Elusive deer spotted wearing high-vis jacket in Canada: ‘Who is responsible?’

[Claira]

In a town of fewer than 1,000 people, it can be hard to keep a secret. And yet no one in McBride, a mountain community in British Columbia, can figure out how a local deer came to be wearing a zipped-up high-visibility jacket – or why the day-glo-clad cervid has been so hard to track down.

The mystery began on Sunday, when Andrea Arnold was driving along the snowy outskirts of McBride on Sunday and witnessed a sight so baffling she slowed her vehicle to a crawl. “I did more than a double take, to make sure I was seeing what I was seeing,” said Arnold, a reporter for the local newspaper, the Rocky Mountain Goat. Standing nonchalantly on the roadside was a mule deer clad in a high-visbility work jacket, its legs fit neatly through the arm holes and the zip firmly closed.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/27/deer-high-visibility-jacket-british-columbia

[glorybebe]

Ummm....well, it is BC, what else can I say? 🤣🤣.  

[+and-then]

Are Canadian deer that casual?   'cause I gotta say... southern deer would put up a fight if someone tried to dress them  

[Claira]

22 minutes ago, and-then said:

Are Canadian deer that casual?   'cause I gotta say... southern deer would put up a fight if someone tried to dress them  

Apparently, in this area of BC, deer venture into town because some locals feed them. This one may have felt comfortable enough with humans to allow someone to place the vest on it. Some are speculating it may have been done to protect the deer from getting struck by a vehicle, but the really sad thing is that the vest is a death trap. The deer will not survive if it's not removed.

[+Hammerclaw]

It'll be okay. Highly visible to oncoming traffic and will scare the bejesus out of predators. Someone probably raised a lost fawn and put that on it when it grew up and could fend for itself. I think the possibility of snagging is minimal.

[+and-then]

19 minutes ago, Hammerclaw said:

It'll be okay. Highly visible to oncoming traffic and will scare the bejesus out of predators. Someone probably raised a lost fawn and put that on it when it grew up and could fend for itself. I think the possibility of snagging is minimal.

That never occurred to me.  It makes more sense than that someone could have dressed a wild deer.  Sometimes, especially as I get older, grasping the most "obvious" doesn't come as easily  

[jethrofloyd]

It would be a good thing if bigfoots start wearing those jackets. To finally become visible.

[Wreck7]

It's about time deer took safety seriously.

[Gumball]

Safety first.

[simplybill]

It would be way cooler if it was wearing a hard hat too. 

🤗

[+OverSword]

Some drunken Canuck thinks he’s funny eh?