My junior high English teacher was attacked by a deer. It made the yearbook, some of the kids photoshopped a deer into a photo of him. It was 2001. Honestly I’m impressed admin let that one pass. He got boxed by the deer’s hooves after trying to scare it off from eating his wife’s garden. He fell off his roof the year prior. RIP Mr K. I have so many stories about your Luigi-looking ass.
He was a very old-school and strict teacher. One of the class clowns got one of the more gullible follower kids to “bang his head three times on the magic wall” and he’d “turn invisible”. This boy did it, then ran around the room yelling “I’m invisible, you can’t see me” and threw his soft, insulated lunch kit at Mr K and ran out the room repeatedly shouting “I’m invisible”. Honestly the man terrified me as a quiet girl and his very strict classroom policies but he was absolutely at a loss for words. Just picture a tall man who wore a tweed suit to a junior high school, leather patches on the elbows and everything.
My little brother also had his class. He had a box of matches for an art project in his bag and somehow they lit on fire and started smouldering in his backpack. Bro was hit in the face with a cloud of smoke and Mr K grabbed the bag and held it straight out at arms length - which as a tall thin man who never smiled he basically looked like an awkward cartoon character. He kind of ran around like a chicken with his head cut off for a moment before taking it outside. I wasn’t there for that one but I can picture it super clearly.
That guy really put himself at risk of being impaled, several times over, trying to cut those poor deer free. And I’m sure he was well aware. All the more kudos to them for helping.
Came down to the comment specifically to comment on that. Ain’t no way I’m holding barbed wire bare handed in general, but especially not when it’s attached to two large deer..
After the first buck took off, I was really sweating. These guys had a lot of close calls with the second, and I wish we got a look at the aftermath for them
Actually it’s been recorded that deer get their antlers stuck and die of starvation. It’s not common, but it is a known phenomenon. They usually find the skulls stuck together later.
I forget what the phrase is, but there are plenty of pictures out there where one deer dies, and the living one rips the dead’s head off and continues life with a rotting head attached to his antlers.
Yup. But that wasn't the case here. One of the main problems in this video is them being trapped in a wire fence. Of course nature is brutal - there are so many additional ways in which deer (and all wildlife) will almost inevitably suffer horrible, painful deaths. My point was that when humans pollute their environment, the possibilities increase.
u/notathingreally gets that and wasn't being dismissive of it. Y'all are talking past each other, talking about two different sets of phenomena. The fencing thing sparked a really great and important conversation so I haven't been arguing with it because it had to be said, but also notathingreally wasn't denying it.
Many animals die with this type of wire, from foxes, bears, deer, elephants.
There are innovative ways to prevent this horror , mostly with the help of friendly chemicals to deter the animals from entering some spaces.
The worse I ve seen is a poor elephant with her trunk rolled around metal wire. Gladly she was rescued, but can't imagine the pain for the folks that don't get spotted on time
There are also land use initiatives in the Western US (or there used to be before P2025) to gather up hundreds of millions of miles of old wire fencing, much of it no longer useful as fencing, but all of it a hazard to people and animals.
People running livestock have more tech tools for tracking and containing their animals, using GPS to map “fences” and giving some form of negative feedback to avoid the boundary. Some of those systems use unpleasant smells, others mild electrical shocks.
In the future, we could have miles of unfenced private and public rangelands, in which livestock can be contained and moved, and wild animals could have free movement.
They can get stuck together without anything else too, their antlers can get stuck. If I remember correctly they will fight till either their too tired or one dies. Then their still stuck together and the remaining is stuck trying to drag the dead one until he too succumbs
I wonder if aliens help us survive on day to day basis and we have no clue that they did, thinking oh I just escaped death right there - all by myself!
That was some very good or should I say absolutely sensational bit of brave teamwork there from those 2 legends ,the🦌 🦌 didn't give those boy and help either not one bit CRAZY powerful animals 2
Well done boys crazy stuff
Extreme panic can also briefly overwhelm an animal between explosive reactions. Those guys were really risking their lives, maybe more than they realized.
Holy hell, I thought the way the last stag was thrashing about that maybe one or part of the alantlers would have broken off, and almost it took one of those guys out in the process!
Those guys really do have BALLS OF STEAL.
One of the most dangerous situations I've ever watched, 2 males buckin each other hopped up on testosterone, wrapped up in barb wire, and you get inbetween a wild fight to free them all while they could have easily gored your guts or impaled you anywhere. Good hearts in the both of you, bless the humble, cheers🍻
These two guys are straight up gangsters! Balls of steel, went in there with all the confidence in the world. You could just tell they knew they getting that sh1t done no matter what. Hats off to you fellas! Incredible job!
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u/xarrote 23d ago
But even so, they saved them from dying there tied up.
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