Watch For Deer Crossing
Tonight I was driving with my daughter, and she told me yesterday she had seen a deer cross the road right at a deer crossing sign. You never have your camera at the right time. I told her it reminded me of a news article I had recently read.
It seems a man had recently moved up to our area (Coeur d'Alene, ID) from California. He came from the big city but he loved life here in the country. However, he was concerned about all the deer getting hit by motor vehicles. So he petitioned the commissioners at a county meeting, requesting the removal of the deer crossing signs because he thought the signs gave the animals a false sense of security. He posited that if the signs were removed, we would have fewer accidents with deer.
Fortunately, the papers never publish the names of people like that.
[02 Jan 2007 Update:] While on Christmas holiday visiting relatives in Ohio, I was relating this story. My sister-in-law broke in and said that one of her neighbors (Philo, OH) asked the highway department to remove the deer crossing sign from the front of her yard because she did not want the deer crossing there.
What is scarry about all this is that these people vote!