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- From: egreen@East.Sun.COM (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Deer Whistles
- Message-ID: <1k46veINN1n6@seven-up.East.Sun.COM>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:29:34 GMT
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- This subject has been discussed at length in rec.motorcycles.
-
- The general concensus is that they are useless in actually avoiding
- deer. The highway patrol of some rural deer infested state ran a
- multi-year study of them, mounting them on half their cars. Deer
- accident data were identical between the whistle equiped and
- whistleless cars.
-
- One netter's logic was, "My test of what *works* is what you see on
- beat-up old pickup trucks out in the boon docks. Beat up old pickups
- out in the boon docks don't have deer whistles on them, only sedans
- from the city have deer whistles." Make of that what you will... :^)
-
- Personal testimony, of course, is highly questionable. "I put them on
- my car, and I haven't been hit by a deer yet," is hardly a confirmation
- of their effectiveness.
-
- OTOH, they almost certainly do not *attract* deer, so you have nothing
- to lose but the $5 (and possibly the respect of beat up old pickup
- truck drivers).
-
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- Ed Green, former Ninjaite |I was drinking last night with a biker,
- Ed.Green@East.Sun.COM |and I showed him a picture of you. I said,
- DoD #0111 (919)460-8302 |"Go on, get to know her, you'll like her!"
- (The Grateful Dead) --> |It seemed like the least I could do...
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