Flint is a jerk

[skysidhe]

Originally Posted by Cheyenne

do you get that at your local "let's go kill innocent deer" store?

haha I got a chuckle out of that.





I wasn't thinking the ammo was for something like a deer. More along the lines of some mythical creature. Not so grand as a unicorn or pegasus but certainly somekind of centaur or valkries. Something born of fancy and whimsy.

[Cheyenne]

Originally Posted by skysidhe

haha I got a chuckle out of that.





I wasn't thinking the ammo was for something like a deer. More along the lines of some mythical creature. Not so grand as a unicorn or pegasus but certainly somekind of centaur or valkries. Something born of fancy and whimsy.

zippyt has piercing the armour i stole from El in mind me thinks sky

[busterb]

Cheyenne. I give you Bambie.
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Deer are deadly killers of human beings. Thousands die every year on our highways thanks to "Bambi". Pass me a slice of that venison, Busterb.

[Cheyenne]

Originally Posted by marichiko

Deer are deadly killers of human beings. Thousands die every year on our highways thanks to "Bambi". Pass me a slice of that venison, Busterb.

Actually around 100 a year mari. It is humans who have encroached upon their domain.

Originally Posted by Cheyenne

Actually around 100 a year mari. It is humans who have encroached upon their domain.

Yes, excuse me. I was thinking of the over-all crashes caused by deer. Fatalities in 2004 (the most recent year I could find statistics for) were 367.
Yes, the deer were here first. So were their natural predators – the wolf and the cougar. Man has eradicated the wolf from the lower 48 except for the upper Michigan penninsula. Cougars have been hunted heavily, but their population is now making something of a come back.

Without their natural predators to keep the deer population in check, their numbers have sky rocketed and they present a real menace on this nation's highways.

Some fun facts:

The number of deer-vehicle crashes around the country continues to grow. Conover et al. (1995) estimated over 1.5 million deer-vehicle crashes occur annually in the United States. Less than 50% of these collisions are reported. For reported accidents, the estimated damage to vehicles exceeds $1.1 billion and over 1.3 million deer are killed. Romin and Bissonette (1996) estimated that the value of a deer harvested by a hunter was $1,313. Applying this estimate to the number of deer killed that occur in the United States would result in an economic opportunity loss of over $1.7 billion annually.

In addition to these economic losses, deer-vehicle collisions alone result in over 29,000 human injuries and over 200 fatalities (Conover et al. 1995). And the numbers are increasing at an alarming rate. When Henry Ford was first turning out the Model T, only about 500,000 white tails were to be found in the entire U.S., according to the U.S. Biological Survey. In recent times, deer populations have increased from 29.8 million in 1994 to 32.7 million in 2001. Last year, hunters killed 7.4 million deer, drivers killed another 1.8 million, Tragically, DVCs kill more people in the U.S. than do all commercial airlines, train and bus accidents combined in a typical year.

And from The Wall Street Journal:

EMIGRANT, Mont.--Deercrash.com--run by the University of Wisconsin-Madison--is not recommended bedtime reading before a road trip over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house. But it is a reality check on a pullulating U.S. highway hazard. Deer-vehicle crashes in 2003 produced 367 human fatalities. Even for survivors, an encounter with a leaping stag takes a toll: The University of North Carolina's Highway Safety Research Center cites a 1995 study claiming that the property damage from such accidents that year was $1.2 billion.

Deer danger on U.S. highways is reaching epidemic proportions. Take Michigan: The state has an estimated 1.75 million white-tailed deer, and when mating season rolls around, they literally take to the streets. The costs, in life and property, prompted Gov. Jennifer Granholm to declare October "Michigan Car-Deer Crash Safety Awareness Month."