In a dramatic operation, firefighters rescued a deer stranded on the ice at the Cambridge Reservoir in Waltham Friday afternoon, but the animal was in such poor condition that it later had to be euthanized.
Helicopter video footage shot by television stations showed two rescuers struggling to grab the stranded deer, an adult female that they had reached in an ice rescue sled. The crew worked for more than 15 minutes to secure the animal, covering its head with a bag and tying its legs. The deer shook the bag off several times as it tried to thrash free.
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Good job. Now some yahoo will shoot it tomorrow.
Was this deer euthanized in deer season? We spend resources to save a deer that its legal to hunt down and kill anyway? Why all of a sudden a concern about deer rights? Whats next cow rights? chicken rights? We eat the cows and the chickens and we shoot the deer and cut of his head and put it in our living room. Please no more sories aboutt he poor deers.
We also execute people (when they have been bad enough) so per your "logic" we should not care about when any of them are killed?
If we killed all species who were in "poor condition" we'd have to kill about 10% of the workforce every Friday evening. I always thought that when a being was in "poor condition" that's when you treated it so that its condition could improve.
No, richstan. The deer is already dead. That is what euthanized means. Lte's hope the meat went to a local soup kitchen or maybe the FD took it to their kitchen. They deserve it.
I was thinking up until today that the Globe was improving. This story with 4 color photos on the front page?????? This is top news????? And another color photo with the story? I'm sorry, this could have been a paragraph note somewhere but not a major story. I am more concerned that "more than a dozen firefighters and other officials" were assembled for this caper and we had the media circling in a helicopter. Society's priorities are out of kilter here. This was not a child. It was a deer that got euthanized after potentially thousands of dollars worth of fuss. And they found another deer dead on the ice. The story had a globe photographer, and at least 3 staff worked on the story. Just shocking that this took so much of the paper, the fire departments, etc.