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Deer.PNGVideo: Not your usual club run hazard - cyclists in Spain rescue drowning deer
This isn’t something you’d typically come across on a club run; footage posted to Twitter shows the moment a group of cyclists stopped mid-ride to rescue a deer that was drowning in a pool of water inside a ruined building in Southern Spain.
The video shows the riders pulling the animal to safety by its antlers and, once it gets enough purchase to get out of the water, it runs off.
The tweet reads: “A round of applause for these cyclists who rescued a deer from drowning in Huesca, Granada.”
Y el ciervo ni da las gracias, ni se paga unas míseras cervezas. Ya no quedan ciervos educados y corteses como los de antes...
(Bravo por los rescatadores, bromas aparte).— José Mari Bailo (@JoseMariBailo) September 21, 2019
Replying to that tweet, Twitter user José Mari Bailo said: “And the deer doesn’t say thank you, not does it buy a few miserly beers. There are no longer any polite or courteous deer like there were before.”
That comment elicited a reply highlighting this tweet, which translates (roughly) as “Good day, Mr Deer.” “Same to you, Mr Human.”
Perdona? Como que no quedan ciervos educados? https://t.co/ZsNNqx4WuL
— Fran (@Gamulios) September 21, 2019
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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Health and safety training with seasonal refreshers should be mandatory for all deer. Where was its risk analysis?
It was probaby two deer.
Doe! That was a cheap pun, you need to buck your ideas up.
That reminds me of a story I heard about a native american chief that had three wives. He'd managed to get them all pregnant andwhen the first one gave birth to a boy, the chief was so happy that he built his wife a teepee made out of deer skin. A few days later, his second wife gave birth and again the chief was elated, so he made her a teepee out of antelope skin. When the third wife gave birth, the chief was over the moon. He spent ages constructing a two-storey teepee for her made exclusively out of hippo hide.
When the rest of his tribe saw the three teepees, they questioned why the third teepee was so much bigger and the chief answered: "The value of the squaw of the hippopotamus is equal to the sons of the squaws of the other two hides."
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Doe! That was a cheap pun, you need to buck your ideas up.
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STAGgeringly bad jokes
Doe! That was a cheap pun, you need to buck your ideas up.
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STAGgeringly bad jokes
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It was a spoor of the moment thing
There is no conclusive proof of animal drownings in manmade excavations. Holes in the ground are a natural phenomenon and there is no point in filling this one in when there are whole oceans full of naturally occuring water.
David Attenborough would have filmed it,commentatored on it then watch it die and blame it on climate change ....
Honestly... what is wrong with you?
Well done them. I'd have pushed one of those walls down and filled the pool with rocks so it can't happen again.