DJEEPER
Regular Member
Ok...scenario time....
You are driving along when you see an animal (say, a deer) on the side of the road, injured and suffering (flopping around). You pull off the side of the road to investigate. The animal will certainly die from its wounds (hit by car or something...broken leg(s), back, whatever) but is still very alive.
Do you have any sort of authority, for humane purposes, to dispatch (take the suffering creature out of its misery) with a well-placed, safely-aimed shot?
Substitute any animal in this scenario (dog, bear, penguin, whale, Unladen African (not English) swallow, etc)
I do apologize if this is in the wrong spot, but i know we have a couple members with law-noggins.
reason: I was driving back from a BMX race out in richmond along Rt. 5 and obliterated a careless (or suicidal) deer with my fiancee's truck and got to thinking.
THANKS!
You are driving along when you see an animal (say, a deer) on the side of the road, injured and suffering (flopping around). You pull off the side of the road to investigate. The animal will certainly die from its wounds (hit by car or something...broken leg(s), back, whatever) but is still very alive.
Do you have any sort of authority, for humane purposes, to dispatch (take the suffering creature out of its misery) with a well-placed, safely-aimed shot?
Substitute any animal in this scenario (dog, bear, penguin, whale, Unladen African (not English) swallow, etc)
I do apologize if this is in the wrong spot, but i know we have a couple members with law-noggins.
reason: I was driving back from a BMX race out in richmond along Rt. 5 and obliterated a careless (or suicidal) deer with my fiancee's truck and got to thinking.
THANKS!