Four deer make wrong decision - Leap over highway bridge to their deaths

http://www.athensnews.com/ohio/article-43409-four-deer-make-wrong-decision.html ^ | By David DeWitt

[Bigg Red]

I had similar thoughts upon seeing this.

[cicero2k]

A metaphor for the Obama campaign and its followers.

[Bigg Red]

Never did see what caused all the commotion....

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It’s mating season now, so they are acting crazy.

[moose07]

A St*rBucks has opened nearby......

[tired&retired]

Surprised Sharpton and Jesse aren’t all over this.

They were “White Tailed Deer!!”

[Elsie]

I swear to GOD!

I thought turkeys could fly!

[tired&retired]

Looks like four does...

Darn female emotional decision makers!!! They don’t make good leaders. Neither does our current male emotional decision maker president for that matter!

[Elsie]

I put one up at the end of my driveway; but the deer around here must be on to me...

[Elsie]

You forgot to tell us to READ this out loud!

[Elsie]

Base jumping training is OBVIOUSLY sorely lacking!

[Elsie]

BTW, for those who don’t know what we’re talking about - a woman called into a radio station and complained that the deer crossing signs were in dangerous places.

I was worried about hitting deer, too.

So I bought some of them thar deer whistles ya put on yer pickup.

It was only about 5-6 miles from the store to my house; but I hit two deer on the way HOME!

When the insurance guy showed up, I told him I wuz gonna SUE! the manufacturer of them dumb whistles.

After he checked out the damage, he told me that I probably should not sue.

"Why NOT!?!", I hollered!

"Uh", he stammered; "It appears that you installed them BACKWARD!"

[Chode]

when i was a kid, the game cops would take fresh road kill deer to poor families they knew could use the meat, now it all goes to the dump cause it's not INSPECTED!!! damn...

[dr_lew]

I guess here.

I think this is a known phenomenon, where the visual cues for height are not present. The approaches to the overpass are through level ground, and the deer think ( implicitly ) that they are jumping over a railing.

[cynwoody]

Look further, Officer, there is a problem...........such as someone poisoned them and dropped them off

Doubt it. What would be the motive?

These incidents are apparently not that uncommon. For instance, there was a four-deer case in Cleveland in 2009.

[mikrofon]

They keep showing those Rudolph reruns earlier & earlier, with blatant disregard of their effects on impressionable, young deer ....

[Does so]

Out in Utah, I came across seven dead deer (Mulies) near the roadway. There were a lot of 18-wheelers using that stretch of highway. Speaking to a retired truck driver, he said it was not unusual for deer to run into the side of an 18-wheeler.

Years later, my dad had his car repaired from a deer strike. I noted there was no damage to the grill. He said, "The deer had run into the side of his SUV, and damaged the passenger door"—which I hadn't looked at!

[mabarker1]

Last I knew in Texas they would take it to a Processor and then on to a Shelter or Charity but it had to be run by the Packer first.

Not sure in NC what happens.