MOUNT LEBANON, Pa. — Mount Lebanon’s effort to make roads safer by thinning out the local deer herd has been scrapped because of problems ranging from ineffective bullets to vandalism.
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Officials announced the action on the municipal website Friday.
According to Channel 11's news exchange partners at TribLIVE, officials agreed to pay a contractor $500 a head in the hope of culling 150 deer to reduce the number of vehicle collisions.
However, since the program started March 10, only six deer had been captured and euthanized.
Documents that TribLIVE obtained through a Right-to-Know request revealed that the contractor initially used quieter, subsonic bullets slower than the speed of sound. But it took 11 bullets to kill three deer. Vandals also damaged some equipment and weather conditions were not ideal.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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