Off Topic-I saw the damnest thing this morning

TTinCO · Aug 8, 2005

Spent the weekend at Lake McConaghy (a massive lake in western Nebraska with nicer white sand than Cancun).

About 100 yards down the beach\shoreline, a young deer is coming down to the lake for a drink. After getting a couple of sips of water, the deer walks out into the lake.....and continues until the point that he's swimming.

Keep in mind, this baby is about 2 miles across where we were. This thing isn't just swimming, he's really moving-and in a beeline for the opposing shore.

I guess it's actually quite common-but it never occured to me that a deer could POSSIBLY swim with their skinny legs & feet that aren't exactly the best for swimming.

We were in total shock watching it......that it was a suicide mission for sure. I've never seen anything like it before in my life!!

That's my "WTF?" story for the weekend :toast:

randyrohm · Aug 8, 2005

I would say most wild animals are great swimmers, evolution ensures that trait should continue.

CoachCB · Aug 8, 2005

Have you ever seen "My Cousin Vinny"??

Marisa Touma (sp?), says (when Vinny is getting ready to go hunting), "...imagine you're a deara (w/ a NY accent)."

BAGIANT · Aug 8, 2005

But does it have nicer beaches than the Cayman Islands?

rugby · Aug 8, 2005

Marisa Tomei in the movie, The Slums of Beverly Hills, what a great rack when she's getting out of the shower.

EverFresh · Aug 8, 2005

How is this incident relevant to a website devoted to sports betting and sports betting related topics?

Journeyman · Aug 8, 2005

So you're saying the deer had no chance of surviving?

That would have flipped me out too...are you sure he was committing suicide though?

ElIguana · Aug 8, 2005

That is interesting, TTinCo. I've never heard of a deer swimming that far. How long did you watch him go? Imagine you're waterskiing at 25 m.p.h. in the middle of the lake and your boat hits a.....deer?

I did see on some nature show years ago that most animals' natural forms of locomotion also works in the water for them. (Picture a dog walking/swimming, a snake, even an elephant!) Humans are one of the only aberrations from that since we walk upright, we have to learn a new and somewhat "unnatural" technique for swimming.

A downside of evolution, I guess. We have opposable thumbs and invented the TV, but we have to flop around ineffeciently to swim.

Tulsa · Aug 8, 2005

Of course it wasn't committing suicide, but that would be a LONG swim for anything. That is very strange. I know that deer can swim fairly well, but two miles of swimming....? Wow. tulsa