As much as I appreciate the macho manliness of this guy, was calling Animal Control to tranquilize the animal and release it back into the wild not an option at any point?
Nope. Once it invaded the sanctity of the man’s home, it was venison.
Something I learned I believe in the “8 year old girl kills bear” thread is that they (Fish & Game) prefer not to use tranquilizing agents on animals that potentially may be harvested within a month’s time. Apparently any residuals might have a delterious effect on a consumer.
Band name!
If killing a deer unarmed makes you a man’s man, what about the 73 year old who killed a leopard unarmed ? Hell, he started out with a machete, but let go of it !
That’s more impressive to me than killing a deer, especially since Goldsberry could have just called Animal Control; that wasn’t an option for M’Mburugu.
The war has begun.
It’s been a while since there was a streaker in the Capitol Building.
Isn’t that normal family life in Arkansas? :eek:
I don’t see why he didn’t just kill the deer like everyone else does and hit it with his truck.
This is my favorite part:
“Honey, call 911. I got some unfinished business to attend to.”
Then he walks back in there, like a combination of Beowulf and Johnny Unitas.
I dunno. A freaked out deer is pretty damn wild. I give the guy credit. Under those circumstances, I’d have been under the couch cowering in fear.
My only hope is that deer are just smart enough to communicate this incident to each other, but not smart enough to realize that not all grown men are this bad-ass.
Then they’ll be too afraid to mess with ME!
because the truck was parked on the front lawn, and the deer was in the back bedroom.
I just hope it doesn’t turn out that the guy baited the buck to come in so he could kill it for food by painting something on the window like… I don’t know… maybe a sexy deer rump or something. The buck wanders by, sees a doe rump mural, tries to get intimate with it and breaks through the window. All the evidence is destroyed and all the guy has to do is wrestle with it for half an hour until he kills it with his bare hands.
Okay, maybe not.
Deer generally don’t have a lot of experience with doors, so it’s doubtful that one would even know to try and break it down.
I guess I’m confused. A five-point whitetail isn’t really that big; if a cowboy were faced with bringing down a deer that size, it’d probably go pretty quickly. Why the guy would choose to brawl with the deer in the first place is beyond me. It ain’t big, but it is a wild animal and traipsing into the bedroom to subdue is just plain stupid. It’s a good haul of good, healthy meat, which has a cash value, but enough to wrestle a rutting buck? Maybe he thought the thing was a Yankee.
Oh, wow. I think I’m in love with that guy.
“Honey, on your way back from work, could you pick up some milk and stop at the bank to get me $20? Oh, and we’re running low on meat, could you stop and get a deer if you see one? Thanks!”
Would a deer, in its death throes, poop and pee before expiring?
Mrs. Goldsberry: “Now you’re going to clean this whole mess up, Mister!”
Yeah, they might try and open it and be completely confounded by the lack of opposable thumbs.
Your doors have opposable thumbs? That’s just freakish, man. Freakish.
The article I read mentioned that it left the bedroom and ran down a hall and into the master bedroom. Given the damage a bird or bat can do in a home in short order, I’m not surprised he tried to do something about it. Calling animal control sounds all well and good, but how quickly do they show up? 20 minutes of a panicked deer in your house and you might own a trash heap.
But, I think mule deer could have taken him.