Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 19:12:29 -0500
Reply-To: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
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From: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: Deer Strike
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In Texas State Parks, Core Of Engineer Parks and Private Camp grounds
the Deer walk down the asphalt park roads 24 hours a day. You have to
honk your horn to get them off of your road and many times they just
ignore you and you have to drive off the gravel or asphalt surface to get
past them. They lick the salt from picnic tables and will jump into
dumpsters if you leave the cover open. They will eat almost anything that
they can get to.
Many city slickers in their giant motor homes bring deer corn to the
parks and put it out so they can sit having evening cocktails and watch
the deer come in for the corn.
I often visit Centerville, 1/2 way between Dallas and Houston Texas and I
always see many deer casualties on the roadsides, both fast highway and
service / county roads. They are most prevalent at sundown and about
sunup but I've seen them every hour of the night in lesser numbers than
sunup and sundown.
The Highway patrol and local authorities just drag the dead deer to the
roadside and let nature take its course, they claim that the carcasses
last less than 48 hours once its discovered by local scavengers.(I hope
I'm talking about Coyotes, Vultures etc.)
Local ranchers hate the deer because they carry some pretty mean tics,
lice and livestock diseases not to mention that they will graze and eat
livestock rations just like they were invited family members.
Texas has reintroduced the wolf and brown bear into Texas Parks and
National Parks and although I haven't seen any, one of the friends I
visit in Centerville has lost twenty or thirty ducks and geese to wolves
in the past six months. The wolves simply walk up to the ducks and geese
and walk away with them. The Wolves and Coyotes have also developed a
taste for house cats and dogs (much easier to catch than deer).
You guys come on down and go deer hunting, you'll need a bucket of corn,
a quart of Jack Daniels and a 47 Dodge pickup truck. I'll just bet you
can bag your limit in just one night.
Stan Wilder
On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 11:45:04 -0400 "Spooner, Robert E."
<bob.spooner@MIDDLETOWNPOWER.COM> writes:
> Hey all,
> Had the displeasure of whacking a deer on the way to work this
> morning.
> Almost missed her, she came from right to left and I just clipped
> her
> hind quarter with my left front corner. Didn't kill her, though,
> she
> was able to continue to run off through the woods...no venison
> tonight
> for me.
>
> Anyway, the strike wiped out the front-left turn signal, pushing is
> backwards through the body work. It kind of looks like a basketball
> hit
> the corner of the van real hard, except for all of the hair stuck to
> the
> van. The hit is above the bumper, doing no damage to that, and
> outboard
> of the headlights and upper grill, doing no damage there either.
> the
> van still drives straight, so I suspect that there is no alignment
> issues. Not too bad, considering what could of happened if I was a
> split second faster, and took the deer smack in the front.
>
> My insurance company is sending me to a body shop for an estimate.
> Is
> there anything in particular I should point out to these fellas?
> Can a
> corner piece be purchased for a replacement, or is this a hammer
> and
> fill job?
>
> Thanks for any input.
>
> Bob Spooner
> Environmental Engineer
> Middletown Generating Station
> Middletown, CT
>
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