Doe!

Errr, I mean, doh!

Seriously, that's Bambi you just bludgeoned to death there you crazy old biatch!

Also, check out the massive open-armed Jesus statue on her porch

WWJD?

When I went to visit my parents last, I noticed (the sh*t out of) my Grampa's old Winchester .22 rifle propped up next to the door leading out to the back garden.

I read Dad the riot act, citing county laws against discharging firearms, etc, and he told me it was for the chipmunks who "keep eating their greens." F*cking redneck-ass collards you can buy at the store. (I'm from there, I can say it.)

I had to then turn to mockery to turn the tide. "Well, I guess you proved you're a very big successful man, at 78, having shot a 4-ounce rodent. And I'm sure if [one of your grandkids] shoots themself or the other, at least your greens will be ok."

The rifle was gone the next morning. Still, it is a generational thing, of thinking of wildlife as "intruders," or "varmints."

I feel like educating in cases like this can go a long way, versus just reacting in a community swarm of outrage.

A couple years ago, the man fell 12 feet onto his concrete driveway picking blueberries "so the birds didn't get them." After $24,000 in medical bills, I advised him it would be cheaper to just buy them at the grocery. He almost gets it now.

J would TOTALLY bludgeon Bambi. If you read your Bible, Jesus prefered the sick, outcast, ugly types. Cute things were SO not his style.

And then totally raise it back from the dead.

The woman cites fear of the animal as her defense? Whatever...

First off, I give the 75 year old woman huge credit for being able to take out Bambi with a shovel.

Second, well there is no second really.

By the time you get to be 75 you should have developed a respect for all life forms.

Except spiders of course.

If this woman had her rifle handy she wouldn't have resorted to using a shovel. She could have shot the deer like a civilized person.

why not spiders? :( they scare me, but i totally respect them.. but i'm not 75 yet, so what do i know :/

If she had seen a rat in the bushes and beat it to death with a shovel no one would have said anything... hmm... odd...

EXACTLY.

So where is the line crossed? What is the minimum cuteness required to be a crime? Would it be OK if it were a possum?

Raccoon?

Gerbil? (no jokes please)

Cat?

Dog?

EARTHWORM?

Non poisonous Snake?

Poisonous Snake?

Iguana?

WHAT ABOUT A F*CKING NAKED MOLE RAT?!?!

WHAT THEN?!?!? HHHHHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM? WHAT THEN?!?!

rats are extremely dirty and breed by the dozens.
Deers, not so much. They're practically defenseless, especially the baby ones... I'm sure if she inflated a paper bag and then popped it, the little thing would have bounded off.

But I guess, at her age, the shovel was the best way to make sure it didn't come back...

Have you seen a baby rat? They're bald and blind and totally helpless.

Deer populations are NOT endangered in the slightest.

Of course, it would have made me happier had she had a neighborhood BBQ after the shovel incident, but nonetheless,

defenseless Deer

what was it going to do? CUTE her to death?

:/

rats are dirtier than deer?
and it's better to kill a "dirty" animal than a "clean" one?

If you're ready to cite some new statistics that show how deer have more-negatively affected human existence over the centuries than rats, then I'm all ears.

just bite her... so she feel the pain...

the problem with rats is that they aren't afraid of living very close to human settlements. because the rats are very successful and adaptive and come in large numbers, they can spread diseases. but they're not particularly dirty animals. here's a nice article, yes, not the best source but it has a point:

Alright, A: I said PRACTICALLY defenseless. NOT utterly. B: It wasn't exactly a 12 point buck she shoveled to death either.


Rats can't hold the contents of their bladders, in other words, they pee everywhere they go. My brother along with my best friends boyfriend(who's also my boyfriends best friend) used to own rats, which let me learn that little fact first hand. I didn't see THAT tidbit of information anywhere in the little article you linked.