Reply #25: Good to know [View All]

[clear eye]

Around here (in NY state), even though there is some deer hunting, everyone knows the mob used to put a horse head in the bed of someone they wanted to torture emotionally before killing. So a deer head w/ the antlers off would be assumed to be a fill-in for the horse head. After the Sopranos TV show and the Godfather series of movies, we tend to believe everyone's heard of this.

After reading your reply, I can see how it could be what you said, especially if the hunter couldn't afford taxidermy on the head. That donkey thing seems out of left field to me, too.