Posted on 11/05/2013 5:41:26 PM PST by SJackson
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 front of the trailer, a sheriff's office spokesperson said.
"To me, it looks like someone pushed a 50-gallon drum through her trailer," he said.
The hole was about 4 ½ feet off the ground. When Evans first arrived at the scene, he told the shaken driver, "I think whatever you hit is still inside your trailer." No blood was on the trailer.
"I'm thinking the animal is pretty well hurt from the size of the hole. So I peek around the kitchen counter, and I see this 2-by-3 little set of buck deer antlers sticking up over the top of the kitchen counter, and it's standing up," Evans said. "Well, this is not something I see everyday."
As he opened the trailer, he expected to find a dead or injured animal, but saw a three-point buck in good health.
"I can hear the jaw moving, and I can hear the tongue working," Evans said. "It was either licking its front leg or licking something that spilled on the floor. And as I'm looking at this animal, I'm thinking, 'Man, how the heck am I going to get this thing out of the trailer?'"
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.
"The second the camera flashed, the deer turns toward me, his eyes are kind of big, looks toward me, tilts his head down and antlers first comes running out of the back of the trailer full tilt toward me," Evans said. "I kind of let out a little high-pitched scream because I'm between the deer and door. I jump out of the door and run toward the back of the trailer."
"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.' "
The video at the link has some cute pics. How he jumped thru what appears to be the rear of a moving trailer is an interesting question.
Deer hatred for Americans is so great, that it is not unusual at all for them to leap through our windshields to get at us.
Deers kill more Americans than any other animal, is it related to taking the land from the Indians or hatred of our automobiles or what, who knows.
Glad the deer is OK
get out of his FReeping way
Yes
The top gear UK guys agree as the caravan (camper) is not ok.
All deer are green and follow that sage Al Gore. Cars emit bad emissions which destroy the planet, so naturally the car is the #1 enemy of the deer.
What we are witnessing is a type of suicide bomber to take out the cars and promote a green jihad agenda throughout the United States.....said no one ever.....
I live in Southern Wisconsin, and there are Deer-A-Plenty ‘round here.
Last night, while driving back to my farm from Beau’s farm in Ridgeway I saw the most BEAUTIFUL young buck I have EVER seen. Had to slam on the brakes and the Basset Hound ended up in the foot well of the truck, LOL! (He was OK; tough as nails, that boy.)
Anyhow, the buck was small, maybe 2 years old, but he was sporting the most BEAUTIFUL and symmetrical rack I’ve EVER seen in all of my years in the field. I just about wet myself he was near PERFECT!
I sure hope he lives long enough for me to shoot him in a few years; hanging around by the ROAD ain’t a smart place to be, Son! ;)
If only it came through the front window at Denny’s. Then they could put a sign up “ Breakfast For A Buck.”
Very droll!
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So Republicans don’t like dogs, cats or deer...I get it
Speak for yourself
Elliot? Boog?
They call it "trailerkill" in some parts of the country.
The deer went through the front of the trailer. It jumped between the rear of the truck, probably aiming for the gap, but his GPS miscalculated the vehicle speed. That gap couldn’t be more than 6-7 ft from hitch to trailer.
If he’s smart too, he’s reading this.
I ignored what the article said, but you’re right. Looked again and see that now. The ladder threw me off, they’re usually back, and propane tanks are visible, and never in the back.
LOL!
Here’s your deer, now I’m going out to get mine.
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