Posted on 11/02/2005 4:55:19 AM PST by sweetliberty
BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- For 40 exhausting minutes, Wayne Goldsberry battled a buck with his bare hands in his daughter's bedroom.
Goldsberry finally subdued the five-point whitetail deer that crashed through a bedroom window at his daughter's home Friday. When it was over, blood splattered the walls and the deer lay on the bedroom floor, its neck broken.
Goldsberry was at his daughter's home when he heard glass breaking. He went back to check on the noise and found the deer.
"I was standing about like this peeking around the corner when the deer came out of the bedroom," said Goldsberry, demonstrating while peering around his kitchen wall. The deer ran down the hall and into the master bedroom - "jumping back and forth across the bed."
"I could tell he was really tearing up the place back there," Goldsberry said.
Goldsberry entered the bedroom to confront the deer and, after a brief struggle, emerged to tell his wife to call police. After returning to the bedroom, the fight continued. Goldsberry finally was able to grip the animal and twist its neck, killing it.
"He was trying to get up a corner wall and I just came in behind him and grabbed him by the horns and just started pushing down," said Goldsberry.
Goldsberry, sore from the struggle, dragged the dead animal out of the house.
"He got kicked several times. He was walking bowlegged for awhile," Deputy Doug Gay said.
Benton County Sheriff Keith Ferguson said that when he arrived he found the deer dead in the front yard. Goldsberry intended to have the deer processed for its meat.
Gay said that, this time of year, bucks that see their reflection in windows often charge them, believing the mirror image to be a rival.
On Monday in Pine Bluff, the principal of Coleman Elementary School rid his building of a deer by opening a door. Students were preparing for dismissal Monday when a deer crashed through a window and bounded through a hallway.
The buck floundered on the school's slick floor for about three minutes exiting via a door along the side of a hallway. Principal Bill Tietz said the deer was slightly injured from the glass and lost an antler. Tietz says the animal leapt a six-foot fence after leaving the school.
He better have a license...its illegal to hunt a deer without one..and how about using your daughter as bait..I thought they only did that in Louisiana with "gators"
Are deer susceptible to rabies?
No but there is someone named Gay.
Taking on an antlered buck bare-handed in a bedroom. Were there no knives or guns in the house?
ping a ling...
search "me"
Lasrt time I checked, a buck was not a female deer.
It didn't get very "fa"
If you find your daughter with a white tailed deer in her bedroom, you might be a redneck.
Is there a hunting ping list.? This one is going to be hard to top. And it's a pretty good redneck story, or at least there should be a good joke or two in there.
I wouldnt face a deer with my barehands, I would have shut the door and gone for a gun. One room isnt worth getting hurt for.
There's a farmer's daughter joke in here somewhere.
IIRC all mammals can get rabies, but most prey species like deer usually go off somewhere alone and die.
Nobdy ever accused the AP writers of being particularly bright.
40 minutes; talk about being in a rut...
So ?
Never heard of a deer getting or having rabies.
This time of the year is the mating season for deer. The bucks are in rut, and they will fight any other buck in their territory. He saw his reflection and thought it was another buck, so he attacked.
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