Electronic deer deterrent could prevent over 1 million accidents each year

foxnews.com ^ | 11/27/12 | foxnews

[ColdOne]

A new device could stop over one million automobile accidents each year, its inventor claims.

Deer Deter is an automated electronic system designed to keep wild deer and other large animals from running into oncoming traffic in the dark of night. Using a combination of light and sound, it literally stops the animals in their tracks as cars pass by.

[eartick]

Had some hunters put feeders up along my boundary fences and luring and shooting deer from my pasture. Went to barber shop in town, filled garbage bag up with his hair trimmings and paid a visit to the feeders and trails from my side in the dark of the night.

In about a week the corn was sprouting under the feeders.

Probably keep deer out of your flowers as well.

[al baby]

Boy my a$$ smells funny

[waus]

Instead of wasting the money on these devices, the government will spend 10-years and $1 billion to develop, in conjunction with PETA, a deer highway crossing retraining program for the misguided creatures.

[9YearLurker]

You sure they’re not using them for driving target practice?

[Freeeedooomm]

My family and I were leaving a shopping center one night with our Chinese food in tow.

We pulled out onto the 4 lane divided roadway in a quiet residential area. As I was accelerating in the right lane a car with two older ladies in it passed us in the left lane.

As they did, they apparently hit a rabbit that had darted out in front of them.

The rabbits head/skull shot out of it’s skin, screamed across the road at an angle in front of us, and bounced off the curb back towards them. This all happened about 10 yards in front of us so we all got a good look.

I looked over at the ladies and they seemed to be in a state of shock. The ladies horror seemed to redouble when they looked over and saw an entire young family laughing as hard as they could.

Never saw a rabbit’s head come off like that before, man. It did cause me to look at my kung pao chicken slightly askance when I got home.

[Daffynition]

Take-out/Drive-thru goes to the next level.

[Daffynition]

Gotta keep the doors closed....year 'round. :)

[calex59]

The deer kill at least half the trees I have planted. My next step is a 5 foot razor wire fence.

Better make it 10 feet or better, a deer can clear a 6 foot fence easy jumping from a standing start.

[dynoman]

When I’m in what I think is deer country I honk the horn every 30 seconds or so, never hit a deer when I was doing that.

I didn’t hit the last deer - it plowed full speed into the side of the car. So hard that its head banged down on the hood with enough force to dent it. I wasn’t honking when it happened...

[Vigilanteman]

Deer are one step up from goldfish as the stupidest animals on the face of the earth.

I'm not sure about that. There's some pretty good anecdotal evidence in favor of goldfish.

[bobby.223]

Hey Daf, darned if that bottom pic isn’t a dead ringer for how it goes/looks, (minus the cat), on my back deck up here in the mountains also! My deer pals come right on up and eat. I put out chopped apples and deer corn for ‘em each morning and night and it never lasts long.

[al baby]

Deer into the headlights?

[bgill]

True.

[BlackElk]

AHEM!!!

[Fightin Whitey]

LOL!

I don’t be shootin’ at no black elk. Far too canny and noble a creature. I promise.

[Daffynition]

Give 'em an inch and they'll take the yard! :)

[Daffynition]

IIRC, that photo was after a retired couple were on a road trip "...these two old people (man and his wife) were on the way to Greenville, NC and stop to McDonalds in Farmville just off of 264 East bypass last Sat. and did not know they had hit this deer !! Someone in McDonalds had to tell them ... the old man said he noticed the car was starting to run a little hot the last few miles !!!!!"

[Daffynition]

Cat needs acleanin'.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

Cool if it works. 45 years of driving in rural Wisconsin with no deer hit...then, in one year, I hit five in separate incidents.

Even in Wisconsin, do-gooders whine and cry about "killing Bambi". If you eliminate all the natural predators (coyotes, wolves, &c.) the deer population explodes and they become a royal pain as they expand their range into urbanized areas. The only good answer is to thin the herd with annual hunts.

Regards,
GtG

[bobby.223]

Holy sh$T!!!! That is one heck of a yard full!! I have never had that many at once! I believe the most I have counted up here at one time is 16 or 17 iirc. Deep snow months really bring them down. In spring thru fall,I have had some days when the monster sized wild turkeys, (15-20 or so), show up while the deer are having ‘dinner’ and try and run ‘em off by rearing up and flappin’ away at ‘em to get at their chow. Sometimes the girls will leave but the bucks just look at ‘em, lower their heads/horns, stomp a leg and snort, and that is the end of those ugly ass turkey’s bulls$it! Fun stuff!