Oh deer: Former City Hall official takes on “Terminator” buck
Kuehling
As as a top official in Vince Schoemehl’s administration at City Hall in the late 1980s and early 1990s, former St. Louis public safety director Bill Kuehling tackled train derailments, earthquake drills, jail overcrowding and big city crime.
Now, as an alderman in the posh suburban hamlet of Town and County, he’s facing a different kind of threat: the “Terminator” deer.
As written in today’s paper – by, who else, reporter Stephen Deere — the west St. Louis County municipality is struggling with an exploding deer population. The problem came to head earlier this month when a 10-point buck wandered into a Home Depot that had a deer mannequin displayed in the window.
The so-called Terminator buck withstood two pistol shots before being taken down by an assault rifle. Now, Kuehling — head of Town and Country’s Deer Task Force — is considering a controlled hunt or even sterlizing some deers.
Though those steps might help prevent another big buck from breaching a shopping center, it strikes some residents as inhumane.
“They might as well rename it ‘Town and Carnage,’” one resident quipped to Deere.
Must be a slow news day!!
Jake… with all the relevant news available, why run a story that is years old?
Town & Country Deer Debate