This past summer I was driving home at nighttime from a metal detecting trip and had a huge deer slam into the side of my mother-in-laws truck. The thing that sucked is that it didn't kill him, it broke his rear legs and I was sitting there watching him flop around on the side of the road with no weapon to put him out of him misery. I sat there in the dark for over a half hour hoping a cop with a gun could come along and do the job for me. Don't you know that after I finally left and drove up the road about five minutes I see a cop pass by me going in the opposite direction (and too fast for me to flag him down.) I felt horrible leaving that animal there in pain but I don't feel I had any other choice. At least that deer seemed to reach his demise quickly.