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WelbyQuentin

Would this have saddened you?


I had to drive to the same place on a highway yesterday and today. Yesterday a large deer was dead along the highway. Today someone had tied a brightly colored helium balloon on a string to the dead animal and the balloon kept bopping around in the wind above the dead animal.

Posted - June 10, 2017
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  • 24245
    Very true, bhwilson! Thanks!
    That certainly would be a sight, that truck.
      June 11, 2017 1:48 PM MDT
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  • 17319
    Last time I went to Canberra, I saw dozens of road-killed kangaroos on the verges of the Federal Highway. Roos haven't got the sense God gave a doorknob. A little depressing, but you get inured to it.
    Had they been bilbies, THAT woukd have saddened me. Bilbies are endangered, kangaroos are not.
      June 10, 2017 10:01 PM MDT
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  • 24245
    Thanks, Slartibartfast!
    I guess I found the attached balloon added somehow a sense of indignity for the deer to me.
    :)
    Other aM's have suggested some good reasons for the balloon, though.
      June 11, 2017 1:32 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    What saddens me is that animals are being slaughtered by the droves for even less purpose than being in the way on a highway.  

    Dogs are being neglected, cats too.

    Animals don't matter.   That is what saddens me.
      June 11, 2017 1:44 PM MDT
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  • 24245
    Good points, indeed, you make, Shar to the Rona!!
    Thanks!
    :)

    The balloon added indignity somehow to the deer to me.
    :)
      June 11, 2017 1:45 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    There are even worse indignities.   And you are very right-on, Welb.

    This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at June 11, 2017 1:49 PM MDT
      June 11, 2017 1:47 PM MDT
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  • 24245
    Oh, my. Those will stay with me!

    This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at June 11, 2017 1:50 PM MDT
      June 11, 2017 1:49 PM MDT
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  • 2515
    It is sad, but even sadder if it is a doe,  because does usually have babies around. I'm thinking a person put a balloon on there so that drivers can see it on the road and not run into it, causing an accident. Deer on the road, during deer hunting season, is a common happening.  There should be signs around, warning drivers to slow down at those crossings. 
      June 11, 2017 2:25 PM MDT
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  • 24245
    Hi Marguerite, the Beloved!
    Yes, areas near where I live have many Deer Crossing signs. This particular deer was off the road but, still, it was right beside a 70 mph speed limit highway, so the balloon was probably added to help make it visible, like you said.
    I hadn't thought about if it were a doe. Yeah, that would be sadder.
      June 11, 2017 5:00 PM MDT
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  • 22891
    yes, and someone needed to call animal control to come and get it
      June 11, 2017 6:00 PM MDT
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  • 24245
    Yeah, you're right.
    :)
      June 15, 2017 2:01 PM MDT
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