Soldato
You're not right.
Go and have a rest and let the drama queen wear off.
Poor thing.
Rare white deer shot because it was getting dark.
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You're not right.
Go and have a rest and let the drama queen wear off.
Poor thing.
OK how much to get a construction crew to come out and install deer warning signs on a Sunday morning at short notice?
It was a residential area, no? 30mph? If you're driving too fast to be able to avoid a deer you're probably driving too fast to avoid a child. Once it gets out of the residential area it probably finds a field or woodland to disappear into. I guess it could head for the nearest motorway or airport if it was a terrorist deer intent or wreaking destruction on humanity through bloody self-sacrifice.
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Are we talking about a Deer here or a Terminator ?
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So? They shot some food. We live in a holocaust of food animals being killed for convenience, don't see how this is different.
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It was killed for food though, it was killed because it was an inconvenience
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RSPCA said to leave it alone and it would find its own way back. NO wonder it got distressed, a bunch of loud animals trying to corner it. Was it really that hard to close or cordon off a few roads for a short while and let the thing slowly make its own way out?
Caporegime
You have to think of the children, you don't want that white privileged deer bulldozing little Timmy as it charges out of Bootle.
Soldato
Overkill to kill it...
Soldato
Even if you ignore the hassle and cost of closing roads, you would be assuming that deer would have followed the route cordoned off. And if that deer was like the ones around here, then it would have been unpredictable at best.
However, it's a shame the RSPCA and the ilk, who are far better equipped to handle situations like this, couldn't be bothered to come out and help as that would have prevented this happening
Too busy putting healthy dogs down, the RSPCA. Sad, but true. Is why charities like the Dogs Trust use the tagline, "We never put a healthy dog down." Because the RSPCA do, all the time.However, it's a shame the RSPCA and the ilk, who are far better equipped to handle situations like this, couldn't be bothered to come out and help as that would have prevented this happening
They are also more of a political lobbying organisation these days, rather than rescuing animals.
Troll posting tripe in the wrong thread again......
Shame they had to go to the extreme measures.
Also you...
So, yeah...
Let the reader decide who is "lying" here
Either you (@FoxEye lets avoid anymore confusions here) didn't understand my post or you (@FoxEye) has just admitted that @Slam62 is your (@FoxEye) alternative account. We shall let the readers decide
.Glad the police in florida can sort out a gator or bear\deer
They walk around free there
So in florida they let gators freely roam around narrow streets lined with terraced housing that have no front gardens and far away from their expected point of habitation? Well we learn something new everyday.
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Soldato
Agreed, whilst unfortunate for the deer this was a reasonable tactic employed by the police. It's disappointing to live in a world where some would see an incident like this as some justification to claim the entire human race is evil.
As a society, we value human life above that of a wild animal and I personally have no issue with that.
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People sometimes don't eat food. Either way this death pales in comparison to all the animals killed for food, or because they're unwanted pets etc. Honestly I don't get why this one is a big deal.
Read the book 'against empathy'. People find it very easy to get worked up about one death but extremely difficult to get worked up about millions. It's why charity posters say 'ahmed has 12 sisters and no parents blah blah' rather than 1m afghans die each year.
There is only so much you can do to anticipate the sudden appearance of a deer or child in built up areas unless you drive everywhere at sub 20MPH.
Hitting a deer like this at 30MPH or so would be far more distressing for it and probably cause a longer painful death than being shot unfortunately
And these kind of deer can do a lot of damage - surprised in the dark at close range very possible one could do fatal injuries to a person.
Personally find it very sad as there are organisations who can deal with this kind of thing but seems they couldn't get hold of one close enough to be able to help in time.
EDIT: Not a good choice of video as it was an euthanasia job anyway.
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