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Armadillo road kill for dinner is at least a meme in the Deep South (USA), not sure if anyone still does that.

The bumper on a 90s pickup is about the perfect height for a clean neck break on a turkey. Wild turkey is a great meal regardless of how you kill it (within reason, turning it inside out with a 12ga slug is not going to improve anything)

If I hit a Moose you can bet your ass I'm taking it home. If you're gonna need to go car shopping you might as well get a free moose out of it. I actually passed up a (likely once in a lifetime) chance to get one someone in front of me hit because I was in a SUV that wasn't mine and didn't want to explain why the carpet was covered in blood.

I'd steer clear of eating anything that has tire marks on it though. From what I hear (2nd hand) beating it up like that ruins the meat.

You couldn't give 25% of the meat to the sub owner or use the roof (yeah I know it might have been crushed. Moose r big)

In Anchorage, Alaska there is a moose roadkill call list you can get on. The authorities will call you (day or night) when a moose is struck. If you're willing to come out and harvest it, it's yours. If not, they move down the list to the next person. My brother has gotten a moose or two that way.

Usually the impact point(s) is/are pretty wrecked, but the majority of the meat is good. And, of course, Anchorage is a natural refrigerator (or freezer) most times of the year.

All sort of curious connections can appear in this cases. Armadillo re-connect humans with leprosy for example. Is the unique known vector apart of other humans and the only inmune vector. This is really strange if we take in mind that Leprosy started probably in Asia as an indian organism living on some unknown animal.

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