The only deer I've field dressed was hit by a BMW on the road to my house. A lot of meat was ruined but it was a great learning experience and we still got a good bit of venison off it. As long as as the roadkill isn't of unknown date, I say it's common snese.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZLYEbkykCI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4CKr1exX70

I know a tow truck driver that while, picking up a car, will take ask the driver if he wants the deer or can he have it?

He then takes it to a local butcher. If his freezer is full he has the butcher donate it. Usually the butcher only charges about $20 if it is charity, but $40 for keeping it.

My aunt hit a deer in her van. All the women asked if the poor deer was OK, all the men asked if she got any of the meat.

Now picture the deer hanging by it's back legs while my husband skins it and quarters it to pack in a cooler on ice. Add to the picture every cat in the neighborhood watching intently.

Montana being Montana I seriously doubt the law was enforced in the past. I just wonder how a law like that ever got passed in that state in the first place.

A sad related story: http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/wild-chef/2013/03/la-health-officials-destroy-1600-pounds-venison-donated-hunters

11600 lbs of meat destroyed, because someone would rather see people starve than eat bambi.

Back in my college days I missed out on a beer-and-venison bash where everyone ended up in the hospital.

Turns out the tasty venison source was road kill.

That being said, it's true that nothing satisfies a hankerin' for squash like flat cat.

As long as everyone is honest about the source I dont see a problem. Wont get as much meat as you might with a hunting kill, but deer is great.

Buffalo is even better. Never had bear though

I've had roadkill deer and elk growing up. It was great and since we were poor when I was young, provided meat we probably wouldn't have had otherwise.

We used to eat mammoths. Can you imagine mammoth sausage?

Heh. I'd say about 3/4 of the roadkill here in CT, especially deer hit on the Merritt Parkway, isn't picked up for the meat, but for the racks on the bucks. The does are just left for the DOT to pick up. Half the time, no one stops unless their car is so damaged it can't be driven. BF's daughter hit a deer on a back road and damaged her car. His question: Where's the deer now? Her answer: The cops took it away!

"Can you imagine mammoth sausage?"

And they say vaudeville is dead. Ha!

In Missouri, you can't take a deer to the slaughterhouse without a deer tag...so any time you kill one on the highway, you call the highway department and they will send over an officer with a special tag.

In Missouri, you can't take a deer to the slaughterhouse without a deer tag -- Cat at March 9, 2013 6:20 PM

But do you know how many people know how to butcher their own deer?

I've never done a full butchering of a deer, but have done other smaller game. I could probably figure out how to do it.

"I could probably figure out how to do it."

You need the proper tools for the job.

A friend-of-a-friend hit a deer one (probably drunken) night, and decided to field-dress it on the shoulder of the road.

With a chainsaw.

When I heard this story I wondered, what could cause a passing motorist/cop greater palpitations then seeing a gore-soaked drunk waving a bloody chainsaw?

Maybe getting the windshield peppered with guts and meaty bits?

Last Wednesday night my 19-year-old niece hit a donkey on a rural road in Riverside County, CA.

Can you eat a donkey?

Can you eat a donkey? -- Ken R at March 9, 2013 8:17 PM

Only if you're an ass. :-p

Actually I see no reason not to. It would be like eating horse, which used to be common in Europe.

Nothing says hungry like a nice flat slab of skunk! Blah!!! And speaking from personal taste, venison tastes like someone boiled a sock.

Venison/game are perfectly acceptable where I live, (Eastern Shore of) Maryland. Most of our men are watermen...and almost all hunters. 'Roadkill' is definitely dinner...so it hurt my heart to read http://beefmagazine.com/blog/louisiana-forces-homeless-shelter-destroy-meat-donation

How can you force someone who is helping hungry people DESTROY FOOD????

Those are some 'donkey's' I'd like to see chopped up!