Billionaire Clive Palmer’s sex-crazed deer are running rampant in Merrimac

HERDS of feral, sex-crazed deer are terrorising Merrimac residents and jumping in front of cars collecting children after school.

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HERDS of feral, sex-crazed deer are terrorising Merrimac residents and jumping in front of cars picking up school children.

The deer are living on an abandoned block of land on Boowaggan Rd owned by billionaire Clive Palmer and are escaping through broken fences to wreak havoc on the nearby community.

Gold Coast City Council officers have been forced to kill multiple deer which have escaped in recent months and are monitoring several parcels of land home to the creatures.

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Merrimac resident Allan Tierney was driving past Mr Palmer’s property last week when a panicked deer pranced in front of his car, forcing him to screech to a stop.

“He was very scared and panicked running all over the place,” he said.

“I finally got it to run back near a hole in the fence and it got through and raced off into the paddock to the other deer.

Clive Palmer. Picture: Kym Smith

“Several times cars came round the corner and nearly hit it.

“There were little kids playing in the park opposite, parents were yelling to try to get the deer off the road.

“What a mess if a car collected the deer right in front of the kids watching, or even more frighting, if the car tried to avoid the deer and went off the road into the kids’ playground.

“Council have to do something and there is a council depot right beside them.”

Mr Palmer purchased the land in 2010 and has submitted a development application to the council recently in a bid to transform it into a mini-city.

His plans include eight 30-storey towers at his nearby golf course and across the land now home to the deer.

The former Avica resort on Gooding Drive will be transformed into Green Heart Gardens, a project that will include 5000 residential dwellings.

However, the land is now sitting vacant until council approves the mega-development and the deer which live there have been allowed to breed out-of-control.

A council spokeswoman said it was up to Mr Palmer to keep the deer population in check.

“City of Gold Coast receives complaints about wild deer from time to time and has recently received some complaints in the Merrimac area,” she said.

“At this time of year we tend to receive a spike in reports as it is breeding season.

“Animal management officers are currently monitoring a number of parcels of land where deer have been spotted and have removed a number of animals found on council land.

“Deer on private property is the responsibility of the owner to contain.

“If the animal is a pest animal on their property, it is up to the owner to manage and remove.”

The State Government declined to comment, saying it was a council issue.

Mr Palmer did not return calls from the Gold Coast Bulletin.