[quote=The Economist]IN JUNE 76-year-old Dorothy Richardson of Euclid, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, discovered a fawn nestled in her garden. She picked up a shovel and beat it to death. It was one more battle in a war being waged from coast to coast.
As humans spread into once-rural areas, deer learned to adapt. With few or no natural predators, and thanks to the advent of hunting bans in developed areas, they thrived. There are an estimated 30m deer in America now, more than there were a century ago. The growing herds in urban and suburban areas have sparked a number of programmes to control the animals, not without controversy among humans.
In Town and Country, a suburb of St Louis, Missouri, the problem has reached a dire stage. The community suffers, on average, a collision a week between a deer and a car, and the animals are scoffing plants of all kinds in yards and gardens. After a series of heated hearings the city has decided to spend $150,000 on getting sharpshooters to kill 100 deer and veterinarians to sterilise another 100. The city has already tried other methods including paying for the relocation of deer, an ineffective tactic (the deer just came back) that has now been outlawed. The suburb has also banned people from feeding the deer, which has upset residents who like them.
Other communities are following Town and Country’s example; some are trying contraception, while others are trying to kill the deer with bows and arrows. The culls are provoking an angry reaction in places. In Shawnee Mission, Kansas, a part of metropolitan Kansas City, the city plans to kill three-quarters of the area’s deer, paying outside consultants $185 an hour and donating the venison to food banks. Animal-rights activists recently blocked the entrance to a park with a sign saying “Death Park, Closed for Cruelty.” The leader of the group earlier walked into park headquarters and deposited a severed deer head on the counter. In the recently-completed statewide urban deer hunting season Missouri’s Department of Conservation reported more than 1,200 kills.
Back in Euclid Mrs Richardson pleaded no contest to one count of cruelty and was fined $500 and given 80 hours of community service. But as the deer numbers mount, critics are wondering whether there is much to choose between her method of animal control or the organised harvesting in Town and Country.[/quote]
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[quote]IN JUNE 76-year-old Dorothy Richardson of Euclid, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, discovered a fawn nestled in her garden. She picked up a shovel and beat it to death.[/quote]
This woman is a true American hero.:patriot:
Poor deer. They just want to live. :<
Bahaha, what the fuck.
"Oh look a fawn I think I'll beat it to death" Fuck me that woman must've been beaten with a shovel when she was younger.
I can understand that part about deer getting hit by cars. Have you ever hit a deer with your car? It can really fuck up the front end.
The shovel thing is pretty sadistic though. That woman has issues.
I'm surprised a 76-year-old broad had the physical strength to kill a young fawn. If I were the fawn, Id've kicked the shit out of her.
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How could you beat this poor thing to death. :<
Alright I'm done. Lol.
[QUOTE=Pascall;18452820][IMG]http://programm.kurier.at/cont/upload/KINO/32248bambi2_1.jpg[/IMG]
How could you beat this poor thing to death. :<
Alright I'm done. Lol.[/QUOTE]
i never liked that movie
What, the first or "second" one?
That woman should be put to death...
:v:
[QUOTE=Malumbre;18453026]That woman should be put to death...
:v:[/QUOTE]
oh you
[QUOTE=archangel125;18452803]I'm surprised a 76-year-old broad had the physical strength to kill a young fawn. If I were the fawn, Id've kicked the shit out of her.[/QUOTE]
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It's true, fucking giant rats are everywhere in Ohio, I'd use a Crossbow on them if I had the chance.
Haha, that's so fucked up
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL9xCWphV8s[/media]
Deers have to strike back now and wage war.
I love it when people want to ban hunting, but then they complain when they hit them with their cars because the deer population has exploded out of control.
The natural cycle for these things is to have a population explosion, eat everything in sight then starve to death until next year when everything regrows and the surviving deer reproduce again.
[QUOTE=RR_Raptor65;18453505]I love it when people want to ban hunting, but then they complain when they hit them with their cars because the deer population has exploded out of control.
The natural cycle for these things is to have a population explosion, eat everything in sight then starve to death until next year when everything regrows and the surviving deer reproduce again.[/QUOTE]
RR_Raptor65: reputable naturalist
[QUOTE=Pascall;18452820][IMG]http://programm.kurier.at/cont/upload/KINO/32248bambi2_1.jpg[/IMG]
How could you beat this poor thing to death. :<[/QUOTE]
I would break his/her neck, and sell the meat.
This is why I am scared of America. :ohdear:
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;18452801]I can understand that part about deer getting hit by cars. Have you ever hit a deer with your car? It can really fuck up the front end.
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I think your forgetting the more important thing.
[QUOTE=darius_bielecki;18453751]I think your forgetting the more important thing.[/QUOTE]
Deer Death Squads? Deer Overpopulation? Starvation? Property Damage? Angry Old Ladies with Shovels?
[QUOTE=Baldr;18453563]I would break his/her neck, and sell the meat.[/QUOTE]
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Fuck deer. They're everywhere and all they do is eat my flowers.
[B]Edit:[/B] And fuck you guys who side with the deer. You probably live in places where there is maybe a deer every 10 square miles. Ever been chased by one? Didn't think so.
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I have eaten one of his friends, there delicious.
[quote]76-year-old Dorothy Richardson of Euclid, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, discovered a fawn nestled in her garden.[B] She picked up a shovel and beat it to death[/B]. It was one more battle in a war being waged from coast to coast[/quote]
I visualized that in my head, fucking [I]brutal[/I]
What the fuck, who in there right mind just thinks "there's a deer in my garden...the logical thing to do must be to beat it to death with a shovel"
Call some animal dudes to scare it off or move it to a new location atleast.
She probably mistook it for a Russian parachute soldier.
Somewhat related
[url]http://www.wimp.com/elkpuddle/[/url]
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[QUOTE=Watevaman;18453915]Fuck deer. They're everywhere and all they do is eat my flowers.
[B]Edit:[/B] And fuck you guys who side with the deer. You probably live in places where there is maybe a deer every 10 square miles. Ever been chased by one? Didn't think so.[/QUOTE]
Uh.
There are shitloads of deer where I live. And it sucks because they can't do shit about us expanding our cities and whatnot. True, they're annoying as hell when they get into your yard and destroy shit or fuck up your car, but that's not really their fault.
As for you being chased by one, you probably got near a mate if it was a male or their baby if it was female. Common sense tells you to not go near a wild deer.
Haha Ohio, it doesnt surprise me :v:
Poor deer tho, nothing deserves to be beaten to death with a shovel... well maybe some stuff but not deers.
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