They’re After The Bikes
We here at Blue Crab Boulevard have suddenly realized there is a connection. We told you about the dog who disrupted the Tour de France. We, correctly, attributed the sudden treason of man's best friend to the tactics of the enforcers of the Animal Uprising™, the deer. After all, having a large, antlered, strongarm tactician do a mambo on your head would make even a loyal dog turn his coat, so to speak. But today's news says there is more to it than just the dogs being turned. The deer are also stepping up pressure on bicyclists.
Bicyclist Jeffrey Norberry fell victim to a hit-and-run deer.
The Windermere man was biking early Thursday along a secluded area on Walt Disney World property when a deer ran across the roadway and collided with him head-on, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
Norberry, 56, flipped over the handle bars of his bike and the deer before crashing to the ground on Floridian Way shortly before 3 a.m.
The man, who had been wearing a helmet, was taken to Florida Hospital Celebration Health with minor injuries. The deer was nowhere to be found.
We believe that the Animal Uprising™ is suddenly very, very interested in bicycles. We have no idea why, but the evidence is clear.
By Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr., Friday, 20 July , 2007 @ 9:19 pm
I saw an item somewhere today (didn’t think to report it here then, sorry) about a deer running out of the brush and attacking a (female, I think) pedestrian of some years.
By Roy Lofquist, Saturday, 21 July , 2007 @ 7:43 am
Anybody wearing a helmet at three in the AM probably deserves it.