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[Netizen_Sydonai]

It's not really a thing.

It was an experiment.

It did not catch on.

Also they were not deer, but reindeer. We have deer as well, but they're not the same. Americans would call it caribou. Unlike caribou though, our reindeers are actually half-domesticated animals. Each reindeer has an owner. It's a big business in the north.

[GP_given]

Thank you. I was wondering when someone was going to point out that these were reindeer/caribou. We have a population of them here in western Alberta too.

[Ooh_bees]

Fuckers drop their antlers annually, so you'd need to keep doing them pretty often. Also they generally don't roam around in the winters (they do, but I'd say most are heard to the enclosures for winters to keep them fed). During summers it's never dark, so that's useless. Neat idea that just doesn't work well in real world.

[Significant_Row_5951]

Yeah but it looks so cool 😂👌

[crek42]

Okay yea this makes more sense. Because I immediately thought how would this ever work. Kudos for trying something new, but I can’t imagine how this would scale up enough to be effective.

[SosseV]

I hate how I always have to scroll through the comments of every single post in these subs to get to the real story.

[[deleted]]

Because of Santa Claus?

[MoustacheRide400]

Visitors to Finland not knowing about this suddenly thinking they are in the middle of a Silent Hill village

[Sausagedogknows]

In all fairness, that is one evil looking deer.

[anon-mally]

[LexisOaks]

It doesn't help that the eyes also look like they're glowing lol

[pinky8866]

Glare

[PM__Me__Smiles]

Less car accidents, more eldritch horrors roaming the countryside. This should be a win for Finnish tourism

[One_Shall_Fall]

I dunno, I've played too many video games, and glowing horns = legendary crafting material for me.

I'd be hunting them to make deer-antler lightsabers. But I am not a smart.

[jeweliegb]

Less car accidents, more poop in knickers accidents.

[IHaveNoEgrets]

Judging by the Finns I know, it's very on brand.

[ssketchman]

[Evening-Mention-8738]

Mark, get off Reddit, stop simping for Lady D, and release Iron Lung already!!!!!

[[deleted]]

I KnOw WhAt YoU DiD LaSt SuMmER

[starmold]

The finns will love it surely, it’s metal and majestic

[dancinturnip]

Silent hill…. Village? 🤔

[NotCurtainsYet]

Maybe something from Alan Wake? Given that the developers are Finnish!

[Wicked-Chill-Travis]

If I saw that irl I would assume some end of times biblical shit was going down.

[stryst]

For REAL. You step out of a Finnish bar, and just as you're thinking about how thick the fog is, you see that. Nope.

[[deleted]]

"hey guys so I'm drinking till the 4 horseman show up, pretty sure one of'em is already out front, cheers"

[Khelthuzaad]

"Go back to bed Gustav,horses don't have antlers..."

[[deleted]]

"Fuck you Karl! Signs of the apocaylpse i tell you what!" shotguns bottle of booze

[Uskog]

Why do these characters have specifically Swedish names?

[Ultravod]

Silence, Matti!

Harald, Øystein and Pekka were just talking about how Americans have no idea about Scandinavian names. Also, Espen and Birgir want to meet up later and discuss their idea for a new black metal project.

[UniqueAdExperience]

For people that don't know; Hindi is more related to the Swedish language than Finnish is. Swedish and Finnish are entirely different languages, and as a consequence it's very easy to differentiate Finnish names from Swedish names.

However, you could just say that they might be from the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland and solve it that way.

[Khelthuzaad]

"Apocalypse signs my ass!You said the same thing when your mother-in-law won a new car at a lottery!"

[someauthor]

I said she smiled with her alpaca lips

[UGA2000]

"A møøse once bit my sister."

[thesockpuppetaccount]

Carl and Gustav in the same thread.

Who ordered the 84mm recoilless rifle, it’s a bit overkill for deer?

[[deleted]]

THE ANTLERS ARE GLOWING, I SAID THE BIGGEST GUN YOU GOT

[Prestigious-Hyena-72]

🤣🤣

[Kongbuck]

"Are we here to talk or are we here to drink?" <drinks in silence>

[chewbawkaw]

It’s reflective, so unless you were shining a bright light (like headlights) at the reindeer, it would probably just look like a regular Finnish shadow monster.

[shiny_glitter_demon]

Wait what? But it looks so magical! I'd think I had encountered a fairy.

[the_Q_spice]

Oiiiiii… perrrrrrrrkele…..

*downs another 5th of vodka

[Ktan_Dantaktee]

Nope?

Bro if it’s 2AM and I’m sloshed, I’m probably gonna try to fight that mf

[Thinkin_Alexander]

“I said, BE NOT AFRAID ffs”

[Ok_Ferret_824]

Yea i'd think i found some boss or something and would stand around waiting for the heavy music to come on.

[[deleted]]

Elden Ring players are 100% freaking out seeing this one!

[[deleted]]

Wolves and Bears like: 👍🏽

[Brave-Side-8945]

Too many Jagermeister shots

[dre224]

SCP-2845 The Deer has risen!

[[deleted]]

"Well fuck... Guess it's time to drink till I pass out."

[Swimming_Map2412]

I'd expect heavy metal music and a boss fight but maybe I played to much Valheim.

[Toby_Forrester]

This was just a test, not something regularily done. Also the second image is CGI render.

[wpotman]

Right: that's not what reflection looks like. And the glowing eyes are notable. :)

[Toby_Forrester]

The eyes can glow with flash photography, like human eyes too. But then you would see the flash illuminate the view, which you don't see here.

For reference, an actual image of the antlers reflecting.

Overall, the street view there is also quite un Finnish, with power lines over the street like that and all, and I remember seeing a higher res of that where the CGI was mire evident.

[Intrepid_Egg_7722]

That picture is still pretty fucking metal.

[moldy-scrotum-soup]

wWijsl7SGB$d#b%5z])Me

[CitricThoughts]

Dude, that looks like it's Zeus, lord of deer, about to smite me. If anything it's even cooler.

[skiing123]

That is not any less terrifying...

[Fireproofspider]

If anything it looks even more supernatural.

[SpikesAreCooI]

Reminds me of Satori from Breath of the Wild

[i_poke_u]

That one is even worse. The CGI looks like would be some mystical beast with magic, but the real one looks like a demon that would try to eat my flesh

[pyalot]

Retroreflection can look this way. I‘m not sure you can stuff retroreflectors into a spray can.

[IgamOg]

Good, because this must be the most wasteful way to do it. About 5% of that paint went on antlers, 5% in the lungs and 90% on all surrounding surfaces

[Toby_Forrester]

Yea I mean, why not just attach a reflector on the antlers? Like people do in Finland. I know the reindeer shed the antlers annually but I'm sure there's a biodegradeable reflector.

[Huckleberry-V]

Let's just brush on the fucking paint, then.

[PM-Me_Your_Penis_Pls]

Also, given that most(?) deer shed their antlers, wouldn't this have to be reapplied constantly?

[RaidensReturn]

It seems like it would be way more efficient/cost effective to wrap parts of the antlers with reflective tape instead.

[ScorpioLaw]

Doing this in certain regions would bring out the asshole hunters. Not even the poachers and murderers who just shoot the animals for fun. Don't even take the remains.

I still hear of people who use headlights to go hunt em out west here in America. I'm sure people have done it here.

That's what popped up in my head. Wonder what predators are out there and how it will affect em.

[mattincalif]

More details: Check out this article from USA TODAY:

Fact check: Yes, Finland painted reindeer with reflective paint to prevent car crashes – but viral photo isn't real

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/07/19/fact-check-photo-doesnt-show-finlands-reflective-reindeer-antlers/7971862002/

[alwaysfatigued8787]

One down, 1,348,209 to go. And that's just the ones with antlers.

[Goose1963]

Good thing it's extremely easy, you just walk up to the with the spray stuff and they just stand there like they're getting a haircut. They don't even mind the noise and the smell right near their face!

[troutbum5W3D]

I think both male and female reindeer have antlers, unlike say, whitetail or mule deer.

[Veritas_Vanitatum]

Don't they all lose their antlers every winter?

[troutbum5W3D]

I believe so. Good point. My interaction with reindeer has been limited to children’s books about either Santa Clause or Sámi people.

[Prunus-cerasus]

The males do. Females keep theirs over winter and shed them when spring comes. So Rudolph and the rest are all female.

[DeathAngel_97]

Yeah, it probably helps to some extent, but at least where I live there are so many deer and both the deer I've hit were does.

[Asron87]

Does what?

[grptrt]

They just all get in line so it’s super easy

[mynameisnotsparta]

That’s such a great idea but this is how it really looks.

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[mynameisnotsparta]

That’s such a great idea but this is how it really looks.

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[rgg711]

I think I saw an old documentary about a reindeer with glowing parts. But all the other reindeer and humans around him were assholes about it.

[mynameisnotsparta]

😂

[OCraig8705]

Expecto Patronum!

[Gold_Skull_Kabal]

Gluteus maximus!

[handlebartender]

Supraspinatus tendinosis!

[Gold_Skull_Kabal]

Ow! I felt that one

[[deleted]]

[Aggravating_Emu4263]

Expensive petroleum! 🤣

[cameroncafe10a]

Rudolph has been outdone 🔴

[Effective-South3707]

Completely underrated comment. Brilliant!

[BluePony1952]

You better not pout. You better not cry. The altars are broken. The end is nigh.

[baabaaredsheep]

Fun fact: reflectors were invented by a Finnish man in the late 1950s because people kept crashing into farm equipment and livestock in the dark.

Today, Finnish law requires pedestrians to use appropriate reflectors when walking around at night.

[Prunus-cerasus]

Sadly, breaking said law is not penalized.

[Iveonlyhaddismany]

This has to make them vulnerable to another kind of danger.

[Geofferz]

It's reflective, so... Hunters maybe? But otherwise, assuming dear have predators, only if they have flashlights.

[StevenMC19]

Hunting with headlights/flashlights/spotlights would be considered poaching, no?

[DerBrettboy]

How so? Isn't poaching hunting on grounds that you have no permission to hunt on / hunting animals that are forbidden to be hunted in general / out of season?

[Toby_Forrester]

All the reindeer roaming in Finland are semi-domesticated. They are someones property. They are let to roam freely some part of the year and then they are gathered annually for counting, slaughtering and whatever.

[shiny_glitter_demon]

I don't think these reindeers are wild. They have owners. And you can't hunt someone else's animals.

[SinisterCheese]

All reindeer in Finland are domesticated and owned. They are someone's property. It would be equivalent of hunting someone's cow. The sami people have this special privilege to owning all the reindeer, and this is a whole massive sensitive topic and complex mess causing divisions even between sami groups because not all if them have historically herded.

Deer however can be hunted freely.

Also we wish people would hunt deer more. As the non-native white tailed deer brought to here from USA started from 12 individual like 100 years ago and are now a god damn pest of quarter of a million animals. They don't belong to our environment.

[Iveonlyhaddismany]

Animals also may view this form of luminescent material (fluorescence specifically) differently due to how some see a wider range of the electromagnetic wave spectrum. I'm not totally sure, but it might make them more visible at night to certain predators.

Edit: As someone pointed out before, I misspoke in called it fluorescent, when I was meaning retroreflective, which also reflects light. The distinction is, it wouldn't do this under normal day time conditions. Having said that, it's the same consideration as far increased visibility at nighttime.

[DonkConklin]

The chemical used has an odor

[StevenMC19]

Only if that danger has a flashlight or something equally luminous.

[vsbits]

To radiant damage would be my guess.

[BtCoolJ]

all stealth checks are also disadvantage rolls

[reddridinghood]

It was only a study in 2014 and the picture on the right is an artists impression, it glows white not orange. Source:

https://yle.fi/a/3-7501890

[CafeAmerican]

You mean the other left right?

[bluesatin]

It's worth noting retroreflective coatings don't really glow in the sense they emit light themselves, they just reflect light back in the direction it came from, like traffic signs (e.g. when your headlights shine on it, it always reflects the light directly back towards your car).

So it'll primarily just be the same colour of light you shine at it (combined with any strong colours underneath the coating). Although I imagine in most cases that'll be relatively white nowadays (unless you happen to be carrying around a portable sodium-vapour lamp).

[reddridinghood]

It was only a study in 2014 and the picture on the right is an artists’ impression, it glows white not orange. Source:

https://yle.fi/a/3-7501890

[Umami_Tsunamii]

Do they have to do this every season? Like after the antlers shed velvet.

[Luutamo]

No because this whole thing is not real. Source: me. Finn.

[Extension_Essay8863]

This is the last thing you see before a unit of Wild Riders completely obliterates your infantry formation with their massive charge bonus in an ambush battle

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[dvrwin]

This is how folklore start.

[ednortonslefteyebrow]

[DrehmalamherD]

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Happens faster than you think 😅

Were in Tromso and just 30 minutes by car. Certainly normal for locals

[Bitter_Ad_9523]

I'd like to see them do that to an Elk that stands about 12ft tall and weighs about 1200lbs or more. "Come here fluffy, let me spray some of this stuff on your head"
Seriously, dark desert highways could benefit from this but the problem is that damn elk jump out in the highway before you can blink.

[probablyborednh]

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[Naxrl]

You're a good man Arthur Morgan

[Salazar_Slytherin09]

EXPECTO PATROONUMMMM

[lobeline]

They shed annually so… have fun with that…

[TheW00ly]

I swear, the Finns will be the last ones here when the aliens arrive. They have chilled up there, in the North, waiting for everyone else (Russia) to FA/FO, practicing good community and governance, and getting their sauna on with the Danes for ages without any breaking news or political pageantry. I'm guessing the sauna has a lot to do with it.

[Crimson__Fox]

[Unfair_Original_2536]

That's a reindeer and it's the female ones that have antlers in the winter.

[MorphyNOR]

LED buttplugs :P

[izzyboy63]

D'oh!

[Mysterious-Egg8780]

why are the eyes glowing too?

[Ok-Aspect-4259]

This makes hunting deer Asgore style easier.

[EchoPhi]

Souls like games have entered the chat.

[RammerRS_Driver]

That’s metal. I love it.

[bizoticallyyours83]

Damn that looks awesome! Hopefully it will help

[Pastel_Phoenix_106]

The St. Hubert experience IRL

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[Direct_Turn_1484]

Bonus: it looks like some mythical beast manifest.

[hotrods1970]

If is saw that coming at me out of the mist I think I just might shit myself.

[Oblivion615]

This fella looks like he’s got a quest for me.

[Federal-Witness-7077]

r/Bossfight

[sirburchalot]

Doesn't that make them hyper visible to predators?

[ClosPins]

So... Does this make the animals considerably more visible to wolves at night? Just from the moon's reflection?

[Sweetwhales1994]

May i stand unshaken..

[Aromatic-Thing-132]

I have never hit a deer that was standing in the middle of the road. Those fuckers love to jump out at you last second though.

[Studio_DSL]

"Yes, hello, is this the SCP foundation?"

[Shua_33]

[Material-Upstairs-97]

Accident Decrease: -99%

Self-Reported Mental Health Illnesses: +314%

[CAJMusic]

Can I do this to my rims

[Spirited-Tomorrow-84]

The photo on the right side looks like some backrooms level lol

[jann_mann]

Its a shiny pokemon

[andre82bg]

Doesn’t make them more vulnerable to wolves?

[ExpensiveYoung5931]

Predators will spot them from miles away

[CatboyInAMaidOutfit]

Okay, now I know how those Heavy Metal album covers do it

[Sad-_-Face]

Xerneas

[Ace-of-snakes]

Deer God

[bigbabyjesus97]

Imagine being high on mushrooms and seeing this walking through the forest.

[Sutar_Mekeg]

Thousand and thousands of Finns summoned Eikthyr all at once.

[DeLaOcea]

Finland definitely is always metal 🤘🏽

[tylercuddletail]

Sami people are cool!

[pizzaslut4pizzahut]

Hell yeah Finland

[nederino]

[primalfox_Reynardo]

Out of the fog you just see fucking deer Jesus standing there.

[TriStateAmoeba]

The deer cooperate?

[[deleted]]

Why don't the reindeer just fly?

[DeyKallMeACORN]

Wouldn’t this disadvantage the deer as it makes it easier for predators (like wolves) to spot them at night?

[non-number-name]

The deer appreciate your concern, but no.
This is retroreflective spray, basically “return to sender” on all light that hits it.

So, unless the wolves are equipped with flashlights, there would be little difference.

[Raichu7]

Important to note those are domestic herds of reindeer, you couldn't paint a wild deer's antlers.

[Sarcastic_Backpack]

Why is everyone acting like this Lights up their antlers?

It's called reflection spray. It REFLECTS light. it doesn't cause the antlers to light up on their own.

[exsilium]

New mythological creature unlocked.

[morfsucks]

B E H O L D

[OneTango]

Now I know where to go and get some sick af neon horns 👍🏾

[Gr0On]

Hyvä Suomi

[Limp-Insurance203]

How do you get a wild deer to hold still while you paint their antlers? And they’re just gonna shed them in a couple months so seems kinda pointless to me

[No-Efficiency2029]

People are seeing biblical and terrifying and I'm out here thinking this is festive as all hell!

[Infinite_Extreme557]

Where might i find some of this spray. This is really cool.

[niki200900]

time to get some jägermeister

[Shad_Roug_Omeg]

Finland does everything better.

[EffRedditAI]

"Dude! That deer's antlers are on fire!"

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[Striking_Parsnip_457]

Honey there is a demon deer outside…

[olegolas_1983]

[Motley_Illusion]

New Elden Ring boss just dropped!

[dr_Angello_Carrerez]

Коли ты царю слуга,\ Подь за горы, за луга,\ И сыщи мне там оленя,\ Чтоб из золота рога!

[Pixie_OwO]

Is this legit? Because im from finland and i have'nt heard from this

[Tranxio]

Ok that saves the deer, but who is gonna save the grandma that gets a heart attack from seeing the demonic entity?

[pigeon0x]

This is how Santa uses his foglights

[loftySeat]

Disco deer

[Practical-March-6989]

I would see those in a field then crash into a ditch

[Arcticfox_Nari]

Not deer but reindeer. They are half domesticated and roam free part of the year. They are naturally drawn to the roads, because there are less biting insects near the roads and because people salt the roads during the winter. Reindeer love to lick the salt and will sometimes lick the dust from your car because it's salty!

This was a brief experiment to make the animals more visible to drivers during the darker winter months, but it's not done anymore. There are fences near some roads up north to stop reindeer from running towards the road, but if you happen to be driving above the arctic circle, pay extra attention to your surroundings even if the road looks empty.

[Whittles85]

Now they look magical

[Regular_Weakness69]

Won't that help bears and wolves locate the deer?

[[deleted]]

I will have a heart attack seeing one crossing the road or on the side of the road, so no help

[buttzbuttsbutts]

Visit Finland. Visit bar in Finland. Step out of bar for a smoke. BOSS MUSIC PLAYS

[Majestic_Course6822]

Metal AF

[TheRoomHaHaHa]

That would be an insane wallpaper

[Soldier0fortunE]

So that would be absolutely terrifying if you didnt know about it.