[Tom Bombadil]

Cynthia says the children who saw the incident were extremely troubled by the man's behavior, and she "walked away from the scene in tears."

Maybe she should take the children to MacDonalds for a happy meal. That would make them feel better and she could tell them that the meat in the burger was picked from a tree.

[equus]

Agree. Eat meat--but let somebody else slaughter it--those animals don't have feelings--but the deer on your lawn does.

The deer in your neighborhood also carries re-emerging infections like lyme disease, babesiosis, and other stuff that can ruin people's health and lives, and the deer in the upper midwest have mad deer disease, so it's coming to your neighborhood too.

Nature keeps a balance. By letting all the deer live and all the trees grow, we ended up with some serious problems on our hands.