Department of Silly Rules

I'd say the joke's on the the hunters:

A 16-year-old girl has bagged a 10-foot alligator in a South Carolina swamp. In the middle of the night. With a crossbow. The State newspaper in Columbia reported that Cammie Colin won one of 1,000 lottery slots for the state's annual public alligator harvest. Hunters are required to use a crossbow or a harpoon.

Among other rules laid down by the South Carolina Fish & Wildlife Department:

"Then, when you have found the shrubbery, you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest... wiiiiith... a herring!"