In Wisconsin, you can get your learner's permit at 15 and 6 months, which allows you to drive so long as you have a parent, guardian, or spouse over 18 who has had a full liscence for two or more years. Once you are sixteen or older and have held your learner's permit for six months and have 30 hours of road practice, including 10 hours of night driving, and can prove that, you can take your road test to try to get a probitionary liscence, which means you can drive by yourself, or with a parent or guardian or spouse in the front seat, as many close family members as you like, and/or one non-close family memeber. After you have held that probitionary liscence for, I believe, six months without getting any tickets, you get a full liscence that allows you to drive where you want with who you want. But if you are under 18, you have to take both a classroom class and a practical class through the Rec department or a certified instructor.



Also: if you are driving and you hit a deer, you have the legal right to that deer. Should you not want the deer, the next person on the scene has a legal right to that deer.

[There is a large section in the Wisconsin DMV handbook about this.]

CyndeeCyanide wrote:

Also: if you are driving and you hit a deer, you have the legal right to that deer. Should you not want the deer, the next person on the scene has a legal right to that deer.

[There is a large section in the Wisconsin DMV handbook about this.]

So wait, you get to keep the deer?
What if it's dead, whats the point in keeping it?
Unless you wanna eat it. Idk if thats big in Wisconsin?
But that would basically be eating roadkill. Bleh.
What if you hit it and it runs off.
This is so weird...

Poor deer. I say bury it instead.

I say it is pretty unlikely a deer with live if you hit it, Unless you're going extremely slow. In that case you shouldn't have hit the deer to begin with.

California has so many laws and restrictions with every aspect of life that I wouldn't know where to begin.

My friends dad eats roadkill, like rabbits and pheasants and pigeons and stuff.

Eh, if he likes to eat roadkill, I guess thats his thing.
And deers actually can live if you hit them, but then they end up dying later due to injuries/intrenal bleeding.
Believe me, we have TONS and TONS of deer here.

I live in the mountains so we have tons of deer here as well, but usually people hit 'em with SUVs to they die

Eating venison is HUGE in Wisconsin. I'm sure Cyndee can attest to that as well. I don't remember that being in the DMV handbook (must've missed it, but I took my license test a MILLION years ago), but I can totally see people in the country doing this. In fact, I had a aunt & uncle that hit a deer (and seriously messed their car up) and kept it for venison.

That being said, I've never hit an animal driving. My husband hit a deer (tried to stop and was going very slow) and didn't even knock it over. It just kept on running (so he hopes it didn't get hurt). He's the most paranoid person about hitting animals with his car! There are a lot of deer & other wild animals here, even in the city. Plus, you have to be careful of domestic animals running loose.

You don't really hear of people eating venison that much around here.
Only from the people who hunt and such.
My brother and dad eat it though, I've prob had it once when I was younger.

I just feel so bad for the poor deer. Like its just walking along eating grass when suddenly...BANG! Its shot in the body and dragged out of the woods to be eaten, have thier skin made into something, or have thier head put on a wall.

Yeah. I would never eat venison. I just can't handle thinking that I'm eating bambi's cousin or something.
I think it is ridiculous and cruel to hunt little animals like rabbits. First off I could never kill an animal (though I do eat meat. I can't handle living off veggies and such because I have too many allergies) but to kill a small animal like that in the wild just for barely any meat is cruel to me. I think if an animal is smaller than a sheep (with the exception of poultry and fish), it shouldn't be killed by humans for food.
Hehe. It all sounds backwards to me seeing as I eat meat, but it makes sense to me.
Actually nothing makes sense to me right now. I'm so incredible tired and I have no clue why.