India, Aug. 9 -- Jeff Evely, a retired veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces, shared a video of himself being fined while walking into the woods. In the video, he said he was on a mountain road in Coxheath, Nova Scotia, near the Department of Natural Resources.

"Nova Scotia just handed me a fine for $28,872.50 for walking into the woods," Evely tweeted while sharing the video. In the clip, he says people are charged a $25,000 fine for going into the woods surrounding the building where conservation officers work.

In the very next moment, he speaks with one of the officers and says, in a very polite manner, that he was going to go into the woods. The conversation between him and the authorities continues. Eventually, he does walk into the...