Clearly the same media market. I mean, who would even think to put deer parts in mailboxes? He'd had to hear it somewhere before.
Yup, and I am not sure that this is some kind of common prank in the boonies. I have been through about half of a search of "deer head mailbox" on google and have yet to find a similar incident. That's the only one so far*, and it just happened to occur in his media market right before he started floating this story, which was shortly after the other principal conviently died.
I don't care that he has M.D. after his name, this is just too much coincidence when you factor in his political leanings and anti-tobacco activism.
* There was one other incident where someone broke a fake ornamental deer on someone's lawn and put the parts in the mailbox. Hardly the same.