Why did the skunk cross the road?

I have no idea, but more importantly HOW did the skunk cross the road? When I saw him the first time, he was already roadkill!?!? No kidding, I drove back by 8.5 hours later, and the skunk was on the other side of the road. Likely a bird tried to carry him off and accidentally punctured the stink gland and dropped him like a rotted potato. Other animals crossing the road include deer. There have been a pair of does, sisters - I believe, who have been sprinting from one place to the next, suggesting that they were doing something they shouldn't have. Thomas pointed them out last night running from the south end of our property and into our neighbor's, across the road and far away. However, we saw them this morning across the NE corner of our property in another neighbor's fence. We have put up an electric fence around the garden and wire fence around the fruit trees and raspberries. They will nibble on almost anything green - I say "almost" because there is plenty of bindweed to feed on that hasn't been touched. Thomas laughs as my stories vacillate between "wow how cool" and "dang varmint" when it comes to the local animal life.