Deer are leaping to their deaths off this Pennsylvania bypass in Johnsonburg PA This is a creepy story.. Julie Padasak also reached out to the state and regional game commissions, which pointed her to the DOT. Padasak said she feels this could impact the hunting season in the region. “All of them are does, and that could have been how many more deer are populating,” she said. “If they wouldn’t have died, they are the mothers to carry the baby deer.” With the warming weather, Padasak fears the bodies will start to stink. “But they’re literally jumping to death,” she said. “And that, to me, looking at them, it’s disturbing.”