Breaking & Entering

We have a pretty sizeable deer population here in Georgia. As a result, I always pay a good deal of attention when I'm driving around on the island at night--looking for deer attempting to become an unwelcome hood ornament.

With the elimination of their natural predators like mountain lions and wolves, the deer are over grazing places like Redtop Mountain State Park and are nearly starving to death as a result. In the past few years they’ve actually started having special doe and “spike” hunting seasons to cull the deer population to lower levels.

I’d say that the citizens of Arkansas might consider taking similar measures because their deer population is also becoming a bit of a nuisance:

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- It looked like a crime scene, but no charges will be filed after Wayne Goldsberry killed a buck with his bare hands in his daughter's bedroom.

The engagement lasted an exhausting 40 minutes, but Goldsberry finally subdued the five-point whitetail deer that crashed through a bedroom window at his daughter's home Friday.

When it was over, blood splattered the walls and the deer lay on the bedroom floor, its neck broken.

Goldsberry was at his daughter's home when he heard glass breaking. He went back to check on the noise and found the deer.

"I was standing about like this peeking around the corner when the deer came out of the bedroom," said Goldsberry, demonstrating while peering around his kitchen wall. The deer ran down the hall and into the master bedroom - "jumping back and forth across the bed."

Goldsberry entered the bedroom to confront the deer and, after a brief struggle, emerged to tell his wife to call police. After returning to the bedroom, the fight continued. Goldsberry finally was able to grip the animal and twist its neck, killing it.

"He was trying to get up a corner wall and I just came in behind him and grabbed him by the horns and just started pushing down," said Goldsberry.

Goldsberry, sore from the struggle, dragged the dead animal out of the house.

Benton County Sheriff Keith Ferguson said that when he arrived he found the deer dead in the front yard. Goldsberry intended to have the deer processed for its meat.

I want to ask a question of all of the anti-gun activists out there.

"How much more simply could this situation have been resolved if the guy had just picked up his 9 mm pistol and SHOT the deer once in the head, instead of risking his own life WRESTLING with a DEER?"

Yeah, I thought so…

That reminds me, I've got to go clean my guns now...