75-year-old Ohio woman charged with beating fawn to death

do the time pay the fine nasty old lady

So, keep this in mind, people. It's perfectly OK to shoot a defenseless deer with a rifle, but its a crime to beat one with a shovel.

you can go into a deer's natural habitat and start shooting them all and nothing will happen to you. but if one comes onto your property and you kill it, you end up being charged with a crime.

although the same rules do apply for humans i suppose.

You cannot go into the deer's natural habitat and start shooting them all. Deer populations are regulated.
Give me a break that old hag was afraid of a fawn? What if it was a kid that she found in her garden. Would she be aloud to beat him or her with a shovel too.
Don't forget. We all need to live together. Put a fence around the garden if you don't want anything in it.

well put hallk ! i couldnt have sais it better myself

The fawn was most likely stoned after eating all the buds off of the marijuana plants she was growing in her garden. Of course it didn't move when she poked it with a shovel, it was most likely waiting for her to off it some Doritos.

So, keep this in mind, people. It's perfectly OK to shoot a defenseless deer with a rifle, but its a crime to beat one with a shovel.

EXACTLY

It's a little old lady who probably doesn't have all her marbles anymore. What a waste of taxpayer money.

We have people here trying to form a correlation between what happened to the fawn and hunting deer?
That is a perfect example of how far society has regressed.
If you really believe there is a correlation and the acts are somehow equal, well I hope you are not procreating.

The post about forming the dope theory is one of the best things I have ever read on this website. Top notch- seriously.

Marbles or no marbles....how many times would a 75 year old have to swing a shovel to kill a fawn? Quite a few I would imagine....and she says she was afraid of it??? If she lives by a wooded area, it certainly can't be the first deer she's seen!

Its not hard to figure out!...Here's a woman in her golden years who enjoys her garden,just like most all old women who have gardens. Now she's gardening one day and as she's gonig to the shed to get a tool to finish her current task,she sees this fawn eatting her sweet peppers or something and not wanting any chance of danger for herself { keep in mind she is not thinking} so she feels a shovel is a good tool to shoo a fown away except when you swing a 5 pound weight at the end of a 4 foot wooden handle and strike a baby deer's head your going to kill this animal who did nothing to this woman except wonder out of the crazy side of the woods without knowing people as a species are mean! I hate excuses for outragious behavior! If its not the old womans fault and she gets off then she needs put somewhere and evaluaited....coo coo

aflamingoinaz - I hope you don't have any dementia or other serious health issues if you live to see age 75. People in their right minds generally do not do stuff like that to begin with and it is no secret that elderly people can have serious impairment of judgement.

who cares....slap her on the wrist and move on to something more important! She's 75 for crying out loud!

Put her in an Old Age Home if she's that demented.
She should NOT be living alone, for her own well-being.

There is a lesson to be learned here . In the eyes of the law she couldn't infict injury on the deer dining in her garden . It matters not that the deer's only contribution to the garden may have been some scat fertilizer . Just imagine the furor if she would have beat to death a two legged animal that had invaded her home .

THE RACOON WAS POLITE ENOUGH TO SHARE WITH THE DEER !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRzzBc...

Stan,

Agree, once again.
We feed the deer here. Now, the two legged animals are another story. [Not that we don't feed the ones that need it, but not by home invasion].

Your worried about a deer when people in your community are getting killed and children are being abused everyday. Most of you eat that crap for dinner, get over it and find something better to be worried about. just hope your in your right mind at 75 better yet live to see it.Such idiots!!!!

Yolandat, you bring up a good question, ...after bashing it in the head with a shovel, did she eat it?
If so, then no harm no foul. Old people need meat too!

Um, did anyone check to see if the deer was sick? The woman claims that she tried to make the deer move with the shovel, but it didn't move. She doesn't say she beat it to death. Did the rocket scientist, I mean animal control officer, ever think that the deer may have been sick? That should have been the # 1 concern, especially if these animals are wandering into people's yards. Oh, wait, I forgot, people don't matter, only animals.. Sorry. what was I thinking?? I guess it's easier to try to rally the animal rights people, who could care less about people, to try to crucify this person. One more thing, who rooted through her trash to find this deer? I hope there was a search warrant.

When a animal does not fear humans.Its time to remind them. Ever see what a deer can do to a human. Leave the Old lady alone

I wonder what they would have done if she had a hunting license.

PEOPLE,this is hard times for most of us,Her garden is something that will help her to survive,I can't blame her.That's just a warning to any one or anything that steps foot in her yard period.I ain't mad.We should be glad she didn't have her gun near,we might of had more than a fawn to talk about.

What about farmers who obtain permits to eliminate animals who destroy their crops. Isn't this the same thing; just in the city? No fire arms were used. Was the fawn hit by a car and was hiding in its final resting place? Another quick dollar for the state/city; go after a real criminal (poacher) and leave the old lady alone.

hmmm...
Looks like she was not thinking clearly...A shovel to the head was not a good idea...it could kill...so to make it move you hit it on the back side and say GET.... not in the head...

when your scared...your not thinking correctly...impulsive reaction

The fawn's mother was probably killed by a car and the fawn was dying of hunger anyhow . It would have been nursing the mother for food and not eating vegetation yet .