
Originally Posted by
yz9890
My wife hit a deer in KY several years ago. It hit her windshield and flew into a pond in front of a small baptist church. Deputy showed up to kill it since it was badly hurt and floundering in the pond. He shot it with his AR in front of some kind of church activity group. The minister asked him how he was going to get it out of the pond and the deputy just looked at him for a moment and said "turtle food" before giving my wife a report and leaving. That's when I showed up on the scene and saw one of the kids from the church swim out and drag it back to his truck. I expect it was summer sausage instead of turtle food.
Even in rural KY where that happened, the environment was such that I wouldn't have been comfortable shooting it without going out and getting it first. Just too many buildings, blind curves, etc for me. I wouldn't have left it though. My wife and the minister said it was a pretty sad event. If the police wouldn't or couldn't come, we would've figured something out.