A church friend called me on Sunday afternoon about a dead deer in the cul-de-sac behind his house. I went over to check it out. It was a buck, with huge antler bases, but the antlers were still in velvet. It also had a small pair of underdeveloped testes - kinda explains the velvet in December. Well, the antlers were broken up, like this deer had been hit by a car or something in the earlier part of the year. To bad, this one would have been a monster.

In any case, it had a good diagonal shot across the vitals, so we couldn't figure out how it ended up in the middle of this cul-de-sac. We looked a little closer and found a twisty-tie in the ear. That's right...someone shot this deer, put a field tag on it, did not field dress it, but hauled it out of the woods and dumped it in a neighborhood in southern MD.

Why did the hunter shoot the deer if he didn't want the deer?

Even if he decides later to (wanton waste) not use the deer, why leave it on a cul-de-sac?

Anyway, my friend is not really a hunter, and this gives hunters a bad name.

<font color=green>How many vegetables had to die to make your stupid salad!</font id=green>