Man Who Parked Directly in Front of Hunter’s Deer Blind Told Game Wardens He ‘Was Out There to Be a Pain’

A Michigan man who was caught harassing a deer hunter on the Upper Peninsula this past season didn’t even try to downplay the chaos he’d been causing, according to an arrest report cited by Michigan Live. When approached by two officers with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, the man told them he “was out there to be a pain.” 

The incident occurred in late 2025 in Marquette County, according to the report. The two game wardens, Officer John Kamps and Sgt. Mark Leadman, had responded to a call from the hunter, who’d complained about ongoing harassment by the man. They saw the menace coming in hot soon after they arrived in the deer woods.

“[The officers] observed a subject drive his vehicle up to another person’s deer blind and park right behind their bait,” the report states, according to MLive. “The suspect confessed that he was out there to ‘be a pain’ and interfere with the complainant’s hunt.”

Along with the blatant case of hunter harassment, the DNR officers reportedly had evidence that the same man had destroyed a deer blind earlier in the season. (It’s unclear if that blind was owned or being used by the same deer hunter who called in the complaint.) Officer Kamps also recognized the unnamed man from earlier in the year, when he cited him for hunting without a license and driving with a loaded firearm in the car.

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The DNR did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but given the man’s previous citation, he doesn’t exactly fit the mold of an anti-hunter. Except, of course, for his remarkable and unapologetic ability to be a pain in (at least) one hunter’s ass.