No joke here in Southern Virginia. The laws were so tight, we were overrun with deer for some time. People kept having collisions with them on the road. A lot of people would die if they weren't thinned out.
One night, as I was driving the back roads home from the (now burnt) bar I managed in Wachapreague VA in a Chevy Chevette, I encountered a buck...I slowed down...he faced the car...pawed the ground like a bull about to charge...and charged.
I managed to avoid him, by playing a (in retrospect) game of vehicular bullfighter. He passed close enough to me (low beams on...fog) that I couls clearly see that he had only one antler, and 4 points on the remaining one.
I worked there for several years before moving to PA, and there are other, similar stories I could tell...and the FERAL DOGS!! HOW ABOUT THOSE FERAL DOGS??
Anyhow, deer are definitely a danger to moterists in VA.