Dick Turpin
Justified & Ancient
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I was driving home last night and had a near miss with a Muntjac deer – the bloody thing ran out from woodland by the side of the road, right into my path. I broke the car hard and just managed to avoid it as it ran into woodland on the other side of the road – luckily there were no cars behind me, otherwise things could have got messy
Anyway, that prompted me to post this experience of something that happened to me on the same road last November
I was driving north on the A1017,which is country road that runs through north Essex, into Suffolk. it was around 7pm so dark, and as I round a bend I saw a large rat running along the side of the road in my headlights. I’d be the first to admit that I don’t like rodents (especially large Rats) but I’m not one of those people that would take pleasure in squashing it against the tarmac, and as there were no oncoming traffic, I move over to the centre of the road to give it a wide berth.
As I get closer, I can see that despite having the body and tail of a Rat, it was running the way a dog would run, like bounding along the road instead of scurrying along - the head didn’t look right either, and although it went past in a flash, it looked to me that the creature had the head of a small dog – certainly not rodent like, also a little further on, I spotted another so whatever it was wasn’t alone.
I had a stream of traffic behind me, so couldn’t stop, otherwise I would have done.
Anyone have any idea as to what the creature could had been…?
Anyway, that prompted me to post this experience of something that happened to me on the same road last November
I was driving north on the A1017,which is country road that runs through north Essex, into Suffolk. it was around 7pm so dark, and as I round a bend I saw a large rat running along the side of the road in my headlights. I’d be the first to admit that I don’t like rodents (especially large Rats) but I’m not one of those people that would take pleasure in squashing it against the tarmac, and as there were no oncoming traffic, I move over to the centre of the road to give it a wide berth.
As I get closer, I can see that despite having the body and tail of a Rat, it was running the way a dog would run, like bounding along the road instead of scurrying along - the head didn’t look right either, and although it went past in a flash, it looked to me that the creature had the head of a small dog – certainly not rodent like, also a little further on, I spotted another so whatever it was wasn’t alone.
I had a stream of traffic behind me, so couldn’t stop, otherwise I would have done.
Anyone have any idea as to what the creature could had been…?