Men Put Gutted Deer In Shopping Cart At Virginia Walmart
SHORT PUMP, Va. (CBS) -- One doesn't expect to find a dead deer in a shopping cart in Walmart, but that's what happened in Virginia earlier this week.
Denise Collier-Bailey told the Richmond CBS affiliate WTVR-TV that she and her daughter saw a gutted deer in a shopping cart that was dripping blood when they walked into the store in Short Pump on Tuesday night.
Collier-Bailey said she couldn't believe what she saw.
"The things you see at Walmart," she told WTVR. "This just topped it all."
Walmart spokesman Charles Crowson told WTVR that a customer alerted store management about the deer and a manager told the two men who had it in the shopping cart to leave.
Crowson added that the dead deer did not make it into the shopping areas of the store.
Lee Walker of the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries explained to WTVR that the hunters may have been trying to follow state law.
"It appears that they were trying to follow the law by checking in the harvested deer, but were not at an approved check station," Walker said. "In most cases hunters do not bring harvested game actually into an approved checked station, but rather have someone from the store come out to verify the harvest and to record the needed information."