Neo Kaiser wrote:Are deers edible? Are they endangered species protected by law?
Deer are rather tasty and quite abundant. In fact, I think it's hunting season right now.
In most states, if you hit a deer with your car (and it doesn't walk away), you get to keep it if you want it.
Well and good except for two things: 1) you probably have to buy a "deer tag" which is basically another annoying tax, required especially if you want a butcher to do the dirty work. 2) It depends on the condition of the deer, considering that all meat bruised by the impact is inedible.
But yeah, it's sometimes the only consolation prize in an otherwise ugly situation.
I hit a deer when I was 17, about 8 years ago. Was a half mile from home after work, driving past my uncles house and I never saw it until it was on the road, didn't even have time to brake. I drove a minivan then, smashed it pretty good, but it was old, the amount of fixing it received was an off color spare door and fender and some bondo that never got painted.
It will happen again. I live in a very rural area, and the drive home from my girlfriend's is about 25 miles along a remote area of highway. I see deer all the time, looking at me as I drive past, but as was already mentioned, the animals are fucking stupid, and sooner or later one is going to bolt too late to make it. And I drive a 2004 Impala now, one that is nice enough that I am going to be pissed if it gets smashed up.
My dad was walking back from a neighbor's house earlier this week and unknowingly snuck up on one. So close were they, that when my dad and the deer jumped, my dad almost hit it with his flashlight.
Earlier this week, one was standing not 10 yards away watching us unload purchases from a car. It seems that they're oddly not frieghtened by humans this year.
Ah, the world-famous flat deer. One day, scientists will finally stop being so blind and classify it in the same genus as the infamous Virginia flat squirrel.