At least they ate it, didn't kill just to kill.

I get deer jerky every year from my brothers. I used to go hunting with them but growing up 90 miles away and in a bigger city I've never been big into hunting. But they go every year and they take their deers to a butcher who adds some pork and other shit and makes homemade slimjim type jerky. Shits sooooooo good.

They didn't eat it, though.

He shot the deer and couldn't take the carcass because the gates were locked. Guy is lying out his ass and just shot the deer to be an asshole.

Oh. That's different. Did he think he could get it and not know the gates were locked?

I don't know.

He apparently lived near by because he claims to have been on his front porch when he saw the deer in the cemetery. Then he went to get his gun and jumped a wall to get in the cemetery to shoot it.

So the guy lives near by a cemetery with a resident deer that I guess was pretty famous with the locals and claims he did it to feed his family and didn't know it was tamed? And he shot it with a handgun? Got a real hunter over here.

Ya. Not buyin it.

$1000 and up to a year in jail for killing a deer out of season? Holy crap.

I get why people are upset, but it is just a deer, and it's not like that one particular deer was universally known by everyone who might step foot into the cemetery. Pay a fine, sure, but sending someone to jail for shooting a deer is a bit much.

Umm. From what I read they did not.and who feeds deer meat to a 8month old?

Guy is lying out of his ass.

So he shot the town pet? Yeah not good.

Poaching and shooting a firearm inside city limits?

It was known by the locals. He lived across the street. And his story is strange as ****.

Dumbshit probably turned himself in to collect the award.

If that's what they're getting him on, sure... possibly endangering others... even though a year still seems like a lot. The article just said 'shooting a deer in out of season', which seems petty for a grand + possible jail time.

It would just be kind of dumb for him get jail time because the judge took into account the history of that particular deer within the community. Sad story. People are assholes. Still just a deer.

Poaching is huge in the country. It is worth time in jail.

He's getting off light, imo. He's getting a misdemeanor for what should be a felony for shooting a firearm inside city limits.

Doesn't mean much... in the last house I lived, I went like a year before I met my neighbors, and it's not like it was a sketchy neighborhood. People keep to themselves, it doesn't say he had been there for any length of time, and I could see why neighbors wouldn't randomly chat about a deer in the cemetery.

He could have known and could be full of shit... maybe he was talking with a friend one night, hating on the deer, and someone dared him to kill it. There are a lot of assumptions in thinking he was well aware of the deer though and did it just to be an asshole.

At least that would make sense, for endangering people.