South Dakota Attorney General reported hitting a deer with his car....but actually hit a person!

I mean.....it happens after a few brews, ya know?

He looks like his parents were siblings.

My parents were NOT siblings! They were cousins.

How much you want to bet he was drunk?

Oh, he has puffy alkie-face.

His face looks like a dirty pillow.

Don't listen to Patsy Cline and go walkin' after midnight.

I hate when that happens.

Was it Stephen King?

Moobs, gunt

Who calls the police to tell them he hit an animal on the road? Obvious attempt to justify fleeing the scene.

“The event was hosted at Rooster’s Bar and Grill from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.”. Accident at 10:30. Drunk.

When Fargo comes true

Maybe for insurance reasons, R11? But yeah, it does sound like he was trying to cover for what had happened.

Oh, deer!

Yeah. I’ve come across deer many a time, and even while driving through dark, two lane roads, your high beams are on and there no mistaking a deer with a human being on a motorcycle, a bicycle, a moped, or on foot.

He’s going to prison. 👋🏽

[quote] there no mistaking a deer with a human being

You've obviously never seen a South Dakota woman in moonlight.

Wow, what a chicken shit piece of crap. He knew damn good and well it was a person.

It was his RIGHT to do that! He has personal FREEDOMS! I’m so sick of these EXPERTS and their silly investigations!

I KNOW WHAT YOU DID!

I KNOW WHAT YOU DID!

(forgot the link...sorry but I'm dead and my body is shattered, so gimme a break ok??)

I know what you did last Sturgis.

[quote]He's going to prison.

Wanna bet, R15? South Dakota ain't what she used to be.

Well, if it was one of those Covid infested Sturgis Motorcycle guys, this works out well for everyone.

Has South Dakota always been this fucked up and I just wasn't paying attention? All of the sudden, they seem like "Northern" Florida.

Oh dear.

The fact that this scumbag is South Dakota's attorney general is all you need to know about the lawlessness and depravity of everything that is going on in that state in regards to law enforcement and judicial process.

What a shitty driver.

How is he going to prison? He was drunk and killed someone but there's no way to prove it. We had it on a thread once where a drunk guy killed a woman but didn't report it till the next day. Even the judge regretted having to free the guy because he knew what happened but there was no way to prove he was drunk. By the time it's reported the alcohol has left the system.

R28, have you ever heard of vehicular manslaughter? Leaving the scene of a deadly accident? Just because they don’t have a BAC on him, doesn’t mean he can’t be charged and/or do time for a crime.

People at the bar can testify about his drinking.

Fleeing the scene is a crime even without proving he was drunk. Common sense will tell a jury that a “I think I killed a deer, but I didn’t stop to check“ phone call to the police is nothing but an attempt to justify fleeing the scene of a fatal accident.

A time-honored tradition among South Dakota Republican politicians.

(And this one WAS convicted of vehicular manslaughter.)

Good lord! He looks like he was sculpted by Ardman Animation!

Of course he was drunk. Hell, he looks drunk in that photo in the article. Sloppy dressed mook with a face that would make an onion cry.

That face is going to land him in jail.

On the other hand, he was driving a 2011 Ford Taurus, so a jury might conclude he’s suffered enough.

He is giving me Mark McKinney (kids in the Hall) vibes. A face only a mother could love - everyone else wants to punch it

He was drunk. Otherwise, one can easily tell something you ran over wasn't a deer

At least it wasn't a little piggy!

He 'thought' he hit a deer. How are you going to disprove that? And leaving the scene of hitting an animal is not a crime. Or is it?

Yeah, the fact that he called the police after "hiitting a deer" is totally suspicious. He was drunk and knew what he did and he was trying to cover his tracks. I hope the dead man's family goes after him with all they've got.

If they can prove he was drinking, he is up shits creek.

R27 you should see him putt.

We need Marge Gunderson to investigate!

Not a purdy mouth.

I was a Democrat he hit so no biggie

He looks ready to play Dueling Banjos.

When you hit something on the road. Stop the car and get out and see what you did.

This is a good movie. Woman hits something and doesn't check to see what she did.

His breath is probably perma Kraft Mac N Cheese.

He looks...special. Like Cory, grown up. remember him?

R49, ya mean Corky?

LawD forgive me for how many times I’ve belly-laughed while reading this thread. My sympathy to the victim, seriously.

R47, that looks good! I’m off to find it. Thanks for the recommend.

He had a history of speeding infractions

"Book it, Danno -- that's a 437 - Death by Republican."

In our.state one is obliged to call the cops when one hits a deer or other large animal. I think many states have the same law.

It’s sad to think that a deer might have been killed.

C'mon. It's not like it's unusual in South Dakota.

At least it wasn't the deer that got killed...they're cute. Hopefully, it was just some dumbass repugnican.

The part of mutant freak Attorney General for South Dakota will be played by...fat, fucked up, slurry Matthew Perry.

He looks like a younger version of Thayer David of Dark Shadows and Journey To The Center Of The Earth fame.

Well, according to the WaPo, he did call it in after it happened. Both he and the policeman searched the area, did not see a body of a deer or anything else. When they drove back to the area the next morning, then they found the body.

That’s very disappointing, r61.

Washington Post also says he was not drinking at all the night of the accident.

Looks like he’s not guilty. Oh well.

If I hit something/someone with my car, I would get out and see what it was, I wouldn't drive away and then come back hours or the next day to see what it was.

He did get out. And he waited for the police. He could not drive his car. He had no choice.

"He did get out. And he waited for the police. He could not drive his car. He had no choice."

And he apparently can't tell the difference between a person and a deer

[quote] If I hit something/someone with my car, I would get out and see what it was,

I wouldn’t want to see a mangled dead body, especially if I were the the one who caused it. I’d rather wait to be contacted, if ever.

Here's a good twitter thread about the shadiness of his claims

He and the sheriff are good buddies...

Good friends with the Sheriff = cover-up

The story stinks on ice.

Yes, the whole thing is very strange. He claims he called 911--but law enforcement could not confirm that. There's also the weird fact that he went back to the scene the next day with his chief of staff. Why would he do that? Allegedly, he and his buddy, the sheriff, didn't find anything the night of the accident (although he was also convinced that he had hit a deer). Why would he go back the next day to look for the body of a dead deer?

I assume the deer and the person were both brown, so honest mistake, amirite?

Cripes Almighty why do I keep coming to this thread? His facial features are shrinking and his forehead and chin are standing strong. It gets worse with every picture that gets posted. There are so many haunting threads here but I have a feeling that this one may be my undoing

[quote] The part of mutant freak Attorney General for South Dakota will be played by...fat, fucked up, slurry Matthew Perry.

No Matt Damon from Team America: World Police will be playing the AG:

[bold]South Dakota AG pushed by critics to resign over new evidence in fatal car incident: ‘He knew what he hit and he lied’[/bold]

Days after South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg fatally struck a man while driving in September, detectives told the Republican official they had found a pair of broken reading glasses inside his Ford Taurus. They belonged to the man he killed.

That was a problem, detectives said, because Ravnsborg, 44, said he didn’t know he had hit a man until the following day, when he returned to the scene and found the body of Joseph Boever, 55, in a ditch.

“They’re Joe’s glasses, so that means his face came through your windshield,” one of the detectives said in an interview released by the South Dakota Department of Public Safety on Tuesday.

The interviews raise questions about the conduct of the state’s top law enforcement official in the Sept. 12 incident, giving fuel to a chorus of lawmakers demanding he leave office. On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of lawmakers filed two articles of impeachment against Ravnsborg, who has since been charged with three misdemeanors, and South Dakota Gov. Kristi L. Noem (R) called for his resignation.

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