[TSSUNAMI]

This is mainly directed towards those who work for law enforcement, but any opinions are welcome.

Last night I was driving home at about 1 AM. I saw what looked like a huge dog sitting straight up in the middle of the road. (55mph heavily traveled road)

As I got closer I slowed to about 10 mph, (no traffic behind me) and saw that it was an injured doe. She wasn't mangled, but as I pulled closer I could see that she had been hit by a vehicle. She couldn't use her hind legs, and was sitting straight up in the road. I slowed almost to a stop, as I rolled by she struggled to crawl off of the road.

To the point. I pulled over, and notified local law enforcement. They said they'd get someone over since it was definitely a driving hazard.

Five minutes later I stop at a gas station nearbye to grab a few things, and there's two local officers, and a sherrif parked outside they're all congregated and joking with one another. I politely asked if I could interrupt them for a moment and let them know that there was a dangerous road condition. I wasn't even expecting them to rush out and do anything about it. I just didn't want one of them to hit the damn thing while they were out patrolling!

They had already been notified apparantly by their dispatcher. They seemed super annoyed by me saying "If you are patrolling route 5 towards Oneida be careful, there's an injured deer sitting right in the middle of the road.": One of them even kind of made fun of me. He said "We know, let me guess, you're the one that called? Why don't you go back and put it in the trunk of your car?"

Yeah dude. I'm going to jam a live deer into the trunk of my Camaro. I laughed it off and told them to be safe and have a good evening.


TLDR. Is calling in something like this a bullshit call that wastes their time? I'm pretty thick skinned, but the attitude kind of made me think that maybe I had wasted an officer's time. I legitimately thought that a dying deer, a large one at that, sitting in the middle of the road would be a serious hazard for travelers. Should I have just kept driving and not called? I'm not one to report every little thing I see, but I do report road hazards if I see them. (accidents, disabled vehicles, etc.)

Anyway.... opinions?