Bad Call: Oh, Deer

This'll teach you to cozy up to roadkill. A Wisconsin man tried, unsuccessfully, to argue that he couldn't be prosecuted for having sex with a deer since the animal was dead, and as such, not technically an animal. Unfortunately, his judge was probably a PETA member. According to the Smoking Gun:

As a result of Circuit Court Judge Michael Lucci's ruling, defendant Bryan James Hathaway, 20, will have to stand trial for his alleged assault last month of the deer carcass. In his ruling, Lucci denied a November 7 motion filed by Hathaway's lawyer, Fredric Anderson, which argued that the deer ceased being an animal upon its death. Anderson contended that a charge of sexual gratification with an animal could not be sustained because "the term 'animal' refers to a living organism, not a carcass." Lucci, however, noted that "most people understand that an animal does not necessarily cease being or qualifying as an animal or even being referred to as an animal once it's dead." He added that the "primary focus" of Wisconsin's criminal statute dealing with crimes against sexual morality is on "human behavior and on protecting sexual morality in the community, and not necessarily on animal protection."

Wow, that's a real setback for dead animal fucker's across America, and a victory for those of us who think fucking animals, dead or otherwise, is pretty disgusting. Good luck getting a date after this, dude.

Judge Rules On Dead Deer Sex[TSG]


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