A few years ago I had a deer hit the passenger side of my car. It was 4am and I was going to work when I saw 3 deer getting ready to cross in front of me so I stopped. The forth one just crashed into my car at a full run. She got up, walked away a bit dazed and disappeared into the woods where she came from. It dented the door pretty bad.

One morning going to work I came across an accident where a semi had hit a full grown black Angus cow that weighed about 1000 lbs. The semi looked totaled.

I'm back on nights right now and have had a couple of close calls in the past week. One particularly idiotic doe tried to commit suicide by Durango by standing on the side of the road and then jumping out at the last minute. Thankfully I saw her and anticipated her stupidity, so I had it slowed down by the time I got close and was able to stop. They're everywhere around here, and are one of the primary reasons I no longer ride a motorcycle.

Early one Saturday morning in the late '80s a guy looking to go fishing came down the south side of Kenosha Pass into a fog in South Park. He soon discovered that he was in a herd of around 60 bison (buffalo). He came to a rest high-centered on two of them.

A northbound semi also ran into that herd and when it was all said and done there were 12 dead buffs on Hwy 285.

CDOT showed up with a dump truck and a front-loader and everybody in Jefferson was skinning and butchering for the weekend.

The herd was owned by a woman who was the ambassador to Austria under Clinton, and she bought the fisherman a new truck and sold the herd to Ted Turner.

Later that week my buddy and I located a buff that got away from the scene with a broken leg and put it down with a trapdoor Springfield .45-70.

Well, a deer didn't try to kill me, no, but I had one of them sumbitches arrested for unauthorized use of one of my credit cards.

I had about 15 deer run out in front of me this weekend. All with in about a 45 minute combined time frame. All on about 3 miles of road.

All at work. I got called in for "emergencies" three times. I probably saw 30+ deer on the grounds. At one point 12 of them, bucks does and fawns all together, standing in the middle of the road. They're semi tame and as dumb as the students. They don't really run away, often they don't even look up when you walk past them.

We're going to have real problems if the population gets much higher. Which it will.

We did have one crash through a window and into a building last year.