Thursday, November 20, 2008

A buck goes nuts in a Town & Country strip mall According to Town & Country police, at approximately 6 p.m. on November 1, a ten-point buck sauntered into the middle of the busy strip mall on Manchester Road. Walking past retailer Home Decorators Collection, the deer stopped momentarily to observe an ornamental deer statue on display in the window. "The deer turned towards the door and tried crashing into the door as if wanting to attack the deer statue," states the police report filed the following day. "[D]ue to the impact with the door the deer broke off its entire right antler...the deer did not make it through the door but bent the door jamb." Injured from its battle with the deer decoy, the buck stumbled its way to the adjacent Home Depot and walked through the store's automated doors. As frightened shoppers hastened their way toward the exits, the deer staggered through the lumber department and into the rear of the store....

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