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 Friday’s Key Deer AntlerMax post was the best and most cogent observation and common-sense post on the Key Deer survival perhaps I have ever seen – ever.The Key Deer are in big danger – don’t believe that statement is open for any discussion nor argument. The AntlerMax poster has some really valid arguments, solutions and suggestions to resolve or at least somewhat help improve this issue. How can those of us who call BPK home help with the mess that has become the sustainability and mismanagement of the Key Deer? I no longer live on BPK but I do remember that you, Deer Ed was the night watchman at the KW Aquarium in the 70s. You have been here longer than all of us – Could the CT become the forum for thoughts, ideas and suggestions to save our Key Deer? I truly hope so – 60K CT readers – that should be more than enough to make a difference. (Editor: Save Our Key Deer organization on Big Pine offered to donate a six-figure amount to fund and run a rehab/refuge facility that would serve to rehab Key deer and an area for non-releasable Key deer to be seen and interacted by visitors similar to the Turtle Hospital in Marathon. Unbelievably to us –at the time– we were rebuffed.” If they don’t think of it, it doesn’t get considered.) |
| The worst thing you could do is sell deer food to tourists. Then they would actively search out deer to feed them and that is not what we need here. (Editor: The poster suggested only selling food at Refuge HQ like the Turtle Hospital does in Marathon in order to support the refuge. Selling deer food in the Refuge has been prohibited for many years.) |
 I’ve read this web site so many times, even I dress left now! |
| [Your Honor, My Client Is A Moron] A Dalton, New Hampshire, man is in custody after stealing a rescue truck and using it to ram into a fire engine while firefighters battled his own house fire. Nestor Roman II, 30, not only hit the fire engine, which sustained significant damage, but also ran over water supply lines, crashed into a personal vehicle, knocked over nearby fences and narrowly missed three firefighters before ending his wrecking spree by crashing into a nearby property and attempting to steal items off the porch. No one was injured, and firefighters were able to continue using the hoses to work on the fire. The house, however, ended up being a total loss, and Roman is charged with multiple counts of reckless conduct, theft, burglary and resisting arrest. |
 Happy Labor Day. Every day is labor day in the delivery room |
| [ICE And Their Operations] Every illegal immigrant they get rid of is less money we are paying in taxes and another American job that is saved. |
 [How to Get Rid of Flying Ants] Flying ants are normal ants with wings. While this seems pretty cool, the fact that these pests can fly is definitely not if you’re dealing with an infestation. Spotting an ant here or there isn’t usually a problem, but seeing them constantly in your home or backyard is. Luckily, there are ways you can deter and kill these flying insects. Keep reading to learn how to kill flying insects in your home on the spot or find their nest and take them down at the source. Link |
| [Unhappy] With all the kids, dogs, cats, fences and other degrading garbage that has ruined the Keys, I got to get the xxxx out of here! |
 Deer Editor, I’m curious as to why my request for someone to ask our new supervisor of elections if Trump lost the 2020 election was not posted.(Editor: Sorry, I didn’t see it or understand the writing. You can ask her yourself at Link) |
| [illegal Cubans] Aristides Fernandez Garcia is among a group of Cubans captured by ICE, held at Alligator Alcatraz, then shipped across the Atlantic Ocean to a country he had never heard of before—the Central African Republic, a nation so dangerous that the U.S. State Department warns against travel there. Does this make sense? Does anything ICE does make sense? |
 How much salmon can Alaska’s brown bears eat per day from July-September? 120 pounds. The beefy bears of Brooks Falls can eat upwards of 120 pounds of salmon per day. An adult male bear can go from roughly 700 pounds when the season begins to over 1,200 pounds by the fall. |
| [Deer Killed at Bend in US1] Save Our Key Deer has repeatedly requested speed humps at county road hotspots where deer strikes are common. Mayor Lincoln states that the county does not want to install any more speed humps. US-1 is managed by the state. We have repeatedly requested transverse rumble strips and radar speed limit signs at both the north and south entry areas of Big Pine Key, specifically at Sea Center and St. Peter Church—the two main deer kill areas. (No speed humps of any kind are allowed on US-1.) Despite submitting requests, proposals, and attending meetings, nothing ever changes. This has been very time-consuming and frustrating. |
 [How To] Watermelon sling. Brilliant, if only I could remember how to do it. Video |
| [Scam of the Week] Making hotel reservations just got trickier. Best is to only make reservations directly with the destination, never with any “help” sites or travel agencies. There is always some scum trying to make an easy buck. Video |
 Over 10,000 endangered mountain yellow-legged frogs are taking California by storm. The San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance recently reintroduced the amphibians in Bluff Lake. Link |
| Fox News fired Maria Bartiromo and her show, Mornings with Maria. The reported reason is that she allegedly shared confidential Fox News coverage guidance with the White House. Another reported that she went against FOX’s guidelines by sharing Trump’s delusions on air. |
 The U.S. will control of more than 65 billion barrels of proven oil reserves in Venezuela, “at no cost to the American Taxpayer.” Trump contends that this will lead immediately to low gas prices.Except, of course, that it won’t. Behind the boast lies a murky arrangement that leaves us with a host of unanswered questions. Venezuela’s oil infrastructure is in disrepair — who will restore the nation’s actual capacity to extract and refine oil? Who will pay for it? Will Venezuelans ever see a Bolivar of oil money? |
| A new soft robot does not stop curling up and jumping. A team of mechanical engineers from North Carolina State University say that they’ve created the bracelet-shaped bot that moves indefinitely when it’s exposed to infrared light. Called a Ring Leaper, the teardrop-shaped machine is made of a liquid crystal elastomer ring with a more rigid aluminum V-shaped tail at the end. The ribbony-soft part contracts and tightens when exposed to the light. It keeps curling in, getting tighter and tighter (and building up more energy) until it reaches a “critical threshold” and folds onto the metal part. At that point, the V-shaped aluminum aggressively snaps downward, smacking the ground and launching the robot forward or into the air. Video |
| [Captain Doom and Gloom Returns] You have to realize who really runs this world. It’s not us people or even the rich, it’s the self-made gods who run the banks and the water works. Think about it! Without the banks or water works, we are all dead or back in the primordial years, scrounging for bits of eatables and caves to live it! The banks and waterworks are guarded by the religious drones and their military guards. We the People are just here to grow fodder for those in charge of this rock and their self-indulgences! It will never change until the human species disappears! Then the ants will take over and do the same thing!
So, how to live in this make-believe outpost in nowhere space? Get whatever you can out of it anyway you think is the right way to get your share. You only go around once! |
 [Music] Oasis recordings up for auction despite band’s objections. Guide price of archive documenting concerts, rehearsals, soundchecks and conversations between £1.2m and £1.6m |
| [Loser] “I resigned and couldn’t find a job. I lived with family, lost my storage unit, and relied on government assistance” Link Disregarding race, religion, sex, and everything else, these “pitty me” people, will not put on a pair of work gloves and get down in the dirt like most of us do to feed ourselves. So why should I pity them when they want the easy life sucking money and producing nothing of real value or stealing it from the rest of us via welfare and BS charities. Enough of these useless eaters. If they can’t find work draft them and that will teach them that sweat and toil work better than unemployment lines |
 [AI Backlash] LibreOffice, the popular free alternative to Microsoft’s Office 365, breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features. Link |
| Things we learned from the Elon Musk film. Alex Gibney’s marathon documentary delivers numerous eye-raising insights into the broligarch’s business deals, early idealism and apocalyptic appetite for fathering children. Link |
 [Dirty Hands] Ecologist and nature-health researcher at the Finnish Environment Institute, asked people to rub their hands with soil, peat and moss for 20 seconds as part of an experiment. She found that the abundance and variety of microbes on their skin increased, even after they rinsed their hands with tap water. “To the naked eye their hands looked clean,” she says, “but the change was so huge”. The idea of more bacteria on our skin might not sound appealing. But when there’s a rich mix of microbes living alongside each other, they keep each other in check and defend us against more harmful, pathogenic bacteria. Link |
 [Every building in LA County] One box per building standing today, appearing in the year it was built. What was torn down along the way isn’t here, so this is the surviving county, not the county as it was. 1880 to 2026. |
 Tasmanian tiger skull shows it was different than any living mammal. Hunters wiped out thylacines, commonly known as Tasmanian tigers, in Australia nearly a century ago. But a myth about these shy, semi-nocturnal predators may have been behind the species’ extinction. Link |
 [The Feather Atlas] U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Forensics Laboratory. Help to identify feathers you have found. Link |
| The current Coconut Telegraph was published on 9/8/26 at 10:44 am. |
 [For Sale] Pellet Gun Gamo Swarm Maxxim 10X GEN 2 Multi-Shot Air Rifle. Two 10-round .177 clips. 3 x 9 variable scope. Box of pellets. $200 new. Half price used $100. b33043@outlook.com Video |
 [For Sale] Folding scaffold 30L x 12w x 20h. 4 scaffolds (not sold separately) New $200, Big Pine Key pick-up half-price: $100. Excellent condition.b33043@outlook.com Link |
 [For Sale] Crossman P1377 American Classic Variable-Pump .177-Caliber Pellet Air Pistol. New $70. For Sale $25. 800 feet per second. Pick up on Big Pine Key. b33043@outlook.com Video |
| Snapshots taken from Big Pine Key looking North between Annette Key and Mayo Key every Friday evening since 2023. You may hover to view a photo, see the date of the photo, or use the left or right arrows on the images. |
