Manicurist butchered a deer in a nail salon. There’s no rule against it, NC board says
A nail salon in North Carolina where a technician butchered a deer on the floor didn’t violate cosmetology laws — mostly because there aren’t any rules for “dead wildlife,” officials said.
Diamond Nails in High Point made headlines last month when a customer posted a picture on social media showing a woman cutting up a deer in the lobby. The N.C. Board of Cosmetic Art Examiners investigated, but the salon won’t be punished.
“No penalty was issued to the salon as the Board does not have any regulations that address dead wildlife,” Stefanie Kuzdrall, business director for the board, told McClatchy news group.
A clock in the photo shows it was 8:05 p.m., she said, indicating the incident also occurred after regular business hours.
But Morgan Taylor, the High Point University student who posted the picture to Facebook on Nov. 21, told McClatchy the employee was butchering the deer for around 40 minutes before she took the photo.
She said the board didn’t ask her any further questions and only used the photograph from her Facebook post to conduct its investigation.
“Hunting for a new nail salon in High Point, North Carolina?” she said in the original post. “Talk about multitaskers... manicures, pedicures, and amateur deer butchers. Oh deer!”
It’s been shared more than 5,000 times.
Taylor reported the incident to the cosmetics board after her appointment at the salon, WFMY reported. She said the technician appeared to be using a kitchen knife — not nail tools — on the deer.
Other employees told her it was deer meat they were splitting up to take home, according to the media outlet.
The manager of the salon told Fox 8 the deer was brought in by a customer at 8:30 p.m. after the shop closed. Only two customers were reportedly still there at the time.
“The meat is usually delivered in a bag, but this time there was too much, so it had to be cut up into smaller pieces,” according to Fox 8.
Diamond Nails has a 95 sanitation rating and one prior infraction — a 2017 civil penalty for possessing callus shavers, which constitute illegal equipment, according to the board’s website.
