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Wisconsin Hunter Bags Deer With 7 Legs
Richard Lisko, who lives near Waucousta, Wis., holds out one of the extra legs located half way up the leg of a deer he hit with his truck last month on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2006, in Waucousta. Lisko hunts deer with a bow but got his most unusual one driving his truck down his mile-long driveway. The young buck had nub antlers — and seven legs. Lisko said it also had both male and female reproductive organs. "It was definitely a freak of nature," Lisko said. (AP Photo/The Reporter, Patrick Flood)
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It was tasty.
It had both male and female genitals.
It threw itself under a truck.
It had seven legs.
Get me my banjo, I feel a country song coming on.
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#3 - Wed Dec 13, 2006 9:32 PM ESTDon't be so stereotypical Winsome, It's Wisconsin not the Ozarks. It's more like "Get my cheese and a chain saw. I feel a mass murder coming on."
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OOOOOOH My Beagle's got tapeworm and the whiskey bottles dry.
My pickups all rusty sweet Jesus don't try
to tell me I'm lucky there's no reason why
My wife up and left me i can't button my shirt
My nails are all bitten and ingrained with dirt
My dandruff's all clumpy it gives me the jitters
It falls from my head like po ta to fritters
My farm is a mess i'm not much of a grower
But I'm much better off than this deer I runned over.
OOOOOH etc etc, thank you thank you I'll be here all week, try the venison.
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Sweet @!$%#. I've seen people get record deals for less, winsome.
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OOOOOOH My Beagle's got tapeworm and the whiskey bottles dry.
My pickups all rusty sweet Jesus don't try
to tell me I'm lucky there's no reason whyMy wife up and left me i can't button my shirt
My nails are all bitten and ingrained with dirt
My dandruff's all clumpy it gives me the jitters
It falls from my head like po ta to fritters
My farm is a mess i'm not much of a grower
But I'm much better off than this deer I runned over.OOOOOH etc etc, thank you thank you I'll be here all week, try the venison.
Brilliant.
the end of that song can be ".....but she's still my sister!"
- 1 vote
I have to say it... Picture or video or it didn't happen.
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#4 - Wed Dec 13, 2006 9:41 PM ESTThe Fond du Lac Reporter has pictures of the seven-legged deer.
- 7 votes
Hey cool, I couldn't find these when I did a search. Not quite what I was expecting, but thanks for the link, Andy.
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Aw...man. It's not seven-legged, it's just polydactyl. Not that I have ever heard of such a thing in a prey animal...
The guy who hit it...er...had the misfortune to have it "run under his truck"...is pretty scary, though. I give him credit for being willing to eat it, all things considered.
- 7 votes
Not really seven legged, just had tiny legs growing off of its main legs.
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#8 - Thu Dec 14, 2006 5:52 AM ESTGive it up about "seven legs!"
Lets get into the spelling: "Du claw?" I thought it was "Dew claw." WTF is a "du" claw? A nail from an obscure band (without the umlaut)?
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#10 - Thu Dec 14, 2006 10:35 AM ESTWhy would you eat the thing???
Scientists want stuff like this, but instead -- "It was tasty."
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#11 - Thu Dec 14, 2006 10:41 AM ESTAgreed. It would have at least been nice to get a DNA sample. Not a lot of science can be done based solely on photographs, though.
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I doubt pretty seriously that many scientists would want the thing, unless there was something REALLY weird about it, or if it were becoming a relatively common sighting to see mutated deer.
Genetic mutations are common in nature. Any life-threatening mutations or defects usually kill the animal, and we never see it.
In this case, the mutation did not harm the animal so it lived long enough for a guy to 'find' it.
Even humans are not immune to genetic mutations and defects. Children are born with 'extra' genitals, vestigial tails, and even organs outside their bodies. With present medical technology, we are often able to 'correct' these defects and mutations, where years ago a child born with its heart outside its body would typically die during childbirth or shortly thereafter.
So no, other than being a funny, anecdotal news story, there isn't much scientific interest in this case.
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Once you look at the pictures it doesn't look quite as freakish as the headline would lead one to believe. Since it survived to adulthood I'm guessing that it was perfectly safe to eat.
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#12 - Thu Dec 14, 2006 12:26 PM ESTI am not sure I would have eatten a 7 legged double sexed deer and anything else for that matters. There must have been something wrong with it in the first place to give it this special condition.
You hear now and then of a doe with antlers, but this is different.
I to hunt deer, but have never seen anything as unusual as a 7 legged deer.
Might have been better to mount it and take lots of pictures. But not to sure I would have taken the change on eating it. It might have been drinking from the wrong pond.
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#13 - Thu Dec 14, 2006 2:51 PM ESTcall me when the deer has 7 fully formed/functioning legs, 3 sets of Antlers, and an extra eye behind it's left ear. Until then, quit bothering society with this nonsense!
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#14 - Thu Dec 14, 2006 5:35 PM ESTWow I got here late and the article was gone, except for the picture. I thought the web was supposed to always keep things there somewhere. It makes you wonder about the availability of old news articles and any research someone may want to do. I am sure that this is still out there somewhere. I guess I will have to look for it.
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