Stuck on gardiner because of a deer on the road.
What better way to pass the time than checking out terb!
What better way to pass the time than checking out terb!
Deer on gardiner
- Thread starter pussyluver
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Since when is the Gardiner under OPP jurisdiction?
http://www.cp24.com/mobile/news/police-forced-to-close-gardiner-after-deer-runs-onto-road-1.1828156
As opposed to keeping it open and allowing a potential multi-vehicle pileup with numerous casualties?
Sophia Sinclair
Naughty but Nice
I remember driving home from the funeral of my first boyfriend's grandfather, he in a double breasted suit and me in a dress. I saw a whatever point buck cross the highway and slowed down just in time for the yearling with him to literally run into the side of my car, totalling the driver side. What ensues afterward is kind of funny and typical of small town/country life.
I pull off to the side of the road and start walking down the meridian of the 2 lane highway to see if the deer laying on the other side is still alive or what. As I'm walking I can hear some vehicles approaching and start walking backwards waving my arms to get their attention so that they'll slow down. This of course is an everyday occurrence in the middle of the night so they pay absolutely no heed to me and fly by me with a thunk thunk, thunk thunk, as there were two of them. Awesome, if the meat wasn't tenderized before it certainly was at that point. Only one of the vehicles pulled off to the side of the road and as my boyfriend and I reached the now very dead deer, the farmer and his son did as well. We all stood looking down at the poor animal, much like a crew of construction guys watching the guy actually digging the hole and the farmer says in a Canadian drawl (artistic license here), "We should bleed her." Yes, allow me to reach under my dress and remove the hunting knife from my handy dandy leg strap like Mrs. Smith would. You'd think if anyone had a knife it'd be him and I didn't have the heart to tell him the meat was of no use any more after he and the other driver had further mashed it. My uncles hunt so I have some knowledge of these things.
I then walk a quarter mile to the mini trailer park on the side of the road, consisting of four trailer homes in a row, to call the cops. This was the early 90's folks and I didn't have one of those monstrous cell phones like in Oliver Stone's Wall Street. I walk back to the scene of the animal crime and shortly thereafter the police arrive. After giving the officer my statement, he says in a slightly Barney Fife tone, "Good thing the deer is dead or you'd have a hard time proving that you hit a deer and not something else." Bear (not the animal) in mind here that this is in the middle of nowhere and technically the deer hit me, but let's not split hairs. My only response to him at this point was to motion him to follow me and to point at the deer hair clearly jammed into the driver side door handle. He sheepishly looked at me and walked away.
I was later told by a family friend that the yearling had been pregnant and was teasingly called "Bambi Killer" for awhile by him and others. I did feel bad but at least the meat was salvaged and distributed to owners of hunting dogs to hopefully feed the dogs, not the owners, but who knows. I wonder what they do with the meat here in the "Big Smoke"?
I pull off to the side of the road and start walking down the meridian of the 2 lane highway to see if the deer laying on the other side is still alive or what. As I'm walking I can hear some vehicles approaching and start walking backwards waving my arms to get their attention so that they'll slow down. This of course is an everyday occurrence in the middle of the night so they pay absolutely no heed to me and fly by me with a thunk thunk, thunk thunk, as there were two of them. Awesome, if the meat wasn't tenderized before it certainly was at that point. Only one of the vehicles pulled off to the side of the road and as my boyfriend and I reached the now very dead deer, the farmer and his son did as well. We all stood looking down at the poor animal, much like a crew of construction guys watching the guy actually digging the hole and the farmer says in a Canadian drawl (artistic license here), "We should bleed her." Yes, allow me to reach under my dress and remove the hunting knife from my handy dandy leg strap like Mrs. Smith would. You'd think if anyone had a knife it'd be him and I didn't have the heart to tell him the meat was of no use any more after he and the other driver had further mashed it. My uncles hunt so I have some knowledge of these things.
I then walk a quarter mile to the mini trailer park on the side of the road, consisting of four trailer homes in a row, to call the cops. This was the early 90's folks and I didn't have one of those monstrous cell phones like in Oliver Stone's Wall Street. I walk back to the scene of the animal crime and shortly thereafter the police arrive. After giving the officer my statement, he says in a slightly Barney Fife tone, "Good thing the deer is dead or you'd have a hard time proving that you hit a deer and not something else." Bear (not the animal) in mind here that this is in the middle of nowhere and technically the deer hit me, but let's not split hairs. My only response to him at this point was to motion him to follow me and to point at the deer hair clearly jammed into the driver side door handle. He sheepishly looked at me and walked away.
I was later told by a family friend that the yearling had been pregnant and was teasingly called "Bambi Killer" for awhile by him and others. I did feel bad but at least the meat was salvaged and distributed to owners of hunting dogs to hopefully feed the dogs, not the owners, but who knows. I wonder what they do with the meat here in the "Big Smoke"?
thumper18474
Well-known member
We've been told if we have to...close the entire hwy for a family of geese...Actually done it last year 401 eastbound at Mccowan closed all east bound collectors for almost 40 minutes for 2 adults and 11 chicks..
apparently..they have the right of way..
apparently..they have the right of way..
Don't be such a blowhard. We've encroached on animals and their territory far and long enough. A little empathy goes a long way in life, you may give yourself a heart attack if you let animal issues and traffic rile you up like this.
One of the joys of Toronto is the ample parkland and the nice ravines. If we get inconvenienced every so often because of it, that's fine with me.
6 years ago my friend hit a 250 pounds deer in north while he drive on the road around 90km/hour. His Audi went to the scrapyard after. He was in the hospital for 3 weeks. Broken bones, brain aneurysm, neck injury, stitches on the face ...etc. He was almost killed. Those suckers can be very dangerous. He has some "deer whistle" or something against deers now on his car. I'm not sure it's working properly but who knows?Maybe a scam maybe not. If you beleive it just do it.
They sure can make a mess of a vehicle and their occupants. Deer whistles don't work and give you a false sense of security. Most auto/deer collisions are a result of the deer running across the road into the path of the automobile.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-drive/car-life/do-deer-whistles-work-to-prevent-collisions-with-wildlife/article4104175/
Usually, have a lot of venison when I'm out in Pennsylvania and New Hampshire. Absolutely, delicious!
My antelope with a young buck to Las Vegas, they steered clear of the Gardiner.
