Posted on 09/07/2014 12:37:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Call it "Bambi" on the bridge. Reports of a pair of deer hanging out on the Golden Gate Bridge Friday evening sent social media abuzz in the Bay Area. California Highway Patrol officers were called to the bridge, but the deer were already gone by the time they got there. Twitter users reported that traffic stopped moving momentarily, but was soon flowing normally again.
"It was Deer on the Golden Gate Bridge! Hope they are safe! Kind of awesome!" tweeted out Twitter user Rydalia with a picture, which has since gone viral.
This video shot by NBC Bay Area viewer Michael Ortiz of Novato shows deer on the Golden Gate Bridge holding up traffic on a Friday afternoon. "Not a big deal. Just some deer running down the middle of the road on the Golden Gate Bridge," posted Luca Jackson on Instagram.
Instagram user @rebeccaabbey posted this video of the deer scampering across the bridge as cars followed them slowly.
The deer, reported at 5:24 p.m., appear to have entered the bridge from the south, according to CHP Officer Andrew Barclay. They quickly brought the three northbound lanes traffic to a halt behind them as they ran from San Francisco toward Marin.
"They pretty much created their own traffic break," Barclay said. "That could be what saved the deer from getting hurt ... If it was lighter traffic the cars would have been moving faster."
Barclay said it is not the first time animals have been reported on the bridge, but it is the first time it has happened in the two years he has served as a public information officer.
The deer reportedly got off safely on the Marin County side of the bridge. It's unclear whether they had to pay toll.
He looked at the TV and said Bang.
Was it an insurance commercial?
when I saw the video, sound off, the William Tell Overture ran through my head
Lucky you, you must have a higher class, more intelligent brood of deer in your neighborhood. Chipmunks were once a pest but their gone (combination of hawks, foxes, coyotes and whatever else samples them). I yelled at the deer, even threw water bottles at ‘em, to no avail. Although when I turned the hose on them they would take off.....for a little while. As for spraying the flora with deer repellent, sometimes it worked but to have to reapply it after a heavy rain....forget it (the garden was rather large). I moved and haven’t had them around.....yet.
Plus I'm terribly allergic to their dander. I give the owners of the local deer check-in stations coupons for one free pint of ice cream for every deer they take off MY road.
It's a whole lot cheaper than fixing the car. Last year about 70 pints.
Heck, where I live, I used to have to get out and kick them with a steel toe boot to get them off the road when the acorns were falling. Pikers.
Dough, the stuff that buys me beer...Ray, the guy that sells me beer. Me, the guy that drinks the beer, fa, a long way to get beer. So, I think I’ll have a beer. La! La, la, la, la, la beer! Tea, no thanks, I’ll have a beer. That will bring us back to d’oh!
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