Tuesday, November 08, 2005

A Display of Manhood

BENTONVILLE, Ark. — For 40 exhausting minutes, Wayne Goldsberry battled a buck with his bare hands in his daughter's bedroom.
Goldsberry finally subdued the five-point whitetail deer that crashed through a bedroom window at his daughter's home Friday.
When it was over, blood splattered the walls and the deer lay dead on the bedroom floor, its neck broken.
Goldsberry was at his daughter's home when he heard glass breaking. He went back to check on the noise and found the deer.
"I was standing about like this peeking around the corner when the deer came out of the bedroom," Goldsberry said.
The deer ran down the hall and into the master bedroom, he said, "jumping back and forth across the bed."
Goldsberry, about 6-feet-1 and 200 pounds, entered the bedroom to confront the deer and, after a brief struggle, emerged to tell his wife to call police. After returning to the bedroom, the fight continued.
The man finally was able to grip the animal and twist its neck, killing it.
Goldsberry, sore from the struggle, dragged the dead animal out of the house.
"He got kicked several times. He was walking bowlegged for a while," Deputy Doug Gay said.
At this time of year, a buck that sees its reflection in a window often charges, believing it is fighting off a rival, Gay said.
Goldsberry had the deer butchered.
"He's in the freezer," the man said before walking to the kitchen and showing off pounds of freshly wrapped venison.


Damn. Thanks for making me feel like a little girl, Wayne. Perhaps the reason you were walking bowlegged for awhile is because of those giant balls you're sportin'.

Although the details of this story are pretty vague and I'm a bit suspicious. Why isn't the daughter named? Could it be that she is under investigation? Perhaps the story actually unfolded like this:

Wayne Goldsberry and his wife are visiting their daughter in their mountain home in Arkansas. After telling old family stories and throwing back a case of beer, everyone goes to bed. In the middle of the night, Wayne is awakened by his cottonmouth and a desperate need to piss. He walks down the hallway to the bathroom when he feels a cold draft coming from his daughter's room. He opens the door to discover the window wide open and even more surprising, a buck lying in bed with his daughter. Filled with rage, he jumps into the bed and grabs the buck by the antlers. With the daughter screaming, "No daddy! We're in love!," Wayne twists the buck's head, snapping its neck. Remembering the shame the Goldsberry family felt after the incident with his son and a bighorn sheep, everyone agrees that nobody can learn the truth of this deadly night. They then proceed to stage a break-in, smashing the window, cutting the buck, and smearing his blood throughout the house. Once the scene is set, they call the police, and only the father is allowed to talk, with the rest of the family nodding in the background. While the story isn't convincing, Deputy Gay (yes that's his name) is sympathetic to the Goldsberry's situation and suggests, "Perhaps the buck saw his reflection in a window and charged it." And this is how the police report is officially filed.

2 Comments:

At Wed Nov 09, 09:10:00 AM PST , Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's nice to know that, even in the world of deer wrestling, if you get kicked in the nuts you're allowed a time-out.

"after a brief struggle, (he)emerged to tell his wife to call police. After returning to the bedroom, the fight continued...He got kicked several times. He was walking bowlegged for a while..."

 
At Thu Nov 10, 01:05:00 AM PST , Blogger insomniac said...

That reminds me- if you're out camping and you encounter a deer in the wild...don't cover your balls in salt. You might think that they just lick, but they actually nibble; and not in a good way.

 

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