Hi, can anyone here settle a debate? I'm not a deerhunter, but an angler, so I'm not sure about this.

Driving from Chicagoland to Lexington for the Breeder's Cup, Saturday 3 am in southern IN, a guy in a pickup zoomed past us with four hooves pointing straight up from just inside the tailgate. He had a couple large appliances or toolboxes in the truck, and there was a small space that apparently was just the perfect size for an upside-down dead deer.

I think it had to be road kill, as a recently shot deer wouldn't be stiff as a board yet and we'd passed several dead deer by the side of the highway. (Plus, nobody would pay all the money it takes to stuff a whole deer, only to jam it upside down in the back of a pickup full of heavy objects and drive it down the highway at 90 miles an hour in the middle of the night.)

My friends don't think anyone would pick up roadkill, but I've known people who said you can pick up a dead deer by the road and "use" it if it's not too old.

Who's right?

If I am, do you think his wife was happy or infuriated when the truck pulled into the driveway? Temps were above freezing...