Crystal Lake? Crystal Lake?!
A deer wouldn't last a minute in Crystal Lake:
-- KotS
Posted on 06/12/2002 12:41:03 PM PDT by Ronzo
CRYSTAL LAKE - David Treadwell's day had been fairly normal before the full-grown female deer walked into Target at about 2:20 p.m. Monday.
Treadwell had stopped at the store to use the ATM and had parked in the fire lane.
"Who thinks they're actually going to use the fire lane while you're at the ATM," Treadwell said. "It was pretty crazy."
The Crystal Lake man did not notice the 4-foot-tall deer standing in the vestibule until he heard a blood-curdling scream. The deer had spooked a woman holding a baby.
When the woman screamed, the deer ran through a second set of automatic doors into customer service. It leapt over the counter and knocked over several items before jumping the counter again and running into the store.
Treadwell tried to chase the deer outside, but the doe leapt on top of several rows of shopping carts.
"I wanted to corral it or get it out of the store," Treadwell said.
The doe was caught in the carts for a few seconds and scraped a leg, Crystal Lake Police said.
Everyone in the front of the store froze, employees said.
"I was worried this deer was going to shred itself in these carts right there in front of all these kids," Treadwell said.
The doe managed to free herself and ran down the front aisle toward electronics. Two employees gave chase.
Treadwell ran to the back of the store, hoping to cut off the deer and warn people to get out of the way.
"I was telling them, 'Get your kids, and go to the front of the store,'" Treadwell said. "There was panic. I never realized how many kids are just wandering around."
While galloping through the store, the deer leapt over a cart with a child inside. The boy suffered a slight scratch to the forehead. No one else was injured.
The deer made a right at electronics and continued to the back of the store. The doe made its way past Treadwell and continued through several departments, leaving a trail of overturned merchandise.
"There was this little girl, maybe 2 years old. She was bent down looking at some candles, and it was heading right for her," Treadwell said. "The girl saw it, and the deer turned and took out a rack. It had no traction."
The deer made its way back to the dressing rooms in the rear right-hand corner of the store. Treadwell and the employees were able to corral the deer there.
The deer ran into a full-length mirror several times before employees were able to chase it farther into a women's changing stall.
"It just happened," Treadwell said. "We couldn't have gotten it into a better part of the store."
Employees tied the door shut and called police.
McHenry County Animal Control came a few hours later, and at 5 p.m., the deer was tranquilized and placed into the back of an SUV headed for the Safe Haven Wildlife Refuge Center in Marengo.
Lynda Sugasa, with the wildlife center, said the doe did not seem badly injured.
"It was standing on all four legs (in the stall)," Sugasa said. "We'll release her into the wild as soon as she's well."
The Target (along with several other stores) was built on a former corn field, and there are still deer to be found wandering around the lush grassy fields behind the stores. These fields are slowly being transformed into an industrial park, but many acres are still unoccupied.
The deer, completely safe from most predators and hunters, have not fealt the need to relocate, despite the slow and steady development taking place all around them.
The only threat to the deers are the occasional coyotes that can be found throughout the area.
The deer was heard yelling: "How come all this sh!t is made in China?!"
Michael
"DOH!"
"A deer!"
"A female deer!"
Another changing room panic attack brought on by the harsh lighting.
Well, I'd say there was a great threat any deer entering a Target Store what with that hysterical screaming woman starting a panic. Geez, the way she panicked the poor deer, it could have really hurt someone and died of a heart attack from fear.....What did this lady think it was, some monster from the woods out to eat her baby? obviously, she's never seen Walt Disney's "Bambi".
Okay, you asked for it!
Homer Simpson singing "Doe, a Deer" from "The Sound of Music":
Dough- The stuff that buys me beer
Ray- The guy who sells me beer
Me- The guy who drinks the beer
Fah- A long way to get beer
So- I think I'll have a beer
La- I'll have another beer
Tea - No thanks I'm drinking beer
And that brings us back to...
(Looks at empty mug)....D'OH!
The same thing happens when I try on a bathing suit.
What's even more sad is how many JAPANESE and GERMAN brand names have their wares manufactured in China! Minolta and Krups are just two famous names I'm aware of, but I'm sure there's more...
Well, at least Wal-Mart still has American made fire-arms and ammunition...Target has neither.
Crystal Lake is on the very fringe of the Chicagoland area. For fifty miles to the east/southeast, there is nothing but homes, businesses and expressways until you hit downtown Chicago. To the west of town is a huge sea of cornfields that extends all the way to the Mississippi river and beyond...
Cleary the tramuatized woman most have been from an area where the only deer one can see are on "AnimalPlanet."
Crystal Lake? Crystal Lake?!
A deer wouldn't last a minute in Crystal Lake:
-- KotS
"Who thinks they're actually going to use the fire lane while you're at the ATM," Treadwell said. "It was pretty crazy."
Can somebody translate this for me?
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