Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/11

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Subject: [Leica] Down with Bambi.
From: kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:41:07 -0500
References: <CA40C9DA.4C235%chris@chriscrawfordphoto.com>

That's a shame - herd control has long been the solution.  Not to 
mention a freezer full of venison.

Ken

On 7/11/2011 2:40 PM, Chris Crawford wrote:
> In Indiana, they're vermin pure and simple. I've hit two of them with my 
> car
> over the years because the idiotic creatures wait till a car is too close 
> to
> stop, then they leap onto the road in front of you. One of them actually
> jumped onto the road and slammed into the side of my car!
>
> They're so overpopulated now that we're beginning to see them in the middle
> of this city of 250,000. That was unheard of when I was young, when deer
> populations were better controlled. The state's finally allowing more
> hunting to thin the herds because the overpopulation is actually beginning
> to hurt the deer because there's not enough food for them all. We're seeing
> deer with stunted growth because of overpopulation. Some of the herds have
> as many as 100 of them traveling together. A group like that can destroy a
> farm in hours.
>
>
>



Replies: Reply from billcpearce at cox.net (Bill Pearce) ([Leica] Down with Bambi.)
In reply to: Message from chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com (Chris Crawford) ([Leica] Down with Bambi.)