Butchered a rotting deer in my parents crawl space with my best friend.
We were driving in a heavily wooded area when we came upon a deer in the road. It looked like it had just been hit and died recently (spoiler: it had not). So we load it into the truck bed and take it to my house. We hang it upside down and start the process. The second I punctured the abdominal cavity with the knife I could hear a slight hissing sound, I knew I had fucked up. As I withdrew the knife the cavity exploded, sending this viscous black colored blood all over my friend and I’s faces and fronts. My friends jaw instinctively dropped when this happened and he tasted it on accident, which led to him projectile vomiting.
We knew that this deer was way far gone, the meat was in no way safe. However, we were into tanning hides at the time and decided that we could salvage this situation and at least get a sweet deer hide out of it. So we trudged on. Around this time my mom stuck her head into the crawl space to see what was going on after hearing us yelling and dry heaving. She was greeted by me and my friend, covered in disgusting blood and entrails, innocently peeking out from behind this abomination. She screwed up her face and yelled “What the hell guys that thing reeks, you’re covered in blood, the house is going to smell awful, get it out of here NOW!”
So we reluctantly took the now-skinned deer off the hook and began the walk to the tree line near the clubhouse... it was dark by now and as we started swinging the corpse back and forth to build up momentum so it would get further out into the woods we hear someone scream “WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!?”
It was some lady walking her dog around the clubhouse. She said “Is that a dog? Did you sick fucks skin a dog??” My friend quietly said “uhh no”, but we were covered in tons of blood and already felt like we were in trouble so we just bolted and left the skinned carcass a few feet into the woods. Thankfully it was dark enough that the lady didn’t recognize us. We went back to the house and my mom had already laid out Clorox and scrubbers for us, so we spent the next two hours cleaning the crawl space. Then we went inside and drank a bunch of vodka that I had an older kid buy for us, fun times.