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This was the story that eventually spurred the conversation between the Journalist and Lawyer below.
Just two professional girls casually chatting in...
Journalist: there was a case in WI where a guy screwed a dead dear, and said he shouoldnt be charged b/c the charge dealt with living animals... i believe - i forget the actual minutiae
Lawyer: well i would argue that if i was his lawyer
it's supposed to be an animal cruelty thing
i mean
Journalist: right... if it's dead...
Lawyer: he really isn't hurting anyone with the deer
Journalist: and i dunno if corpse defilement can apply to animals
Lawyer: i don't think so
Journalist: the lawyer even quoted from The Princess Bride in his argument
Lawyer: because i don't think we have that much respect for dead animals
Journalist: i'll see if i cna find the report
charge was Sexual Gratification with an animal
Lawyer: if you could defile the corpse of an animal... then how could it be legal to like.. throw out a mouse trap?
well then that's just a puritanical law
Journalist: Brian James Hathaway faces two years in prison if convicted of sexual gratification with an animal. Hathaway, 20, is accused of having sex with a dead deer he saw on the side of the road on Oct. 11, 2006. His attorney argued that because the deer was dead, it was not considered an animal and the charge should be dismissed. His motion was denied. He previously served time for killing a horse he intended to sexually assault. The charge carries a maximum sentence of nine months in jail and a $10,000 fine for first time offenders. Repeat offenders face a two-year maximum.
sorry, that was long
Lawyer: oh
my
god
Journalist: The Webster’s dictionary defines “animal” as “any of a kingdom of living beings,” Anderson said.
If you include carcasses in that definition, he said, “you really go down a slippery slope with absurd results.”
Anderson argued: When does a turkey cease to be an animal? When it is dead?
When it is wrapped in plastic packaging in the freezer? When it is served, fully cooked?
Lawyer: he's a bestio-necro-pheliac
Journalist: lol
Lawyer: no really
why wouldn't you just sexually assault the horse live?
to be honest
Journalist: kicking?
Lawyer: well
ok
but i think the point here is that he has a thing for DEAD animals
i mean
who the F is going down the highway, sees roadkill, and gets a hard-on? that's a really special fetish
Journalist: yes... special.... indeed
Lawyer: who caught him, by the way?
Journalist: i don't recall... let me see
Sent at 3: 21 PM on Wednesday
Journalist: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1116061deer1.html
Sent at 3: 24 PM on Wednesday
Journalist: see the bottom of page 3
Lawyer: heh
Journalist: it's so rare to find clever public defenders
Lawyer: he should win
i mean, if there is a statute regarding sex with dead animals
charge him
Journalist: right
maybe there will be a new one
Lawyer: dude, if people want to have sex with dead animals, just LET THEM
maybe i'm just a crazy libertarian
but WHO CARES
again, my question - who caught this guy, and how?
Journalist: it doesn't say, but it was by the side of the road, so maybe a motorist
Lawyer: excellent use of the word motorist
Journalist: gracias. i'm not a journalist for nothing
the woman who wrote the report says: i don't remember, but i think he was just fucking a deer on the side of the road
Lawyer: hmmm.. that's pretty bad
i want more details, though
like, i am assuming it was killed by a car
or an automobile, as you might say
Journalist: right
Lawyer: was it laying on its side?
what did he do? did he even try to hide?
Journalist: i don't think so
Lawyer: or his he a.. wow.. an exhibitionistic beastio-necropheliac
Journalist: a deer is pretty heavy
Lawyer: if you have that particular fetish, i suppose you have to take what you can get when you can get it
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