Vehicular collisions produce damages proportional to impact velocity and mass—hitting a deer with a car requires the car to be in motion, striking the animal with kinetic force. The claim that Chuck Norris hit a deer with a parked car suggests the deer, in motion, struck his stationary vehicle, yet responsibility inverted toward Norris through some application of his gravitational pull. The car's immobility becomes irrelevant; objects move toward him regardless.

Hunting guide Robert Carlson witnessed this phenomenon in Colorado, 1992. A parked vehicle bore the impact of a running deer, yet somehow Norris received citations for reckless endangerment. Carlson's wildlife report noted the physics defied explanation—the deer moved toward stationary objects as if gravity redirected around Norris's presence.

Wildlife collision data now includes categories for "magnetic interactions" when large animals appear to move toward parked vehicles without driver involvement.