Murphy's Law Counter

7
🦌 Deer
8
🦝 Raccoons
3
🚗 Cars Deep

A running tally of my encounters with Michigan's wildlife.

2023 Hyundai Elantra Hybrid Blue

3 incidents

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Seventh Deer

Gas Cap Smear.

Stupid fucker ran into the side of my car while I was going 15 mph through a town. He bashed his nose into my gas cap, and just left a smear, but no damage.

Seventh Deer damage photo
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Second family of raccoons

Undercarriage & bumper.

I decimated a family of raccoons will driving back from an event that my coworker hosted, hitting 5 raccoons just sitting in the road like morons. My bumper popped off, but I was able to pop it back on. I still needed the bumper replaced after this, so my car was out of commission for like 2 weeks after this.

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Sixth Deer

No damage.

After almost over a year of no deer incidents, I was driving into a town and a baby deer hopped out in front of me. Barely hit him at all, so he was fine and, more importantly, so was my car.

2006 Chevy Malibu LTZ

3 incidents

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Fifth Deer

Vehicle totalled.

As I was driving home, on the phone with my parents about the deer I just hit, that did no damage to my car, LITERALLY LESS THAN 10 MINUTES LATER, ANOTHER FUCKING DEER JUMPS OUT IN FRONT OF ME AND TOTALS THE CAR.

Fifth Deer damage photo
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Fourth Deer

No damage.

I hit this deer HARD, but somehow it did no damage.

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Decimated a family of raccoons.

Front bumper.

Damage to the bottom of the front bumper, but nothing worth an insurance claim.

2008 Jeep Liberty

3 incidents

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Third Deer

Vehicle totalled.

This was the second deer I hit. Dude just jumped out in front of me on a country road at 55 mph. Literally no time to react. The vehicle was totalled after this.

Third Deer damage photo
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Second Deer

Hit a deer, but he didn't do much damage at all.

Nothing super exciting. Hit a deer lightly after braking very hard. Deer ran off into the woods, car was fine.

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First Deer

Front bumper slightly dented.

This was the very first deer I ever hit while driving. It happened on a curve where the deer blended right into the dirt road in front of me. Launched that dude like an easy 10 feet in the air.

First Deer damage photo