I Always Thought Venison Was Salty But. . .

. . .I didn't think it was because the meat tenderizer was a man's gentle loving.

Okay, joke's over. This is a serious matter. It was reported on The Smoking Gun today that a man in Wisconsin, Bryan James Hathaway, is fighting charges that he had sex with a dead deer last month.

Sorry. There is no punchline (other than the one above, I guess).

But that's not the weird part. His lawyer is arguing that, since the dear was already dead, he could not be charged with - and this is the actual charge - sexual gratification with an animal.

"The statute does not prohibit one from having sex with a carcass," lawyer Fredric Anderson wrote in the motion filed in Douglas County Circuit Court.

And if you can believe it, THAT'S NOT ALL, FOLKS! Apparently, Hathaway has already served time for killing a horse that he intended to sexually assault. (Jeez, no wonder the guy in Seattle got it so bad. Sorry.) And, he's only 20 years old!

Moreover, his lawyer used "The Princess Bride" as a reference in the court motion to defend his client

"As Billy Crystal noted in The Princess Bride, 'There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead.'"

That's what the lawyer actuall uses to defend the guy who (allegedly) did this. I'm so glad I'm not a lawyer.

And here is an obligatory video of a deer running wild - literally! - in Target!