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Post by lar on Oct 17, 2019 11:44:36 GMT -5
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Post by millring on Oct 17, 2019 11:48:10 GMT -5
Gonna be a whole lotta car-mounted guns in CA now.
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Post by lar on Oct 17, 2019 11:58:24 GMT -5
I expect that soon there will be a companion story along the lines of "Indianans find they are not alone at the leading edge of "What's for dinner?"
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on Oct 17, 2019 12:04:09 GMT -5
I expect that soon there will be a companion story along the lines of "Indianans find they are not alone at the leading edge of "What's for dinner?" I used to work with a guy who said that if he saw a car hit a squirrel, and that car's driver didn't stop and pick it up, he would. He said he knew it was fresh. True. I always wondered how often the driver that hit the squirrel deprived Harry of his dinner. |
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Post by Marty on Oct 17, 2019 12:35:58 GMT -5
California deer and other small game are going to find it harder to cross the road now.
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Post by Dub on Oct 17, 2019 14:36:50 GMT -5
Are we given to understand that there was a law that prohibited eating road kill? I’d be surprised to learn such a law was on the books. |
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Post by lar on Oct 17, 2019 14:51:55 GMT -5
Are we given to understand that there was a law that prohibited eating road kill? I’d be surprised to learn such a law was on the books. Yes, there was such a law on the books in California. You could be fined up to $6,000 and 6 months in jail. As has been the case with several laws I've seen come out of California lately I am moved to ask why the populace at large was willing to elect a legislature that seems to intent on managing as may aspects of one's personal life as possible. The governor recently signed a law banning the manufacture and sale of fur products starting in 2023. California has also banned commercial fur trapping and most animals in circuses, and small sized shampoo bottles in hotels. Good news for the taxidermy trade though. They are exempt. They must have a powerful lobby. |
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Post by Dub on Oct 17, 2019 15:12:05 GMT -5
Are we given to understand that there was a law that prohibited eating road kill? I’d be surprised to learn such a law was on the books. Yes, there was such a law on the books in California. You could be fined up to $6,000 and 6 months in jail. As has been the case with several laws I've seen come out of California lately I am moved to ask why the populace at large was willing to elect a legislature that seems to intent on managing as may aspects of one's personal life as possible. The governor recently signed a law banning the manufacture and sale of fur products starting in 2023. California has also banned commercial fur trapping and most animals in circuses, and small sized shampoo bottles in hotels. Good news for the taxidermy trade though. They are exempt. They must have a powerful lobby. |
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Post by Village Idiot on Oct 17, 2019 17:21:11 GMT -5
On more than several occasions, in late fall and early winter, I've driven by a dead buck on the side of the highway with some rube sawing its antlers off.
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Post by RickW on Oct 17, 2019 17:39:52 GMT -5
Gonna be a whole lotta car-mounted guns in CA now. Large knives. Then you don't have to stop to pick them up. I mean, dead animals in the trunk of the Benz? |
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Post by david on Oct 17, 2019 17:53:11 GMT -5
Oregon enacted a similar law 1/1/19. I wish it had been enacted a year earlier when I hit a deer. The "free" meat might have helped compensate me for the deductible on car damage insurance.
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Post by millring on Oct 17, 2019 17:53:54 GMT -5
Gonna be a whole lotta car-mounted guns in CA now. Large knives. Then you don't have to stop to pick them up. I mean, dead animals in the trunk of the Benz? What was I thinking? |
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on Oct 17, 2019 17:58:39 GMT -5
"I had to circle the pasture for twenty minutes before I could get that steer to jump in front of my Jeep."
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Oct 17, 2019 18:10:27 GMT -5
The laws against eating road kill were not just some control freaks attempt at controlling everyone. Calif has a very large population. Some of those folks are beyond clueless. Some unscrupulous people have collected old road kill, and sold the meat. Peopke got sick. Thus the law.
Mike
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Post by Village Idiot on Oct 17, 2019 20:04:21 GMT -5
If you hit a deer in Iowa and call the authorities, you can ask them for a permit which will enable you to keep the carcass. You can eat the meat yourself or donate it to a meat locker.
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Post by dradtke on Oct 17, 2019 20:36:25 GMT -5
Oh, damn, that reminds me of another story. Have I told this one?
Two friends of mine were sons of a Minnesota butcher, and grew up cutting meat and processing deer and making sausage and jerky. When they were driving together one fall, a deer ran out into the road and broadsided their car. It hit them, they didn't hit it. They pulled over and dragged the deer off the road - roadkill is legal in Minnesota - and debated running home for their skinning knives and coming back, vs stuffing the deer into the hatchback and taking it with them. They decided to go get their stuff, so they slid the deer into the ditch and picked out a couple landmarks.
When they returned, at first they couldn't find it. There was light snow on the ground and eventually they found the skid marks were they dragged the deer into the ditch. And marks in the snow where the deer came around, and tracks in the snow where the recovered deer trotted off into the woods. They were glad they hadn't stuffed it into the hatchback.
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