>>>>>>Merry Christmas to all.
>>>>>>During this busy time remember that we celebrate the greatest gift of all, the birth of Jesus Christ who gives us eternal life.
>>>>>
>>>>>Einar, Merry Christmas back at you.
>>>>>
>>>>>We've actually already got the best Christmas gift of all, as we recently found out my wife is pregnant. We had our 12 week appointment yesterday, heard the heartbeat, and everything is good as gold. It's a great time to be alive.
>>>>
>>>>Congratulations Mike.
>>>>
>>>>OTOH, another deerstalker enters the world :-)
>>>
>>>Just for you since you love links so much (smile):
>>>
>>>How to best deal with the menace of Bambi:
>>>http://www.reason.com/news/show/34914.html
>>
>>Hey I don't mind links - but I prefer a wee synopsis 1st so I can decide whether or not to pursue it. If there ain't one I usually don't.
>>
>>Anyway, the difference between deaths caused by grizzlies, cougars and deer is that a deer may "take out" all the passengers in the car, whereas the predators do it on a one-to-one basis. However, the pred's usually walk away from the encounter and live to kill again, whereas the deer are like kamikaze. So if you subtract their deaths from the toll they aren't all that successful :-)
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>The problem is that there is an overpopulation (27 million) of them.

let Mike Cole at 'em!

I sometimes have to slow or stop for deer crossing the road, on my way home from work, in the dark. Those stats have made me a bit more chary of speeding along those roads now :-(

BTW, I swerved to avoid a pheasant the other week. Afterwards I thought "Idiot! Risk crashing the car for a bird that you could have had on the table!"