Raining moose and deer

The phrase is usually raining cats and dogs, but it was a moose which fell from the sky in the USA  .

Running into animals on the road is not uncommon in the country and it’s not unknown to have them fall or leap from above.

A friend driving on the Napier-Taupo road at night had a horse land on his bonnet and a North Otago family had a bull leap from a bank on to their car.

My farmer and a friend had a similar encounter with a deer.

They were driving up the Kilmog hill north of Dunedin late at night when the animal leapt from bank above the road, hit the car’s bonnet, came antlers first through the windscreen then bounced back on to the road.

The stag died, the car was written off but my farmer and his mate were not only unhurt, they were left with sufficient wits to examine the stag and conclude it was wild, not farmed.