Officer Questioned About Methods For Killing Deer
Man Investigated For Handling Of Wounded Deer
Arlington police are investigating whether an officer responded properly to a wounded deer.
Police spokesman Matt Martin said the deer was found on June 18 in the 6900 block of Williamsburg Boulevard, after apparently falling 30 feet from Route 66.
It was still alive, but was suffering, so the officer decided to kill it to end its suffering.
First, he shot it, but the deer survived.
So he tried to run it over with a police cruiser, but that didn't work either.
Finally, the officer put a plastic bag over the deer's head and suffocated it. Martin said that's not the way the department normally does business. He said Arlington police are working with other agencies on their policies so that Arlington County is better equipped to handle the situation next time. He said officers typically deal with one or two such cases a year.
2 comments:
My question is why they didn't just shoot the wounded deer again until it died? I'm sure at least half of these yahoos go deer hunting in their free time so I can't beleive they didn't think of just emptying their clips into the thing. Wouldn't it have been more "fun" to just pump lead into the thing? It certainly would've been more humane than running it over and suffocating it.
You can call these cops the BTK Cops.
Or just gut the thing and then serve up venison burgers for everyone around to eat. Being a token redneck (growing up in Southern Ohio), it is not that hard to kill a deer or any other large animal.
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