No one came away feeling like they truly won when a deer decided to jump through the windshield of a Rhode Island public bus in Warwick on Monday afternoon. Not the six passengers, three of whom required hospitalization from the broken glass, per the Providence Journal. Not the driver, Leocadio Hernandez, despite being lauded by Rhode Island Public Transportation Authority CEO Chris Durand in a statement commending Hernandez’s “exemplary response to this unique situation” and “exceptional alertness and composure under pressure.” Not Durand because now people are going to question why the hell his agency’s buses don’t have shatterproof windows installed.
And certainly not the deer, whose corpse was removed from the bus by state Department of Environmental Management personnel, having expired from its injuries shortly after the collision.
Nobody won this battle. To speak otherwise is to speak of the hubris of both man and deer. Mostly the deer though. What kind of fucking dumbass just jumps into a moving vehicle’s windshield? Lol.