Don't have a link for this, took it from my local paper:
Jackson, Ky. (AP) - Randolph Scott Stidham was so proud of shooting an enormous deer he drove it around town in the back of his pickup to show it off to friends.
They broke the news: He had actually bagged one of 1,300 protected elk that wildlife officials have been trying to restore to the state's Appalachian mountains.
Now Stidham, 38, faces more than $8,000 in fines and up to a year in jail.
"Anyone who mistakenly shoots an elk is an idiot", said Roy Grimes, deputy state fish and wildlife commissioner. "If a person cannot tell the differnece between an elk and a deer, they should get rid of thier firearms".
Jackson, Ky. (AP) - Randolph Scott Stidham was so proud of shooting an enormous deer he drove it around town in the back of his pickup to show it off to friends.
They broke the news: He had actually bagged one of 1,300 protected elk that wildlife officials have been trying to restore to the state's Appalachian mountains.
Now Stidham, 38, faces more than $8,000 in fines and up to a year in jail.
"Anyone who mistakenly shoots an elk is an idiot", said Roy Grimes, deputy state fish and wildlife commissioner. "If a person cannot tell the differnece between an elk and a deer, they should get rid of thier firearms".