Mundelein police shoot rutting deer after playtime becomes threatening

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Neighborhood pet turns aggressive
Mundelein police shoot rutting deer after playtime becomes threatening

June 27, 2007
By FRANK ABDERHOLDEN [e-mail]

A male deer with 4-inch antlers that obviously had been raised around people and had been busy this spring visiting various neighborhoods and parks in Mundelein where kids would pet it and approach it, was euthanized by police last week.

Some people said the deer was named "Lucky" or "Darwin," but for police and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, it was becoming a dangerous threat. It was living in the Colony and Long Meadows Estates neighborhoods.

Mundelein Chief Raymond Rose said that the problem with this deer was that it was still part wild animal.

"The problem with this one is as they get older and get into rutting season, they get very aggressive. Wild animals are meant to be wild. . . They never lose that instinct," Rose said Tuesday.

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1. Fucking suburbanites!!

They build more and more subdivisions on what was until recently open land. And when the animals don't move away nicely and just give up their homes--they get killed. Because there's nothing more important than a subdivision.

God, I hate these people.