what would you do?
26 Feb 2009 10 Comments
in General
You are driving down the road – it’s a basic 2 lane road, one lane each direction, double yellow line.
On the side of the road is a freshly dead skunk (because apparently in S. Jersey, it’s run over skunk season)
In the other lane is oncoming traffic.
Which do you do – run over dead skunk so your car stinks for the rest of your natural life or
cross the double yelow line and hope to hell you don’t hit the cars in oncoming traffic head on.
I chose the latter and didn’t hit the oncoming traffic.
Feb 28, 2009 @ 04:19:58
Tough call….and I’m kinda like Finn.
Feb 27, 2009 @ 19:32:53
This doesn’t really help you … it’s just an observation.
A skunk that is killed and knocked off the road will stink for at least two weeks (and it may be a month or more).
A skunk that is run over time and again stinks for less than a week.
This is based on skunks I’ve experienced as I’ve ridden my bike around the city and countryside. (I’ll try to do more research this summer … I’m certain that first skunk had a smell for a month or more — I just hate to exaggerate.)
Feb 27, 2009 @ 15:01:12
To answer Finn’s question… if you run over a skunk it will not only make your car smell.. but it will make your car, your clothes, and the entire town smell… for months on end!
Feb 27, 2009 @ 11:24:42
It’s dead skunk season alright. Soon to be followed by dead raccoon, dead deer and dead turtle seasons (in that order)
Feb 27, 2009 @ 08:01:03
I always avoid the skunk…but I haz mad skillz like that….
Feb 26, 2009 @ 18:13:27
ewwwwww
ewwwwwwwww
double ewwwwww….
OOPS.. I think I just got into a head one collison for not paying attention to the road and trying to avoid the skunk.
Feb 26, 2009 @ 14:20:42
Hmmmm. I rather like the stench.
Feb 26, 2009 @ 13:06:22
It depends if you have a shovel that you can easily clean after stopping to scoop the dead skunk off the road.
Or you can do what you did and do the latter.
Feb 26, 2009 @ 10:15:47
Um, if you run over a skunk it will make your car smell? Really? We mostly get raccoons and opposums here. And if there was no traffic I would avoid. If I couldn’t avoid, I run over and scream the whole time and ask the animal for forgiveness even though it was already dead. I get sad when I see them by the side of the road. Poor babies.
Feb 26, 2009 @ 07:39:19
I would have done the same thing – dead skunk smell sucks.