Reminds me of the case a number of years ago of a fellow worker at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard who spent about two years defending himself in federal court for alledgedly deliberately running over a seagull with a scooter. He finally got off on a technicality (prosecution couldn't provide the dead seagull) but it did cost him a bunch of bucks. And this was at least 15 years ago so I see things haven't much changed.
That is totally different. Killing a seagull is bad luck for sailors. :)