Dead deer

Wingnut · April 6, 2003

I don't know how true this is, but thought I would share it anyway.

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Service call of the month from a Baltimore Gas & Electric residential customer ...

BGE received a call from a customer saying: My power is out. When you come to fix it be sure to bring a truck with a tall enough bucket to remove the deer".

The customer service rep prudently trying to gather helpful information to help diagnose the problem asked, "What deer"?

The customer replied "There is a deer on top of one of the electric poles on Wilkes Rd about 1/2 mile west of perimeter Rd".

The customer service rep tried desperately to pull herself together and not laugh in the ear of the customer and replied" We will dispatch someone right away to investigate the power outage. Thank you for the call".

Upon completion of the call, the customer service rep proceeded to share the funny story with her coworkers in the office and they all had a good laugh.

Well, low and behold, the serviceman who repaired the problem stopped by the customer service office the following day with the attached pictures. Sure enough, the poor deer had been hit by a train & landed on top of a distribution feeder pole!

The SPEEDY · April 7, 2003

k1500chevy97 · April 7, 2003

95whtZR2 · April 7, 2003

Hilarious, just plain hilarious...

Tom

BlackSilver · April 7, 2003

I don't know how the deer got up there, but the story is bogus for a couple of reasons.....

#1) There ain't a railroad track in sight.

#2) Those aren't power distribution lines, they're old fashioned aerial telephone wires.

Wingnut · April 7, 2003

Like I said, I don't know how true it is.

I'm wondering how it lost it's feet.

Batgirl · April 7, 2003

99silveradoz71 · April 7, 2003

Incoming

HillHound · April 7, 2003

That picture appeared on the Coast to Coast AM website (the former Art Bell show site) a while back.

Coast to Coast AM site....

There are rail tracks near the poles, just not in the photo. That could explain how it got there and lost it's legs.

My own theory is that a pterodactyl dropped it there and forgot to back and get it.

Wingnut · April 7, 2003

Nah.....It was that d@mn Chupacabra.

It's migrating north.

HillHound · April 7, 2003

Nah.....It was that d@mn Chupacabra.

It's migrating north.

I hope it stays north of the Mason-Dixon line becuase my 7mm is all cleaned up and I hate to get it dirty before deer season.

General Lee 01 · April 7, 2003

Maybe one of Santa's reindeer had too much egg nog X-mas eve?

That deer is too intact to have been hit by a train.

1. Trains don't punt stuff way up in the air like that, they either drag or push-forward whatever they hit. there's just too much mass weight on the front of the train, to counter the speed.

2. I've seen deer hit by compact cars going 45MPH that looked in worse shape than that one.

My guess is it's a sick joke by a hunter(s).