I think part of the reaction is due to the, "look at me Ma! No hands!," tone to the story, gushing with I-got-away-with-it pride seen mostly in school yards. I hope it's not true, and it reads too gushy to read true. It looks to me like a reach for attention, like a fishing story told to strangers at a backwater bar - 'you shouda seen the size of that sucker!"

I guess the honorable thing to do would have been to scrape the animal off the pavement and take it to the nearest vet to see what could be done for it./