Oh deer! Hunter bags seven-legged buck
By Idlewild
@Idlewild (6090)
United States
December 14, 2006 6:43pm CST
A Wisconsin hunter shot a young deer that turned out to have seven legs and both male and female reproductive organs. The extra legs were growing out of the deer's other legs, and were about three or four inches in length. The hunter said that they resembled "crab pinchers." He said he thought he saw the extra legs moving, as if they were functional.
The hunter had the deer skinned and ate it, as he would with any deer.
Sounds to me like that three-eyed fish from the Simpsons, the one that was contaminated by the nuclear power plant.
Personally, I don't think I'd eat a deer with 7 legs and extra reproductive parts. Just sounds too creepy.
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@Chapman15 (1492)
• United States
15 Dec 06
Haha, when I started reading this thats exactly what I was thinking about that Simpsons episode as well. I had a response planned out in my head that included it, but you just had to steal my thunder lol.. Personally, I'd probably eat it, simply because I eat hot dogs and who knows whats in those!
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@Chapman15 (1492)
• United States
15 Dec 06
Not at all... Plus I'm a very unpicky eater, so that helps too!
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@brokentia (10389)
• United States
16 Dec 06
I read that story too! My first thought was that the deer was supposed to be a twin but the cell division did not complete. Which is not too umcommon in humans because that is how we get siamese twins or a person with extra fingers or toes.
Then one should consider the environment. Is there some place that the deer had been that caused this mutation? Wouldn't science want to study it? Wouldn't environmentalist want to find the cause if it could be link to a chemical spill or exposure? But now the person has eatten the deer and no studies can be done.
And on that note....no way would I eat it!!! Yuck! How would I know that deer was not carrying some disease that would not be killed of by cooking caused by the mutation? Or anything thing for that matter? No way, no how would I eat it!
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@polachicago (18716)
• United States
16 Dec 06
I hate hunters. I hate when they kill animals. Man is only creature on earth to kill, when is not hungry.
@vinod4net (628)
• India
16 Dec 06
no never, i would never hunt or eat such a rare animal and would have loved to protest it against such creepy and insane hunters, its really so bad
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