Wasn't an incident about 4 or 5 years ago in which a guy out for his evening
constitutional, was attacked by a deer?
IIRC, he grabbed on to the neck, hanging on for dear life, and somehow managed
to retrieve his pocket knife, open it, and kill the animal?
Illinois man kills deer with pocket knife after animal charges him.
November 29, 2000
HERRIN, Illinois (AP) -- A man out for a walk in the woods killed a deer with a pocket knife after the animal charged him. Paul Cheatham, 61, said he grabbed the six-point, 130-pound buck by the horns when it attacked. He then held it with one hand, opened a pocketknife with his mouth and jabbed the deer in the rib cage. "I knew if I let him go, he would kill me," Cheatham said. "I hung on and got my legs around his neck. We wrestled around quite a while." Cheatham suffered bruises over much of his body.
Several years ago there was a different incident where a guy was attacked by a very large reindeer. They're usually docile, but you know how it is when you're in rut... Anyway, the only thing the guy could do was hang on for dear life. After a long time (he said it was a half-hour, but who knows) the deer had a heart attack and dropped. This story was reported in the WSJ.