Is it really that bad....?

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They are talking about freshly killed deer, not raccoons that were ran over a week ago. There has been a "deer list" for a very long time in many places. This isn't something new.
 
Not really that weird, we are talking about deer. Lots of good meat on that. Not really any different then going out and shooting it yourself. You either don't know any hunters or never been hunting.
 
This isn't half rotted carcuses that are being consumed. When a report is called in about a road killed deer the Missouri Department of Conservation is called out to issue a death certificate for the animal. These call lists are then utilized so anyone wanting fresh venison can get to the venison.
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this 'news' is economic doomer entertainment -- I'd imagine people have been getting their freshly roadkilled meats through these services for a long time.
but.

Is it really that bad....?
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it's pretty bad. some people/places more than others.
related:

To urban hunter, next meal is scampering by | detnews.com | The Detroit News

"Coon or rabbit. God put them there to eat. When men get hold of animals he blows them up and then he blows up. Fill 'em so full of chemicals and steroids it ruins the people. It makes them sick. Like the pigs on the farm. They's 3 months old and weighing 400 pounds. They's all blowed up. And the chil'ren who eat it, they's all blowed up. Don't make no sense."
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Hunting is prohibited within Detroit city limits and Beasley insists he does not do so. Still, he says that life in the city has gone so retrograde that he could easily feed himself with the wildlife in his backyard, which abuts an old cement factory.

He procures the coons with the help of the hound dogs who chase the animal up a tree, where Beasley harvests them with a .22 caliber rifle. A true outdoorsman, Beasley refuses to disclose his hunting grounds.

"This city is going back to the wild," he says. "That's bad for people but that's good for me. I can catch wild rabbit and pheasant and coon in my backyard."
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...this is easily the least 'is it really that bad' thing in detroit right now though.

bad is this man:
Life goes on around body found frozen in vacant Detroit warehouse | detnews.com | The Detroit News

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This city has not always been a gentle place, but a series of events over the past few, frigid days causes one to wonder how cold the collective heart has grown.

It starts with a phone call made by a man who said his friend found a dead body in the elevator shaft of an abandoned building on the city's west side.
"He's encased in ice, except his legs, which are sticking out like Popsicle sticks," the caller phoned to tell this reporter.

"Why didn't your friend call the police?"

"He was trespassing and didn't want to get in trouble," the caller replied. As it happens, the caller's friend is an urban explorer who gets thrills rummaging through and photographing the ruins of Detroit. It turns out that this explorer last week was playing hockey with a group of other explorers on the frozen waters that had collected in the basement of the building.

None of the men called the police, the explorer said.
They, in fact, continued their hockey game.

There are at least 19,000 homeless people in Detroit, by some estimates.
Put another way, more than 1 in 50 people here are homeless.

The human problem is so bad, and the beds so few, that some shelters in the city provide only a chair.
The chair is yours as long as you sit in it.
Once you leave, the chair is reassigned.

Thousands of down-on-their-luck adults do nothing more with their day than clutch onto a chair.
This passes for normal in some quarters of the city.
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homelessness is bad. but if you want 'is it really this bad':

bad, is this apathetic and unproductive bullshit happening in a city where more than 87,000 homes are vacant.
that's more than four times the amount of homeless people.

Can Detroit be Reinvented? | Planetizen
By almost any measure, Detroit is in deep trouble. Unemployment has risen above 20 per cent, the city's government is more than $300-million (U.S.) in debt, there are 87,000 vacant homes and one study recently reported that about 30 per cent of the city is now vacant land.
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so yeah.
it's pretty bad.

or are you talking about the vaguely defined idea of what shape our economy's in?
because the talking heads on TV tell me that's getting better.
 
xmcp123 said:
Detroit doesn't get left behind.
Detroit purposely stays back so it can attack from behind without you noticing.
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When I was 19 I used to go to parties in Detroit. I remember telling everyone that the city was turning around, that things were so much better then than they were in the 80s.

A decade later and nothing has improved and I'm more and more convinced some people in Detroit like it that way.
 
yeah its pretty bad.. just yesterday momma cooked up our neighbor's cat after she accidently ran him over :( chewy, but hey, it's better than nothing.
 
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