I'm going to cry :( That poor deer

[ET Awful]

Driving home tonight, I got off the highway to get on the smaller highway/connector that takes me into town by my apartment. There was a state police car blocking two lanes because apparently someone had hit a deer.

The deer was curled up in the middle of the road trying to raise his head and looked like he was in terrible pain :cry: :cry: :cry:

He looked like a young buck, probably only a couple of years old. Poor thing :(

[Taverner]

1. Couldnt the cop have put it out of its misery?

[VelmaD]

5. I'll remember you said that...

the next time you're in a traffic accident. :P

[Tallison]

7. Depends on the juridiction

I hit a racoon once and called the cops to see if they could do the same, only to learn about how it was illegal to discharge a firearm in the city we were in except in self-defense. We wound of waiting roadside for animal control for 3 hours, after which they picked up the wounded animal with a 15-foot net (not gently, either) and took it to the shelter, where they presumably were to put it out of its misery. It was incredibly upsetting. :(

[ET Awful]

14. I wondered the same thing. I don't know.

I guess they were waiting for animal control or something.

This isn't exactly a rural area, if he'd killed it, he probably would have spent the next three months explaining to agency after agency why he discharged his firearm.

[LaurenG]

2. I just can't stand that

When I lived in Colorado a deer was hit and was still alive at the side of the road. We pulled over to see if we could help it and the police showed up and started yelling at us for getting near it. I hate that stuff. Poor things. :hug:

[Fox Mulder]

3. Imagine how many assholes...

are going to shoot a deer this weekend and get off a bad shot (and hit it in the back or something) and make the poor deer sit in the woods much like the deer you saw today, suffering in pain, and not being able to find it. :( :cry:

I really hate hunting season.

[Tallison]

4. Oh, God

When I think of hunting, I think about it being at least fairly quick, but you're right, especially given the number of hunters who are also drunks. :(

[Fox Mulder]

6. I have "friends"...

that have a tradition of getting really drunk the night before deer hunting season begins (in this case, tonight) and go out in the early morning to hunt.

Those poor deer. I feel sorry for every last one of them. :cry: :(

[ET Awful]

15. Me too.

I won't fault competent hunters that hunt for food only.

As to hunters that go out looking merely to get drunk and find a head to hang on their wall, they can go Cheney themselves.

[Oeditpus Rex]

16. I wish they'd use

cameras instead of guns.

x(

[Fox Mulder]

17. I agree.

:thumbsup:

[DainBramaged]

8. I hit a buck in June of this year

rolled off my hood, shook himself off, glared at me and took off. Came out of the community gardens by the library in my town, Didn't see him until too late. Over $2200 damages to the car, covered thank god.

I wish they'd find a way to introduce birth control into the deer population, that way maybe, they wouldn't need a hunt. Over 2500 accidents a year in my state from deer collisions. Out of control. They nave no natural predator any more. I have 3 in my neighborhood with no fear of us, just saunter out of the way of cars and people.

[LeftyMom]

9. Deer birth control exists and works

States don't like to use it, because selling deer tags generates revenue.
http://magazine.audubon.org/webstories/deer_birth_control.html

[Tallison]

10. That is so interesting!

Now I have some reconsideration to do on the subject...

[RebelOne]

11. You are certainly correct. What would the hunters have to kill

if the deer herds were brought under control?

[Chan790]

12. They have it

it's considered controversial for some reason I've never understood. IMO it's no different than spaying or neutering a pet, except less permanent.

They have huge arguments over it in the town I grew up in every year, whether or not it's appropriate to defertilize the deer. I think it's done orally but that could be wrong...I never really wanted to know how they did it.

IIRC it's the hunters that are opposed to it...which makes it one more reason to support it.

[DainBramaged]

13. Hunters, multi-billion $ industry headed by the National Retarded Asshats

Brave white hunters all, shooting them dangerous animals and polishing up them guns for their chance to drag a bloody carcass home on the hood of their trucks to cut the head off to display in their living rooms.

Yup. brave men. Oh sure, they eat the venison. Not. I'd like to know where the butchers are who dress the deer out and what they charge for that delicious deer meat. Just like pheasants and quail and everything else the brave white hunters have to kill so their families survive.:sarcasm:

Scumbags all. No solution other than at the end of the gun. Same way they handle their problems with the rest of the world.

I'm going to the movies catch ya later