Let this video be a pleasant reminder to look both ways before you ride your electric bike into a wooded area.
I don’t know about you, but when I was kid, I didn’t have the luxury of having a battery powered bicycle. The bike I had was powered by a little something I like to call my two legs. I guess now would also be a good time to say that I walked to school everyday in the snow, and it was uphill both ways.
You know, typical “boomer” sayings.
This kid in Mattituck, Long Island, was living the good life on his electric bike until his vlog-worthy joyride took a turn for the worst. He didn’t necessarily do anything wrong, unless you fault him for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. And if you are going to get hit by a deer, you might as well make it worth your while and have the camera rolling.
We’ve seen that pay off in other viral videos, like when a toddler got absolutely clotheslined by a deer, or when idiotic, snobbish runners at a Thanksgiving Turkey Trot got plowed over by a herd of deer on the run. The story about a deer running out in front of a skier happens to be one of my favorites, but the camera was sadly only running after the incident occurred.
I guess you could go ahead and put this video below on Whiskey Riff’s “Mount Rushmore of Deer Related Incidents.” It’s got everything you could ask for in a viral deer video: suspense, live commentary, cursing, and a deer moving at blink-and-you’ll-miss-it speed. And it’s all shot from a first-person point of view.
When the video picks up, the kid turns onto a road with a dead end sign at the corner. He’s flying on his electric bike as he says this into the camera that appears to be mounted on his chest:
“It says dead end, but is it? It’s gonna be very shaky, so if you are like me who doesn’t like shaky stuff, just close your eyes for the next 30 seconds.”
My advice is that you instead keep your eyes wide open.
Because if you were to close your eyes like the kid asked viewers to do, you’d miss the deer catapulting out of the wooded area that he took his bike off-roading through. With the timing of the collision, it certainly seems like the wild animal was trying to make contact with the electric bike speeding along the path.
After the kid got clotheslined off of his bicycle, he started really filling up the swear jar with his dumbfounded commentary on what had just happened:
“Holy sh*t! Oh my God! Oh my God… I just got hit my a deer. I just got f**king smoked by a deer.”
Poor kid sounded like he was out of breath after that, and rightfully so. Getting hit by a deer running at full speed is no laughing matter, and fortunately, it seems like he was able to come out of it virtually unscathed – and with a viral-worthy video.
Head on a swivel, kid.
