- Pull off the road, well onto the shoulder, stop and put on your four-way flashers.
Seems simple enough. Although they forgot another important one - stop screaming.
- Call 911. Officers will come to the scene and write a report. Failing to report a deer crash is a common and often costly mistake. If authorities aren't notified, no report is filed. Without that report, insurance companies often will not cover the damage to your car.
No wonder COPS never films in the country. Imagine how dull it would be to follow the Pope County Sheriff around all day answering calls for road kill.
- If the deer is dead and you want the carcass, ask the officer for a possession permit. It is illegal to take a dead deer without a permit. If you do not want the carcass, the DNR will dispose of it.
Well, if they published it it must be a commonly asked question. Yes everyone, apparently people do eat road kill - but only if they kill it personally. My parents had friends where the husband was a big hunter and had a den full of stuffed deer, moose head, bear, antelope, a musk ox, muskrats, squirrels, and various other vicious man-eaters (cue Hall and Oates). Now I kind of wonder if he used his '84 Bronco instead of his rifle on any of those...
- If the deer is injured and takes off, any information you can give to police and DNR officials will be helpful.
I have no idea what the point of this is. What, are they going to tail it? Why? Are they planning on writing the deer a ticket for jaywalking? Will I be expected to pick said deer out of a lineup in a few days? "Yes officer it's that one right there, with the broken antler - the one that's bleeding all over the floor. No, not the one in the hat...second from the left. Yeah, *that* one."
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As for the comments about describing the animal, I think they do just want to find it. I'm pretty sure that if it's really badly hurt, they'll often get the DNR to come and put it out of its misery.
Either that, or maybe deer who hit cars are the misguided communicators of a master race of genetically altered deer, produced in a government experiment run under the auspices of the DNR. Some valiantly escaped from their deer imprisonment camps, and now the law is looking to find them all and exterminate them...
Speaking of deer, anyone see the article today about the guy who broke a deer's neck w/his bear hands b/c it had gotten into his daughter's bedroom & he couldn't get it out?
K - Maybe your friend has offended deer-kind and is now being pursued by their version of suicide bombers
TOWWAS - Do you suppose if a deer died in the sahara its meat would turn immediately to jerky instead of rotting?
E - I can see it now - Arnold Schwartzenegger in "The Running Deer"...