Dove Dinner Lands Texas Man In Hot Water With Law
Update October 12, 2012 - Captain Scott Jurk, a Texas Parks and Wildlife game warden, says, "Texas Parks and Wildlife will not be pursuing any charges against Ryan Adams in this case."
DALLAS (KRLD) - A Texas man is in hot water with the law after cooking and eating a dove that had flown against the side of his home, broke its neck and died.
Being dove hunting season in Texas, Ryan Adams thought it was a stroke of luck when he discovered the Texas white-winged dove right next to his home in Pflugerville.
"This is the same bird that hunter's pay just buckets of money to go out and shoot," he said. "They take their time... and I just got one for free?"
Adams decided to do what he thought any aficionado of wild game would do in his shoes -- cook the dove for dinner.
"I have never had such fresh meat before. I had meat that had come to me that was fairly fresh that had slaughtered the week before but never like that day," Adams recalled.
But according to Texas Parks and Wildlife spokesman Steven Lightfoot, that was the wrong thing to do.
"It is illegal to possess any wildlife resource that has not been taken legally," Lightfoot explained. "By legal I mean there are certain means and methods... you have to have a hunting license and you have to have the appropriate weapon and ammunition."
Lightfoot says Adams would have had the right to eat the bird if he had legally hunted it and since those weren't the circumstances he should have turned it over to a game warden.
The state agency is now investigating Adams. While the evidence in the case has been eaten, Adams made the 'mistake' of posting step-by-step pictures of his "epicurean dove cook-out" on his blog.
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