Posted on 11/04/2013 2:19:55 PM PST by colorcountry
PANGUITCH — A buck surprised a sheriff and a driver after it ended up in the trailer the woman was hauling.
About 3 p.m. Sunday, a woman driver hauling a travel trailer called the Garfield County Sheriff's Office saying she had hit something while traveling on Highway 89 just outside of Panguitch. When Conservation Officer Micah Evans arrived, he noticed a hole about 2 feet in diameter in the side of the trailer, a sheriff's office spokesperson said. No blood was on the trailer.
As he opened the trailer, he expected to find a dead or injured animal, but saw a three-point buck in good health.
Standing in the doorway, Evans took a picture with his camera of the buck. The flash went off and the buck sprang toward the doorway, Evans jumped out of the way, then the buck leapt over a barbed wire fence and ran away, according to the sheriff's office.
"All involved were a bit stunned by this strange occurrence," the sheriff's office wrote in a press release. "Sheriff Perkins on the scene jokingly said to the woman, ‘We're going to have to fine you for hunting without a license,' to which the woman replied ‘But I didn't kill it.' "
Pictures at link. I can’t figure out how to post them here. Story happened in my hometown.
Good thing it wasn’t a moose. Why did she have a barbed wire fence in her trailer? (JK)
It looks like the hole is in the back? Did the deer run up on the trailer and crash into the back of it? Strange...
I had a deer broadside my car once. Left a very clear sideways imprint of a deer on the passenger side.
Well, all things considered, it turned out pretty well for the deer, at least.
I know how to post pictures, but it didn’t work using the image location from the original site.
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A good friend had that happen to her a couple of autumns ago. Brand new Dodge Magnum. Nice deer guard on the front of the car and the deer hit the side. $3000 damage. I didn't know that sweet little church-going lady knew such language...
That does not speak highly for trailer construction, does it? It looks about a sturdy as a paper bag if a deer can pass through unscathed.
Ha! Thanks for the link. I was using < a href> instead of < img src>. Don’t know what I was thinking!
I was having a loud discussion with the guys one day about whether sheep or deer were the stupidest animal on earth. I won the argument when I related that case and asked "Ever hear of a sheep doing something like that?"
LOL!
MF Deer, Damn dog!
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And yet my brain still perceived it correctly, does that mean my brain is warped? Well yeah, no need to answer the obvious.
Yes, just as often as not, the deer runs you into rather than you running into the deer. I’ve “hit” a deer once in my life. I have been hit by deer twice, however.
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