Making maps kills baby animals!
Ok, they are claiming the frightened yet adorable faun fawn didn’t die.
A car making images for Google Map’s Street View wacked a faun fawn in upstate New York.
…As some people have noticed, one of our Street View cars hit a deer while driving on a rural road in upstate New York. Due to several user requests using the “Report a concern” tool, these images are no longer available in Street View.
The driver was understandably upset, and promptly stopped to alert the local police and the Street View team at Google. The deer was able to move and had left the area by the time the police arrived. The police explained to our driver that, sadly, this was not an uncommon occurrence in the region.
No word yet if the faun fawn has contacted a lawyer.
Via The Daily What.
Making Maps: DIY Cartography 
You mean, I think, a fawn. A faun is a mythical woods sprite. If you run over one of them in upstate New York, please contact John Crowley.
Yes, on closer inspection it is a fawn and not a faun. I must have been thinking of Bliss Carman’s famed poem, “The Dead Faun:”
Who hath done this thing? What wonder is this that lies
On the green earth so still under purple skies,
Like a hyacinth shaft the careless mower has cut
And thought of no more?
jk
All those cameras.. and people STILL say “I didn’t see that deer coming” ;)
I love John Crowley. His Aegypt was amazing. Not as good as Philip Pullman tho’.
I feel terrible about this accident and that sad image. Oh, the poor fawn!
And yet I’m trying so hard not to laugh out loud in the cafe that I have tears in my eyes.
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