Just how big was this deer? How much did it weigh?
I don’t know if Goldsberry is a real man. Sure, it happened at his daughter’s house so he didn’t have access to his full gun collection. But, what about the gunrack in his truck? Shouldn’t it have gone something like ‘I’m goin to the truck to get my single barrel thingamabob with the whangdoodled barrel and some doodadpoint ammunition to ensure maximum internal damage and prevent the round exitting the buck.’
That, and a real man would have bitchslapped that buck into submission and then forced it to clean the hallway and repair the window.
Well, you can let a deer trash your master bedroom. I don’t know how likely a guy from Arkansas is to have a piano in there, but I did at one time. My PC is in here, and some other things I care deeply about. Plus, a deer crap and piss can’t be easy to clean up.
Again, as i asked earlier, do you think his life-and-death struggle with the deer—which, according to the article, resulted in “blood splattered…walls”—would have caused less damage than simply leaving the animal in there to calm down?
I don’t have a lot invested in this argument. the death of one deer isn’t something i’m going to lie awake worrying about. I was just somewhat bemused by the adulation being poured on this guy for killing bambi.
Well, I don’t know about y’all, but down here in the South, when something busts into your abode, you sure got a right to get take care of the intruder in whatever manner you feel is proper.
I give the guy street credit that he did not go with firearms and just trashed the bastard hand-to-hand.
Good for him…(if it’d been me, I would got 'child" from the closet and just blasted the breaking and entering sumbitch. But again, I don’t have this guy’s cojones.)
Much as I admire personal bravery, when I saw the news article yesterday my first thought was that it was kind of pointless. This is not something this guy had to do, it’s something he wanted to do. He could have shut the door, the deer would have calmed down, taken a few deer shits and maybe a piss and animal control could have gotten it out of there, but instead he figures he’s got to wrassle the deer. It’s just kind of stupid IMO, and needlessly killed the panicked animal.
Someone didn’t pay attention to his Disney as a kid.
Bambi was a boy.
This is pretty much my feeling on the subject. Hell, while some people have been making gun jokes in this thread, i think it actually would have been more humane to just shoot the poor thing, rather than wrestle it and finally break its neck.
I’m not a hunter myself (although i have shot and killed rabbits and kangaroos in my life), but most hunters i know of take pride in a quick, clean kill, and do their best not to make an animal suffer before it dies.
You know, I thought my mom was bullshitting me when she told me this story. I live less than 30 minutes from where this happened. Should I be afraid for my life now?
I have to disagree a bit with that. Deer, elk, anything with antlers have fairly resilient necks just from the evolutionary adaptation of catching horns in trees and brush while running. From the descriptions of the guy at around 200 pounds I doubt he was a serious muscle builder. I doubt he could have broken it’s neck without a serious adrenoline rush which leads me to believe he was in panicy “I have to do this” mode.
You don’t live in a deer-infested area, do you? Deer are useless pests (even in an ecological sense) and Bambi ain’t so cute when he nearly totals your car running out in front of it. Quite frankly, this one got what it deserved.
What the deer “deserved” is open to debate in this scenario. I’d kill an animal in a heartbeat if it was threatening my family. I understand deer are almost vermin like in terms of their destructiveness in some areas. My point was restricted to the necessity of killing the deer as a matter of self protection or family safety, and I don’t think unlocking a door and re-entering the bedroom in which it was trapped to wrestle with it and kill it qualifies on that account.
Compared to the Canadian Tire Man, who would go down to his local Canadian Tire store to pick up the Canadian Tire Deerator Plus, and then show his neighbor how it works.
