Montana passes law allowing motorists to eat animals they kill with cars - Polidicks

[URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/832/161473581.jpg/][IMG]http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/3623/161473581.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [url]http://metro.co.uk/2013/02/24/montana-passes-law-allowing-motorists-to-eat-animals-they-kill-with-cars-3511513/[/url] The US state of Montana has passed a law allowing residents to eat animals they kill with their vehicles.

Better than letting it go to waste I suppose. I'd like to think that this is going to start some kind of extreme hunting where people haul ass acrossed the open Montana fields hitting game with their cars.

someday this will become a hunting sport edit: blimey

i never knew why i couldn't eat the animals i hit. they've always let me do that with the homeless children

Well at least Hunters will have something to fall back on if they ban guns: trucks.

[quote]It had initially included other animals such as sheep and bears but they were dropped from the bill to avoid drivers looking for financial incentives in deliberately killing them.[/quote] Damn, looks like man meat if back off the menu, boys.

[quote]It had initially included other animals such as sheep and bears but they were dropped from the bill to avoid drivers looking for financial incentives in deliberately killing them.[/quote] I think if you hit a bear with your car, you'd do more damage to your car than you would the bear.

[quote]It had initially included other animals such as sheep and bears but they were dropped from the bill to avoid drivers looking for financial incentives in deliberately killing them.[/quote] I don't think having your car wrecked to shit is worth bear meat, however tasty it might be.

I didn't know you weren't allowed to eat them already. I've eaten a fair amount of deer that was roadkill

Suddenly I'm reminded of this [img]http://www.zen80200.zen.co.uk/cow1.jpg[/img]

The way it works in the UK is the guy behind you is allowed to eat it... to prevent people intentionally running over animals for food.

This was illegal? I wonder why they had a law on the books saying you couldn't eat roadkill.

[QUOTE=TestECull;39709698]This was illegal? I wonder why they had a law on the books saying you couldn't eat roadkill.[/QUOTE] The government wants to manage populations of animals like deer or elk. That's why you have to get a tag to shoot them, and why only so many tags are sold in each hunting season. I imagine laws like this sprung from a desire to discourage purposeful unmonitored harvesting of animals. It could be argued that now people have an incentive to kill deer with their vehicles, though honestly I don't think it's actually that big of a deal at all. It sounds like a product of antiquated thinking rather than cold reason. I live in Montana, it's so vast and deer are so common (I live in the largest city, they're extremely common even well within city limits) that laws like this are nearly unenforceable to begin with. Before anyone thinks this is disgusting, a deer or comparable animal killed by direct impact harvested soon after death would be no more decomposed or inedible than one hunted in a forest. The main concern would be causing internal damage, such as shattering bones or rupturing organs, which I suppose could potentially violate the quality of the meat.

reminds me simpsons

monster truck bear hunting

[QUOTE=Sir_takeslot;39709052]I think if you hit a bear with your car, you'd do more damage to your car than you would the bear.[/QUOTE] Not if you have a big-ass truck.

Great. Fresh roadkill :v:

[QUOTE=EddieLTU;39710127]reminds me simpsons[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://0.tqn.com/d/animatedtv/1/G/0/M/1/simpCletus_f.jpg[/IMG] Them's good eatin'!

This isn't new, they have this law in Tennessee. However you don't see people, not always even the rednecks, aim their "Big Bubba Trucks" at unsuspecting deer

[QUOTE=ZCaliber;39709000]Better than letting it go to waste I suppose. I'd like to think that this is going to start some kind of extreme hunting where people haul ass acrossed the open Montana fields hitting game with their cars.[/QUOTE] throw it back in the woods and I assure you it won't go to waste

"Goin huntin, honey!" -VRRRRRRRRRRRRRM*THUD*-

In Nairobi, there is a restaurant I'm fond of called The Carnivore. They serve game meat. As of a few years ago, they're no longer allowed to hunt giraffes. However, there are no laws against roadkill being served as food. They have pickup trucks. They still serve giraffe.

Meanwhile in Montana [img]http://bombonem.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/hyundai-zombie-machine-xl.jpg[/img]

In Minnesota, if you hit a deer with your vehicle, you can call the police and have them write you a tag and you get to keep it

[QUOTE=areolop;39712025]In Minnesota, if you hit a deer with your vehicle, you can call the police and have them write you a tag and you get to keep it[/QUOTE] And if your shit is still driveable just throw it in the bed and drive off. They'll never even know.

Yeah I was always dumbstruck you can never do this. Saw a big deer killed by a pickup truck once (not talking about Montana, mind you) other than the pool of blood around it it wasn't mangled or anything. Seems like a shame to just dump it in the woods or something to rot.

[QUOTE=hypno-toad;39716723]Yeah I was always dumbstruck you can never do this. Saw a big deer killed by a pickup truck once (not talking about Montana, mind you) other than the pool of blood around it it wasn't mangled or anything. Seems like a shame to just dump it in the woods or something to rot.[/QUOTE] in MN, if the driver doesnt claim it, the police donate it to a homeless shelter. (ps, most minnesotans have a knife in their glove box just in case of hitting something)

While I think the chances of someone intentionally driving around and trying to hit a deer are reasonably low (Though I know damn well someone is doing it. Albeit that same person isn't likely to be deterred by a law against it), I have always enjoyed Alaska's solution. Basically they just keep a list of people who opt into the roadkill meat program. Police arriving at a roadkill accident will call someone nearby on the list and they will pick it up. That way nobody intentionally attempts to run down deer for their own meat (legally anyhow) and people who accidentally hit a deer but don't want the meat don't matter because the police always have a list of people who DO want the meat. It is an excellent way of preventing waste AND avoiding idiots running down their own meat.

[QUOTE=mastermaul;39710058]The government wants to manage populations of animals like deer or elk. That's why you have to get a tag to shoot them, and why only so many tags are sold in each hunting season. I imagine laws like this sprung from a desire to discourage purposeful unmonitored harvesting of animals. It could be argued that now people have an incentive to kill deer with their vehicles, though honestly I don't think it's actually that big of a deal at all. It sounds like a product of antiquated thinking rather than cold reason. I live in Montana, it's so vast and deer are so common (I live in the largest city, they're extremely common even well within city limits) that laws like this are nearly unenforceable to begin with. Before anyone thinks this is disgusting, a deer or comparable animal killed by direct impact harvested soon after death would be no more decomposed or inedible than one hunted in a forest. The main concern would be causing internal damage, such as shattering bones or rupturing organs, which I suppose could potentially violate the quality of the meat.[/QUOTE] I think thats the point of hunting, to thin out the deer population so they aren't as much of a road hazard anymore. My dad hit a deer a few years ago, and we took it out to my uncle's house where he cut it up and ate it. The front part of the deer was all beat to hell, but the back part was still edible.

Yes, Finally my goal of cannibalism is legal. Run those little fuckers over, Stuff em in the trunk which I converted into an oven.