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This is a classic tale of a hunting outing gone wrong. From Breitbart/Canadian Press…

BURLINGTON, Vt. – A man who bolted antlers to the head of a dead doe and posed for a photograph with the deer was fined $400 and jailed for game violations.

Marcel Fournier, 19, shot the deer the evening of Nov. 22 and used lag bolts and epoxy to attach a 10-point rack, officials said. He then checked in the kill as lawful game at Barnie’s Market.

It’s illegal to kill an antlerless deer, and it’s also illegal to hunt at night.

Lag bolts and epoxy…sounds reasonable. I’ve seen the Grinch like 50 times and old Max the Dog just had his antlers tied on to his head and, that worked out fine. They must be pretty sharp over at Barnie’s market.

Fournier said he had “quite a time” drilling and fastening the antlers, authorities said.

Game warden David Gregory said the antlers didn’t look or feel right.

“When you grabbed them, you’d feel movement,” he said.

“Quite a time”…yes, I would imagine so. First you have to attach the bolts to the antlers the, drill the holes…It’s got to be quite a process.

Col. David LeCours, chief warden of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, said the size of the antlers relative to the size of the deer seemed off.

“Something wasn’t natural about them, in addition to the fact that they weren’t natural,” he said.