Why you should brake for possums

[bullsnarfle]

99. You touched on the main problem

when you mentioned cell phones. It is my observation, at least in my neck of the woods, that the main reason for so many hit-by-car animals (not to mention people!!!) is that drivers are not paying the least damn bit of attention to what they are doing. It's almost as if they expect the freaking car to drive itself. They are so wrapped up in their little cocoons, whether it is texting or yacking with their passengers or whatever, that they could hit a purple dump truck sitting parked in the middle of the road and say "Jeez, where did that come from?".
If people would shut up, put down the electronic devices, act like a goddamn adult and just PAY THE HELL ATTENTION to what they are doing, a lot of people and animals would not be squashed in the road!

Pisses me off.