If you ever wanted those mean ol’ hunters who killed poor Bambi’s mom to get their just desserts, then here’s a piece of news that’ll likely put a smile on your face: As reported by the Springfield News-Leader (via The Washington Post), a poacher from Missouri named David Berry Jr., who was responsible for the illegal killing of “several hundred deer” over a three-year period, has been ordered to watch Walt Disney’s animated classic Bambi once a month from jail, as a special addition to his sentence mandated by the judge. We reached out to the Springfield News-Leader for confirmation, but have not heard back at time of publication.
If you ask us, this sounds less like prison, a lot more like the “ Harmony Hut“from the classic movie Addams Family Values, but if it teaches some empathy to some people who don’t have any, then we’re all for it. Two other men were arrested alongside David Berry Jr. for the same crime, but so far, they have escaped the Bambi-watching “punishment.” But if there’s any justice in this world, they’ll be hearing Thumper do his thump twelve times next year too.
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