A Minnesota man might be getting off (in the legal sense) after having had sex with a deer. According to the defense, the “animal” had become “venison” by the time the assault took place, as Bryan James Hathaway found the deer’s corpse at the side of the road. According to the public defender, the bestiality law was intended to protect animals, and since the deer was already dead, no real harm was done. The potential future adventures of a man who gets turned on by roadkill are left as an exercise for your nightmares. This is actually an interesting case, if you’re someone with no legal training who likes to speculate. In most regions, animals are considered property under the law, and thus have about as many rights as a coffee table (you may, however, have sex with your coffee table, but please, watch out for splinters), but depending on how this decision goes down (it’s apparently the first time the issue’s come up), the status of meat might be subject to some interesting interpretations in the future. Link.
