Officer Kills Deer After Attack

[Jeff White]

Western states have bear attacks, Florida has alligator attacks and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale has deer attacks.

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Officer kills deer at SIUC after attack
By Adam Jadhav
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
06/07/2006

Officials, police and a wildlife scientist are wondering whether the deer attacks on the campus of Southern Illinois University Carbondale will continue, considering that the latest skirmish left an aggressive mother doe dead.

It has never been clear if the attacks - four this spring and several about this time last year - were the work of one or several does clashing with joggers and strollers on a popular wooded path along a campus lake. It's fawning season, which could explain the seemingly protective behavior of the deer.

"We know there are other deer on campus," said Todd Sigler, the university's director of public safety. "This may not be the end of it, if other mothers feel their young are threatened."

The latest attack came Monday evening when a doe chased down a woman out for a walk. A campus police officer stared down the deer, which then charged a different passerby and his dog.

The officer intervened again, and the deer delivered a kick with her front legs, Sigler said. The officer landed flat on his back, pulled out his pistol and fired, fatally wounding the animal.

The university did not identify the officer and he was declining to comment, intentionally avoiding the spotlight. The entire incident took only a few minutes. Afterward, he was treated at a local hospital and released.

"It's a situation where we are attempting to help assist the public to remain safe," Sigler said. "It's an unfortunate situation, but we have to put human life first."

Last month, two joggers were injured in similar attacks, and another police officer was kicked into the lake.

Police then taped off some areas of woods and posted warning signs, but some outdoors enthusiasts and exercise buffs kept coming back to enjoy the scenic trail that meanders in and near the woods, said university spokeswoman Sue Davis. At the site of Monday's attack, the street and sidewalk are only a few yards from the thicket.

"The one thing that we're encouraging people to do is remember that these are wild animals," Davis said. "We still have people that are ignoring the warnings and ducking under police tape as they walk around the lake."

Police found the deer's body in the woods later, and tissue is being analyzed to look for a biological explanation, said Eric Hellgren of the university's Cooperative Wildlife Research Lab.

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[LAK]

"It's a situation where we are attempting to help assist the public to remain safe," Sigler said

Yes, the rabbit people must be supervized it seems in all their forays away from their protective hutches, lest they once again learn how to be foxes and become independant.

This word "safe" has become an almost obligatory insertion everytime some spokesman makes a comment about anything whatsoever. Not that there is anything wrong with minding one's own safety. But it is something that should be learned from a father and mother during the formative years of childhood in most matters.

Last month, two joggers were injured in similar attacks, and another police officer was kicked into the lake.

There's just no respect for the law anymore

"The one thing that we're encouraging people to do is remember that these are wild animals," Davis said

Well, they should learn that kind of thing during childhood and school shouldn't they?

Police found the deer's body in the woods later, and tissue is being analyzed to look for a biological explanation, said Eric Hellgren of the university's Cooperative Wildlife Research Lab

Yes, anything but the obvious right? Hellgren should have been listening to Davis.

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[1911Tuner]

Deer Me!

Pretty much lays waste to the position that the sheeple take of "Poor Little Helpless Bambi" every year when deer season opens. Want to have a taste of what fighting for your life is like? Approach a big'ol ruttin' buck in what he feels is home territory. After he gores, he'll stomp a mudhole in ya, snort, and walk away...

 

[ball3006]

How many times to you have to....

tell people............"BE AWARE OF YOUR SURROUNDINGS"............chris3

 

[DonP]

You are helpless in Carbondale

I may be wrong here, but if I recall, Carbondale passed a law that forbids the transport of any kind of gun in a vehicle under any conditions.

So when Bambi's father or mother comes through the side window of your SUV in Carbondale you'll have to fight for your life with your leftover McDonald's bags and yesterday's newspapers (well that's what's on the floor of my car most of the time anyway).

 

[XLMiguel]

They just gots to move the "Deer Crossing" signs so's Bambi & company will go elsewhere