health officials find dead deer in chinese restaurant

Ugh. Oh man. This is disgusting. In Hamburg, New York, health officials shut down a Chinese restaurant after an inspector found employees butchering a dead deer inside the business. I'm not kidding. Disgusting: Restaurant closed after dead deer found in kitchen.

Erie County Health Department officials apparently got a tip about a dead deer in the China King restaurant. Soon after, an inspector arrived and saw the deer being butchered, right there in the kitchen. This is not only gross, but illegal. State health laws prohibit butchering an animal inside a restaurant.

As the reader who sent this item points out, this does not help the cause. It's bad enough that Asian restaurants get a bad rap as dirty eateries that serve dogs and cats and who knows what. This restaurant really was doing something dirty in the kitchen. Nothing wrong with deer meat itself... but this is shady.

Thankfully, there was no indication the deer meat was served to any customers. But imagine being one of the people eating in the restaurant that day, then finding out they were cutting up a dead deer in the back. First, I'd lose my appetite. Then I'd wonder how long I'd been coming to China King to eat, and how long they were butchering deers before they actually got caught.