As somebody who grew up one state over, I can totally believe this. Deer collision featured importantly driver's ed and my thoughts for highway driving, especially in twilight and dark. Anybody who has ever had a squirrel run out in front of you knows the feeling, except here the squirrel can do 30 mph and weighs as much as a person.
As much as a person!? A big deer can get to 300 lbs. And in some parts of the country Elk and Moose are a large concern. I'll never forget seeing my 16 year old friends truck after he hit an elk.
You're not wrong, but since it's not really made explicit in the paper, I'll mention that since they are measuring these weights at the check-in stations, these are almost certainly the "field dressed weights". After killing a deer, the hunter usually removes the internal organs from the chest cavity before moving the deer. The actual live weight of the deer is will be about 1/3 higher. A 55 kg (120 lb) deer at the check in station will thus actually weigh closer to 70 kg (150 lb) when live: https://www.pgc.pa.gov/Wildlife/WildlifeSpecies/White-tailed....
Thanks for the correction. I assumed this was full body weight because of the inclusion of fauns. I never was a deer hunter but grew up around them and I had no idea some people shoot fauns! Maybe it wasn't legal where I was at the time? Or maybe it just wasn't done? But now that I look further I see otherwise.
According to English’s ordering of adjectives[1], the friend is sixteen years old. If the truck were 16 years old the phrase would have been “my friend’s 16 year old truck”.
