Man Kills Buck With Bare Hands in Bedroom

bentonville....you bring so much joy to all forms of life. always.

Holy shit! You'd have to be one tough hombre to kill a buck with you bare hands. My hat's off to this guy!

While it takes a nutty man to attempt to fight a deer, you can't blame him for not sitting there and watch this animal run rampant through his house. Those things can cause serious damage.

If hunting deer is legal, then why would it be illegal to kill one that's fucking up your house?

Dude's got some stones. If you can kill a deer with your bare hands, why not?

Why couldn't he give the pwerty wittle deer a kiss and just let him go out the door.

Fuck, some people. If an animal is cornered it will tear shit up, including you. I'd like to put a deer in your room and let it tear everything to shit while you're sitting outside the door wringing your hands waiting for the deer to understand itself and apologize to you.

I thought this was going to be an article about Small forward/Shooting guard Michael Redd meeting his maker.

PS. Diva...nevermind

That deers life was more important than a messed up bedroom, I can't believe that his first reaction was to kill it.

It isn't like it wanted to be in there, something pretty weird must have happened to make it run into a window.

Is deer demolishing covered by home insurance? If not (I really have no idea) should he just sit there counting up all of the money he's going to have to pay up while the deer destroys his bedroom? Or were you personally going to give him the money to pay for the damages?

It's not like he want to cut out the gall bladder and chuck the carcass. This is a zillion times more ethical than buying factory farmed meat — or vegetables for that matter.

While I am not a hunter or an advocate of violence, I have a feeling that if I was in that situation I would probably go in with a baseball bat (screw that bare hands stuff) and go all Al Pacino in The Untouchables on the deer.

When presented in a situation like that your adrenline rushes, you have no idea what is happening. All you know is that you must protect your family and your property. It is instinct, same as what the deer is going through.

While it is a shame that the deer died, I have no problem with what the guy did.

Pacino...in Untouchables. It's ok for a 40 something soccer mom from midwest shite town number 43 to confuse Deniro and Pacino...but you sir....I would hide from the oncoming onslaught. Take preserves with you...no not strawberry...peach...thank you.

You're just jealous that a white tail buck hasn't come crashing through YOUR bedroom window.

If he had closed the door and waited a few seconds it would have calmed down and he could have waited for the police or animal control to remove it. The damage to the bedroom was already done, killing the animal was completely unnecessary.

How do you know the damage was already done or how much damage the man saved with his actions?

And a deer isn't going to calm down after being locked into a strange, confined space. It was already in the room for 'a few seconds', and it just proceeded to break shit (which is natural).

The police didn't get there until after the man had killed it, and dragged it out onto the lawn. Considering we're talking at least 10 minutes, how much more damage should he have just accepted?

OMG... This is what I get for working and reading CHUD at the same time. I knew someday this would happen. Who must I turn my geek card in to? More importanly, how do I get it back? Is being involved in a L.A.R.P enough? Must I project The Big Lebowski onto moving semis so more people see it? Can I take a road trip to Pittsburgh just to see landmarks from the "Dead" movies?

I am so sorry... *bows head in shame*

Ferngully 3: The Quest for Diva's Deer

(Changed from Ferngully 3: Steve Martin Punches Your Balls Off)

I think the proper move would be to get AWAY from the L.A.R.P. activities sir. Everything else is thumbs up though.

A school isn't 'their property'. I don't think the principal owns the school, nor would he have to pay for the damages.

The animal isn't 'wrong', because it doesn't really understand right or wrong. Deer are killed every day for sport and for food. This guy killed one because it was fucking up his daughter's house, but he should be arrested? Please.

You weren't there either man, your guess is as good as mine.

But neck snapping shouldn't have been his first reaction. He could have waited for help, or, if the damage the deer was causing was really severe, he could have guided or dragged the animal out. They were on the first floor, and if the guy was strong enough to tackle and kill it he should have been strong enough to get it out of the house. As I said, most of the damage was already done, a compassionate and sane person would be willing to put up with a little more if it meant you'd be able to save a life.

What if he killed a rat? Or even a Republican? I bet you wouldn't be so righteous then.

So, not only should he pay for the damages to his house, we should levy a fine on him for not sitting there while it happened.

As Adam Warren was getting at, this is about as humane a death a buck could have at the hands of a human.

How the shit do you know he has anger problems? Because he killed a deer? Are you actually just using this to try and inflate the pocketbooks of shrinks even more?

I demand a deer trial.

Guide and drag a live deer. Right.

Again, you have NO IDEA how much they put up with. None. You don't know how much damage was caused. I doubt yourself or PETA would have showed up and paid for the damage to the house had he just let it do its thing. Or for the medical bills (funeral bills?) of trying to drag a frightened deer out of a house.

He got leverage on the thing & it allowed him to take action. That doesn't mean he could have carried it out of the house.

Stressed, trapped deer are very dangerous. Wild bucks kill hundreds of people every year. Chances are if he had tried to "shoo" it out of the house it might have gored him or one of his family members.

Frankly, when a 250 pound animal bursts into your house, it's not a real unreasonable action to try and kill it.

I am against cruelty to animals, but I admit I like my Venison.
Some of the threads here are bordering on PETA silly/
I love Michael Moore's statement that although he thinks people who are cruel to animals are scum, everytime he hears a PETA spokesman, he feels like going home and kicking his dog.

I think it did. Original story said walls were splattered with blood. Blood doesn't spatter when all you do is break a neck. It was probably the man's blood. So yeah, go on and try to "guide" a huge, panicked deer out of your house. Make sure you leave a will.

Think of it this way... he was just recouping his losses with fresh, mouthwatering deer meat. Might not cover a broken window (let alone whatever various other damages were incurred), but 100 lbs of fresh meat could feed a man for quite awhile.

Aren't deer in season now?? If so, couldn't he have just let it out into the yard and then shot it? See, nice law abiding citizen that way.

You have to consider the situation. There was a wild animal freaking out in his daughter's house. If he had just left it be the deer could have bounded out of the room and attacked someone in the house.

So why not just close the door? Depending on how big the door was and how well built the house was that might not have done any good.

How do we know the deer didn't cause some damage to himself crashing through the window? Glass could have cut into an artery and the deer could have been suffering. It may have been a mercy killing (intentional or otherwise).

Main point is - the man acted out of an instinctual need to protect himself, his family and his property. You're acting like he walked up to a cute little bunny sitting in the forest and just snapped his neck.

You're right about that. There's no way for any of us to know what really happened. But that works both ways - you use it to counter every one else's points but it counters yours too. So quit criminalizing the guy. This is one of those situations in which you really shouldn't lay judgement because you don't know how you'd react in the same situation.

I think this is main point of the argument. This man was not hunting deer (granted he may, but it is not important to the story), he was not be stupid and killing animals for fun - he did what he felt he had to do in a bizarre situation.

It's got nothing to do with PETA (I agree with Diva, just because someone doesn't like animals getting hurt is no need to associate them with PETA), or hippies or even political affiliation.

It was a odd and rare situation that the guy handled the best he could, IMO. I don't think he deserves a fine, jail, or anything else. The animal (while it doesn't know any better) went into his (or his daughters) house and needed to be removed. It sounds like he had a pretty rough fight with the thing, who knows, maybe he tried to drag first and it was going no where so he decided to kill it. You don't know and none of us will.

It's just unfortunate. Same as when you see deer or dogs and such dead on the side of the highway. It stinks that they were hit by a car, but it just happens.

I hope the guy's a hunter. At least he'd get to keep the meat.

Y'all are being awfully presumptuous... what if that deer entered for the expressed purpose of fucking shit up?

I would have put that deer down, TEXAS JUSTICE-style. You enter my house, prepare for pain. I'll take you to the blood bank!

Would he not be able to keep it regardless?

Is this ALL killing or is this a selective stance?

It's mating season for deer. So clearly it was after his daughter.
He actions were quite justified.

Fixed that for ya. Face it Deev, you're just jealous.

Deer can be a serious menace to crops and people. They live to mess things up. Personally I would've gone Psycho on it, selecting my largest butcher knife. Odds are this guys just got done watching Raw and was ready to lay the smack down. Thankfully it was a deer and not his wife. Although this being Arkansas, the deer could have been a jealous ex.

I find it hard to believe there's a house, er, trailer in Arkansas that didn't have a gun. That's the real issue here. Get this family a gun STAT!

OK, two things:

First of all, killing an animal is not "murder." You can't be punished for killing one, unless it's legally protected somehow, and even then you'd only be subject to a fine. Deer hardly qualified as protected in any way. Let's just get that straightened out.

Second, we're getting so caught up in the ethics of this guy killing the deer that we're not recognizing how fucking amazing it is that it actually happened. Bucks are very big, and very strong. This guy fought with one in close quarters and killed it with his bare hands! HOLY SHIT.

Well hold on now. Maybe it was:

You've obviously never lived in a place that has deer and know nothing of the law in those places. Charges???

Those who speak of funerals are correct. A full grown, horned, male buck can cause a lot of damage, both to property and people. Think of that scene in Tommy Boy. That's fairly accurate. I'm sure Goldsberry didn't want his daughter to resemble David Spade's car. There's no guiding a full grown, large, confused animal like that. You can let it go on and on and on, or you can make it stop. If it was dumb enough to jump through a window, who knows how long it would have gone on?

In such places, be it Arkansas or near my parent's central California home (yes, there are deer in California), deer are like vermin. Very Large Vermin. Rodents of Unusual Size. There is no shortage of them.

You can argue up and down that the man's daughter built her home on the deer's land, but I'm willing to bet this wouldn't bother you if you were told that 200 years ago a native American did them same thing after it tore up his Sioux tipi. And like the Native Americans, the man is going to make use of it, not discard it like waste.

The Captain's right. Deer exist mostly to be pretty and be food for bigger animals.

There is no shortage of deer in this country, and this one will probably not be missed.

Your beliefs about killing have nothing to do with the Law. The Law has nothing to say about this, and if it did, were I serving on the jury, I'd let it go.

A five-point buck would easily top 300 pounds, and it's not just the weight advantage, but the strength advantage (not to mention the fact that the deer has weapons attached to its head). I wouldn't necessarily say that I'm celebrating this guy's achievement, but I'm definitely impressed.