Be careful out there PennsylvanYinz.

My wife hit one about a week ago. Good luck getting into a body shop if you do hit one.

I was heading down 43 at around 1 am the other night. Two deer were hanging out in the middle of the highway. I was anticipating seeing some and was going nice and slow with my high beams on and it saved me. Was able to come to a near full stop while they meandered into the night.

It's rough out there. Be safe.

I hit mine on 43, near California.

I know. I'm scheduled for December 5th. Earliest they could do. At least my vehicle is drivable.

And don't think living in the city makes you "safe" - I've seen the four legged cretins in my yard in Garfield when coming home from working second shift before.

80% of the deer I see are in the city and I drive all over the place.

Slow dahn and stop using your phone while driving.

What scares me is seeing how well they can jump first hand. I've watched them trot up to my fence and just casually hop over a fence that is almost chest height on a 6' person - me.

I see a lot along 88 between Castle Shannon and Finleyville.

Absolutely!

My drives from dc to Pitt is my favorite. Always a good chance of running into fog, rain, or a deer. But always guaranteed to be a fun drive

I grew up in a the country and would see turkey, deer, bear, all sorts of wildlife all of the time. The biggest deer I have ever seen are in the city. They pick over gardens and well groomed yards and aren't hunted so they live long healthy lives.

Support your local hunter or take up hunting yourself.

Pay for another tag/the processing fee and not only will you have a freezer full of meat but you'll reduce the chance of people hitting a deer ever so slightly.

Its a win-win.

Remember, where there's one there's usually more. My wife was driving with me and one crossed the road in front of us. She watched it cross, not realizing there were a couple more behind it soon to cross after and she nearly hit one.

This goes double for late season motorcycle riders,especially when the rut starts. Keep your eyes peeled and slow down at dusk.

And good luck with all the extra time for parts and labor due to short staff even when you do get in.

We hit one a week before Christmas last year. Nearly totaled it even though it was only body damage and it wasn’t legally drivable. Didn’t get the car back for over 6 weeks and that’s only because we were able to get in early due to a cancellation. The car insurance only covered a rental car for 30 days so I had to drive my wife to work for a couple weeks.

This and support environmental and conservation efforts. Climate change allows more deer to survive the winter and changing forestry and predator populations have allowed deer to thrive.

I’ve seen a heard cross the highway near the squirrel hill tunnel.

I saw someone hit a deer going southbound on McKnight near the post office. They just clipped it and kept going but it was laying on the ground trying to get up. I was going northbound and turned around. Called the police and put my flashers on, I just didn’t want someone to come along and hit it again. Poor thing, it died before the police came. Sucked to be helpless.

City deer don't give a fuck up here in Ross

If they are locked up and frozen in place, lay on the horn. They run away from loud noise immediately. Obviously, consider surroundings. It's not an option where that noise might drive them into other lanes of moving traffic, but on a two way with no opposing traffic it moves them in direct lines away from the horn, and, most importantly, overrides that deer-in-the-headlights thing.

Yep. Used to live by Riverview Park and they'd almost come up and sniff us in the parking lot.

They're all over my neighborhood. My neighbor said since they build a newish development in the late 00s, the wildlife have been adjusting to their old territory being full of houses now.

Yep. City deer are different for sure.

GASPS! CLUTCHES PEARLS!

This sub is turning into channel 4 news. THERE IS LEAD IN MY WATER? MY CHILDREN ARE INGESTING PLASTICS? GOD FORBID I MIGHT HIT A DEER?

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO NOT HIT A DEER! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD I CANT THINK FOR MYSELF, HAVE LIVED HERE ALL MY LIFE AND HAVE NEVER SEEN A DEER AND WOULD HAVE POSITIVELY ZERO IDEA WHAT TO DO IF I ENCOUNTERED ONE IN THE WILD LET ALONE IN MY VEHICLE.

My uncle hit one on the way into work, went and got a rental and went to work. Driving home that way the same day, he totaled the rental about 100y from that morning's spot

Whatcha screaming for! This is Reddit, it's meant for discussion.

Same here. As a kid, I never managed to get closer than maybe 50 yards away from one.

Now, it's a completely different story. I could easily walk up to one and chokeslam it, if I wanted to. They don't run away.

I guess the township has hunters that are hired to hunt during archery season to control their numbers

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Your grandkid wants their phone back.

I wish I had a friend with a crossbow who hunted. I've got a very mature maple tree that would make the perfect sniping spot, and one evening in a tree would bag them a couple bucks and probably half a dozen does.

Funny you say that as this post is geared towards my father and he would actually click the link

Look up irony in the dictionary

I drive Uber so I see them EVERYWHERE. So far:

Watched a whole family rolling down Blvd of the Allies through the intersection of Stanwix street at around midnight one night.

Had a few walk right across Grandview Ave in front of me on Mt. Washington.

Seen quite a few rolling through random side streets in Shadyside/Squirrel Hill/East Liberty.

I literally see at least two dozen deer per night. You just have to be watching for them.

Yep - my wife hit one in early September in her van, the shop scheduled her to look at the vehicle in early October, and then finally scheduled her repair for early December. Figure she'll get it back maybe February or so.

Lesson learned: Now's a good time to check your rental car insurance coverage. We've got $30/day for 30 days max which means we'll mostly be out of pocket for a reasonable replacement, especially when you consider rising rental car costs. You don't need it until you need it.

😱 OMG.

They should really move the deer crossing signs to somewhere safer, don't know why they'd put them near the city.

With the rut coming in, I expect to see more dead deer.

I see em hangin out behind my house at all hours our neighborhood is lousy with the things. Someone at the game commission got all mad at my ignorance when I asked if I could just set out some apples with the fence open and wait

Already did once this year. Was on the way to the dealership to pick up my new car. Planned to keep my old one. SMACKED a deer. I still drive it, but i had to replace the mirror and have to get in through the passenger side. I’m just glad i didn’t hit the deer AFTER i picked up my new car lol.

boomer alert

That article is seriously lacking in timespans. I just had to do way too much math to figure out that the 1 in 52 odds of hitting a deer is a per year number as compared to a during your life number. I originally assumed it was a per year number, but the comparison to writing a New York Times best seller threw me off.

(It turns out the NYT best seller number is a per book number -- about 0.5% of books that are written are NYT best sellers.

(In terms of deer, there are about 2 million animal collision insurance claims in the US per year, so about 0.5% of the US population files an insurance claim for hitting an animal each year. Since the stats given are that there's a 1% chance for Americans to hit a deer, elk, moose, or caribou, it seems more likely that only about half of them file insurance claims, as compared to assuming there's only 1% odds of hitting a deer-like animal during your life but that many times more Americans are filing animal collision insurance claims for hitting non-deer-like animals. Assuming that's right, the 1 in 52 number for Pennsylvanians must be annual.)

Not even close, just sick of the idiotic posts in this sub.

Grew up in bfe central PA, never even came close to hitting one. Moved to Pittsburgh mid 20s and hit a deer the second weekend on Stanton

Can we talk seriously about a county-wide culling strategy, please? Mount Lebanon took the first public hit from the anti-culling brigade and then Whitehall started too.

If more boroughs follow suit, they can't picket everybody.

I've tried, for years. The biggest hurdle, in all honesty, are the people who like to feed them and think they're pretty. These are mainly elderly people who have nothing better to do than go to local meetings and drown out everyone else with their bullshit.

My neighborhood is full of people who never leave their homes, never open their windows, don't do shit to their gardens except fill multiple bird feeders every day to intentionally attract deer and other vermin.

There's your irony.

“Brake firmly” lol. Hit those fucking brakes as hard as you can. Antilock brakes work, most drivers don’t know how to use them.

Yeah not deer related but I hit something on the road that gave me a flat and also a bit of body damage. Dealer replaced the tire but suggested a body shop for the rest. I called 5 different body shops and earliest appointment just to take it in and get an estimate for insurance was a month out.

I’ve seen half of a herd wait for a break in traffic to cross a suburban road when traffic interrupted the first ones. There’s probably a strong selective pressure for smart deer that tolerate humans.

Push your local politicians to extend deer season. The population is clearly getting out of control. Also allowing people to use bows in their back yards may help a bit.

Will safely hunt on your property with permission. Keep the population down

Now do raccoons. There are raccoon parts everywhere !

Yeah we hit one right before thanksgiving last year and it was around new years that we got it back. Geico were refusing to pay for OEM parts and wanted to use crappy third parties (according to my body shop), so that added a lot of time too. And then they took forever to pay him, so I almost had to pay out of pocket. Switched insurance companies after that

I haven't been out hunting in a decade but maybe this is a call to arms... time to sight in the .30-30 and string up my Damon Howatt.

You'd think with meat prices up there would be more people hunting.

You poor thing, no choice but to log into Reddit and look at this sub and be mad about it. Thanks, Obama.

They're a problem in areas where no one can legally hunt

Deer in general have creeped me the fuck out ever since I found out about the zombie deer/prions thing.

They just wander around the streets in Squirrel Hill when they run out of things to forage in Schenley Park (spoiler alert: they have foraged Schenley Park down to nothing already) and just like you I work second shift and see them on my street at least once a week. I'm on high alert for them but they're gonna get nailed by someone who isn't and everyone is gonna be unhappy.

There was a moment in time where the amount of posts about “what was in the sky” was just unreal.

Dude seems cracked out, but some of the stuff he listed I also find annoying lol.

From this picture it's more like deer hit YOU.

I've had to chase them outta my garden in Reserve.

Sucker jumped 30 feet from the middle of the yard over the fence when I opened the door.

City deer do not give a fuck

They sleep in our yard. They move in herds sometimes, clip clopping down the street and slipping between cars. Sleeping here draws coyotes up from the ravines. We’re dodging them left and right out here in the suburbs. Went to pick up my kid’s prescription at the pharmacy drive thru last week and on the steep hillside up above and next to me were three practically within arm’s reach. I rolled up my window, jic they decided they liked my flowers in the bouquet sitting on the seat next to me and tried to fight me for it.

No joke, they ate my phlox and hostas to the ground right in front of me while I was sitting outside grilling on the patio, last spring. I yelled, I turned the hose on them, banged pots together. They just stared at me. Two neighbors on this street have collided with deer in the last few weeks. One in their driveway, another after they pulled up to a stop sign. They’re EVERYWHERE.

I saw a deer in Homewood earlier this week.

> No joke, they ate my phlox and hostas to the ground right in front of me while I was sitting outside grilling on the patio, last spring. I yelled, I turned the hose on them, banged pots together. They just stared at me.

Time to throw hands

Kind of surprising it died. I've seen those critters total cars and gallop away.

Hit a deer earlier this year in my subaru. Took almost 2 months to fix due to parts availability. Luckily my insurance covered the rental the entire time.

you're allowed to hunt deer in your yard in city limits as long as you're 50 yards away from an occupied structure for bowhunting and 150 for shotgun. I've recently read a few articles on this. Here's one. https://pittsburghquarterly.com/articles/the-urban-deerhunter/

I've seen a heard go over higher. it's honestly really impressive to see in my opinion at least.

I used to have a Great Dane, they weren't even skittish around a dog his size, we could easily get within 10-15ft of them.

That's great and all, but the exact issue is that there aren't nearly enough houses with a 50 yard buffer all the way around to even make this feasible. Because we live in the city.

We have chickens, and I have a video from last year where my wife and I are standing in the backyard, on a June afternoon, taking dumb pictures, and a deer walked in between us (we were standing 5 feet apart) to come sniff a chicken that was near our feet, and it tripped over another hen it didn't notice.

My wife had to literally shove the deer with two hands to get it away from the chickens, who wanted nothing to do with it.

Everyone around us has motion security lights, and they'll bed down on my back patio, right up against the house, because they don't trip the lights on. All of our adjoining backyards are connected, and if you go out at dusk you can see them all gathering underneath trees, waiting for it to get dark.

They bow hunt near here annually (to much consternation by many who don’t know about the diseases deer spread, or that where deer are there are bears and coyote that could eat their nasty, snapping, little ankle-biter nonstop barkers too)…

I love deer. They’re cute—-and also very tasty. But we have got to get these numbers their under control, for the health of the deer and for our own!

no shit