Why do we put Deer Crossings right on the Highway?
The (viral) deer crossing lady may be seriously confused or may be pranking, but either way her complaint is very funny.
She says she has had three car accidents on the highway involving deer, and in each case the accident occurred shortly after passing a deer crossing sign.
Why does the government put the deer crossing signs on busy highways? That encourages the deer to cross at the worst possible place! The signs should be moved to less traveled roads where the deer can cross safely.
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...is to catch them in your headlights.
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Inconvenient and dangerous!!
of course!
The weird thing is that the caller sounds totally normal in that she is able to communicate intelligently enough. Yet the IQ level of this woman has to be seriously out of whack.
Are you sure this is for real?
I think it was paper but it was the same sentiment. I'd swear I saw it on DU. 
Actually, deer DO cross near the school crossing zones at my school; we get one or two early morning deer trying to find their way out of the playground every year.
Happily, knowing when the local deer population are likely to be out and about, I've only had one small situation. I didn't hit a deer; the deer hit me. My back bumper. No casualties.
I DID once come across a stag with a big rack lying down in the middle of the rural road I take home; he stopped the sparse traffic in both directions. Nobody wanted to mess with him, so we all sat in our cars and made some noise until he got up and hopped into a pasture on the side of the road.
It's where they put those jackalope crossings. I know that jackalopes prefer the flat desert areas of the west, but why do they have to put jackalope crossings smack dab in the middle of an 80 mile an hour zone straightaway on the interstates? It's, like, totally stupid. For one thing, they are a protected species; why can't they just make the crossing go under the highway? Like, duh. We have a crossing not too far from where I live, and one of my neighbors nearly went off the road when a jackalope ran out in front of her Jeep a few weeks back.
Here's a photo from the jackalope crossing nearby, out on Interstate 17.
we all learn something from time to time. I knew of the tunnels, but not the bridges.
though it only works for cattle that have experience real cattle guards (pipes welded together side-by-side with a few inches of space between.) Although the technique didn't use a sign stating what it was. I think it was only used in place of a real barrier. I'd say the sign was more for those humans unfamiliar with it than the cattle 
So, the sign is correct, even if it's only simulated
but weren't digital:
My father, comic that he is, never failed to say, "I didn't know wildlife (deer, cattle, pedestrians) could tell time." If we heard that one time from my Dad, we heard it a thousand times. Lame, but a great childhood memory.
They say accidents happen within 15 miles of your house.
Poor deers. I wish they would make underpasses for them. If they made the underpass put out some kind of smell that would make them go into the direction of the underpass at least on busy highways. Or if technology keeps going, use the roads to produce energy and make them tingle according to traffic. The more traffic, the more tingle. It would keep cats and dogs off the streets too.
