[kcvl]

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March 1, 2002

Your excerpt says, "Shortly before 1 o'clock in the morning...while driving a Honda Civic belonging to PETA (and while returning from a PETA campaigning tour) southbound on the New Jersey Turnpike, a deer darted out in front of the car and a collision resulted..."

What I want to know is, why was a deer driving one of PETA's Honda Civics?

I can understand that PETA might think a deer is intelligent enough to drive a Honda Civic. I can even imagine PETA providing Honda Civics to deer so that they can drive themselves to campaign appearances. (This would also enable the deer to catch frightened humans in their headlights.) But so far as I know, a deer cannot obtain a driver's license in New Jersey. Therefore, the deer must have been driving illegally.

So why wasn't the deer arrested? Are the New Jersey State Police now showing favoritism toward deer? Are they, in fact, engaging in reverse cervidian profiling?

We must get to the bottom of this!
Good health to you.
Terry Dunkle
Founder and CEO
DietPower, Inc.

[RangeRatt]

I struck a deer in 1998 while driving north to Birmingham, AL. from Panama City, FL, somewhere near Pine Level. I called the Highway Patrol on my cell phone (as the car I was driving belonged to my employer and I needed a police report), and the dispatcher told me,"It's 10pm, and I am not going to wake up one of my troopers to come down there to do a report on a deer strike. You go to the Patrol Barracks in Birmingham tomorrow and pick up a form #xxx, fill it out, put your information in the 'driver 1' blocks, and in the 'driver 2" block, you put "DEER"." Well, I did this, and when I returned to work and turned the car in, everyone came outside to see the damage, including our comptroller. I handed her the accident report- she didn't stop laughing for nearly an hour....