VERY EXPENSIVE

.....OR "DEAD DEER"

It is estimated that in the UK there are up to 74000 Deer Vehicle Collisions (DVCs) a year, and between the years 2000 and 2005, there were 20 people killed and 134 seriously injured.

Police in Dorset have confirmed that they had received reports of poachers placing jam sandwiches on a road near Tolpuddle. The occasional sausage roll and a mince pie have also been left at the spot at dusk.

Local people claim the poachers lie low until an unsuspecting deer is lured on to the road and knocked over by a passing vehicle. They then dash out and cart the carcass off to be turned into venison steaks and added to game pies.



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