Yet Another Deer Kills An Iowan: This Time A Policeman

From the Des Moines Register:

A 10-year veteran of the Des Moines Police Department was killed Sunday morning in a traffic accident while driving into the city to catch a plane to New Mexico for anti-terrorism training.

Senior Police Officer Sean Wissink, 35, died from the mishap that took place at about 3:30 a.m. Sunday when he lost control of the city-owned sport utility vehicle he was driving on Iowa Highway 141 one mile north of Grimes.

Investigators believe he swerved to avoid a deer, causing the vehicle to collide into a guard rail and roll several times down a steep embankment.

Wissink was driving from his home in Granger to Des Moines International Airport.

An off-duty Windsor Heights Police Officer was first at the scene and called for assistance.

Wissink, who was wearing a seat belt, was flown by helicopter to Iowa Methodist Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

Wissink, who lived in Granger with his wife, son and daughter ages 9 and 12, was a member of the MetroStar tactical unit. He and five other MetroStar officers were scheduled to fly out of Des Moines International Airport at 6:30 a.m. for weapons of mass destruction training.

The trip was cancelled following news of the accident.

What were those words by former Iowa DNR head asshole Jeff Vonk? "When you shoot them, they are our [The State of Iowa's] deer, but when you hit them with your car, they are your deer"

And what are the idiots at the Iowa Deer-N-R doing to combat the population? They want to spend $300 to $1000 a deer every two years to shoot anywhere from 350,000 to 600,000 deer with contraceptives.

Iowa needs to have an open season on deer. Get the population down below 1980-era levels, which was estimated at around 55,000 then.

Before that takes place, we need to purge every moron from the Iowa DNR who is against reducing the population of deer to reasonable levels.

This was a death that should have been avoided if the Iowa DNR had been managing the deer population rather than mismanaging it by allowing it to become out of control.

Sure, state officials say that if you can't stop in time that you should just hit the deer. They don't weigh that much and insurance takes care of most expenses (even if that asshole Jeff Vonk won't). But when you're driving at 3:30 in the morning at highway speeds and see something running across the road immediately in front of you, the natural reaction would be to try to avoid it.