[wardaddy]

What a sad example of poor law enforcment, I have mercy killed maybe a dozen animals in my life on roads....including two deer in Nashville.

[mnehring]

A quick shot to the head and the officer could have had a lot of venison.

[wardaddy]

I have forgotten how to post gannett and if I screwed up can sidebar please fix it.

Interesting story.....brings up a nice Crash the movie hodgepodge of cultural shifts and friction.

Cop shoulda shot the deer...done his job. Last buck I mercy killed on Tyne Blvd here I was told by the cops to shoot it.

[skepsel]

Well, my dad hit a horse on dark foggy night in ‘65 and the trooper (Michigan State Police) tried to put it down. After 3 rounds through the muzzle my Dad said let me do it ya f****** moron. The trooper gave Dad his piece and he finished the poor creature with one round between the eyes. Guess the cop was too spooked to do it right, horse was thrashing, blood and innards all over the road, ironically the car was a Mustang.

[BallyBill]

Remember back a couple years wondering why an officer used his shotgun to dispatch a crazy dog. Shotgun didn’t need a full report. Rifle or pistol was more paperwork.

[peeps36]

What would you expect the police to do if you had a big black bear in your yard? My neighborhood is populated by many families with small children and there’s no forest around for miles. The bear was limping and looked injured but the officers refused to remove it from the area. This bear is about 250 pounds and it came right out of the hedges while my wife was cleaning the pool. I know I’m not comfortable letting my children play outside with an injured black bear roaming the neighborhood.

[South40]

Roadkill rules!

[Beagle8U]

There are about 50-60 thousand deer killed by cars every year in Michigan and most of those just rot along the roads.

Anyone that wants them can call the cops for a free permit to pick them up.

Most times the cops will just tell you to take the deer and they mail you the permit.

Its illegal to leave the scene without the police report if you hit one but over 50% are never reported. They only count those reported.

[LegendHasIt]

Police around here dispatch on average two injured deer a day. I don’t know what kind of paperwork they have to fill out, but it probably isn’t too egregious. Our PD is a pretty cool and sensible bunch overall.

I just wish they’d make announcement on their vehicle PA system when they are going to do it. No telling how many times I grabbed a firearm to defend myself because I thought the neighborhood was under attack.

[Popocatapetl]

I heard about in one State with an overabundance of deer, and thus an open hunting season, somebody came up with a brilliant idea.

A lot of hunters shoot a deer, but either don’t want the meat or just want a steak or two, so abandon the carcass. Well, an organization that provided food for the poor set up a program, so that if they don’t want much of the carcass, they can make a cell phone call, and a refrigerated truck will pick it up. And if they want, they can still get their steak or two first.

This proved to be a godsend, as it provides a lot of good quality venison for the poor, really cutting a lot of this organization’s expenses, plus they made extra money by selling the hide, used for services to help the poor get out of poverty.

A big time win-win.

[StarCMC]

That’s ridiculous. We had an officer put one down about 2 doors down from us on a busy residential street. There’s no excuse for this behavior.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

Years ago a friend of mine tackled an injured doe in the walled off construction median of I-40 in the Durham area and killed it with a Swiss Army knife. Gutted it, packed it full of ice and took it home in the back of his work truck.

[LIConFem]

I saw a CT State Trooper put down an injured deer on Rt. 8, just north of Danbury. The poor think had been struck by a pickup, and its front legs appeared to be shattered. It was a sad sight, but the officer did the right thing.

I know a lot of people who hunt, and none would want to put an animal through that kind of agony. Why this officer didn't do the right thing is a mystery to me.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

Years ago an old friend of mine tackled and slit an injured doe’s throat with a swiss army knife. It had injured itself jumping over the concrete barriers in a highway construction zone.