We see them frequently in fields and swamps along roadside and occasionally in our lower fields.

You DON'T want to run into one on the road! Your chances are slim, at best because their wicked long legs are taken out by the front end of a car and the huge body comes straight through the windshield!

A 17 year old from my daughter's HS senior class survived the hit but then drowned strapped into his seat, upside down when his car flipped over into a filled drainage ditch and he was knocked out cold. His lucky prom date managed to survive, but she was left paralyzed, a mess of broken bones and a severed spinal cord. I'm not sure who was the "lucky one".