Deer crossings - really?

[1Michel]

did you not watch the video with the smart lady? all you need to do is put a "deer crossing" sign up and wait.... that's how we smart people hunt.... LOL
:hunter::hunter::hunter:

I dont think it has anything to do with hunting, weenies or having any kind of wildlife on roads.

It's all about this dummy who is convinced that deers will cross where the signs tells them!

And what sacres me the most is that we share the roads with people like her.
She's much more dangerous than a deer!

 

[kwplot34]

exactly. i do let some on my land to hunt,but they are friends,or one of my neighbors who's land is next to mine,and we hunt on each others land all the time. other than that,i wont let others hunt on it. and it's usually people from the city that do all the damage.

did you not watch the video with the smart lady? all you need to do is put a "deer crossing" sign up and wait.... that's how we smart people hunt.... LOL


:hunter::hunter::hunter:

I guess I need to invest in some of those signs :lol:

 

[mrvette]

exactly. i do let some on my land to hunt,but they are friends,or one of my neighbors who's land is next to mine,and we hunt on each others land all the time. other than that,i wont let others hunt on it. and it's usually people from the city that do all the damage.

did you not watch the video with the smart lady? all you need to do is put a "deer crossing" sign up and wait.... that's how we smart people hunt.... LOL


:hunter::hunter::hunter:

I guess I need to invest in some of those signs :lol:

:lol::stirpot: Dinner on the table....:toothbrush:

 

[JPhil]

Think she could figure out many miles she could travel in one hour at 60 miles an hour......?

Seriously, hitting deer is not just a night time thing, either. I know as many people (not me yet, knock on wood) who have hit them in daylight as night, and on interstates as well as county roads. When they run out in front of you it is fast and unpredictable.

I'll give you a Gene-esque story: We used to ride our motorcycles up to the top of Flagstaff mountain and then coast down with engines off, enjoying the silent ride. One day a buddy of mine was rolling down on his flat 80 chopper and just as he came around a curve a deer jumped off the hillside and landed ON him--- WHAM!!--- straddling his gas tank! Of course it knocked him over but he was going pretty slow and the deer kicked up and off and was gone down the mountainside in a flash, leaving Brian going "What the fuck just happened here???" I saw the damage, including deer hair tufts & hoof scrapes on the paint.
Two of the things we found to laugh about were that his left side handlebar was crunched, but since it was a jockey shift, it didn't bust his clutch lever. And since the carburetor on a flattie is on the left side, it survived because from the hoof scrape marks, an OHV right side carb probably would have been torn off.
He picked himself up and rode over to my house for a smoke to calm down, hardly believing it himself.

 

[mrvette]

Think she could figure out many miles she could travel in one hour at 60 miles an hour......?

Seriously, hitting deer is not just a night time thing, either. I know as many people (not me yet, knock on wood) who have hit them in daylight as night, and on interstates as well as county roads. When they run out in front of you it is fast and unpredictable.

I'll give you a Gene-esque story: We used to ride our motorcycles up to the top of Flagstaff mountain and then coast down with engines off, enjoying the silent ride. One day a buddy of mine was rolling down on his flat 80 chopper and just as he came around a curve a deer jumped off the hillside and landed ON him--- WHAM!!--- straddling his gas tank! Of course it knocked him over but he was going pretty slow and the deer kicked up and off and was gone down the mountainside in a flash, leaving Brian going "What the fuck just happened here???" I saw the damage, including deer hair tufts & hoof scrapes on the paint.
Two of the things we found to laugh about were that his left side handlebar was crunched, but since it was a jockey shift, it didn't bust his clutch lever. And since the carburetor on a flattie is on the left side, it survived because from the hoof scrape marks, an OHV right side carb probably would have been torn off.
He picked himself up and rode over to my house for a smoke to calm down, hardly believing it himself.

:smash: the ONLY bike wreck I have ever had was running with a buddy on the towpath of the C&O canal, built paralleling the Potomac river by George Washington, so we on the canal, and I take his Yamaha sport bike for a spin, into a swamp of water, and the bike goes over SO fast, all Larry could see was a geyser so he comes running up and I"m laying there on my right side full of mud, the bike got restarted and we rode it to my place to clean up/hose off.......and when moving here at age 53, of course I go down the road a piece to a Harley Bike week, get a temp motorcycle permit from Florida, and go for a test ride, all I remember was looking at that 18 wheeler next to me on the highway.....never did buy a bike.....

:surrender::suicide:

 

[SuperBuickGuy]

Your bike stories reminded me... I used to laugh at this video
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2oymHHyV1M[/ame]

until a couple summers ago when a deer tried the same thing to me.... they're evil and out to take over the world. The ones that got hit are just the beginning. :suspicious:

 

[68/70Vette]

I was reading a newspaper article about the incursion of wild life into areas occupied by humans. It was estimated that the US deer population may now be greater than it was when Europeans first settled the US. In many areas where deer live, they have no natural predators to control their population. With no hunting allowed, many species of wild animals adapt to living among humans. I travel to Colorado a lot, and Canadian geese or numerous.If there's a city park or housing development with ponds, they're everywhere. Furthermore, they appear not to migrate in the winter. The article also said that areas in the Northeast of the US have been re-forrested, in many places equal to the pre-European immigration. That's resulted in, for example, large populations of beavers when at the turn of the century (1900) they were almost extinct in the US.

 

[mrvette]

I was reading a newspaper article about the incursion of wild life into areas occupied by humans. It was estimated that the US deer population may now be greater than it was when Europeans first settled the US. In many areas where deer live, they have no natural predators to control their population. With no hunting allowed, many species of wild animals adapt to living among humans. I travel to Colorado a lot, and Canadian geese or numerous.If there's a city park or housing development with ponds, they're everywhere. Furthermore, they appear not to migrate in the winter. The article also said that areas in the Northeast of the US have been re-forrested, in many places equal to the pre-European immigration. That's resulted in, for example, large populations of beavers when at the turn of the century (1900) they were almost extinct in the US.

I been a beaver lover for many a decade.....

 

[68/70Vette]

Youre right again Gene, they should move those signs where theres less traffic!
And if FL has too many of those not strategicaly placed ''deer crossings'' and youre that serious about your JOB/LIFE/VEHICLE you should invest in one of those things.

This appears to be taken in Australia a few years ago. The cars look like Australian Ford "Utes" (utilities). At first I thought I was looking at "roo" (kangaroo) bars on the front of the cars. I now think I'm seeing "bull" bars.
The bull bars are for protection against hitting free ranging cattle and, in the North, water buffalo. For whatever protection bull bars afford, you'll still total the car if you hit one. The frame will probably be severely bent.

Also, notice the HF radio whip antennas. Up until the mid 1990's, there was no hardline traditional telephone service in the Australian outback. Communication was by two way HF radio. HF means High Frequency and it's really a misnomer. HF was HF in the 1920's. In the modern world it is really a low frequency. Since low frequency radio waves do not penetrate the ionosphere, they are reflected back to earth where they reflect off of the earth's surface, HF radio is a good communication media in a sparsely populated area/world. The Australian HF comm network was relatively sophisticated. There were terminals that linked the HF comms into the traditional telephone hardlines in the more populated areas. If you were out in Whoop Whoop you could use your HF radio to place a hardline call to someone in Adelaide. After the late 1990's, Aussies in the outback were buying satellite cell-telephones. Using the sat phone, your message went to a geo stationary satellite, and then back to a ground to be linked into the hardline phone system.

But why so many antennas? These guys have more antennas than a prawn trawler!!

Also, check out the lights/lamps. In the late 70's the main highway in Australia from Port Augusta to Alice Springs was mostly dirt. Driving at night, cars like those in the picture and trucks would have a large number of high intensity lights on. (Hella's) It was annoying to find one of these vehicles approaching you because of all the light in your eyes. They would always douse their lights as soon as they could see an oncoming vehicle.

 

[SuperBuickGuy]

Youre right again Gene, they should move those signs where theres less traffic!
And if FL has too many of those not strategicaly placed ''deer crossings'' and youre that serious about your JOB/LIFE/VEHICLE you should invest in one of those things.

This appears to be taken in Australia a few years ago. The cars look like Australian Ford "Utes" (utilities). At first I thought I was looking at "roo" (kangaroo) bars on the front of the cars. I now think I'm seeing "bull" bars.
The bull bars are for protection against hitting free ranging cattle and, in the North, water buffalo. For whatever protection bull bars afford, you'll still total the car if you hit one. The frame will probably be severely bent.

Also, notice the HF radio whip antennas. Up until the mid 1990's, there was no hardline traditional telephone service in the Australian outback. Communication was by two way HF radio. HF means High Frequency and it's really a misnomer. HF was HF in the 1920's. In the modern world it is really a low frequency. Since low frequency radio waves do not penetrate the ionosphere, they are reflected back to earth where they reflect off of the earth's surface, HF radio is a good communication media in a sparsely populated area/world. The Australian HF comm network was relatively sophisticated. There were terminals that linked the HF comms into the traditional telephone hardlines in the more populated areas. If you were out in Whoop Whoop you could use your HF radio to place a hardline call to someone in Adelaide. After the late 1990's, Aussies in the outback were buying satellite cell-telephones. Using the sat phone, your message went to a geo stationary satellite, and then back to a ground to be linked into the hardline phone system.

But why so many antennas? These guys have more antennas than a prawn trawler!!

Also, check out the lights/lamps. In the late 70's the main highway in Australia from Port Augusta to Alice Springs was mostly dirt. Driving at night, cars like those in the picture and trucks would have a large number of high intensity lights on. (Hella's) It was annoying to find one of these vehicles approaching you because of all the light in your eyes. They would always douse their lights as soon as they could see an oncoming vehicle.

HF radios are still the number 1 choice for Search and Rescue in my part of the world