Oh my god that was so scary, dark as fuck outside going 55 on country roads when I see a weird dark spot ahead-oh fuck that’s a family of bears. I swerved and slammed the brakes and everything is okay but holy fuck.
It was a mother black bear and 2-3 cubs, they were super cute for the second I could see them.
Glad no one was hurt! You crazy northern hemisphere people and your giant animals
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"Am I nothing to you" (said in a tiny squeaky kangaroo voice)
Sorry, Short King. The North has you beat by a mile (and at least three feet in height)
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They can live in pretty inhospitable conditions and eat desert grasses that barely anything else eats, and have extremely low body fat at ~2 percent.
Black bears aren’t as big as you’d think, the kangaroo response is pretty on point. This was about the same size as the larger one I saw last night.
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They’re big but like, there are dogs that are bigger. They’re just little guys.
For anyone that does hit a bear, be sure to take it to central park and make it look like a bike accident. It's a really funny bit.
I said to my partner right after it happened “I was almost RFK jr! We nearly had to go to Central Park to get rid of it!”
I almost did the same last year. Also a moose. Another moose used the cross walk and waited for the walk signal to cross the road.
I'm really glad you are okay and didn't crash into anything. It's always good to practice how to use your brakes and swerve in an empty parking lot somewhere. Your car handles a lot differently under heavy braking and spinning out after swerving and bifurcating your car on a tree happens more than it should.
How would you practice that? There's more and more deer crossing the very winding roads i take to work snd it's stressing me out
Go to a parking lot, go at what speed you would, and slam on the brakes as hard as you can and swerve away from a point on the road. Since all the weight is on your front wheels, you get a ton of oversteer and might spin. The thing about deer is that the recommendation is only to brake and not to swerve. You can survive an impact with a deer. Your safety is more important than the deer's. It's tragic, but it's better to kill the deer than to kill yourself. The best thing you can do when driving in deer country is to go slowly so you can react and stop faster.
Yes, it's good to go slower. Even reducing speed from 100 km/h to 70 will cut your kinetic energy in half and let you stop a lot sooner.
Hmm yeah I should maybe see about doing that. My friend did exactly what you described a couple years ago, swerved to avoid a sandhill crane and spun out and hit a tree. Terrifying.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Damn you almost gave one of those cubs a supervillain origin story.
