MASON COUNTY, MI -- The latest installment from the you-can't-make-this-up series begins with a man covered in blood hanging out behind a gas station in a small town.

Mason County Sheriff Kim Cole provides the narrative:

Upon seeing the bloodied man at the Scottville EZ Mart, a customer is understandably alarmed, and reports the suspicious man to a gas station clerk. The clerk attempts a conversation but quickly realizes the man is inebriated and calls 911 at 2:50 p.m. Monday, Nov. 13.

Before Mason County deputies arrive at the station on U.S. 10 east of Ludington, the blood-covered individual climbs into the backseat of a random gas station customer's vehicle before leaving and wandering into a house trailer next door.

Arriving deputies see blood on the lawn, steps and front door of the trailer and knock on the door. A 62-year-old man covered in blood answers the door and police point out the blood on the steps and ask him who is injured.

"That's not blood, that's Santa Claus," the man tells officers.

And then the man screams and rushes out the door at the officers, wrestling with them in the yard until they are able to take him into custody. The sheriff's office later would pursue a criminal charge against the man for resisting and obstructing officers.

A second man, also with blood covering his hands, comes to the door and deputies ask him who's been injured. He directs the officers inside to a bedroom where they find a man sitting on a bed. That man says he's not injured, but a man in the bathroom is.

The deputies enter the bathroom and find an uninjured man standing in the shower.

At that time, the deputies also discern the unmistakable smell of charcoal. When they go to investigate, they find venison cooking on an outdoor grill.

They investigate further and determine the four men, who clearly were intoxicated, had found a dead deer that had been hit by a car in front of the trailer. They had gotten out some knives, cut off hunks of the deer and thrown them on the grill.

Apparently, they forgot to clean up after preparing their road kill supper.