For acts bordering on sociopathy, we have this: Farmer snapped over Pelicans. According to his lawyer, he simply "snapped". Having worked in the field, I have dealt with the stupid and arrogant decisions people make regarding wildlife. While everyone focuses on the act itself, let's look at the decisions he made leading to this. He chooses to rent and farm land immediately adjacent to a lake and does this for several years despite the birds nesting there. It is only seven acres of rented land yet he still insists and rather than giving up, he continues. Finally, instead of saying it is only seven acres, he chooses, after being warned, to destroy them, assuming officials aren't returning. And to top it off, he has received almost 600,000 in farm subsidies. This shows precisely just how messed up farm policy is; subsidies for destroying things.