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: "Im a little surprised this issue hasnt 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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"Bryan James Hathaway" Yep that is a real Mexican sounding name.
The clintonian defense. It depends upon what your meaning of the word, "deer" is, dear.
Hey, if they love each other, they should get married...
male whitetails have antlers.
I thought whitetail does didn't have antlers.
It's like American Pie...but with a stake instead...a very large stake.
Thanks for the ping, BTW, got something working up around coldspring, will let you all know if it works out. Could be the start of sumptin wonderful. Might have us an FR range and compound.
Gotta love the mind of a lawyer ... "Your honor, my client is not into bestiality. He is simply an innocent necrophiliac."Classic. When a first time lawyer just out Harvard, my father's first -- and last -- venture into criminal defense ended when he said to the judge, "... and besides, your Honor, my client used a .38 not a .44..."
Keep me posted!
LOL!!!
Definitely. The original story is weird enough... but killing a horse to have sex with it? Very ominous.
Didn't his mother teach him not to play with his food?
In this case, I agree with PETA.
For some reason I thought of the Python "Parrot Sketch"
I thought the lawyer was going to claim that they were married.
Never tried a nice liverwurst ,huh.
This thread has me spitting coffee. LOL
It's Oh Deer, Oh, Oh, Oh, deer!
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