'Celebrity' Hunter Fined for Abusing Duck in Video

Jeff Foiles will no longer get to hunt in Canada for running a-fowl of the law.

An American "celebrity" hunter, Jeff Foiles, has been fined $14,500 by an Edmonton court for breaking a duck's neck on television than mockingly opening and closing the still-alive duck's bill while making quacking noises. Foiles will also be banned from hunting in Canada for the rest of his life. Foiles wasn't in court to hear his sentence, as he is about to serve 13 months in prison in the U.S. for illegally killing other birds. Foiles is the star of "Fallin' Skies," a series of widely watched YouTube videos in which the Illinois native kills birds, in particular ducks, for fun (hence, "fallin' skies"). The Edmonton court ruled that Foiles was guilty of cruelly treating animals as evidenced by one such Fallin' Skies video, in which he travelled to Alberta, shot a duck, broke its neck, and made the aforementioned quacking sounds. But wildlife experts testified that the duck wasn't dead, and that it was suffering immensely from Foiles' behaviour, a contravention of the Migratory Birds Act.