If you were driving alone at night in middle of nowhere and you see dead dears placed in middle of road as roadblock would you get out to remove it?

[Anonymous]

Or if someone needs help would you help them if you see them as badly hurt?

[236color]

I would not move a deer. Dead animals, if they've been sitting out for a while can get really smelly. I hunt deer so I've handled dead ones, but they were fresh. Now stopping to help someone that was hurt bad, yes I would do that. Understand however that I'm a man, a Navy vet, former Hospital Corpsman, current nurse. It's kinda in me, I can't NOT do it. I don't stop if anyone professional is already there. Police, ambulance crew, firefighters don't need me sticking my nose in their work, but if no one else is there I will stop. I'm not sure it's a good idea for a woman to do so. You seem to be implying that these could be ambush set ups, and I suppose that's possible, but it seems unlikely. So again, driving around stinky dead animals, stopping for sick/injured people in need of help.

[Asker]

Yes ambush. Im thinking of people if they can sense danger

[236color]

Mostly yes, but sometimes we make mistakes. 1 dead deer in the road was hit by a car more than one stacked up was done by someone. I think it's a stupid ploy. Almost nobody ever stops to move one deer out of the road, a stack is a dead giveaway. Just a question asker, are you from an urban area. This doesn't sound like something a rural woman would consider.

[Asker]

Yes rural but I live in town near to that middle of nowhere road

[DarkWinterNights]

Absolutely not, you turn around as fast but as safety as you can, preferably without coming to a complete stop and you go back the direction you came. Take note of the mile marker and call the authorities.

[Asker]

Thats why you always need full tank gas and weapon and trust your gut

[another_curious_girl]

they say the best thing to do is call 911 or any emercency hotline then keep moving. A lot of people will stage injures or people who need help to lure in kind and unsuspecting people to kidnap or assault. especially if they are willing to kill animals just to set up a trap. I would stay away from those areas.

[Agape93]

Nope. I'll drive around it, over it or drive back back until I'm aware

[WindAtMyBack]

I would help someone who needed help. I would probably not move the deer unless I thought it was highly likely to cause a wreck - for example if it was around a blind curve in the road or something.

Helping people along the road is something that's changed. A combination of more reliable cars and almost everyone having mobile phones has made seeing breakdowns on the road far less common. I used to stop and help people all the time. I always have tools in the car and could sometimes get a broken down car started. If not, I'd commonly give them a ride to the next town or exit where they could get help.

Now it's so much less common that I think a lot of people would be paranoid if they were broken down and someone stopped to help.

[ProbablyClueless]

It really depends on the feel of the situation. There was a time, and there might still be people who do this today, where people would leave logs and other stuff on backroads to disable your vehicle so they could rob you. It's harder to do now because everyone has phones and stuff, but I'm sure it happens from time to time.

Any time you find some debris on the road, just feel the situation out before you do anything about it. People don't generally mess with me because I guess they just don't like their odds, but I could see a woman, particularly one with kids, getting into a dangerous situation.