Actually, that would be legal here in TN. Seriously. They had a case in Murfreesboro where they caught a guy having sex with a horse, and had to charge him with animal cruelty because there was no law against bestiality. So if they were banging a dead deer…
That’s not entirely true. Laying on the ground, probably not, but depending on the weather (under 40F or thereabouts) it’s not at all unusal to leave a deer hanging up outside for a day or a week. It would be field dressed and the scent glands removed before, and skinned at some point in that week.
Well, it’s been up in the 60s during the day for the past few days, so Bambi was probably pretty ripe.
Gallatin gelatin?
You missed one helluva Christmas card cover opportunity. I would have been down there so fast with a Santa hat and enthusiastic “thumbs up” sign.
Ohhhh…that’s okay. 
What I still wonder about, though, is how it got there. Did the neighbors bring it back and leave it there? This is the MIDDLE of Nashville; where could it have COME from? I guess it’s not quite as weird as finding a dead deer in the middle of midtown Manhattan, but still…
Ha! One afternoon a few winters ago, my mother looked out into the backyard of her Milwaukee home and saw four does in the lilac bushes. Recently a deer almost collided with a vehicle she was in a few blocks from her house. And just within the last few days, a friend’s car struck and killed a faun.
Don’t s’pose they asked the horse if s/he thought it was cruel, huh?
“Neeighh, officer. I wouldn’t say it was cruel. Did you see that guy’s wanker? I wasn’t exactly planning on lighting up a smoke afterward.”
Easily explained. 
Mr. Hotshot, or let’s say Hotshot Jr, takes a gun out and gets a deer. The Hotshot family has no tradition of hunting, and Jr grew up watching TV, and expects the scene to cut from “Bang!” to a tasty dinner.
So by the time Jr has finished dragging the carcass to the car, and from the car to the yard, he feels he has already done more work than he expected, and tells Mrs. Hotshot that he wants venison steak for dinner tonight. Mrs. Hotshot just says butchering is men’s work, and goes on doing what she’s doing.
Young Hotshot isn’t going to listen to what a woman tells him. So after that the deer just lies there till the stink and flies motivate someone sufficiently…Did the deer disappear on garbage pickup day, by any chance?
Show the deer to the kids and explain to them that due to an undiagnosed reindeer epidemic Santa won’t be coming this year.
I’m down in Indiana, not Wisconsin, but our local airport has a deer vs. airplane incident about every 2 years. Given the cost of repairs to the airplane you should be able to keep what’s left of the deer because for sure you won’t be able to afford prime rib for awhile.
I don’t see what would be so unusual about a deer in metro Nashville. We have had deer trapped in a parking garage in the middle of downtown Cleveland.
And as someone else mentioned, it could have been shot and travelled quite a ways from its usual territory.
I have no useful advice for dealing with a dead deer in the yard but I can’t pass up the chance to post a link to the infamous Deer in Elk tale.
Errr, that should read DOGS in Elk… :smack:
You’d be surprised how much widlife can exist in the big city. There was a coyote captured right on Michigan Avenue in Chicago (The Magnificent Mile) in 1999, and it wasn’t an escaped pet or zoo animal, it was a wild coyote.
http://chicagowildernessmag.org/issues/winter2001/wiley.html
Be glad your friend did that in Wisconsin, and not in Greece. Pan might just come back to avenge that one.
And a razzberry to Greywolf73 for beating me to posting a link to Dogs in Elk. 
Was Benny Hinn nearby? Things today can only arise from the dead if Benny Hinn enacts a miracle - usually with a decent donation preceeding the miracle. He said he raised a woman (3 days dead I think) from the dead in Africa. Doing a deer should be easy.
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Maybe it’s considered to be an accident involving a deer (or a “Buck” to be more exact) whenever some point guard gets in a fender bender?
Nahhh. The wings are too crunchy, and they’re really hard to skin.
My uncle once threw a deer’d head on his garage because he wanted the antlers. So,we stayed away from is house for several months. His neighbors oddly enough, didn’t complain. I suspecy it was because he was their drinking buddy and also a plumber who did stuff for free,