Like a deer in the headlights

Coordination between different layers and levels of government can be fraught with difficulty. In New Jersey, the county and state governments are in a tussle over dead deer.

Via the 13th Floor (a blog on US state and local government):

Local governments always complain about states passing responsibilities (and costs) down to them. But this takes the cake.

NJ Guv Jon Corzine is proposing to have cities and counties scrape dead deer off their own roads. Apparently, about two-thirds of the 21,000 deer that get whacked by cars each year in NJ are on local roads. Shifting clean-up duty from the state DOT [Department of Transportation] to the local public works departments will apparently save the state $734,000.