or Santa Gets Side Swiped By a Reindeer
This is a reprint from one of my other blogs. I don’t know 
why I had to reprint it. It doesn’t have a thing to do with internet marketing. I suppose that I just needed to share it with more readers. As one who appreciates the impact of diminishing habitat, I feel sad that the wild critters are being pushed out of their homes.
This happened about a year ago…….
It’s a little known fact that I am a Santa Helper during the Festive Season of Christmas. I have my own web site, Santa Claus ATL.com and everything. I even have my own Plaxo Group, the The Southern Society of Santa.
Okay, enough horn tooting. You’d think that an upstanding Santa like 
me would get a little respect from the deer population. I’ve been driving car and sleigh for nigh on 52 years now and I’ve never had a run in with a deer. Well, last Sunday night that changed! I was tooling down my local country highway. I’d been to the local Wal-Mart for one reason or another. It was about 10pm give or take a few minutes. All of a sudden and out of nowhere something from the road disintegrates my side mirror and makes that horrible sick noise that comes from a car hitting something animal. YUKK!
me would get a little respect from the deer population. I’ve been driving car and sleigh for nigh on 52 years now and I’ve never had a run in with a deer. Well, last Sunday night that changed! I was tooling down my local country highway. I’d been to the local Wal-Mart for one reason or another. It was about 10pm give or take a few minutes. All of a sudden and out of nowhere something from the road disintegrates my side mirror and makes that horrible sick noise that comes from a car hitting something animal. YUKK! So, being the good citizen that I am, I call 911 and report the incident. Shortly a very nice Sheriff’s Lieutenant rolls up and surveys the situation. He says that I’ve been in contact with one of our local deer trying to cross the road. No blood, just hair and dents on the car. My side mirror was smashed into the driver’s window and that left a star pattern in the glass. I’m thanking the heavens that the animal didn’t decide to meet me head on. That would have totaled my little gray Scion.
Now it seems that deer accidents are becoming fairly common, according to the Sheriff. I do know that it’s hunting season here. If I was a deer I know that I’d be a little spooky. There’s also a lot of new construction in areas that were rural and wooded. It seems to me that most, if not all, of the construction is non-residential. Every one wants to put their business on the main road. Understandable, but what’s going to happen to the fauna that habituate those areas. That’s their living ground. The place where they eat, sleep, and procreate. So it seems that unless we do something to control commercial/residential growth, were going to be killing or maiming more of the game on the roads. Which costs us a bundle in damages. Insurance or not, we’re going to pay out of pocket one way or another; in more ways than one.
Thanks for the read.. Still trying to figure out why I needed to reprint this article.
Randy Wells
