Deer in headlights.... lolz
 

I was laughing all night about this after it happened and wanted to share.


So I was driving home through Niles Canyon last night around 1am. Niles is a one lane road that's about 7 miles long through a canyon. I usually take this way home since it's usually empty and I can have some fun. But of course as I exit a Prius is in front of me driving 2 miles below the posted 45mph. :mad: So I decide to coast for a few min and let him get some distance on me so I don't frustrate myself riding his tail.

After about 5 min I figured he's far away enough that I can drive through my normal speed without having to step on the brakes every 12 seconds. Halfway through I round a corner and there he is driving 40mph in a 45. As we round the next bend he slams on his brakes because there's a deer in the road with it's back turned. The deer doesn't move and I see him inching closer reving and braking trying to scare the deer away.

The deer doesn't even give him the time of day or the deer in the headlights look. :eek: As I get a few hundred feet from the Prius I downshift into 2nd :driving: and the deer bolts off the side of the road. At that point the Prius was kind enough to pull to the side and let me pass. :excited:

hahaha even deer know that pruis' arent real cars

lol silly Prius, fun roads are for real cars!

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What's less funny, though, is that blind people are suing Toyota beause of how quiet the car is. Toyota is actually engineering noise makers to make the car audible to pedestrians.

I have a better solution: put a real damn engine in the car. It's not like the Prius A) is good for the environment or B) gets phenomenal fuel economy anyway... With an efficient turbodiesel the Prius would probably be stellar at the pump, due to its aerodynamics!

the :iagree: icon cannot strongly enough confer my complete and utter accord with this sentiment, sir.

Yeah but if you did something logical like that it wouldn't be trendy anymore.

I'll second that you can't tell me a prius at 70mph is going to be more fuel efficient than a turbodiesel cruising at 70mph.

Most of the Prii that I run into are on I-95 between Baltimore and D.C. They blow by me in my dd doing 90. you can't tell me they're worried about fuel efficiency.

lol prius owner- get a car, not a toaster oven to drive the canyons.

It's about image bro. Look at any of the houses in Mclean... you'll have a V12 Vantage and a Hummer in the garage and a Prius in the driveway. Gotta look like you give a damn. :tup:

Yup. Kinda like how the SUV took off because no one wanted to drive a dorky station wagon, and then gas prices soared, so no one wanted to be seen in an excessively large SUV, so now the rage is "crossovers"... All of these things, with some exceptions, are the same concept: suburban people movers. But fashion dictates which one ppl buy.

Nothing dorky about this:

http://www.cars.com/features/autosho...le_mfr_430.jpg

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In Europe

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I'd have one if BMW actually sold them here :(

But would that make me a M5-driving c*ck?

hahah thats an aweome story

Just need to put these on all the Prius':

(YouTube linking fails for me :(... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lUnG4uZPTo [The Whistle's go WOOO])

Out of interest are you on stock exhaust?

Nice story :tup:

Thats why I'm about to start selling FAKE solar panels. Why not. :happydance:

Slap 20 of my panels on your roof and show you really care about the environment!

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Damn eco-ricers! :icon18:

Same damn thing in my neck of the woods. Give me the Golf TDI over the Prius.

This sounds like science fiction. You mean to tell me that a Prius driver politely pulled over to allow someone to pass.

All kidding aside last month I had my sixth Prius pull over for me. Not what I would consider polite or a good record over ten years. The Prius driver to me is the new Volvo driver. Rude and inconsiderate. I have had Prius drivers tell me that by slowing me down they are saving the planet. You should see their faces when I tell them, "Every time somebody like them deliberately will not pull over, I go home and put a piece of coal in the fireplace. When it's cold I burn it. So if you want to prevent this just let me by." I do not think it works but maybe someday...

I had something similar happen to me a few months back. I was on the highway in the right lane and a woman in a Prius was in the center lane. I was probably closing at ~15 mph and she was going fairly slow... as I got closer, she starts to pull over into my lane so I can't get over... forcing me to slow down. I move over to the center lane and she does as well, so I slowly move to the left and of course she moves over as well. So I drop it to 3rd and make a quick lane change and pull on by to the right.

Stupid lady. If she was really concerned about the environment she'd have left me continue since the Z is pretty efficient at highway speed. She effectively caused me to kill more of the environment. What a bitch.

This wagon is nice :tup:

http://blog.webridestv.com/wp-conten...M3-Estate1.jpg

Left-lane Bandits are the cause of more extra gasoline burned than any other group.

wtf that really happened? thats retarded. its dangerous on mutliple levels. accidents, road rage psychos. she doesn't know if you are some crazy mofo and you're packing heat.

The Prius should come with a baseball card rubber banded to the brake caliper.

I hate every person who drives a Prius. They are almost as bad a BMW drivers. They act like they are better than anyone else on the road and I swear, every time i see one i feel like they try and piss me off....."oooh look at me in my ugly car saving the earth, oooh im better than everyone else"---sweet go drive off a cliff

They're not fooling anyone with those ugly "eco" cars. The carbon footprint of the Prius factory, the strip mines needed for the parts/batteries/electric engine, the chemicals, the run off, and not to mention the plastics FROM OIL that gives them the plush interior to act like a snob from is FAR WORSE than if they had just bought a 10 year old Civic.

If they really cared about the planet they should have bought a used car. Instead, they buy a status symbol so they'd have a reason to act like jerks.

Very, very true.

Awesome screen-name btw :tup:

We found a Prius in our way to ZdayZ 2010.

It was funny because even that we were doing almost the speed limit he was trying to keep up with us didn't matter what.

Thanks. :)

You see the deer was not afraid of the Prius because she perceived it to be a timid woodland creature. Safe. Cuddly. Not going to eat her. The deer is obviously not an honors student among species, and knows nothing about how her relatives have been killed or forced out of their environment so nickel could be mined for the rain-forest friendly Prius.

The deer, however, was afraid of the Z, because the Z is a predator. The deer took one look (or listen) of the Z and knew someone (thing) was going to have to be the biotch in this scenario. So she likely ran off to a safe distance to watch the Z make the Prius crawl on the floor with the mail in its mouth like Maggie Gyllenhaal in "the secretary".

Moral of the story: Deer lives. Prius goes home with tail between its legs. Maggie Gyllenhaal goes home with the guy in the Z. Just like Darwin said.

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Just feel sorry for the the lame eco-libs because they will never know the thrill of driving a real car.
Nice story!

I'm getting 26 mpg in my new turbodiesel GL350 Blue-Tec! Sticker only said 22mpg but I'm finding that is very conservative. We went on a freeway trip and it was at 30mpg (according to the gauges, 65mph.) I'm happy about that. (Still miss my Z.)

It was more like I didn't really wait long enough for the guy to take his foot off the brake and step on the gas.

I always tell my friend who has a Prius, "Whenever a Prius is next to me at a red light I like to rev my engine so it can hear me hurting the environment."

Wow... that was all kinds of awesomeness.

All day I kept thinking of this scene...