Close Call!
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kssunflower
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Close Call!
I was driving home from work last night when a huge deer ran right in front of my car. Must have been a 10 point buck - it was massive. I had to brake hard and swerve to narrowly miss it. Odd thing is it was on a very busy main street in front of one of our many Wal-Marts. I'm just hoping noone else hit it. My Dad hit one a couple years ago on the way to a KU basketball game, but this was on a rural highway. It totaled out his car. Beware, because it's deer mating season and they will just charge into anyone's path.
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I'm glad you survived the near miss! That happens fairly often here in the U.P., I've had a few near misses myself and one that was not a miss at all. The heck of it is, if you hit a deer, it is covered by comprehensive insurance, often without a large deductible. If you wreck your car avoiding a deer, it is covered by collision insurance, often with a larger deductible.
It's deer hunting season in the U.P., it opened the 15th. I'll let anyone who hasn't bagged a deer thus far know to check WalMart, maybe that's where they're hiding!
It's deer hunting season in the U.P., it opened the 15th. I'll let anyone who hasn't bagged a deer thus far know to check WalMart, maybe that's where they're hiding!
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kssunflower
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Hey Harry, you found him!
The deer population in one of the local parks got so large recently that they designated a day for hunters to shoot as many as they could. There was a lot of community protest about it, but the park officials said they had noticed many thin and starving deer as there wasn't enough vegetation to sustain all of them. It really upset me for awhile that they did this and I couldn't go back to that park for a long time. I always enjoyed going there at dusk, knowing I'd see one.
The deer population in one of the local parks got so large recently that they designated a day for hunters to shoot as many as they could. There was a lot of community protest about it, but the park officials said they had noticed many thin and starving deer as there wasn't enough vegetation to sustain all of them. It really upset me for awhile that they did this and I couldn't go back to that park for a long time. I always enjoyed going there at dusk, knowing I'd see one.
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mbhenty
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Yes Kssunflower, You see the problem is not that the deer are starving. It's that humans are witnessing it. Animals (and people) starve everyday. Suddenly when it's in your face they want to do something about it. I for one believe they should let nature take its course. Of course there are some who believe that it is not an overpopulation of animals but an overpopulation of humans. I for one believe it to be the latter.
I have always had a soft spot for animals, one which has prevented me from ever being a hunter.
My first experience with a deer was in 1956 when a neighbor arrived home with a buck strapped to the hood of his 54 chevy. This was probably my first experience with death. I was only five, and yet to experience the death of a pet or anything. I remember how big the deer was and thinking it surreal. Was this a real living thing? His head despairingly draped over the car's headlight, ropes barbarically tied around his torso which appeared to be still breathing, and looking at me with large eyes, a helpless benign expression, pleading, calling out to me.............help me, help me.
The moment stuck with me for life.
I have always had a soft spot for animals, one which has prevented me from ever being a hunter.
My first experience with a deer was in 1956 when a neighbor arrived home with a buck strapped to the hood of his 54 chevy. This was probably my first experience with death. I was only five, and yet to experience the death of a pet or anything. I remember how big the deer was and thinking it surreal. Was this a real living thing? His head despairingly draped over the car's headlight, ropes barbarically tied around his torso which appeared to be still breathing, and looking at me with large eyes, a helpless benign expression, pleading, calling out to me.............help me, help me.
The moment stuck with me for life.
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kssunflower
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Another reason for that massacre in the park was because the folks in the very expensive homes bordering the park were complaining that the deer were coming into their yards and eating the grass. I live in Johnson county, the state's most wealthy county, and a lot of people here are snobby and uppity. They value their well manicured lawns.
But yes, you have to consider that this was done to benefit the deer. I belong to Defenders of Wildlife and sure don't want to see any more of them go hungry.
But yes, you have to consider that this was done to benefit the deer. I belong to Defenders of Wildlife and sure don't want to see any more of them go hungry.
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And now I feel your same moment.mbhenty @ Sat Nov 20, 2010 10:16 am wrote:Yes Kssunflower, You see the problem is not that the deer are starving. It's that humans are witnessing it. Animals (and people) starve everyday. Suddenly when it's in your face they want to do something about it. I for one believe they should let nature take its course. Of course there are some who believe that it is not an overpopulation of animals but an overpopulation of humans. I for one believe it to be the latter.
I have always had a soft spot for animals, one which has prevented me from ever being a hunter.
My first experience with a deer was in 1956 when a neighbor arrived home with a buck strapped to the hood of his 54 chevy. This was probably my first experience with death. I was only five, and yet to experience the death of a pet or anything. I remember how big the deer was and thinking it surreal. Was this a real living thing? His head despairingly draped over the car's headlight, ropes barbarically tied around his torso which appeared to be still breathing, and looking at me with large eyes, a helpless benign expression, pleading, calling out to me.............help me, help me.
The moment stuck with me for life.
How can we be civilized and yet live in harmony with nature, just wishful thinking I guess.
So glad you were not hurt, Kssunflower.
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kssunflower, check out this site and the youtube vieo:
http://www.pelorian.com/deer.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAc-5kNWPd0
http://www.pelorian.com/deer.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAc-5kNWPd0
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kssunflower
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mbhenty
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Yes, I learnt something about hunting when I worked for a Communication company.
It did not take me long figure out why hunters set up tree stands and hunt from the top of a tree.
While I sat up a telephone pole playing with wires and on hold with the communication center, I would try and get the attention of a passing cat or dog by barking or meowing. The animals would usually stop and look all around. But they never look up.
So you see, deer may have 350 degree vision.........but only on a flat level plane.
With a hunter in a tree the deer doesn't stand a chance.
It did not take me long figure out why hunters set up tree stands and hunt from the top of a tree.
While I sat up a telephone pole playing with wires and on hold with the communication center, I would try and get the attention of a passing cat or dog by barking or meowing. The animals would usually stop and look all around. But they never look up.
So you see, deer may have 350 degree vision.........but only on a flat level plane.
With a hunter in a tree the deer doesn't stand a chance.
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I was driving down a winding mountain road last Fall when a doe ran out of the woods and passed right in front of my car. As I hit the brakes I looked to my left and here came a buck running across the road behind my car! I got sandwiched between those two. They acted like I wasn't even there. I guess they had some urgent business to take care of.
A few years ago I was driving along another road when I saw a doe standing at the edge of the woods. I came to a stop and for a few seconds we looked at each other. When I waved my hand for her to cross she started walking and out of the woods came four babies following behind. When they all got across safely the doe looked back at me as if to say thank you. She looked at me as if waiting for permission to cross and then looked back at me as if to say thank you. She looked me right in the eye with such intensity it was almost human. That was one of the strangest things I have ever seen. I am begining to think animals are smarter than we are at times. People dart out in front of me all the time and never say thank you and yet a deer waits patiently for permission to cross in front of my truck and then says thank you afterward. If that doesn't beat all!
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A few years ago I was driving along another road when I saw a doe standing at the edge of the woods. I came to a stop and for a few seconds we looked at each other. When I waved my hand for her to cross she started walking and out of the woods came four babies following behind. When they all got across safely the doe looked back at me as if to say thank you. She looked at me as if waiting for permission to cross and then looked back at me as if to say thank you. She looked me right in the eye with such intensity it was almost human. That was one of the strangest things I have ever seen. I am begining to think animals are smarter than we are at times. People dart out in front of me all the time and never say thank you and yet a deer waits patiently for permission to cross in front of my truck and then says thank you afterward. If that doesn't beat all!
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I've seen the opposite happen, too. I was driving down an open stretch of road and I noticed a small group of deer to my right about a quarter mile ahead. They were well off the road, so I slowed a bit and proceeded. Just as I came abreast of them, something told me to hit the brakes, just intuitively. Sure enough, one of the deer had decided to play chicken, running in front of my truck, and I just barely missed it. There was no other traffic on the road for a mile ahead and a mile behind me, and I wondered how long that deer had to wait for a truck to come along to run out in front of.
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Re: Close Call!
Glad everyone survived the run ins and almost run ins with the deer!!! Harry love the running deer!!! Another problem with the deer population, they (other then human's) have no natural enemies to help keep their numbers down. a more natural elimination of the weak, or sick among the herd. Hunters don't do that, as they tend to look for the strongest, biggest, healthiest deer they can find. But then I guess it gives the weakest ones more to eat.