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Atingles10 said:
Either the person who struck it or someone going by would call it in. We would dispatch an officer or deputy. If the deer was still alive and in bad shape the officers actually shoot them in the head to put them out of their misery. There were times where they would take off into the woods, usually the officers were good about going in and looking around to make sure it wasn't just inside the woods suffering.

I'm not sure it works this way in other places because Maine does have its own ways of doing things sometimes. The other key that is crucial here is that a lot of the time it's not a hot humid environment so the meat I feel doesn't spoil as quick. When I lived in Georgia and saw a deceased deer on the side of the road it never crossed my mind to try to salvage the venison lol
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Believe it or not, in the uber-Liberal island next to Seattle where we used to live, the local cops would "dispatch" hit-by-driver deer with their sidearms. Always surprised me, but I agree with the practice.
 
Atingles10 said:
the officers who would go to the scene to tag it were usually pretty good about assessing whether or not it was too destroyed to be used for food.
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That's pretty much the way it is here too. If you see an injured one on the road you can call them and they'll give you a tag with permission to put it out of it's misery and take it home to use the meat.
JanS said:
This was parked at the airport all day. It's hard to tell from the photo but it's huge and dwarf's the Delta jet. The tail was almost twice as tall as the building and you can see how many windows there are. This is a private jet and I can only guess how many $$$$$$$$$ it costs.
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It was explained in the paper this morning and I wasn't wrong thinking it had something to do with overseas mining related big shots.

"The 151-seat Boeing 737 lifted off in Mumbai, before touching down in Moscow, London and finally at the Range Regional Airport in Hibbing. The jet, owned by the Bank of Utah’s trust, took about one week to travel across the Atlantic to land six passengers on Minnesota’s Iron Range at about 8:30 a.m. Wednesday.

The arrival of a contingent of Essar officials and potential business partners went unannounced. But their presence was noticed, emphasized by the 737 that dwarfed daily flights out of the regional airport."
 
Oh Little Oji said:
Believe it or not, in the uber-Liberal island next to Seattle where we used to live, the local cops would "dispatch" hit-by-driver deer with their sidearms. Always surprised me, but I agree with the practice.
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Does dispatch actually mean to shoot? I thought @Atingles10 worked in a dispatch office for emergencies?

JanS said:
That's pretty much the way it is here too. If you see an injured one on the road you can call them and they'll give you a tag with permission to put it out of it's misery and take it home to use the meat.
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I did some research since I was sure we would encounter something like this again, but what I found out won’t actually help us any, however it may help everyone feel less sad for the moose knowing this. Here, firearms can only be kept in the home. The only people who can carry them in public are if their job carries life threatening risk and then only if they are on duty. Any exceptions are on a case by case basis - that’s for registered guns, not illegal guns. So the only people who could have shot the moose legally would have to be licensed hunters who wouldn’t be there because the area is not prescribed for hunting. The fact that a dog was present would prohibit actual hunters from shooting as dogs aren’t allowed during hunting unless they are licensed bird dogs. It gets more complicated. It’s against the law to let the meat rot if you shoot an animal, so if you have a big enough vehicle and have enough people to carry it, the shooter then must transport the carcass to an inspection office where it is inspected for food safety. Once you have an authorization tag to proceed, the carcass is registered to you and may only be chopped up at your residence or another location that is authorized for safe meat handling.

I compiled this info from reading through a wildlife act, firearms act, hunting rules and regs.

Sorry to the mods for not putting the moose pics into their own thread. I didn’t think it would generate so much discussion!
 
Kaiser2016 said:
Does dispatch actually mean to shoot? I thought @Atingles10 worked in a dispatch office for emergencies?
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At the dispatch center I worked at we covered the whole country, fire, police, medical and the weird dispatch can be confusing. We would dispatch the officers to the call but they should also call say they were "dispatching " the animal when they would shoot them. I knew really thought too much at to why they used that terminology but I assume it's because they are "dispatching " their weapon m
 
Thank you! I can’t believe how much he has grown. Personality alone, he could’ve looked like anything and I would’ve loved him the same. I love seeing him mature but also hate it?! Keep my puppy!
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