[Brian Pfleuger]

In NY, you can take the deer with you but you'd need a DEC or LE officer to dispatch it for you, unless you got permission over the phone. I have heard of that happening. Technically, you need a carcass tag. I believe that most of our local departments have a few on hand, otherwise you have to wait for DEC to show up. Personally, I'd take the animal to a local venison donation drop off point.

Of course, in some areas around here (Ithaca), the LEO has to almost literally peel the animal rights wackos off the animal. One officer told me a story about a deer that an animal rights nutjob had hit and when he arrived she was sitting in the ditch, covered in mud, with the deers head in her lap, stroking it's neck, crying profusely. The poor things spine was literally sticking out of it's skin and she begged, I mean BEGGED, him to "take her to Cornell (vet college) because they can fix her". He finally had to threaten her with a arrest to get her to let go of the thing.