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From: Niklas Karlsson <nikke.karlsson@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy
Date: 10 Nov 2024 23:24:45 GMT
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On 2024-11-10, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 10/11/2024 09:09, Pancho wrote:
>> 
>> Don't you get deer everywhere? You get them in the outskirts of London, 
>> certainly just outside the M25 (the London ring road). They seem wild to 
>> me. I've never seen them look before crossing the road, and I have 
>> actually collided with one when driving. I was lucky and managed to 
>> brake, but I know a lot of people who have seriously damaged their cars
>> 
> This is totally true and the fact that people think they are cute and 
> wont shoot them makes it worse.
>
> Bloody lethal in a crash. Usually a write off at any speed. If you see 
> one, stop. It runs across in front of you and the rest all follow blindly.

If you think hitting a deer is bad, you should try hitting a moose.

Niklas
-- 
 "... I've seen Sun monitors on fire off the side of the multimedia lab.
 I've seen NTU lights glitter in the dark near the Mail Gate.
 All these things will be lost in time, like the root partition last week.
 Time to die...". - Peter Gutmann in alt.sysadmin.recovery