Kibbles N Bits

It was a news event some years ago. I had no reason to assume it was untrue. As most people have said, you keep roadkill if you can get away with it. But you might get stopped by police or a game warden if you have an untagged deer that looks like it's been hit.

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In Tennessee, you can keep your own roadkill. There's even a restaraunt called the Roadkill Cafe where you can bring your vittles.

While that's true, all of us backward, uneducated Tennesseeans is thankful that them there Texans learned us how to be so resourceful with runned over critters.

Ok I have to comment on this, It is not true..... LOL
There are places called " Roadkill Cafe" none currently in Tennessee and they dont serve roadkill, but hamburgers and hot wings not your own "vittles".

Have to say of all the redneck jokes I have heard about Tennessee this was a first. LOL

I know, Cindy.  I was just being an idiot about the whole thing.  LMAO! 

Exactly two years ago we hit a deer on a back road late at night.  We weren't going very fast and unfortunately the deer wasn't killed.  Two guys who had obviously been out spotlighting deer came up almost immediately (I wonder if they heard the noise) in their pickup.  I kind of figured they'd know how to do it and asked them if they minded dispatching the deer, and they did.  They asked if we wanted it, we said no (we were in the Suburban, or I would have said yes), and they took it away - it was a nice young buck so I was sort of glad it wasn't a waste.  We were in a very, very poor area.

In th county we used to live in, there WAS a crew that went around and collected road kill.  My father in law used to work for the road crews.  I don't imagine that they were unique.  But I don't know what they did with the carcasses.

It is illegal in NC to possess any wildlife without the proper hunting license AND tag during hunting season. Any other time it's just ILLEGAL, even if you find it dead on the side of the road.
 
A couple of years ago, a couple of guys ended up in prision for scarfing a dead black bear the had been hit by a car. A passerby reported it on their car phone and followed them until the authorities caught up with them and arrested them.
 
I will say, however, I have accepted road-killed deer when I was with the exotic animal facility I worked for during the off-season as long as it wasn't "green". The animals made speedy work of it too.