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What is legal situation with self defense here? This thing can run faster than any human. What happens if it gets hurt or slaughtered while attacking a person?
by throw93232 4y ago
What is legal situation with self defense here? This thing can run faster than any human. What happens if it gets hurt or slaughtered while attacking a person? Is there an obligation to call a police or vet?
- throwaway0a5e 4y ago>What is legal situation with self defense here? "Don't ask don't tell" I'm only 10% joking. This isn't the kind of thing that gets a lot of case law built up (because 99% of the time it happens it happens in a jurisdiction that DGAF, not downtown DC) so it's really a gray area. And in the case of gray areas courts tend to default to just whatever the local norms of "how things ought to be" are. This being the DC area if someone in a suit jacket decides to punt the turkey into traffic for being a twat nothing will probably happen but some college kid from the panhandle or Mexican service worker cracks its neck and then takes it home to cook/freeze (because that's what any sensible person on a Busch Lite budget would do) they'll probably get the book thrown at them. They're real big on those sorts of "the law is relative based on your station in life" type things down their.
- codingdave 4y agoWild Turkeys are not a protected species. I don't know squat about local laws in DC and IANAL, so I could be wrong, but I'm thinking about what happens if you kill a bird in general. For example, if you hit one with your car, you typically just keep on driving and feel bad about it - you don't report it to law enforcement or anything. This would seem to be the same scenario.
- mmcgaha 4y agoIf you ever have to kill a wild animal, the best thing to do is inform the game warden.