It doesn’t happen very often, but every once in a while, McBride, our tiny isolated village of about 600 people, makes international news. It happened one fall when an eery immense thick spider web covered a field and fences. Another time we made news when five snowmobilers were killed in an avalanche. We made national Canadian news more recently, because of the extreme drought we were experiencing that was threatening to leave the village without water.
This current international media explosion is because someone locally managed to put a high-vis jacket on a deer. Heaven knows that it would be a lot safer for drivers (and deer) if they were more visible when they venture out onto the highway, but I have yet to hear anything about who, why, or how the high-vis vest got onto the deer.
It has been very interesting to watch the spread of this unusual “news” story. Because we only have a weekly local newspaper, the story won’t be in there until later today. I first saw the story on Monday on the CBC website, which is national in Canada, then it started popping up in some international media sources. Several acquaintances have seen it in England’s The Guardian Newspaper site.
If you haven’t seen the story, here is the link to it on the CBC site:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/deer-high-vis-jacket-vest-mcbride-bc-1.7392483
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