http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6VS6qsLJeY
Watch the whole video, they slow it down to prove it is real but I think it is fake.
What do you think?
2007-11-26 12:31:48 · 19 answers · asked by HarleyRider 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Motorcycles
I think it is fake. I think maybe a bird or something actually did fly out of a ditch because the biker on the left does duck his head. But the biker on the right, the one who would have seen the deer first neither swerves nor hits his brakes.
I ride a bike too ( Harley of course) and I know that there would of been some kind of reaction to seeing a deer jump out in front of you. I think it was a bird and they superimposed a deer. Look at the graphics of the deer, especially when it is right over the bikers head, it is extremely clear cut even though it is moving. Everything else in the film is blurred and the coloring is not as brilliant as it is on the deer.
And if I know bikers, if that had really happened, they would of all stopped to talk about it. And change their shorts.
2007-11-27 03:49:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Looks real to me.
The biker ducks his head when the deer is in the air.
I saw on the news a few nights ago, a police car had it's video camera rolling when a deer jumped over the hood of the car while it was driving down a dark road.
2007-11-26 22:34:56 · answer #2 · answered by guardrailjim 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is soooo real! You can see the look of shock on the bikers face that is being "Jumped" on the slo mo. Those idiots can clear 8 foot fences so yah......I do believe this actually happened. I dont think I would call them Brilliant animals since they do this on a daily basis. Around here where I live I have heard stories of them jumping over cars and actually succeeding. I would say this was lucky for all involved...the deer AND the biker--considering all of the traffic that was around him at the time. It could of been a deadly meeting for a lot of folks that day. I hit a deer last year and I swear to God that idiot jumped INTO the front of my SUV. I saw him a good distance away at first and then suddenly his lower quarter was hitting the front end of my vehicle. Go figure. So yah! I believe its true! lol
2007-11-26 21:17:14 · answer #3 · answered by chica 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Sure looks real to me. Did you see the biker duck as the deer went over him? That'd be hard to fake.
Deer do dart into the road in front of all kinds of vehicles, including motorcycles. I once saw the aftermath of an accident where a deer tried to jump over a Ford Explorer as it ran across the road and it wiped out the roof of the passenger compartment! So they definitely get enough height to clear a motorcyclist when they're running scared like that.
2007-11-27 08:07:22 · answer #4 · answered by Greenman 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
From the video, appears the deer jumped behind the bike. At any rate, the riders did just what they should have done, kept straight on. Impulsive motions cause wrecks. Brake, accelerate, do what you wish, but DO NOT SWERVE. DO NOT LOOK AROUND IN A PANIC! The deer was behind the first guy, gone before the next one got there. Carry on, as you were.
Tomcotexas
2007-11-27 12:10:05 · answer #5 · answered by tomcotexas 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I couldn't tell ya one way or another but I do know the road well and there's plenty of deer on it. One jumped the hood of my jeep and landed in the bed of a P.U. that I was meeting 2 years ago about 30 mi. south of where this happened. We are really overrun with deer here and have some monster bucks living in the surrounding towns. It has gotten so bad that there is a special hunting season for them inside city limits here.
2007-11-26 22:50:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I've seen deer jump over picnic tables. By jump I mean a deer was licking up something someone spilled on it, was startled and the critter hopped right over with plenty of room to spare. A healthy deer can jump 7 feet straight up you know.
If you look real close the biker sort of hunkers down, and the doe was slightly behind him. Not a lot of time to do anything else.
2007-11-26 20:42:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's real. I personally know someone who was kicked off his bike by a deer trying to jump him while going down a highway in Austin Texas. He now wears a helmet as the deer kicked him in the head.
2007-11-27 01:44:18 · answer #8 · answered by popeyethesadist 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's hard to say. The shadow of the deer looks like it matches the angle of the other shadows in those frames. But the guy in the red shirt barely reacts when the deer zips across in front of him.
I sure hope that the camera man was in a car! But I don't see any hood, or anything that looks like glass or a windshield.
Have you tried checking on snopes.com?
2007-11-26 20:38:54 · answer #9 · answered by Ralfcoder 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
could easily be true. deer often go through the windshield on cars, but that's a whitetail deer,the road looks like hi way14 that gos from sturgis up to deadwood all I've ever seen up there are mule deer.
how about it black hills natives, do you have whitetails up there?
2007-11-26 22:50:13 · answer #10 · answered by Who Dat ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋