Over nearly nine years, David Berry and his two sons, David Berry Jr. and Kyle Berry, killed the deer, mostly at night, then cut off their heads and antlers — leaving the bodies to rot where they fell. There was financial motivation in the carnage, but authorities said collecting the deer heads was mostly about ego. As David Berry Jr. will undoubtedly learn, those are the last words Bambi’s anthropomorphic mother utters. David Berry Jr. was ordered to watch the Walt Disney movie "Bambi" at least once each month during his one-year jail sentence in what conservation agents are calling one of the largest deer poaching cases in Missouri history. For example, in 2008, a Cleveland Housing Court judge ordered a landlord convicted of multiple violations to serve house arrest in one of his own dilapidated units.

Source: Washington Post December 17, 2018 21:43 UTC