Why not? I’m a bit surprised that folks in Kentucky, of all places, would rat on them.
One of my daughters ran into a deer in her car earlier this year. After a game warden was called and shot the deer to finish it off, he told her she could bring it home and eat it.
One of our sons went and cut it up for her, and they made part of it into delicious sausage, which went into our freezer. Yummers.
The see that Chinese restaurant owners said they planned to eat it themselves, not serve it to customers.
Anyway, hopefully they can reopen, once inspectors determine that they have “sanitized” the place, whatever that means.
I have a friend in New Mexico who has a permit from the game warden to salvage fresh deer killed on the highways.
One night she was cutting up a fresh kill by the side of the road when the game warden drove up and told her half a dozen passers by had called him about “poaching” there. She was allowed to continue to cut up the deer with no problems.