I know you see them on the bumpers of lots of Maine State Police cruisers. I
don't know how effective they find them.

John Flaherty
Portland, Maine
'84 GL with no oil pressure

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Arbaugh" <sneakers@OZ.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 7:27 PM
Subject: Re: Deer Strike & Stories

> Steve: I read somewhere that the California Highway Patrol did a study on
> these gizmo's. After two years of use, their deer strikes were down some
> major percentage. It's been too many years since I read the article and
> can't remember the exact figure, but it was  substantial (I wanna say
> greater than 50%). So I figured, they were small enough to be unnoticed,
> can't hurt the fuel mileage that much, and if it help keep the deer away
> from my front, all the better. I'll try to find the source of my vague
> memory in the next few days...
>
> Steve
> '85 westy
> kent, wa
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf Of
> Steve Hoge
> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 3:08 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Deer Strike & Stories
>
> Anybody tried those whistler-type anti-deer devices that go on your front
> bumper?  Once you get beyond a certain speed there's supposedly a
> high-pitched whistling sound that scares deer away.
>
> Truth or (sub-)Urban myth?
>
> -Steve
>