Posted on 11/20/2012 7:57:33 AM PST by crusty old prospector
Whitehouse, Texas Joseph Rose and Cole Kellis were leaving their home in Whitehouse on Friday morning when they noticed a deer in their front yard.
Rose approached the deer and he says the deer seemed friendly. But then Kellis and Rose say the deer then charged them and started to attack.
Rose and Kellis ran to Rose's pick-up truck to try to get away from the wild buck. The deer then "poked" Rose in his ribs, so Rose jumped out of his truck into the back-bed. Rose says he left his driver-side door open and the deer climbed in and took his pack of cigarettes that were sitting in his center console.
The deer starting eating Rose's smokes, and when Rose tried to get them back, Rose says the deer got more aggressive.
They then had to call Whitehouse police and the Game Warden. When police arrived they had to tase the deer and then Rose says it took more than 5 men to restrain the buck.
KETK spoke to Smith County Game Warden, Dustin Dockery, and he says, "Admire deer from a distance but do not approach them because they can be dangerous."
Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em. Guess the buck may have had to find ‘em first.
A buck in rut is like a woman having PMS and equally scary.
North Liberty County out in the Trinity river bottom.
Back in the days when I worked as a theatrical animal handler I had just finished a shoot for a biblical TV program with a Nubian goat when I went outside to wait for my ride back to the stable and to have my first cigarette of the day. That blasted animal grabbed the pack out of my hand and gobbled it down in a hurry.
And if they ever do an autopsy on Fordham University’s ram (their mascot), they’ll find the remains of more than one cigarette in his belly.
I am in Anderson County this morning. I think the rut is over here. Scrapes all look very old.
If only government sex ed teachers understood the power and danger of hormones.
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