Deer Me

xoxoxoBruce · 12-10-2018, 12:38 AM

My buddy’s son lives a half dozen miles from here, and had a landscaping crew working at his place yesterday. He went out and looking at his split rail fence along the road, the last section that ends at the driveway has the three rails busted. He suspected the landscapers backed their trailer into it and said nothing which really pissed him off.

So he runs the video from the security camera. It’s a quite a ways from the busted fence but certainly would show what happened. Backed it up to where the fence was whole and started watching when a deer comes across the road, makes a feeble attempt at jumping and crashes through the fence and takes off without missing a beat. The bottom and middle rails have the end that goes into the post broken off but the top rail was broken right in the middle.

Why didn’t it run through the opening in the fence for the driveway? Maybe it wanted to stay on the grass. Why it didn’t leap over the piddling 4 foot fence, who knows? Maybe the ground was too soft to push off, or maybe it was hurt? My buddy showed me the footage on his phone so I really can't say much about the deer.

Griff · 12-10-2018, 07:14 AM

Maybe I need to start blaming deer for stuff.

Flint · 12-11-2018, 04:07 PM

Do y'all have Elk? Those are big boys.

Of course, nothing competes in fence destruction with wild hogs.

Griff · 12-11-2018, 05:47 PM

The elk are a couple counties south and west from here. The pigs may have been eradicated.

xoxoxoBruce · 12-18-2018, 06:39 AM

My buddy sent me a copy of his son's security cam footage that he'd showed me on his phone. It's an 18.4 MB MOV and I was surprised it's in color, it looked like B&W on his phone. For some reason it's turned 90 degrees, maybe because it's emailed from his iPhone, but I don't know how to turn it. Now I lay me down to watch.

Seeing it on the 24" monitor it looks like the buck forgot his glasses as it looks like he made the leap for length rather than height and was way too low. The rails he broke were only a year old. Damifino.

12-10-2018, 12:38 AM	#1
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Deer Me My buddy’s son lives a half dozen miles from here, and had a landscaping crew working at his place yesterday. He went out and looking at his split rail fence along the road, the last section that ends at the driveway has the three rails busted. He suspected the landscapers backed their trailer into it and said nothing which really pissed him off. So he runs the video from the security camera. It’s a quite a ways from the busted fence but certainly would show what happened. Backed it up to where the fence was whole and started watching when a deer comes across the road, makes a feeble attempt at jumping and crashes through the fence and takes off without missing a beat. The bottom and middle rails have the end that goes into the post broken off but the top rail was broken right in the middle. Why didn’t it run through the opening in the fence for the driveway? Maybe it wanted to stay on the grass. Why it didn’t leap over the piddling 4 foot fence, who knows? Maybe the ground was too soft to push off, or maybe it was hurt? My buddy showed me the footage on his phone so I really can't say much about the deer. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

12-10-2018, 07:14 AM	#2
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Maybe I need to start blaming deer for stuff. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

12-11-2018, 04:07 PM	#3
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	Do y'all have Elk? Those are big boys. Of course, nothing competes in fence destruction with wild hogs. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

12-11-2018, 05:47 PM	#4
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	The elk are a couple counties south and west from here. The pigs may have been eradicated. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

12-18-2018, 06:39 AM	#5
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	My buddy sent me a copy of his son's security cam footage that he'd showed me on his phone. It's an 18.4 MB MOV and I was surprised it's in color, it looked like B&W on his phone. For some reason it's turned 90 degrees, maybe because it's emailed from his iPhone, but I don't know how to turn it. Now I lay me down to watch. Seeing it on the 24" monitor it looks like the buck forgot his glasses as it looks like he made the leap for length rather than height and was way too low. The rails he broke were only a year old. Damifino. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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