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Ellisville Deer Takes First Shot in War Against Humans


Posted by The Editor on 12 Jan 2012 /
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A deer burst out of the wilderness and rammed an Ellisville woman in to a concrete wall, sending her to the hospital. The war has begun.

“It just struck her at a full run,” Metro West Fire District Battalion Chief Mike Krause said.  ”It’s a tremendous amount of force for a person to sustain.  That’s a lot of traumatic force.”

“I’ve never have seen anything like it.”

Way to go hunters! We put up with your weird mix of camouflage and bright orange clothing, and the constant offers of deer jerky, but you’re supposed to reciprocate by keeping the omnipresent threat of a deer uprising in check. So what the hell happened this year? You got too fat for your big fat deer-shooting pants and now women are getting picked off in Ellisville.

The Missouri Department of Conservation estimates about 65 deer per square mile in the area, well above the 22 deer per square mile that the department recommends.

At this rate we estimate the various wooded areas of St. Louis County to fall by late April, leaving the city as the last human stronghold. You’d think the deer would march down Market Street after that, but they’ll probably just settle in West County. The houses have lawns out there, the schools are better and there’s far less violent crime. After a few years we’ll see a bunch of underage fawns trying to get in to the clubs and lining up outside Planned Parenthood on Monday for the morning after pill, but other than that we should be pretty safe here.

Best. Photoshop. Ever.

via KMOV


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Hunter Has Internet but Bad Aim, Takes Credit For Drowning Deer


Posted by The Editor on 04 Dec 2009 /
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Robin hoodDid you hear the one about the guy that used Google Earth to find the best place to hunt deer, lined up his shot but missed, causing the deer to fall down a cliff and drown…and then totally take credit anyway like he did something special?

[Joe] Graber added the Internet to his arsenal, using the Google Earth mapping service to pinpoint paths the buck would likely follow to pursue female deer. It was raining Oct. 26, when the buck wandered down one of the paths by a creek at dusk. Graber was lying in wait.

From about 40 yards out, Graber let fly an arrow aimed at the buck’s lungs. But a tree deflected it, and the arrow ripped through the deer’s ear. The startled animal flipped into the air, slid down an embankment, fell over a 20-foot cliff into the water and drowned.

Nice.  You got em buddy.

Graber said other hunters later gave him some grief for how he scored the kill, suggesting he may not have taken a clear enough shot. He said he took what he thought was a sure shot at the buck’s chest, but he couldn’t have anticipated the deflection.

However, Chris Brown did give him a call to say “Nicely done.  I would have bit the deer too though.”

Apparently the dear he bagged scared and tripped down a cliff was a 25 point buck which is big or something which is impressive to anyone west of 270 and east of the river.  It’s all lost on us city folk, but we have a translation that might help: This is like when you do a drive-by shooting, and you miss but it ricochets off a mail box and scares the big fat guy you wanted to hit enough that he falls over and drowns in the big gulp he was drinking.

A kill’s a kill.  Plus that guy was straight trippin’ anyway.

via STLToday


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