Posted on 11/17/2006 1:48:28 PM PST by Zakeet
A Minnesota man is charged with having his way with a deer, but he claims it was just venison, the Superior Daily Telegram reports:
Bryan James Hathaway, 20, of Superior faces a misdemeanor charge of sexual gratification with an animal. He is accused of having sex with a dead deer he saw beside Stinson Avenue on Oct. 11.
A motion filed last week by his attorney, public defender Fredric Anderson, argued that because the deer was dead, it was not considered an animal and the charge should be dismissed.
The Smoking Gun has Hathaway's mug shot and a copy of the complaint, which states:
Defining animal to include carcasses would lead to absurd results. At what point of decompose would the carcass cease being an animal? Would picked-over skeletal remains still meet the definition? At death, an animal ceases to be an animal. As Billy Crystal noted in The Princess Bride (1987), "There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead."
The Telegram quotes Judge Michael Lucci, who is considering the motion: "I’m a little surprised this issue hasn’t been tackled before in another case." Yeah, we're sure this sort of thing comes up all the time up there.
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Looks like a Mexican to me, but what do I know?
Okay, that one made me laugh out loud.
Just because his parents wouldn't let him ride the Merry Go Round.
If you are correct....that of course would explain it.....Jose and the boys don't turn anything down... except ole dead deer...they turn them face down!!
The deer must have asked for it by walking across the road and getting hit.[sarc]
As Billy Crystal noted in The Princess Bride (1987), "There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead."
Are there rocks ahead? If there all we'll all be dead.
ping
Yuck! With a goat, one could understand, but with a deer?!
Lol! The lawyer has a point though. Laws against sex with animals weren't passed because it was sick, they were passed because it's considered cruel to the animals (it wasn't made illegal in most of the US until animal rights protesters began pushing the issue in the 1970's...prior to that, people having sex with animals were just tossed into the funny farm). If the animal was dead, the lawyer can make the case that the law doesn't apply since no suffering was involved.
There's still public indecency charges that can be lobbed against the guy, and a smart prosecutor would tack them on now, but he'll probably walk on the other charge.
And I have to admit that I don't get the thinking of those who think he needs jailtime. Prison serves two purposes, isolating dangerous people from society, and punishing them to discourage such behavior in the future. If this guys fetish is for dead animals, he really isn't a danger to society, he's just wierd. It also indicates that he's got mental issues, which a prison stay isn't going to cure.
No, what this boy needs is a long stay in a padded room.
Dollars to donuts, this sicko was going for a dying quiver.
"I'll have the venison."
I wonder if that's called zoonecrophilia? What a weirdo!
I have to admit, I've never heard of anyone having a penchant for sex with dead animals. ICK!
susie
More like j f'n carrie lookin for some doe!!!!
Well his doe is spelled tareeeeza!!!
Personally, I find the pastrami to be the most sensual of all the salted cured meats.
I didn't know that there's a law against bestiality. Not that I'm condoning such action, but how are we going to actually enforce the law? I think law against indecency in public is enough...
I'll drink to that!
Actually, it may be wise from a public health standpoint to have laws against beastiality. Remember where they assume AIDS came from.
susie
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