Wisc hunter bags deer with seven legs....no, really...

[MnFats]

http://www.fdlreporter.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061213/FON0101/61213119/1985/frontpage


not known if it was taken near Mr. Burns nuclear power plant, home of the three-eyed trout...



“It was definitely a freak of nature,” Lisko said. “I guess it’s a real rarity.”

Lisko had slowed down as a buck and two does ran across the driveway.

“All of a sudden we felt the truck stop,” he said.

The small buck had run underneath his truck, Lisko said. When he got out to look at the deer he noticed three- to four-inch appendages growing from the rear legs and later found a smaller appendage growing from one of the front legs.

“It’s a pretty weird deer. It kind of gives you the creeps when you look at it,” said Lisko, who described the extra legs as looking like “crab pinchers.”

[Swamp Rat]

1. ... or, Lisko was totally drink off his ass and ran down a buck AND a doe,

then called his buddies to help him set up the bigfoot-type story for a share of the meat and some cash from the Enquirer. :D

[Zookeeper]

2. I saw that report earlier today and...

instantly thought of the increase in deformed frogs due to pollution.

This deer is probably a fluke, but if anymore are found it might be something to study.

[AlienGirl]

3. A wildlife biologist in Wisconsin told me about ten years ago the deformation rate is rising

He said he had seen a steady increase in the number of deformed stillborn fawns since the 1960's, and suggested that a combination of pollution and overhunting (taking out big, healthy individuals) was to blame.

Tucker