Watch the next Judge Judy... her expression is

By the way isn't that against the law...??

Some people are really scary...

I love Judge Judy...
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There is a huge deer over population problem in our area. In NY State people are allowed to keep the deer if they accidentally kill one .If you don't keep it, the police will donate it to the food banks.
I haven't hit one yet but a lot of people do. The deer can be 40 feet rom the road and in a few bounds jump right out in front of you. Lots of people never see it coming.

Is it bad that I have no problem with this. I mean, why let it go to waste? People hunt deer.....

Hey, at least she didn't screw it and then eat it. (asssuming it was a guy deer)



This wasn't WI was it?
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Man,
if got eaten by every woman that ever hit me,
there would be none of me left.
That is,
other than a huge smile.

shellyevon said:

Growing up in Ohio, if you hit a deer you have to call the highway patrol. They put the deer down if its not already dead and have a list of people who eat venison who come and get it.

How do I know this, just lets say my freshman homecoming date never liked me again.

Also what I learned on that fateful night was, that if you see a deer turn off your headlights, they seem to be attracted to the glow.

I think it's great that she didn't let the resource go to waste

my brother in law served venison last New Year's Eve along with a huge feast of steak, shrimp, scallops, lots of great stuff. To my surprise the deer meat (in a homemade marinade) blew everything else away. I actually asked if they had extra steaks packed away in the freezer!

lazycrockett said:

Sorry bout your experience, I would hate hitting one, even more if it didn't die right away.
I lived in western PA for a while with my older brother and his wife. Driving in the Alleghany mountains we always had to be on the lookout for deer, and they had herds of elk too. Would not want to hit that with a small car. .You could be stranded for hours before anyone found you.
Now I'm in western NY now and we have more deer in the urban areas than there were in the forest. We see them everywhere. I even saw one walking up the main street in front of our post office, in broad daylight.

I can't kill anything.... except for the occassional roach... but to kill something and then eat it... it's not appetizing (at least to me)

My husband is a deer hunter (I hate that). He said it is against the law to pick up the roadkill and take them home. It does not mean people don't do it. Just if you are caught you need to cough up the fines and penalties.

pplrain said:

I'm in WNY and the police give you the deer. Perhaps it goes by county and not state? You do have to report the accident but you have to do that for your insurance anyway. You can't just go driving around with a deer tied to your car.
I don't eat venison so would donate the deer if I hit one.
We have many herds of urban deer, no one is allowed to hunt them because too many people live in the area, they occasionally talk about letting the police go bow hunting but it's always voted down. There's been a lot of construction and no where for the deer to go so they live in the fields besides the highways.and railroads. We also have a lot of other urban wildlife, skunks, possums, foxes and coyotes around here.

noimageatall said:

WTF?? How can some people even complain over this - if it's dead eat it if you want. It's a whole lot better than throwing it on a dump and letting it rot.

That animals are attracted to headlights simply isn't true. They react in a similar fashion to a lot of percieved threats, by freezing. If they "go invisible" maybe the threat will go away. Animals don't have the capacity to realise that a moving car is WAY deadlier than another animal, for example.

It is illegal here... but I'm sure that varies.

LMAO! not cause its really funny.but i was teasing someone about a kinda-sorta similar situation that happend to them.

and.....

I hit a partridge the other day - it was kinda mangled, I felt bad that i could at LEAST eat it.

CarrieMpls said:

True. Redneck/Backwoods law applies in certain states and counties. Roadkill would equal good eats to some.
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to be honest there isnt anything wrong with this as long as she didnt drive at the deer on purpose lol

though you have to be careful with them apparently incase they are full of disease or something personally i wouldnt risk it

recently in the uk we have had a couple of programmes where they talked to people who ate roadkill and this one guy was making squirrel ravioli all i could think of was superfunkycalifrajisexy and the squirrelmeat in that

Volitan said:

Not at all, I feel the the same.. If it's dead it's dead, so why not eat it?

And I do love a really good rich flavoured venison steak..