Cotton farmer shoots 40 deer

The Memphis Commercial Appeal ^ | 7/28/07 | Alex Doniach

[woofer]

Why not spray the cotton with something that tastes bad to deer?

That's exactly what the cotton picker was doing!

Hot lead, 3 inches above the tops of the plants.

Seemed to be working out ok until the people thought Bambi might be there got all mushy about it. Hope some of these people get a real good close look at the deer. At twilight, as they come around a curve in the road while the deer are on their way to dinner in the cotton fields.

[Syncro]

Although I would recommend dressing them out and putting them in the freezer.

[Cloverfarm]

Sounds like Farmer Curloni is a good shot and would be well able to handle coyotes in the area, too. That would really tickle neighbors ;-)

[ontap]

What do you think of this deer thing?

[longtermmemmory]

IOW the girly men were horrified.

Nobody seems to remember Bambi’s mom was EATEN for dinner (yummy)

This farmer was killing VERMIN. Perhaps he should have just burried the bodies, HOWEVER will deer stay away from dead deer bodies?

[GOPPachyderm]

Oh man, that’s terrible. Glad you have Opera on that old computer - I can’t imagine being cutoff from the computer!

[mylife]

Agreed. The meat should have been processed.

Heck I would buy some.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

That’s the last time those damn deer steal my cotton!!!

[GinaLolaB]

I have deer that visit my yard in upstate NY and I think they are beautiful. This last winter I was worried about them because of the 6 feet of packed snow that fell and did not melt for months. But sure enough they showed up again after it melted. Deer are very skittish, they are always nervous about their surroundings. The creep that shot 40 deer is a very mean thug.

[Hot Tabasco]

If he's not going to donate the meat, at least get out the backhoe and bury 'em...

Waste of time an energy. One of the complaints is that the carcasses attract coyotes and buzzards. Well, they're already there so might just as well feed them with the dead deer than have them come snooping around the neighborhood farms..........

[JimRed]

Bring in wolves!

[Revolting cat!]

Tomorrow's headline today:

Bambi Dead!

[wrench]

Every depredation permit I have ever seen prohibits the harvest of the meat.

I agree, it is a waste, but done to avoid the appearance of conflict of interest as to the reason the deer are killed.

[hinckley buzzard]

Only problem here that I can see is the accumulation of carcasses. Farmer should have made arrangements to harvest the deer, not just let them rot in the woods.

[mylife]

What a lot of people dont understand is that the rising deer population will result in a rising cougar population too

[Revolting cat!]

Bambi must die!

W H A T ?

[Diggity]

Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms.

Josey Wales

[31M20RedDevil]

Our house took a lighting strike 2 yrs ago,lost an
old Dell,2 TVs all the phones,blew the overhang off and
it caught on fire,the heavy downpour put the fire out,
we had ceiling heat from an old TVA program,blew the ceilings out,broke a compleat dehavilland china set

Farmers around here do the same thing about the deer,myself included. Most people would too if they had that much money tied up in that crop.

[elkfersupper]

In a lot of this country, deer have turned from game into vermin.

Shoot 'em when you see 'em should be the rule.

[hinckley buzzard]

She blamed the deer problems on “sprawl”, but I pointed out that the population of deer in our area is 6000% higher than it was 50 years ago,

You were both right. Suburban sprawl, far from taking away deer habitat, creates virtually ideal habitat--lush greenery, shrubs, tasty flowers and vegetables, succulent young trees and bushes--far better than the treelines and fields they have been used to up until lately.