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More Than 100 Reindeer Slaughtered by Trains in Norway
New York Post ^ | November 27, 2017 | Natalie Musumeci

Posted on 12/05/2017 9:54:38 PM PST by nickcarraway

More than 100 reindeer have been fatally mowed down by freight trains in northern Norway in the past week in a pre-Christmas “bloodbath,” according to reports.

One train killed 65 deer on the tracks on Saturday and another 41 died in the same gruesome fashion between Wednesday and Friday of last week during the animals’ winter migration.

“I’m so angry that I’m dizzy,” Ole Henrik, the owner of the 65 dead reindeer, told NRK, a Norwegian government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: reindeer; trains; venison
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To: Fungi

Can a depressed shroom commit fungicide?


21 posted on 12/06/2017 3:25:39 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: poinq

I think it’s one guy who is complaining because it was his herd... of course you’d think by now he’d have figured out that in high snow grazers like to congregate on the tracks because they are relatively snow-free.


22 posted on 12/06/2017 3:30:36 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: nickcarraway

Caribou and moose are killed on the tracks of the Alaska Railroad all the time in winter. It’s easier for them to walk on the tracks than in the deep snow.

My boss’ wife worked for a state social services agency dealing with children. She’d get calls 24/7 to arrange to have a hit critter picked up ASAP and butchered for food.


23 posted on 12/06/2017 4:03:40 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ( "Free men are not equal, and Equal men are not free".)
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To: clearcarbon

+1.


24 posted on 12/06/2017 4:32:17 AM PST by Carriage Hill ( Life is simpler, when you plow around the stump.)
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To: nickcarraway

25 posted on 12/06/2017 4:58:05 AM PST by Daffynition (The New PTSD: PRESIDENT-Trump Stress Disorder - The LSN didnÂ’t make Trump, so they can't break him)
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To: nickcarraway

Rudolph the Dead Nose Reindeer, got run over by a train. He and his friends were playing on the tracks and were dumb enough to get hit....


26 posted on 12/06/2017 5:00:27 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: nickcarraway

I was at the Ice Hotel in Kiruna Sweden this past February. The Saami people there use reindeer as currency. (Kind of like a big, stupid, walking bitcoin!)

Anyway, the Saami guys all said you should never ask how many reindeer they own - it is like asking how much money they have!

And by the way, reindeer are the stupidest animal you will ever come across. All they know are eat and poop and run. No wonder they all get run over.


27 posted on 12/06/2017 5:27:04 AM PST by Bartholomew Roberts
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To: nickcarraway

I guess sometimes evolutionary adaption just doesn’t work...


28 posted on 12/06/2017 5:42:16 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Grandma to run over a bunch of reindeer
Driving a freight train home on Christmas Eve
Some folks say there’s no such thang as Santa
But as for me and grandma, we believe.


29 posted on 12/06/2017 6:10:56 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Fungi

After your diatribe I no longer think of you as a fun guy.


30 posted on 12/06/2017 8:23:03 AM PST by T-Bone Texan
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To: jonascord
In Oklahoma, if a car hits a cow, the farmer/rancher is liable...

Some US states (not sure which, but they are all in the west) have free range laws. It is the exact opposite of what you describe. If you hit a cow with your car, it is your fault and you owe damages to the rancher.

31 posted on 12/06/2017 8:33:38 AM PST by j. earl carter
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To: T-Bone Texan

Had to break the “mould.”


32 posted on 12/06/2017 12:53:28 PM PST by Fungi (Fungi rule the world, no one knows it yet.)
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