my front wheel, and I'd dragged it more than a mile. And it wasn't actually dead. FML
I agree, your life sucks 22 183
You deserved it 46 380

Same thing different taste

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FYL? **** the deer's life; that's a horrible and painful way to die.

Acousticpixie14 6

That poor animal! My goodness, I hope you put that deer out of it's misery. I hope it didn't scar you too badly, I'd be a wreck if that happened to me! I can't even drive by roadkill without shuddering, feeling nauseous, and getting goosebumps ]:

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auchbit 0

Hi. I'm the "YDI" that posted this originally. Reminder, I only had 300 characters to post? Had I more, I'd have lengthened out the story, to which every single one of you would have posted "TL;DR" Here's the full story. As I was driving home, LATE AT NIGHT, I happened upon a car with it's emergency blinkers on. I thought to myself, "hmm, I wonder what's wrong..." and as I looked back onto the road, I saw the deer laying in the center of the road. It had clearly already been hit and was down for the count, but by the time I saw it, there was no proper swerving to avoid it. THUMP. Sufficiently freaked out but still attempting rationality, I figured "okay, the other car must have been on the side of the road because (s)he hit the deer, and is waiting for the cops or animal control." Then, I smelled my tire burning and the car making horrible noises. Pulling into a church parking lot, I checked my car. You know the next part. The mouth was moving, but I can only assume it was a post-mortem response. I wasn't sure though, and saying "it wasn't dead" makes the story one hell of a lot better. I had no choice but to leave the carcass. What was I supposed to do? I was a scared, new driver. The deer was already missing two of its limbs and there's no way it would have survived. I thought "do I at least have a gun to put it out of it's misery?" No, I didn't, but I felt leaving it in the church parking lot was the best option I had. So go ahead. Tell me I'm heartless. Tell me I'm soulless. Tell me I'm the worst person in the world. But who are you? An anonymous internet lurker, just like me? Someone who's sitting at their keyboard, informing some poor, scared young man that he's the equivalent of a serial rapist and infant murderer, when you would have done the exact same thing in that situation. Go ahead. Tell me you're better than me.

auchbit 0

Thanks, moderator. Glad you support OPs.

Excuses, excuses... since unfortunately you still drive FYI for next time: Don't look away from the road to rubberneck an accident, that's how accidents happen! If you do look away and look back too late to avoid hitting an animal (or, God forbid, a person) check if they are ok, check if your car is ok, check if they are still attached to your car. If you don't do any of the above and don't realise the animal is still alive and still attached till you've dragged it over a mile, for pity's sake call animal control or someone who can euthanise the poor thing, don't just ditch it to die in a parking lot. The fact that it was a church parking lot doesn't make it any better, in fact it makes it worse because you've just traumatised a bunch of kids that could turn up for the service the next day to see Bambi butchered in the parking lot! You say you're a new driver so learn from your mistakes, don't justify them! And you posted this story to get a reaction, 'cos hey "saying "it wasn't dead" makes the story one hell of a lot better" right? And you want us to feel sorry for you because you're sooo scared. You came here looking for attention and you're getting it, don't whine because it's not what you expected!

fthku 13

I love you. This is exactly what I think, I'm just too retarded to express myself well. We should work out a system, I'll send you a private message whenever I want you to express my opinions articulately on an FML.

Thanks I'm glad you liked my reply. Happy to help!

dude why would you leave a mangled deer carcass in a church parking lot?!?! THINK OF THE FAMILIES MAN!

we really needed to know this? ftdl! (**** the deers life!), generally if there is a big thing on the road you go round it ....

CheshirePrussia 0

You people are stupid. That's kind of funny. Poor deer, but still pretty funny. =) Plus, alot of you would have done the same thing. =)

clos1luv 0

take the good with the bad. should have finished it off, took it home for the best road kill you ever tasted. we are in a recession take advantage of free meals from above

clos1luv 0

take the good with the bad. should have finished it off, took it home for the best road kill you ever tasted. we are in a recession take advantage of free meals from above

MyMuffinsAreDead 0
cactusparrots 0

why didn't you just drive around it in the first place?

how did you not notice you were dragging it?...its not as if a squirrel got stuck in there