Toronto cops taser Bambi

[JR]

Somehow a deer ends up in downtown Toronto by the bus terminal. A vet shoots it with a tranquilizer dart, the deer leaps over yellow police tape--that's jail time ---and so the cops taser it and throw a net over it. .

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/729941--police-taser-frightened-deer-in-downtown-core?bn=1

The animal will be watched over by veterinarians and then likely given to the Toronto Zoo, police said. Still, no one knows where it came from.

"Obviously, it made its way from Rouge Valley, Humber Valley," said Supt. Hugh Ferguson. "How? God only knows ... GO Train, maybe."

 

[Sea Bass]

At first I thought you meant Bambi Bambenek.

 

[Fly]

I thought maybe a stripper from the CB got a bit testy.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

**** deer. They are overgrown rats with bushy tails.

 

[Fly]

**** deer. They are overgrown rats with bushy tails.

Unlike rats, however, they are damn tasty cooked in butter and garlic.

 

[Huggy]

I thought the Toronto cops were too busy parking illegally while running in to get lunch to worry abut tasering deer.

http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2009/11/24/11900526-sun.html

 

[Iron_chet]

maybe the deer did not like it's bed time

 

[JR]

I thought the Toronto cops were too busy parking illegally while running in to get lunch to worry abut tasering deer.

http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2009/11/24/11900526-sun.html

The top cops are being total and utter hypocrites about this.

People park in the bike lanes all the time in Toronto and the cops do absolutely nothing. There's a Scotiabank on the Lakeshore down by the condos and there are cars parked there all the time and neither the cops nor the parking police do a damn thing about it. But they're ready to slap you with a $30.00 ticket for an expired meter.

 

[old_tony]

**** deer. They are overgrown rats with bushy tails.

Unlike rats, however, they are damn tasty cooked in butter and garlic.

How do you know rats aren't damn tasty cooked in butter and garlic?

 

[Armchair_QB]

**** deer. They are overgrown rats with bushy tails.

Unlike rats, however, they are damn tasty cooked in butter and garlic.

How do you know rats aren't damn tasty cooked in butter and garlic?

"Nutria" is the preferred nomenclature.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

In the South, some overzealous guy wearing head-to-toe camouflage quickly kills it and would want a photo with what's left of the animal in the Sunday sports section. Wish I were kidding ...

 

[JR]

In the South, some overzealous guy wearing head-to-toe camouflage quickly kills it and would want a photo with what's left of the animal in the Sunday sports section. Wish I were kidding ...

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2009/11/24/toronto-deer-drama-see-bambi-honey.aspx

Start with a dozen police constables. Add another dozen police from the Emergency Task Force in grey jumpsuits and bulletproof vests -- armed with dart guns, Tasers and a big sort of fishing net -- plus two vans from Animal Services and a senior veterinarian from the Toronto Zoo. Give them four hours: they will get the job done.



I think they sent deer psychologists out after it was captured to make sure it wasn't suffering from postraumatic stress disorder.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Wow.

In the South, some deputy - even the sheriff in some places - gets a rifle out of the cruiser, shoots it and gets a relative or friend in the pickup to haul it off and parcel it out after the shift ends.

That's the other extreme from the end of your last post, JR.

 

[JR]

Wow.

In the South, some deputy - even the sheriff in some places - gets a rifle out of the cruiser, shoots it and gets a relative or friend in the pickup to haul it off and parcel it out after the shift ends.

That's the other extreme from the end of your last post, JR.

Well, not everybody is of the same opinion...from the story posted.

John Cardoso, a foreman putting up the YWCA Elm Centre, across from the deer, said, “We’re actually watching the deer instead of working. My honest opinion as a hunter? It wouldn’t be standing there.”

“I should not have left the rifle in the truck,” said another worker. “One bullet costs 25¢. It would be done.”

 

[cjericho]

In the South, some overzealous guy wearing head-to-toe camouflage quickly kills it and would want a photo with what's left of the animal in the Sunday sports section. Wish I were kidding ...

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2009/11/24/toronto-deer-drama-see-bambi-honey.aspx

Start with a dozen police constables. Add another dozen police from the Emergency Task Force in grey jumpsuits and bulletproof vests -- armed with dart guns, Tasers and a big sort of fishing net -- plus two vans from Animal Services and a senior veterinarian from the Toronto Zoo. Give them four hours: they will get the job done.



I think they sent deer psychologists out after it was captured to make sure it wasn't suffering from postraumatic stress disorder.

wow. were there any cops left to ticket illegally parked cars?

 

[Flying Headbutt]

If it's going to the Toronto Zoo, hopefully they put it in the lion's den!

 

[buckweaver]

In the South, some overzealous guy wearing head-to-toe camouflage quickly kills it and would want a photo with what's left of the animal in the Sunday sports section. Wish I were kidding ...

Not sure if I've told the story of the guy who rang the door of our building at 8 p.m. and wanted me to take a picture of his big fish -- which was outside floating in a cooler, in his trunk. He was on his way home from the lake and didn't want to wait to submit it to the paper.

After going out to look, I finally convinced him it was too dark to take the picture there, so he had to take it home and get a photo tomorrow, in better light.

He said, "Well, it might be eaten by then."

 

[Webster]

"Don't tase me" Doe

 

[Football_Bat]

"Don't tase me" Doe

Solid.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

In the South, some overzealous guy wearing head-to-toe camouflage quickly kills it and would want a photo with what's left of the animal in the Sunday sports section. Wish I were kidding ...

Not sure if I've told the story of the guy who rang the door of our building at 8 p.m. and wanted me to take a picture of his big fish -- which was outside floating in a cooler, in his trunk. He was on his way home from the lake and didn't want to wait to submit it to the paper.

After going out to look, I finally convinced him it was too dark to take the picture there, so he had to take it home and get a photo tomorrow, in better light.

He said, "Well, it might be eaten by then."

Yup.

Had a guy once come by the newsroom at my hometown paper. I took a camera outside, where he was sitting on the tailgate of his truck with the head of the deer. And only the head of the deer.

There was blood all over the truck bed. I asked him "Um, can you put the tailgate up and lift the head over it?" As much as our outdoor sorts love those ridiculous grip-and-grins, not even they wanted to see this guy holding up a deer head with blood all over the truck bed.