When a white-winged dove crashed head-first into
the side of his house and died on impact, Ryan Adams decided to make the best
of a sad situation: a gourmet dinner.
But the Pflugerville, Texas, resident didn't
realize that while he solemnly rubbed the bird with bacon grease and paprika,
he was also rubbing state law enforcers the wrong way.
Though white-winged
doves, a popular game bird, had gone into season in Texas 24 hours before
Adams heard the thump, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department took issue with
the apparently illicit means by which Adams had attained his meal, without
either a gun or a license. The agency opened an investigation into his
activities, according to CBS
Dallas/Fort Worth, finding ample evidence on Adams' blog, where he had
documented the preparation and consumption of the bird in
vivid detail.
"People travel long distances and pay big
bucks to hunt these birds, and one had just been dropped into my hands,"
Adams wrote in his blog post. "A lot of people would either bury or throw
away a dead animal under these circumstances. I am not one of them."
But it turns out that Adams' pioneer mentality
is in conflict with both state and federal law, the latter of which protects
white-winged doves under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
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