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Elusive deer spotted wearing high-vis jacket in Canada: ‘Who is responsible?’
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 28 Nov 2024
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Do people just legitimately not know about spotlighting anymore?
Like, they think "deer in the headlights" means the deer is suicidal and wants to die?
Granted I grew up significantly more hillbilly than most, but I thought everyone knew what an animal does when a bright ass light suddenly shines in its face. It stands completely still. Focuses only on the light, and won't even respond to a car at 60mph, much less someone else approaching with a safety vest.
Dude, give some fucks and read the article.
The article, hell, just look at the picture!
I think you're confused...
The answer is:
I don't understand why youre telling me to read the article for answering the question it asks...
Did you think I was encouraging this because I explained how it was almost certainly done?
That logical leap wasn’t explicit in your original comment at all.
I identify the practice my name, "spotlighting".
I reference the widely known phrase in case someone isn't familiar with spotlighting.
I mention sarcastically that there must be another reason they freeze when they see a car at night besides suicidal ideations.
I pre-emptively explain that my rural upbringing isn't common.
Then I broke it down, which magically worked the second time....
So I know this is probably going to come off as me being a dick, but that's not what I'm trying to do. This is a very very important point that needs to be made:
If you don't understand something, ask for clarification first before assuming someone didn't read an article and throwing shade.
You personally didn't understand the connection and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that, ever. But the next step is just asking so you can understand.
Granted this isn't incredibly useful information, but because I took the time to ask what you were talking about and took a guess with what you had difficulty with and explained that, you wound up learning something.
If I had just responded in kind, we'd have just pissed each other off on Thanksgiving and learned nothing.
So next time if you read something and it doesn't click, just ask for clarification.
I didn't read the article or your reply, but in the spirit of Thanksgiving, I'm going to tell you you don't know what you are talking about.
Fair enough.
Givesomefucks really does give some fucks. Thankyou for the patient reply.
What are you talking about? Wtf
It might just be a really friendly deer. There's one that travels through my neighborhood that will walk right up to you and I bet I could get a vest on it if I tried
As crazy as it sounds, that's more dangerous for the deer than spotlighting it and putting it on with no cooperation from the deer...
Like, I can't stress it enough: don't do either, just leave them alone.
Wild animals should be scared of humans and avoid us. Because some humans should 100% be avoided, and most animals are really bad at differentiating. If a deer learns one human can be trusted, they'll trust all of them and walk right up to a hunter expecting food.
And there's lots of ways it can go badly unintentionally too.
If you spotlight a deer and wrestle a vest on it, it's sure as shit gonna avoid the next person it sees at least.
So long run, you're doing more damage letting that deer walk up to you then psychopaths intentionally fucking with them.
Just let nature be nature. Give it space to do it's own thing and remember in the long run no human has been executed for fucking with animals, but loads of animals are put down for doing what millions of years of evolution is telling them to do in a situation.
Keeping us seperate from them is for their benefit, not ours. So even if you like doing it, just stop for their sake.
They no longer need to be fed or encouraged to encroach in town anymore. At leas tin my experience. Their habitat is being reduced (by us) and they're getting more desperate/brave
I don't think this is spotlighting. I think it's just someone thought it'd be funny.
And a reminder, if you get caught spotlighting, you can get your truck confiscated and face heavy fines.