How not to do off season deer hunting with a motorcycle, inside city limits, by Perry L. Porter


 


[10:21] garrett: how are you doing?

[10:22] Perry: OK My ankle is a little jacked, pull or torn some ligaments

Perry: Left foot so I can drive the car Drugs were wimpy took an hour to do much.
I just wanted to sleep, and start a new day tomorrow.

garrett: that sucks

Perry: emotionally still a little shell shocked

garrett: so...you wreck and Stephen stays home?

Perry: The deer literally head butted me off my bike !

Perry: Yea, he tends to take after his mother in some ways.. :)

garrett: lol

Perry: Which I thought was good, and caused less trauma for me than a regular
accident.

garrett: well I?m glad you weren't too broken up

Perry: So glade I had the roll bar (engine guard), and was wearing my heavy armor
plated jacket, boots and helmet it tore my shield off my helmet.

Perry: The deer came from the opposite side of the road, so I didn't see it till
it was in the lane next to me, 1/2 of second and it was in my face. No time to even
figure out which way to go, stop, slowdown, speed up, turn whatever!

garrett: but just enough time to curse.

Perry: NOPE, It hit me and then the bike was out from under me and I was sliding
off the road. Oddly enough I didn?t swear, that was how surrealistic it was.

Perry: I don't remember exactly what direction I fell, I just know that the
handle bars jerked quickly, one direction and then the other as I swerved and dipped and
then one why and then the other I think and the bike went sideways a bit falling towards
me

Perry: the bike landing on my left leg and I kind of remember pulling it out and
the bike pushing down on it, and that was when I thought I might have broken my ankle or
as it turns out pulled or torn ligaments.

Perry: After that I think I just rolled and slid off into the soft dirt off the
road on University Ave next to coming up to the stop light at River woods. (headed toward
Center street in Orem. Just blocks from my house.

Perry: Some things are kind of a fog....

garrett: yeah. it's crazy how our mind deletes those memories

Perry: I would think that I would have normally been in the left lane getting ready to turn up
Center Street in Orem and I think I was doing that when I noticed a deer
in that lane, I think I might have just started to pull back into the right lane, to
avoid the deer when it leaped at me and smacked me in the head.

garrett: did you hit heads?

Perry: YES ! I remember seeing the deer looking directly at me from about 3
feet away and then leaping at me, I remember looking it eye to eyes, well my eyes, to
his/her right eye, and then BAMMMMM!

Perry: The people behind me pulled over and were looking at me like, are you all
right?

garrett: lol

garrett: and they didn't say anything?

Perry: They may have. I sat there kind of dazed, actually Very dazed!

garrett: in shock, I'm sure

Perry: Yes emotional shock, but not clinical shock. Yea they said are you ok? The
second car said he didn't see it happened, just say my bike go off the road and a cloud
of dust. The other guy said it just happened REAL fast.

Perry: There were 2 cars across the road that I guess they saw it and they called
on 911 their cell phone, but didn't cross the street.

garrett: they didn't want to see your dead body

Perry: THANKS! !!!

Perry: There was an ambulance there in minutes.

Perry: A paramedic, asking me questions over and over, checked out my back, neck,
back etc.

Perry: I was sitting UP!

garrett: hahahahhaa

Perry: Years ago we came upon a motorcycle wreck on state street in Orem, no
helmet, and the guy was yelling and crying out in pain, We read in the paper the next day
that he died!

Perry: I think I bruised my hip just a little also, pants got dirty but no tares.

garrett: wow

Perry: I was wearing my High top hiking boots like the MSF basic ridding safety
course taught this card carrying member!

Perry: My ankle could have been way worse

Perry: And the engine guard that I installed just Thursday is bent and scrapped,
$95.00 Well spent!

Perry: The girl in the parts shop I own her dinner or something she said all the
right things, to help me buy what was best for me.

garrett: hahaha

Perry: Helped me get what was safe, yet still sporty.

Perry: She was HOT, Erik commented that she was HOT, young,
smart, sexy. (nice buuutt as he put it)

Perry: Both of us noticed that she has a weird thing going on with one eye brow.
Either an old scar or a tweezing mishap!

garrett: t bag? hahahahahaha

Perry: Anyway Erin is HOT! In a sultry tom boyish, way. She helped me pick out
my T-bag, instead of saddle bags, and t he rounded engine guard rather than square,

Perry: Yea that is the Company name, it has a sleeve that goes over the back rest
and it is back pack size and sits on your luggage rack

Perry: Brenda a married HOT, funny sales girl helped me pick out a jacket, I had
a good leather jacket at home, but it is a dress jacket, this one had vents, it was the
most expensive piece of clothing in the store, but I am SO glade I bought it!

Perry: I had my camera in the bag, totally save, as I had just gotten back from
squaw peak and was driving home from back dropping off Dena in Provo.

garrett: is Dena your girl friend

Perry: No a friend from the dance the night before, she (practically)
begged me to take her for a ride, Sunday afternoon. Which went fine it was the more
animalistic deer that was a problem.

Perry: The odd thing was that I know only 4 (oh yes YOU) 5 people that own
motorcycles, 2 in my ward, a good friend in Orem, that I have worked at two jobs and was
going to go ridding with Me Saturday to Huntsville, but I had Mary and Kevin

Perry: So about 30 seconds after the dust settled, Kevin and his wife Gaylyn (sp)
walk up. They were just coming down the canyon from a ride, saw cars stopped and he
spotted a bike off the road and he came to see what he could do.

Perry: Wow, So many bikers, and few that would ever stop when the accident was
the other direction and it happens to be Lori's bother! What are the odds?

Perry: 10 seconds latter and the accident happens behind him and he never knows.
Kevin was GREAT!

Perry: He took his wife home and came back, while I took ibuprophen and elevated
my foot onto my bike

Perry: He followed me to our house and dropped off his bike and then we went back
and got my bike and he rode it to my house, checked it out first etc.

garrett: that was nice of him

Perry: Yes it was!!! I called my friend Sarah about some medical thing about a
week ago, she was back east, and she never returned my call, she left her charger back
east, it turns out.

Perry: Accident happened at about 9:15 we made it over to the hospital, where my
mom died and where my dad had his last heart attack

Perry: My friend Sara happened to be on duty in the emergency room and she acted
as my Dr. found that I had no break, which I was a bit worried about.

garrett: WOW.

Perry: I have rolled my ankle dozens of time playing basket ball, but at one
point when the adrenalin I felt a sharp pain alone the side of my ankle and a bit higher,
so I thought I might have a hairline break.

Perry: Earlier I was talking to Sue and she was worried about me and at one point
I made a joke and she laughed and she said, Good I know now that you are OK, so I told
the same joke to Sarah.

Perry: She has my shoe and sock off, touching my feet, checking if I am numb etc.
I joke around tying to get her to tickle my feet more. The isn't rolling with the
punches much, Sahara reassure them that this is normal behavior for me and she tells him
stories of when I was first adjusting to taking ambian years ago.

Perry: So she said no break, so an ace bandage and stop pain killers and your
good to go.

Perry: And I said, no wimpy drugs, I want something that will put me to sleep
tonight, further more I'm not leaving with out any Viagra either!

Perry: Just like Sue, the both laughed their head off....

garrett: hahahahah

Perry: I tend to use levity in stressful situation, Steve said that the witness
to the accident said that I was saying kind of goofy things, to the Paramedic, and Steve
just rolls his eyes and says, that?s just my dad.

garrett: it's true I?m the same way

Perry: When we got home I was gingerly going up the stairs to my room and said
some corny joke about my deer foot and the goes, "Good one Uncle J." my bother is the
king of lame corny jokes..... I knew it was dumb and said it to Steve knowing I was
going to get just the reaction that I did. And he goes, Do you know what I heard? (my
auto response was) ?Sheep?! To which I asked him, do you know what I saw, and his auto
reply "wood". He had caught my goofy sister about 40 times over the years, he will be
talking around and get excited and say, OH do you know what I heard and she goes What? He
Perry: My kids wised up the first time and never fall for it. But they do fall
once in a while for the dropped dollar bill trick, always good for a laugh!


garrett: where is that (sheep) from?

Perry: The sheep are from Wyoming, where my family grew up, some uncles raising
prize winning sheep worth thousand of dollars each (circa), Yea, Wyoming where the men are tough
and the sheep are skittish!

Perry: Speaking of growing up. I stop at my friend Terri Clawson?s on the way home and
we chant, I show her my bike and she said, you know I was raised on bikes, and you know
what they say, when you get in an accident on a motorcycle, wearing a helmet or not is
the difference between an open or closed casket. THANKS TERRI !!!!!

Perry: I have more flash backs of the deer looking me right in the face, from a
foot away as his head got closer and close to mine, and YES, the deer did head butt me,
right off my bike, I have to keep saying it, otherwise it seems like some weird dream,
but when I look at my new bike, I realize it was no dream, but more of an nightmare.

garrett: that's amazing it didn't die

Perry: Me too, I was just rubbing my forehead and I realized that I have a small
burse on my for head. I hope the deer has a HUGE goose egg on his head! I also noticed
a very slight soreness on my right hip. (that is when the throbbing of my foot quiets
down from time to time.) Other times my foot has a burning and stinging effect much like
so many basketball turned ankles. And at other times it feels a little bit numb or cool
like it is in cool water. Time to check if my bandage is too tight !

Perry: It did stagger around a bit after, limping and kind of walking in circles
for a minute before walking up into the foot hills.

Perry: Anyway that was my weekend end adventure.

Perry: Hummm my every two weeks something Huge. Went skydiving then two weeks
later, went camping with 350+ people in the desert with huge bonfires. and then two weeks
later bought a Harley, I jokingly asked people for the next week after that, how I could
top that in two weeks later......

Perry: OUCH, my ankle hurts now and again, but I would have to say head butting a
deer at 50 MPH, rates right up there with High adventure!!!

garrett: yes, yes it does, and that is quite hard to do.

Perry: it is a freaky story!

garrett: yes it is

Perry: Hell I haven?t even made a payment yet! I have not even got the paper
work yet. Often people new to motorcycles have an accident in the first 3 months. I am
not new, but new to such a big bike. I am very careful, but how could I have avoided this?

garrett: it just happened. you didn?t do anything to cause it.

Perry: Yes I did.

garrett: no you did not

Perry: Yes I did.

Perry: I figured out what really went wrong, when I worked at Stanford for 3
months back in the 90?s , they thought us early when walking to NEVER make eye contact
with someone ridding a cycle or you end up doing the "Dance of Death" where you go right
and at the same time they go right, and then they go left, and you go left because you
were both going right, next then you know your both on your keester! When I first saw the
deer, I thought, is that really a deer in the middle of the road ?. Looking at me, and
then it happened, I made eye contact!!!! Next thing you know all I see is the head of the
deer coming closer and closer, lightning fast, till BAM!

Perry: Avoiding eye contact is really not that easy with a deer after all, I
think it was a doe and you know they have such really big brown eyes. It was my fault
for making eye contact, and her fault for having such deep brown eyes, and long eyelashes!


Two weeks from now I'm staying in bed the entire weekend, by MYSELF so there is no
possibility of high adventure to surpass the previous weeks!

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/perry

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.