Almost ran over a dawg a few minutes ago

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johntp

Trad climber
socal
Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 28, 2014 - 04:01pm PT
Stupid owners didn't have it leashed. Jumped on the brakes and took evasive action. Stupid dawg just decided it was time to cross the road at full speed. Probably only missed it by a foot or so. Still shacking.

edit: was waiting for the thump. Thankfully it did not happen.
Big Mike

Trad climber
BC
Nov 28, 2014 - 04:02pm PT
bummer John! Glad you're ok, and all is well!
johntp

Trad climber
socal
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 28, 2014 - 04:16pm PT
Thanks Mike. My usual philosophy it to just plow thru it as extreme swerves have consequences. This was a tough one. Just reacted. Kinda saw it coming, but it was a millisecond response.
Peter Haan

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
Nov 28, 2014 - 05:17pm PT
Yeah John. Plowing straight onwards is what you have to do on a motorcycle especially. Or plan to climb on the bike as it goes down in your evasive tactic. Sometimes your approach has to be much more about you living afterwards than saving a squirrel. It's gruesome.

This stuff just comes up, you know. Your next one could even be Bambi maybe. Or a bear.

About 8 years ago I was coming back from Tuolumne, following the Tioga Rd westward later morning in perfect conditions. I came upon a guy and his car. Heading east after Crane Flat, he had run his rice burner up the steep sand embankment; it was stuck up there too. He was fried from the experience. Just a regular guy.

A bear had zoomed across the Tioga Rd just in front of his point of travel, like really close. Often happens with wild animals; somehow they don't quite get that if they waited one more second, it would be casual, but now, the whole situation gets read as ultimately critical, having to act now or be destroyed. So they jump and get destroyed.

Dogs of course are different. They haven't a clue mostly! I had a pair of Ridgebacks (litter-mates). I would let them out and they would run across this little country road every day and zoom on down to the beach that was so much fun for them. One time, the dumber of the two, t-boned a vehicle as he mindlessly zoomed towards the beach. This required not even looking at all, you see. He was actually okay afterwards and maybe a tiny bit less habitual during his sprint, as time went on.
Psilocyborg

climber
Nov 28, 2014 - 05:21pm PT
dude, are you posting while driving? no wonder!!

Still shacking.

edit: was waiting for the thump. Thankfully it did not happen.
johntp

Trad climber
socal
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 28, 2014 - 05:39pm PT
^
ha ha!

No, I posted from home. Don't do the cell phone thing in the car. Still working on chewing gum and walking.
Fritz

Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
Nov 28, 2014 - 05:39pm PT
johntp? Are you making a point here? Jest curious? Guess I need to go find the Friday night drunk thread.
Happiegrrrl2

Trad climber
Nov 28, 2014 - 05:48pm PT
I am glad you were able to miss that doggie!

I saw SO many dogs out walking on the road this crossing. Many were country dogs who seemed to "know" about roads, but I bet it is just a matter of time for many of them. Especially since not EVERYONE is a nice person. I once saw a vehicle swerve TO HIT a turtle. It was horrible.

People who have dogs - PLEAS don't let your animal wander unattended, and near roads, please have them within your personal control. I don't know how I could manage if I ever ran over a dog or cat.
johntp

Trad climber
socal
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 28, 2014 - 06:11pm PT
Fritz- my point is leash your dogs when walking them on a major road.

I had an eye on the situation. But when that dawg cut loose there was very little time to respond. I had two choices; stay straight or take evasive action. I chose the latter.
JOEY.F

Gym climber
It's not rocket surgery
Nov 28, 2014 - 07:22pm PT
Glad it was an "almost" john
I hit a deer a week ago, dark, I wasn't speeding. thud, it scampered off, stopped at a call box to let chp know and their reaction was what are we supposed to do...well I had t tell somebody...To Happies point yes too many neglectful dog owners....sad.
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Nov 28, 2014 - 09:09pm PT
hey there say, john... whewwwwwww... very glad for you and the dog as well...
damage could have been devastating, either way... :(


some dogs, of course, can get loose by accident, but far too many
folks, in the country, let them just 'run out'...


even the close-calls, like yours, are upsetting and very hard to forget,
:(
johntp

Trad climber
socal
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 28, 2014 - 11:43pm PT


"Still shacking."...


With the dog???...

I can't spell well. You are sick.

edit: locker, you know I'm kidding, right? You have my utmost respect. Sort of.
Chris Cunningham

Trad climber
San Francisco
Nov 29, 2014 - 12:12am PT
I slammed the brakes on an 18 wheeler, full all wheel lock-up...70 thousand pound vehicle...on southbound 101...by SFO...dead stop...#2 lane...4 pm...Friday afternoon...tons of rubber smoke...cuz of a dog...never again.
I could have killed more than just myself.
johntp

Trad climber
socal
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 29, 2014 - 11:55am PT
Like most climbers I've spent a lot of time on the road. Hit a couple of deer and other critters. When they come out of nowhere there is not a lot of time to think about it. One time I had a ladder in my car when a cat ran in front of me. Locked it up. Ladder went thru the front windshield and I heard the thump. Not a happy day.
Bruce Morris

Social climber
Belmont, California
Nov 29, 2014 - 12:03pm PT
Speed up and hope for a 'clean kill'.
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Nov 29, 2014 - 01:19pm PT
My dog Daisy is one of those dogs. She is 15 years old very old for a large Shepard. At this stage of her life she understands a lot of what is going on in the circus that is our life.
She has a blinker light that allows us to watch as she tries to sneak off.
This is a pre dawn after sunset ritual of sorts and it is keeping her young,
If she doesn't become an orphan from a domestic flashover or a hood ornament in her own rite, low light curb sniffing and bus stop/crossing guard duties might be all right?




After spending some nights out, way out of bounds. I had my wonder woman come and scoop us up before the monsoon rains came down.
The sweet act was a rescue that saves one more than a ten mile hike. The bushwhacked, two noobish, softees who were not previously experienced with this extraction method thought that we had set them up, sandbagged the retreat. Made a long walk into a short death march.
The car ride was silent.
My sweetheart was good at defusing what she could but with no information as to what was the rub? she had no choice but to drive on.
The rain started to fall, and she meekly tried to say "see Fred it starting to piss"
At the very last 's' sound a loud thump followed by the rear end of the car leaving the ground and slamming into a fishtailing skid broke the icy silent treatment from the two noobs who now knew the real meaning of terror behind the wheel.
A deer had T-Boned the car; running head first into the rear wheel well decapitating itself.
They both hit the roof of the car leaving dents and the deer was very dead.
We took it straight to Jethroe he skinned it, dressed it and made venison chilli. Butchered up the whole lot and then we all went and had beers with the old grand chek climber,he had a freezer.Jon Burr???
any on here remember that fun??
Is Old Jon Burr still kickin?
In honor of Keith UhL,....
Some one tell us a Uhle!! a story of beer in the morning and cigaret smoke choked belays,
Of the day he staggered into camp slime with the story of catching a deer straddling his bike going fifty down the road.
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