[Capriole]

Yes, it's true, as the Post article complains--Loudoun County, Virginia, is absolutely infested with these creatures. You can't drive down the road without seeing one or more of them running along the side of the road or standing in the garden of a vulgar McMansion. They're breeding out of control and establishing their habitat in what was formerly beautiful open countryside. They are Yuppie Scum, and I certainly support shooting them. ;-)

More seriously: deer are a problem almost everywhere, but particularly in Loudoun County, which is the second fastest-growing county in the US. Many new Loudoun residents buy or build in what was until recently farmland or forest, and are then surprised that they have to deal with displaced wildlife and the other problems inherent in country living. In my county we have had some luck in dealing with yuppies, PETA types, and deer all at the same time by staging deer drives, in which professional hunters slaughter large numbers of deer which are then used to feed the poor. It's not a perfect solution but it's better than nothing.

[palmer]

Many new Loudoun residents buy or build in what was until recently farmland or forest, and are then surprised that they have to deal with displaced wildlife and the other problems inherent in country living.

The idiots in Fairfax just ripped up a fairly decent tract of woods by the Vienna Metro. Now the deer that had taken cover there are being hunted by all the drivers in the area.