Back just before Christmas 1998 I was driving my brother home and an obviously stupid spike buck ran into the side of my truck and got it's right rear leg hooked by my back bumper and I obviously had to stop the deer was sitting in a sphinx pose and looking at me as I approached but couldn't get up because it's back was broken just forward of the pelvis but it tried mightily and fell down again and my brother said "enough is enough" and whacked on the head with my a tire iron and the deer just glared at him, so I hit it with my three-cell maglite and instead of a hollow "thunk" it made a dull sound like breaking a glass jar wrapped in duct tape and the deer was "departed" and no longer uncooperative about getting into the back of my truck.
But the Better story is family legend my uncle and a buddy found a deer in the middle of the road and swiftly tossed it into the trunk of his car and started to drive home to where they lived on the other side of the Delaware river across the Milford toll bridge back into NJ and somewhere around this time the deer which was apparently only stunned woke up and stuck it's head out of the trunk into the back seat (His car was a 1963 Pontiac Tempest convertable) he became aware of this a few miles down the road when he felt it breathing on the back of his neck! But the toll gate area was brightly illuminated, SO After they finished the job of dispatching the deer (which had three broken legs) and got it out of the trunk, the Toll takers shift had ended and he drove down to the farm and demanded a share of the deer... (it was a rural area where everybody literally knew everybody else) this all being back about 1968 so the Statute of limitations is LONG expired...