Subject: Beer and Deer

Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it in stupid ways. Some survive their goofy ways. Here's one..

June 2002, Georgia.

EMT's in southern Georgia responded to a call from Coffee County late one night. They arrived on the scene and found a severely injured man lying at the edge of a field. His abdomen had been completely torn open, and he was covered with lacerations and bruises. He also had a prominent tire tread across his chest. The injured man's companion showed up in a racing model ATV vehicle, clearly intoxicated, and gave the following account: He and his injured friend had been drinkin' and ridin' around the field on the three-wheeled ATV, when they sighted a stand of deer in their headlight. The friend, riding in the back as a passenger, was struck with a great idea. "Hey, man," he said, "if you quarter off one of them deer, betcha I can bulldog 'im." The driver thought this was a grand idea too, so he proceeded to isolate a buck and race him down. His also drunk passenger leapt from the ATV, grabbed the buck by the antlers, and pinned the animal's head to the ground - but that's when things went wrong. The buck, less docile than a steer, rose up and attacked his assailant ripping his abdomen open. The buck then stomped, kicked and butted him for good measure. When the EMT's asked the driver about the tire tracks across his injured friend's chest, he responded, 'Well, how else was I s'posed to git the deer off 'im?"