Absolutely no faith in humanity after reading this.

GeneralWarts · 3 months

John Deer: Well Jane, this is where we usually cross, but the sign is gone. The humans must have moved it without telling us.

Jane Doe: You are always blaming the humans. Are you sure you are reading the map right? Can you just stop and ask for directions?

John: No, I'm telling you they moved it. I know these trails like the back of my hoof. Let's just continue down the road until we find the sign.

Jane: sighs Fine.. you're as stubborn as your father.

Edit:etan_causale animated this comment, but he's a little buried.

Stunod7 · 3 months

Every time I see this reposted I always get excited to see something from my area reposted and karma whored out. It was a joke btw.

(original) http://www.nwitimes.com/news/opinion/mailbag/move-the-deer-crossing-to-where-there-s-less-traffic/article_c3a6319b-8e09-5a70-8814-e1c56d754a9b.html

(reader response) http://www.nwitimes.com/news/opinion/mailbag/letter-about-moving-deer-crossing-was-superb-humor/article_6085387d-cc3c-58c4-854d-98d22da4b100.html

(reader response) http://www.nwitimes.com/news/opinion/mailbag/letter-writer-was-just-joking-about-deer-crossings-right/article_7f256fde-314e-587b-9cb1-f9476894720e.html

(reader response) http://www.nwitimes.com/news/opinion/mailbag/maybe-we-should-move-all-warning-signs-then/article_35999ca4-b82a-54f0-b13b-1875f38b7b6a.html

ios_k · 3 months

Absolutely no faith in humanity after reading this.

I think you are exaggerating, it's not like the deer were used as sex slaves.

netbiscuit · 3 months

This joke is actually really old. I'm surprised so many people still fall for it.

I_am_not_angry · 3 months

I am so hoping he was trolling the paper....

RageCageRunner · 3 months

I don't think you understand life in states like Idaho/Montana/Wyoming. In many areas, they have deer crossing. Essentially it's a large portion of land that is fenced off with openings every 5-10 miles or so. This is to 'encourage' the deer to cross at places where they can put up deer crossing signs (to alert drivers).

We drivers are lazy and aren't always paying attention. If they can make the amount of time we have to watch for deer less, there will be fewer wrecks with them.

MaskedAmoeba · 3 months

Ok, first of all this is the third or so time I've seen this repost.

Second, there's nothing strange/funny about this at all. Where I live (Colorado) there are several kinds of wildlife crossing where the animals only can cross in that location, it's not JUST a sign. For example, we have a crossing that consists of a gap in the two fences that run alongside the road. The deer can only cross in that one spot which can be moved by changing where the fence is open.

The deer also cannot just enter the street and walk parallel to it on the inside because there are these metal slats on either side of the crossing that the deer/cattle's hooves slip into (but cars can drive over), so they avoid stepping on it, thus creating a pathway for animals at one specific spot in the road.

Corporate_Suit · 3 months

Because Indiana.

Noek · 3 months

Man, even if he´s trolling or not, im pretty sure there are people out there that are this fucking stupid...

derpaderp · 3 months

OP got troled

EDIT - I'm impressed, thus far no one fell for my spell eror trolling bait.

Vindictive29 · 3 months

Your faith should not be discarded... simply revised.

My declaration of faith in humanity: There will never be a time when I am unamazed by human ability to achieve new levels of stupidity.

See... you can still have faith... you just have to change the legalese in the description.

MocksYourBadPost · 3 months

Yes, lose your faith in all of humanity after reading one dumb persons idea.

ps. You come off just as damn as this guy by generalizing all of humanity from a sample of one person.

pps. Fuck off with the reddit-buzz-phrase title making yourself look like an idiot/douche whoring for karma.

Goldmine44 · 3 months

As in Crown Point, Indiana? I'm so ashamed.

HaberdasheryHRG · 3 months

I actually live in that area; it's northwest Indiana, near Chicago. And that part of that newspaper is the worst. It's like they intentionally only print the dumb, bigoted, and hateful blurbs that are submitted.

Not everyone around here is that dumb though. Honest.

somethingisnotok · 3 months

There is a huge miscommunication here. This is a very correct idea because:

The road parts where deer crossing signs are placed are unfenced for about 100m for the animals to cross territory. If you'd get out of your car and try walking into a forest you will suddently notice the 2.5 m high fence blocking your way. It's mostly not visible from a car because they purposely hid them a little to not disturb the landscape. Fencing the open part and moving the gap to a less busy road, therefore moving the sign with, would logically solve the problem.

a4moondoggy · 3 months

Well i'm confused now. When i younger as i was driving to work one morning before school in the U.P. of Michigan i hit three deer one at a time and there were no signs.

shutting_down · 3 months

This reminds me that the park rangers at Yellowstone told us they get questions all the time about where they put the animals at night.

ZanXBal · 3 months

I live in Crown Point..

factorialite · 3 months

Crown Point is actually the town in which I was born, and I'm fairly sure this is old and definitely sure it's a joke.

LazarWulf · 3 months

There are designated deer crossings where deer (and other animals I'm sure) are funneled to cross at certain places using fences. It seems like whoever wrote this for the newspaper thinks the signs have something to do with where the deer cross alone, but I would like to give him the benefit of the doubt that he also knows how designated deer crossings work and just didn't articulated it very well, or simplified it because maybe he had to pay per letter to get that published. But I won't rule out his ignorance and stupidity as well...it's very likely that he is as dumb as a bag of rocks.

jschlo4 · 3 months

pretty sure its a joke. and that joke is pretty old. and it is satirical in nature. But im just guessing.

guest4000 · 3 months

An obvious joke made you have zero faith in humanity?

Neutr4lNumb3r · 3 months

I hate these fucking "losing faith in humanity" titles.

YGSOUL · 3 months

Oh deer

Goateater · 3 months

Deer me...

amIstillHere · 3 months

This is obviously a joke, no one is really this clueless.

Edit for word choice

TheLoneWander101 · 3 months

I have no faith in humanity for those that have no faith in humanity

fuckyoutom · 3 months

His logic seems sound

Sandite5 · 3 months

Not sure who is trolling, Tim Abbott or m1asama...

sje46 · 3 months

It's a joke.

I lost faith in humanity because you didn't recognize the obvious joke.

Yes, it does happen that non-redditors say funny things sometimes.

fortworthbret · 3 months

Please. this was trolling. I've heard the joke for 20 years.

Biddy_Chang · 3 months

Well, I definitely wasn't expecting something from my hometown when I opened this... Fuck Indiana.

BobIV · 3 months

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say meant...

"Most people hit deer to about a mile or so to the west of here. This is because there is to much traffic causing the deer to not even attempt to cross here. The signs should be moved to the west where the deer are crossing (due to lower traffic) so as to provide a better warning for the drivers."

I have no idea why the OP or so many commenters assumed he was talking about the deer reading the signs.

calvhob91 · 3 months

Does anyone else think that the "faith in humanity" posts are ridiculous, considering that they often contain very few people?

strangerkindly · 3 months

indiana baby

jimbo91987 · 3 months

Not sure if humanity is the correct word here, but I definitely lost faith in something.

sturg1dj · 3 months

how long have you been on the internet? A few weeks, right? I assume that because this has been on the internet for years, not just on reddit but on facebook feeds, bulk emails and so on. This is an internet standard.

ObamaisYoGabbaGabba · 3 months

Some humans are not as as smart as others..

protip: it's not their fault, quit blaming them.

Freks · 3 months

Not to ruin the party, but sometimes these crossings are manmade. If you got wildlife fences keeping the animals off the road, you usuly put up these signs where the fence ends, becouse this is where most animals choose to cross.

[deleted] · 3 months

No one can make jokes or use sarcasm except for reddit, amiriteguys?

EbonicPlague · 3 months

One stupid comment and m1asma loses ALL faith in humanity.

Slight over reaction maybe?

walkertexasharanguer · 3 months

And yet, my faith in Smart-Asses has been restored.

GregLoire · 3 months

This submission didn't make me lose faith in humanity, but it did make me lose a little faith in Reddit. Why are you guys so dense to non-Redditors making jokes?

kdanger · 3 months

Upvotes for The Region!

siegtheheart · 3 months

Is it wrong that I got really excited when I saw a newspaper article from my home town on reddit?

Bistai949 · 3 months

It's called a joke dude.

hanamichitensai · 3 months

clearly the best solution

the_boat · 3 months

Man, Redditors really gain and lose their faith in humanity at the drop of a hat.

BloodyThorn · 3 months

If this is what pushed your faith in humanity over the edge, you don't sound like you had much to begin with. I find that sad.

SocialistRabbit · 3 months

It doesn't take very much for Redditors to lose their faith in humanity.

[deleted] · 3 months

For those who can't read it because it's too blurry:

Move the deer crossing to

where there's less traffic

A lot of deer get hit by cars west

of Crown Point on U.S. 231. There

are too many cars to have the deer

crossing here. The deer cross-

ing sign needs to be moved to a

road with less traffic. - TIM ABBOTT,

CROWN POINT

scuby22 · 3 months

It could be worse...

metalmike187 · 3 months

I lose faith in humanity too. Wherever I see an old repost on the front page.

nodimereson · 3 months

I'll tell the deer. Those guys need to pick better routes.

[deleted] · 3 months

Where I live that's a joke most 8-year-olds make. The show name "are you dumber than a third-grader" springs to mind, although there's a also big possibility that the letter writer was joking.

hollywoodh17 · 3 months

Surprisingly Relevant r/shittyaskscience thread

themightypierre · 3 months

That's quite the over reaction you got there sonny.

DemonSquirrel · 3 months

Pretty funny tbf

getoutofheretaffer · 3 months

I'm ashamed to say that it took me a few seconds to realize what's wrong with this.

bfogarty27 · 3 months

This has been done so many damn times

justforrazors · 3 months

When I read things like this, I almost always have this strong urge to downvote. I then remember that the author isn't the complete idiot.

plainOldFool · 3 months

Fucking inconsiderate deer. They also should get a fucking job and pay taxes like the rest of us to pay for these stupid deer crossings.

Dmixta · 3 months

We could just get rid of them all together...

qu4d · 3 months

This joke is like 50 years old. Stop having faith in editors for printing over-used sarcasm.

Ozzymandias · 3 months

Ahh, Speakouts...

wheresbridge · 3 months

i actually think this must be a joke, actually a pretty good one

Thecardinal74 · 3 months

I remember after a not-too-clean electrocution in Florida's electric chair back in the 90's some dolt wrote a letter to the editor demanding executions be halted until the "electric chair passes rigorous safety tests"

...

irob1776 · 3 months

I love the fact that the paper decided to print this.

bumzo · 3 months

mfw reading this

Jessereddit · 3 months

He is very stupid, Oh deer...

irok30278 · 3 months

lolwut?

wateristasty · 3 months

You can't tell that's a joke? What's wrong with you?

FinalGearheart · 3 months

God, Crownpoint? I live near there and I am not surprised by this.

thebootlegsaint · 3 months

You may think this is funny...but one time I was at the Grand Canyon and was leaving one of the vista parking areas. A deer walked right up to the road and stopped. I stopped my car and without thinking, waved the deer across the road. The deer walked across. I continued on. /true story.

MOVE THE SIGN, SAVE THE DEER.

YellowTacoTiel · 3 months

Fucking morons.

[deleted] · 3 months

kjgk,jgsgd

WHA

IntlMysteryMan · 3 months

I had to read it twice. I just don't speak stupid well enough to have gotten thus at first glance.

MannerShark · 3 months

At first I was like, wth, they can move a road crossing for the deer, but I didn't realize your deer crossing is just a sign.

Drail · 3 months

This is from the Blue Collar comedy group. He's copying a joke.

what_have_i_done · 3 months

If they built a crosswalk for the deer then they wouldn't get hit, problem solved!

p0zz · 3 months

Great comedy is when you are not really sure wether they are joking

wemptronics · 3 months

Isn't Tim Abbot an old pseudonym?

TheJanks · 3 months

I'd like to imagine this guy is trolling, and also wrote about how much water would be available for summers if we abolished daylight savings.

deadite101 · 3 months

NM? Sounds about right...

[deleted] · 3 months

Was this in Indiana?

DrinkingCoconut · 3 months

I was like 'what? I don't get i....OH DEER LORD'

..pun intended.

Saintlame · 3 months

Mr. Tim Abbot, you sir, are a moron.

TheRadnessQueen · 3 months

Well you may have lost faith in humanity but I live by these people. Northwest Indiana FTF

RaiseYourGlass · 3 months

I see you have a Nokia Lumia 900...

stevesonaplane · 3 months

Smells like a joke. I licked my monitor and it tasted like one too.

GetHighr · 3 months

I'm pretty sure he is just messing around, but if he isn't than he's an idiot.

dbalilti · 3 months

I dont want to live on this planet anymore

billy__ · 3 months

The only yank to understand sarcasm meets a redditor who doesn't.

workin_da_bone · 3 months

I'm going to assume Tim is an amateur troll and a tool, just like the subster.

ninjaface · 3 months

I live near this area. The fact that this is written semi-intelligibly is the more surprising than the content. This guy is probably writing this with the arm growing out of his head.

shizzy1427 · 3 months

I shudder to think that I am of the same species as this man.

Xenc · 3 months

At least he's thinking about the safety of the deers.

funny

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