Sharpshooters may cull 550 deer from city park

[MatthewVanitas]

Anyone notice that "Public Relations" is 17% of the budget for this plan?

Imagine getting up every morning, putting on a suit, going to work, all for the sole purpose of explaining why you're letting people shoot Bambi. Assuming the PR job is a temp job just for the culling season, that's pretty good money. But I'd imagine it could really irritating giving the same "why we do it" explanation every day.

 

[Flyboy]

If the police were to shoot these deer here in Austin, I think the PETA types would chain themselves to the deer

Yes, but there might be a downside, too. You might hit one of the PETA clowns and contaminate the meat.

 

[Henry Bowman]

Idiots, all bleeping idiots!

Oh yes. They're thicker than deer around here (at least in city government).

The deer here are not skinny. They are big and healthy. They are, however, destroying the vegetation in the park (and in yards, including mine).

You can also rest assured that somehow by the end of the week this will turn into a racial issue.

Yep. The Man, working one over on the deer.

It has to be done by "police sharpshooters" because the city has to be fully liable (via taxpayer money) for any snafu that may occur.

 

[Sulaco]

The more deer they kill, the less soccer moms will want to move down here to escape that kind of thing. For the sake of my South, please support your local Ohioan sharpshooter.

 

[scout26]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Jerry Springer the mayor of Cincinnati a while back ????


That would explain alot..... or maybe not......

 

[Crosshair]

These "POLICE SHARPSHOOTERS" must really suck if the best they can manage is a .223. I vote that we have a drawing on THR for 10 people. Whoever wins gets $17,000 and the chance to kill 50 deer. Since it is my idea, I get one of the spots.

 

[scout26]

The Ohio Division of Wildlife says the deer population in the 1,469-acre forest should be no more than 32. That's the number needed to ensure there are about 15 deer per square mile, enough to sustain a deer population without destroying a forest. The forest is about 2.2 square miles.

The Park Board estimated about 600 deer present last winter - a count it obtains through infrared photography from a helicopter at night.

Sounds like you can't swing a dead cat in that park without hitting a deer.....Ooops, wrong state, feral cat culling, that's in Wisconsin.

 

[Eightball]

So, this means that police snipers will actually get to use their weapons outside of a range? and that they won't get sued? heaven forbid I wonder how long until animal rights leftists put a stop to it .

 

[Standing Wolf]

Yet another example of government "planning" that costs lots of money, fails to accomplish anything useful, and antagonizes everybody.

Would the founding fathers weep or laugh?

 

[JeepDriver]

We just demoed a couple suppressed bolt guns in .308 for the Howard County, Maryland Police department for the same purpose.

They didn't buy yet, but they were amazed at how quiet the guns werewoith the correct ammo (Black Hills Sub Sonic)

there were 3 of us at the gun store who offered our services as bow & rifle hunters on County lands, but they thought us in camo carrying suppressed rifles might scare the sheeple


OH and the COP's that were testing the rifles weren't all that 'sharp' of shooters. They needed a bit more trigger time before they were un leashed on the deer

 

[Greg L]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Jerry Springer the mayor of Cincinnati a while back ????

20-25 years ago iirc (back before my time started here). Now he wants to be the Governor of Oh .

He bounced a check to a hooker & the resulting scandal either cost him the next election or he resigned (someone who was around then can give the whole story).

 

[XLMiguel]

Deer are a Big Problem Everywhere.

There are more deer in the lower 48 now than when the white man got here 400 years ago.

According to the IIHS (Ins. Institute for Highway Safety. IIRC), deer do approximately $4 billion in damage in encounters with motor vehicles annually.

Like many other wild animals, white tailed deer are adapting just fine to urban/suburban environments. I live inside the Capital Beltway and I see deer in my yard with fair regularity. Last Spring Ch 4 News (NBC) was showing an adult doe ambling about their proerty in NM DC during teh 5 o'clock news. About a month ago I saw an eight point buck that was 150# if he was an oz. 50 yds down the street at 1 in the afternoon. I spoke with Fairfax Co Animal Control (and I use the term loosely) and was told that there is an active herd of 40+ animals in my neighborhood, and was further informed that they use the cement culvert for Pimmit Run ("run" is Southern for "creek") as their own access road to all the gardens in the area. Them deer ain't hardly going hungry.

The county culls them each year, and the Bambistas go nuts, but saner heads prevail, at least for now. I think it would be great fun to give the bunny-huggers a dozen Trojans and let them try and put them on the bucks.

Good hunting to all you Buckeye's.

Vegetarian: Indian word meaning "lousy hunter"

 

[scout26]

He bounced a check to a hooker & the resulting scandal either cost him the next election or he resigned (someone who was around then can give the whole story).

Do you have any idea how much Dr. Pepper through the nose hurts ???



Assuming that that's true, I gotta ask.

1. Where do you find a hooker who takes personal checks ?? (and NO, you cannot answer "Cincinnati")

2. As Mayor he could not get a contractor/donor to donate either a) a hooker or b) the money to put in his checking account for one ???

3. Is he still on TV ??? (IIRC, a couple of rather well respected news anchors here in Chicago quit in protest when the station was going to give him a couple of minutes to wax philosphically on the local nightly news.)


I apoligize for drifting off-topic,
COULD SOMEONE PLEASE PULL THIS THREAD BACK ON TOPIC !?!?!?!?!?!

 

[Greg L]

Here you go Scout. It is a column/editorial back when Jerry wanted to do news commentary in Chicago. I had a few details wrong (nothing bounced/time frame) but the story is essentially correct. Sorry about your nasal passages .

Anyway, back to the ungulates....