Minnesotans will be prowling the farmlands with rifles this weekend through 23 November. I think I’ll stay home, not just because of all the people with guns, but because who knows when the deer will have had enough?
via Mastodon
Deer hunting season opens this weekend
Anyone here ever seen “Night of the Lepus?”
Wrong species. Bambi is supposed to be a roe deer.
Bambi meets Godzilla
@2 Iasius
That’s just silly. You can’t get deer from fish eggs. Where did you learn your biology?
@4 Reginald Selkirk
Funny story, I once talked in German to a native English speaker about deer. He used the German word “Rogen” (fish roe) when he should have used “Reh” (roe deer). We had a good laugh.
Every year, during hunting season, farmers lose cows and other livestock to hunters. And occasionally hunters get shot despite their colorful orange vests. Staying home is a good idea during hunting season.
https://www.acb.org/content/blind-hunting-tom-lealos
If a deer serves as a host for an oculus alien, it would indeed be quite dangerous!
In upstate NY where I grew up, all the cows and sheep would have big pink or lime green paint spots of their sides this time of year and they’d still get a couple shot each year by idiots. Then, of course, there were the drunken hunters who shot themselves falling out of tree stands every year.
christoph @1
Aahhh man. You have awakened an ancient memory. Not only have I seen it I can remember watching it one night in the 70’s with my dad.
We LOL’ed at the growling rabbits.
Special effects weren’t that bad for the 70’s either.
bcw bcw @8 “drunken hunters who shot themselves”
Or each other. My cousin fell off a horse and broke his arm. A couple of weeks later he was out hunting with his right arm in a cast. Going down a dirt road in a jeep, he was kneeling in the back. And he was kneeling in just the right position so the bullet hit is left forarm, then into his left thigh and then finally stopped way down in his right thigh.
He was fairly immoblized for a month or so.
It was probably 20 years before that last piece had worked it’s way out of his leg that they finally cut it out.
He did get cool scars out of it.
No-one has posted this (YouTube) yet?
@3: Bambi’s Revenge
Link formatting fail. Bambi’s revenge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FLPc2v3Edc
Different in the Antipodes:
Reminds me of an old videogame (and by “old” I mean “last century”):
Deer Hunter Avenger
Just now I read an article about wild hogs attacking humans. At the end the author mentioned that hogs are not that dangerous to people here in Germany, statistically the most dangerous animal roaming our forest is other humans, much more people are injured and killed by hunters than by hogs or any other animals.
@1 christoph : Anyone here ever seen “Night of the Lepus?”
No but I know that its aconstellation that ahs ablod red satr far bigger than our star and much closer toits end and like a blood drop in the night sky :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_Leporis
Its = Lepus.
Huh; how’d you end up with the French film poster rather than the original English? Usually I see the opposite happen!
Just this week I managed to buy some relatively affordable moose meat (is that called venison?) imported from Estonia. I’m in Helsinki, where most of Estonia is physically closer than most of Finland. Commercially sold moose here often comes from Estonia, since Finnish hunters are more interested in using the meat themselves or distributing it within their close social circle.
The topic of drunk/careless hunters reminds me of an old Finnish comedy song titled “Moose or not”. The premise is that a group of extremely drunk Finnish guys fumble around in the forest, trying to hunt moose. Eventually, they spot what they think is a moose in a small field amid the forest (actually a tractor plowing the field, with the farmer inside) and fire a hail of bullets at it. Finally, the men celebrate the “moose” they killed, while contemplating that its “calf” managed to run away.