Police shoot deer for failing to get out of the way

[zinfamous]

Yes, the most sensational, outrageous possibility that doesn't happen that often WILL ALWAYS HAPPEN SO BETTER SHOOT THE FUCK OUT OF IT BEFORE IT ... LIKE... uh, bites me or something... :hmm:

actually, it happens more often than you probably expect. Have you ever seen a wild animal outside of a zoo?

 

[SlitheryDee]

It's funny how the police are completely flummoxed by the situation. Cop car backs up, pulls forward, honks, another cop walks around and investigates, car turns siren on honks some more, other guy gives some instructions, car turns lights on, guy investigates some more, gives more instructions, cop walks up and shoots deer.

It's not like this is a complicated rubik's cube of a puzzle, yet they're all like "WTF do we do"? "I can't think of anything else! Shoot the damn thing"!

I really don't see why they didn't try turning the headlights off and waiting until the deer's eyes adjusted. Haven't they heard about the whole "Deer in the headlights" thing?

 

[JM Aggie08]

It's funny how the police are completely flummoxed by the situation. Cop car backs up, pulls forward, honks, another cop walks around and investigates, car turns siren on honks some more, other guy gives some instructions, car turns lights on, guy investigates some more, gives more instructions, cop walks up and shoots deer.

It's not like this is a complicated rubik's cube of a puzzle, yet they're all like "WTF do we do"? "I can't think of anything else! Shoot the damn thing"!

I really don't see why they didn't try turning the headlights off and waiting until the deer's eyes adjusted. Haven't they heard about the whole "Deer in the headlights" thing?

Not sure, but it might have had something to do with the deer's broken. Ass. Leg.

 

[WelshBloke]

It's funny how the police are completely flummoxed by the situation. Cop car backs up, pulls forward, honks, another cop walks around and investigates, car turns siren on honks some more, other guy gives some instructions, car turns lights on, guy investigates some more, gives more instructions, cop walks up and shoots deer.

It's not like this is a complicated rubik's cube of a puzzle, yet they're all like "WTF do we do"? "I can't think of anything else! Shoot the damn thing"!

I really don't see why they didn't try turning the headlights off and waiting until the deer's eyes adjusted. Haven't they heard about the whole "Deer in the headlights" thing?

Its just a bloody deer, its not like there arent loads more of them in the woods.

How much effort do you want them to put into the situation?

Police have better things to do. I mean there must be a truck stop nearby with decent doughnuts that need investigating.

 

[ThinClient]

actually, it happens more often than you probably expect. Have you ever seen a wild animal outside of a zoo?

I've hung and skinned a deer I caught bow hunting, bro.

 

[ThinClient]

poke it witha stick? what did you expect it to do? run off? did you not notice it had a BROKEN LEG? the best thing that could happen was the officer shooting it.

Well, morons in this thread are claiming that a 3-legged deer would be kung-fu karate kicking everyone in the face if you so much as touch it, so why can't I claim that there's an alternate solution to honking at it and then shooting it?

 

[ThinClient]

Cop pokes deer with stick.

Deer jumps into road and through windscreen of car causing multiple vehicle pile up and fatalities.

ThinClient posts on ATF that cops are retards for poking a poor animal with a stick and that they should have shot it.

Deer don't go through windscreens of stopped cars, which you can clearly see that all traffic is stopped.

Though that last paragraph might actually be true LOL :sneaky:

 

[ThinClient]

I'll assume that the extent of your experience with wildlife is keeping a Beta in a glass bowl atop your desk.

I've never owned betas. Are they fun?

 

[SlitheryDee]

Its just a bloody deer, its not like there arent loads more of them in the woods.

How much effort do you want them to put into the situation?

Police have better things to do. I mean there must be a truck stop nearby with decent doughnuts that need investigating.

Oh I don't give a shit about the deer. Shooting it just felt like an extreme solution to the problem, especially if they knew they were being filmed. Deer are basically forest rats anyway, but too many city folk have seen bambi for that to go by without someone crying foul.

 

[DrPizza]

Citiots. I like it. People so detached from nature and reality they think food grows in a supermarket.

That term is thrown about fairly often by people in the country - at least around here. The teacher in the room next door to me has an anti-hunting article clipped out of the letters to the editor of a newspaper (not our local newspaper though). In it, someone was proposing to hunters that instead of killing animals for food, they should just go to the grocery store where the food is made. I really wish I was kidding, but you're right. Some people DO think food comes from the supermarket.

To the "hours in the woods" - I can't wait until the end of hunting season. Saturday: 6am to 5pm. Sunday: 6am to 5:30pm (left for the hunting spot at 4am), and every day this week from shortly after getting home until 20 minutes or so after sunset. I've seen 1 deer; 15 feet away. Stupid curious thing - a yearling buck.

 

[waggy]

Well, morons in this thread are claiming that a 3-legged deer would be kung-fu karate kicking everyone in the face if you so much as touch it, so why can't I claim that there's an alternate solution to honking at it and then shooting it?

they are right. deer if cornered are pretty damn deadly. i sure in the hell wouldn't want to get kicked by one.

there is no alternative to the situation. you can't rehabilitate it (sorry it is not going to survive in the wild after this), you can't move it. and it was a deadly sitaution leaving a wounded deer beside a 4 lane.

the best thing they did was SHOOT IT.

Oh I don't give a shit about the deer. Shooting it just felt like an extreme solution to the problem, especially if they knew they were being filmed. Deer are basically forest rats anyway, but too many city folk have seen bambi for that to go by without someone crying foul.

you might feel it was a extreme solution. trouble is it was the only RIGHT solution.

 

[Theb]

Seems like a reasonable solution. It's not like it's a black rhino.

 

[Scarpozzi]

They could have turned out their headlights and acted as though they were *charging* the deer and it would have run away.

When you shine bright lights on an animal like that at night, they will stand still. Deer are awful around highways and they're not endangered. Unless they actually eat the deer, they should get in trouble for shooting a defenseless animal. I'm not one of the bleeding hearts, but there's no sport in it when you're able to walk up to it like that...

 

[ThinClient]

they are right. deer if cornered are pretty damn deadly. i sure in the hell wouldn't want to get kicked by one.

You wouldn't be kicked by a deer with a broken leg. It's not a bucking bronco, it's a deer in pain that would flounder and fall if it tried holding up its body with two legs for even a moment.

there is no alternative to the situation. you can't rehabilitate it (sorry it is not going to survive in the wild after this), you can't move it. and it was a deadly sitaution leaving a wounded deer beside a 4 lane.

the best thing they did was SHOOT IT.

you might feel it was a extreme solution. trouble is it was the only RIGHT solution.

Maybe. I'm one of those who thinks that officers fire too often and too poorly and too many rounds in a lazy and irresponsible attempt to control whatever situation they deem needs emptying their magazine into. Maybe I'm letting that cloud my judgment.

 

[surfsatwerk]

Or they could have shot the damn thing and moved on with life.

 

[highland145]

Or they could have shot the damn thing and moved on with life.

I say they should have shooed it off the street and let it starve to death.

 

[mmntech]

Deer are pretty stupid. You get people smashing into them all the time north of the city. They're a major traffic hazard at this time of year because they're migrating. I also think they're attracted to the salt on the road. Not sure why they didn't wait for animal control to take care of it, but that got the job done. An animal like that that's too comfortable wandering onto a busy street is a danger to itself and motorists.

Also. WORLD STAR fo life yo.

 

[rudeguy]

They could have turned out their headlights and acted as though they were *charging* the deer and it would have run away.

When you shine bright lights on an animal like that at night, they will stand still. Deer are awful around highways and they're not endangered. Unless they actually eat the deer, they should get in trouble for shooting a defenseless animal. I'm not one of the bleeding hearts, but there's no sport in it when you're able to walk up to it like that...

and it would have ran into traffic

Do you live in an area with deer? Those things are stupid and dangerous. My uncle had one run through his house, destroyed a ton of stuff. I can't count how many people I know that have totalled cars because of deer. I had one run into the side of my car, had a few try to race me even.

Deer are big and do a ton of damage. Bambi here got into a populated area and the police did what they had to. That is a Michigan State Police charger. I promise this wasn't their first run in with deer and the did what they had to do.

I can just hear the outrage if one of you needed a cop and one didn't come for 2 hours because he was busy playing with a deer.

 

[surfsatwerk]

I say they should have shooed it off the street and let it starve to death.

Better yet let's re-introduce a pack of wolves into the city habitat and let "nature" solve the problem.

























And then shoot the wolves.

 

[waggy]

I'm not one of the bleeding hearts, but there's no sport in it when you're able to walk up to it like that...

of course there was no sport. IT HAD A FUCKING BROKEN LEG.

this was not "sport" or hunting. it was injured on the side of a busy road.

 

[mmntech]

and it would have ran into traffic

Do you live in an area with deer? Those things are stupid and dangerous. My uncle had one run through his house, destroyed a ton of stuff. I can't count how many people I know that have totalled cars because of deer. I had one run into the side of my car, had a few try to race me even.

There's a video out of Vancouver of either a deer or elk trying to race a motorcycle. They're incredibly dumb animals and breed like rabbits. Their long, spindly legs make them more of a hazard in a collision, especially with cars. Since the low nose breaks their legs then throws the body up towards the windshield. Moose are even more dangerous. Same situation but they're taller and a lot heavier. You hit a moose, you're probably not surviving that accident.

Spring and autumn are the worst time for them. You really have to be careful driving through forested areas, especially at night. There are urban deer populations as well that cause a problem. I encountered one once in the city standing in the middle of the road. I honked at it and it took off fortunately.

 

[Doppel]

the comments on that video are very retarded.


figures.

Nig this, nig that. Can't these people English?

I imagine there was another way to deal with this situation. They never really tried to nudge it with much commitment with the car.

 

[highland145]

Better yet let's re-introduce a pack of wolves into the city habitat and let "nature" solve the problem.




And then shoot the wolves.

After they eat the homeless. Bam, 2 for 1.






I kid, I kid.

 

[Doppel]

That term is thrown about fairly often by people in the country - at least around here. The teacher in the room next door to me has an anti-hunting article clipped out of the letters to the editor of a newspaper (not our local newspaper though). In it, someone was proposing to hunters that instead of killing animals for food, they should just go to the grocery store where the food is made. I really wish I was kidding, but you're right. Some people DO think food comes from the supermarket.

To the "hours in the woods" - I can't wait until the end of hunting season. Saturday: 6am to 5pm. Sunday: 6am to 5:30pm (left for the hunting spot at 4am), and every day this week from shortly after getting home until 20 minutes or so after sunset. I've seen 1 deer; 15 feet away. Stupid curious thing - a yearling buck.

I intend on starting hunting within the next couple of years. I actually think if you're truly offended by the notion of killing an animal you shouldn't be eating them. I've never heard the term citidiot but I like it. City folk love to look down on hunters for their savage sport, while eating from an animal that has spent its entire life in a tiny pen living in its own feces.

 

[JM Aggie08]

So many fucking delusional minds in this thread.