Reply #18: I hit a opossum once and I felt it too.

[Mabus]

I was driving home late one night with a friend. We were driving down a dirt road and chatting away. Because we were going down a back road, late at night, I wasn't going more than 25 - 30 mph. I was watching out for wildlife but I was on alert more for deer than for smaller critters. All of a sudden the car jerked/buckled and there was a thump. I knew something wasn't right and I stopped the car as soon as I could to find out what was wrong. For all I knew I had hit a high spot in the road and screwed up my oil pan.`Instead we found a opossum lying in the road. After the initial shock, we moved toward it to move it. That's when it got up and ran away.

The thing is, I was driving down a bumpy, county road and I knew I ran over something. How can Novak be driving down a paved DC street and not know he hit someone? Was Novak asleep? Was he on drugs? Was he drunk? Or is he just so out of his mind that he's not aware of his surroundings any more?