Hold your fire, Max!
Mayor Bill de Blasio panned Staten Island Rep. Max Rose’s plan to play Deer Hunter and cull the area’s antler population with his trusty shotgun.
“I’m not going to be able to take him up on his offer,” de Blasio said at an unrelated Brooklyn press conference Tuesday.
“I would urge the congressman to talk to the NYPD. They are very much opposed to hunting taking place in a borough with half a million people in close proximity to each other,” the mayor said.
Rose told the Staten Island Advance that he’d be the “first one out there” deer hunting if a cull program is approved.
“I’ll build a little hide for myself, I’ll go back to my glory days and I’ll start taking down some of these deer,” the Purple Heart Army veteran said.
De Blasio added Tuesday that he understands Staten Islanders want to be rid of the deer that cause car accidents and spread Lyme disease, but insists his administration’s sterilization approach is reducing the herd.
“It is the right way to go to get the job done and you know the last thing we want to do is risk human life with the wrong kind of approach.”