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1. POSTED BY herbeverschmel  |  June 14, 2011 @ 3:05 pm

   If I did I’d call Joe D to get his hunters there asap. What nuisances.
2. POSTED BY Nellie  |  June 14, 2011 @ 3:09 pm

   I had a doe and a fawn on my front lawn yesterday. Such beautiful, graceful creatures.
3. POSTED BY Mrs Martta  |  June 14, 2011 @ 3:17 pm

   They better not be eating my lillies!
4. POSTED BY mmmm  |  June 14, 2011 @ 3:46 pm

   We saw them this morning near the Rose Garden at about 10am.
5. POSTED BY profwilliams  |  June 14, 2011 @ 4:07 pm

   Beautiful and graceful till you catch a tick and get Lyme Disease.

   Please, this are giant RATS and should be treated as such. When/if I see them on my vast property, I try to encourage them to run towards an oncoming garbage truck…
6. POSTED BY dlow  |  June 14, 2011 @ 4:24 pm

   Profwilliams….
   and how should giant Rats be treated? Is it Ticks you don’t like or deer?
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7. POSTED BY Spiro T. Quayle  |  June 14, 2011 @ 5:07 pm

   Nellie, not too many people use the word “doe” much, nice to see it again.
8. POSTED BY cathar  |  June 14, 2011 @ 5:13 pm

   I much prefer the good prof to any ticks, rats or deer out there, dlow. Even to you, I’m sure, without knowing either of you.

   That you wished mayhem upon the good prof was a bit much, in other words. Yes, too, deer are cute and Bambi-ish until one slams into your car when you’re going about 40 mph. We are talking serious damage there.
9. POSTED BY PAZ  |  June 14, 2011 @ 5:18 pm

   This planet’s too damn small for all of us, friend & doe! Time to start shipping peeps to another galaxy far….far…..away.
   PAZ in MCO where the gators want their swamps back.
10. POSTED BY Pork Roll  |  June 14, 2011 @ 5:30 pm

    I never fail to be astonished by the blood-thirsty hypocrisy of animal-rights types like dlow who make strident threats of violence against people who do not share their worldview but who instead value human life above all other.

    Way to take the moral high ground there, champ.
11. POSTED BY suzartist  |  June 14, 2011 @ 5:48 pm

    great. we can get deer at the south end, but still no verizon fios.
12. POSTED BY MellonBrush  |  June 14, 2011 @ 6:10 pm

    A mountain lion was killed by a car in Connecticut recently. They were thought to be extinct in the northeast. Perhaps they will come back and take care of our excess deer problem.
13. POSTED BY DagT  |  June 14, 2011 @ 6:16 pm

    “Giant RATS”?? I’ll never be able to watch Bambi again without that thought, let alone the animals that visit my property.
14. POSTED BY Spiro T. Quayle  |  June 14, 2011 @ 6:30 pm

    @MelllonBrush, fascinating story about that mountain lion.
    In a related story, I understand that an elderlyl motorist ran over a baby Ankylosaurus near the Livingston JCC today, to which, Sarah tweeted, “This is further proof that humans and dinosaurs lived during the same time, and recently, took turns warning the British about their bells and muskets”.
15. POSTED BY profwilliams  |  June 14, 2011 @ 7:08 pm

    So I guess threats are now allowed?

    Eliminating deer IS policy or has been considered and tried (with success) in a few communities:

    http://www.deeralliance.com/node/10

    But threatening others here, from the Comment Policy, is not.
16. POSTED BY doglover  |  June 14, 2011 @ 10:59 pm

    Hey profwilliams…I don’t like the deer ticks as well, but what you said did sound quite harsh. I got lyme and suffered a good year with it. No, it’s not pleasant at all. It’s lousy! Maybe you have contracted it yourself and that’s why your so bitter? I can understand that, but I hope you weren’t serious about hoping they get hit by your neighborhood garbage truck.
17. POSTED BY cathar  |  June 15, 2011 @ 12:01 am

    MellonBrush, I doubt very much that the mountain lion killed in Milford, CT was a bona fide “wild animal.” Just plotting any possible routes from Canada and the Western states makes it seem near-impossible one could have made his way eastward.

    Still, to be fair, the issue of either species thought extinct in an area or ones that have returned is a controversial area. There have been hazy reports through the last decade of puma (mountan lion) sightings in NY state. (And Vermont was once widely known as the “Catamount State.”)

    The most famous case, however, is probably the “animal” of some sort of just a few years ago which appeared almost daily outside a suburban office park in NC for a while. It was photographed regularly by office workers, who sometimes left food out for it. Yet it’s never been found in the wild by searchers after its hide, and scientists have hesitated to venture an identification. Regrettably, of course (and this applies as well to Nessie), the best way to prove that mysterious critters exist where they shouldn’t is to kill one. As may have occurred at Milford.
18. POSTED BY MellonBrush  |  June 15, 2011 @ 12:36 am

    Spiro,

    Funny! Ms. Palin never fails to astonish with her giddy nonchalance and concomitant willingness to fabricate ‘facts’ as they suit her. She knows that her fans and supporters don’t care a whit about her uncanny ability to engage in double-talk. It’s as if she believes that, just as long as she continues to babble, she can’t be reproached for her apparent ignorance of just about everything.

    Id like to see her shoo away a mountain lion. “Get out of here, you bad lion you!” “Go on, scram, get lost, beat it, vamoose!” “Don’t you dare get any closer!” “Wait, nooo, stop, nooooo, help, HELP!”
19. POSTED BY MellonBrush  |  June 15, 2011 @ 12:41 am

    Cathar,

    Yeah, I was wondering where the heck the lion came from. I bet there is a zoo, or private animal ‘preserve’ nearby. We’re talking Greenwich. I bet some rich family has a trove of exotic ‘pets’ and one of them got out for a little R&R. Poor lion..

    .. then there’s the Jersey Devil …
20. POSTED BY PAZ  |  June 15, 2011 @ 6:47 am

    MB….Jersey Devil? Does he fly around in a whirlybird going to baseball games?

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