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ANALYSIS

More than five weeks after armed men seized an Oregon wildlife refuge, leading to a deadly standoff and a dozen arrests, the occupation of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge continues.

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And it’s getting weird.

In a video posted online Sunday, one of the four remaining occupiers films himself doing donuts in a U.S. government vehicle and challenges the Feds to charge him for it.

“I want the FBI to see this,” says David Fry, a 27-year-old dental assistant from Cincinnati who has been running the occupation’s YouTube account. “This is how I say ‘Screw you, (expletive) (with) your little charges.’

“You see this? It’s a U.S. government vehicle,” he says, filming himself climb into a pickup truck with federal plates. “I think I want to take it on a little joy ride. You know? Yeah. Let’s start this baby up. Now you’ve got another charge on me, FBI. I am driving your vehicle.”

The pranky stunt illustrated how far the occupation, once led by brawny Marlboro-man lookalikes, has fallen. The defiant videos, nearly a dozen of which have been posted by Fry and two of his fellow holdouts in the past two days, also betray signs of the occupiers’ increasing isolation and aimlessness.