Local Boy Scout Workers Fired for Helping Injured Bald Eagle

They say no good deed goes unpunished, and two Boy Scout summer camp workers have learned that lesson the hard way.

The workers were fired recently after finding and rescuing a bald eagle at a camp in Virginia, and now they argue a new policy is needed for the camp on how to deal with injured wildlife, according to a WTOP report.

The two fired workers are 20-year-old twin siblings Jeremy and Eliana Bookbinder of Accokeek, Md., who came upon a badly injured young bald eagle near the camp on June 26 at Camp Marriott in Goshen, Va., according to the report.

An Eagle Scout supervisor told them to leave the bird alone, but the Bookbinders didn't think it would survive the night -- it was so sick that it was reportedly too weak to make alarm calls that it would typically make when humans approached it.

So they captured the bird and took it to a wildlife rehabilitator, and the camp subsequently fired them. The camp accused them of breaking the law, but the Bookbinders stood their ground, demanding an apology and a change in the policy. They believe that a policy should be in place to take injured wildlife to a rehabilitation center as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, the eagle's wing was broke in multiple places and it was too badly injured to be saved, so authorities put it down, according to the report.

Image via Camp Marriott