[Mishmash] FYI: Fwd: ACT/ Protest Australia's Mass Kangaroo Kill

[LCR at rochester.rr.com]

I moved to NY almost  three years ago from Tennessee.  I lived near Arnold 
Air Force Base.  The deer was so plentiful on the base property any time you 
drove through there you weren't going to miss seeing them, if you weren't 
careful at night you would certainly decorate your vehicle.    My father 
worked in the security offices there and for years he hunted them but gave 
it up several years before he died as the hunters got trigger happy and 
would shoot at anything that moved.  I rarely saw them unless I was on base 
property as I lived near town and they didn't venture much into that area 
but would also see them traveling through parts of  Tennessee.

I have only had to take teasing from a couple of people here about the 
Tennessee road kill law. Most people here are very knowledgeable about the 
subject as the deer is plentiful here.   There are only a few who are 
illerate enough to think that people in Tennessee scoop dead things off the 
highway and eat them.  Yeck!!  Basically the law was made because it was 
against the law to eat meat without it being inspected, and people who hit 
them wanted to take them home because they are plentiful and people like 
their meat.  I have tasted it and it has a little bit of a wild taste that I 
don't personally enjoy, but some like it.  There are ways to prepare it so 
that the wild taste is not no prevalent I have been told.

 I never hit one with my vehicle in Tennessee but when I moved to NY and I 
took one out doing $3400 to my vehicle the first year I was here.  I 
couldn't see how I could have avoided it as it was suddenly there.  I never 
saw it coming.  I left him on the side of the road, but heard later someone 
who stopped to help me  took him home as he was a nice sized one.  I'll 
never forget his face in my windshield when I hit him.  It was a bit of a 
shock.

  Linda

>    I almost ran over a faun in Tennessee near a microwave station I was
> working on.  The doe ran across in front of me and I watched as she ran 
> into
> the woods.  When she disappeared, I looked foward and there was her faun 
> in
> front of me.  I narrowly missed the faun.
>
>> Thinning the herd is raising the same questions here as it is in your
>> area.  The
>> animal-rights people want to do nothing, or at most use birth control.
>> The
>> vigilantes want to bring in more guns, which can't be recommended in a
>> heavily
>> populated residential area.   The arguments continue, as do the deer.
>
>    And in Maryland, it is illegal to discharge a firearm within one mile 
> of
> a residence.  Since Maryland is densely populated, that doesn't leave a 
> lot
> of places for people to hunt.  So they have to come up with other ideas.
>
>> If you Aussies figure out how to handle your critters, please let us 
>> know.
>
>    Please!
>
>    Regards,
>
>
>
> Fred
>
>
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