OH Deer!

[SlamMan]

May be a repost.

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 front 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.

http://www.nodakoutdoors.com/image/deeronwire.jpg
http://www.nodakoutdoors.com/image/deeronwire2.jpg
http://www.nodakoutdoors.com/image/deeronwire3.jpg

Sure enough, the poor deer had been hit by a train &landed on top of a
distribution feeder pole!

[djet820]

hahahahaha. Now that's classic. But it kind of looks fake...mostly if it got hit by a huge train, hard enough for it to fly up there. Still funny though.

[ryanman]

Umm where are the railroad tracks? How come there is no shadow of the deer on the ground with the poles?

[Mario]

Umm where are the railroad tracks? How come there is no shadow of the deer on the ground with the poles?

Because the pole is blocking the area where the shadow would be.

[ryanman]

Umm no. I can see the top of the pole and the cross section in the shadow and no deer.

[Mario]

Umm no. I can see the top of the pole and the cross section in the shadow and no deer.

Ok, I see now... I dunno, lighting/shadows has some weird effects on things like this.

[ryanman]

Yeah weird. I mean it looks real but when I see stuff like this on the net, it makes me think photochop.

[ricewizard]

what makes it real is look close ,the legs are cut off from the ankle joint down, gone with train , sweet.

[CT9A]

You would think that there would be blood all over the pole. Especially with the legs being freshly severed by the train.

[ricewizard]

i'll bet the stupid thing jumped to late was in the air and the train hit it and more or less threw it and popped the legs off , also there is not much for veins or even meat for blood on the ankle area of a deer. the only other explaination would be the redneck olympics have a deer toss . lol

[djet820]

I don't see railroad tracks though...