FOX11Online.com’s Top 5 in 2009
2009: A Look Back

* Reporter: Scott A. Hurley

We posted more than 11,000 news stories on fox11online.com in 2009. Most of them are seen by a few hundred people in Northeast Wisconsin, but a few caught the eye of people all over the nation – and the world.

The fifth-most-popular, according to the company Omniture, which tracks traffic to our site: A story about the city of Oshkosh hiring sharpshooters to hunt deer in the city. As part of an agreement with CNN.com, it was linked on that site. It recorded 36,006 page views.

Number four?

Well, that one had a bit of an “adult” theme. It was a story about adult film star Ron Jeremy speaking at UW-Oshkosh. CNN.com picked it up, and so did Fark.com – a Web site devoted to strange, weird or funny news. It got 36,053 page views.

In this edition of “Things Ron Jeremy is More Important Than…”, we are addressing a very interesting comparison.

Oshgosh, Wisconsin recently had a growing deer problem. The population had found it’s way inside of the city limits, and was causing problems on roadways. The town council had exhausted every humane alternative to making their final decision, but sharpshooters seemed to be the only way to begin solving the problem.

Oshgosh approved the use of sharpshooters inside city limits to kill deer. If this situation hasn’t sunk in properly, picture large mammals roaming your street at night and being sniped dead at your door step. Children witnessing the opening scene from “Bambi” first hand with a front row seat over and over again.

Ron Jeremy visits the town and simply speaks. No guns, no wildlife, no death, and certainly no combination of the three. Yet, once again Ron generates 47 more hits for the win.

Ron Jeremy is more important than the mass public killing of mammals.