Renegade deer mows down grandma
The Herald-Zeitung
Grandma got run over by a reindeer, and it happened on Castell Avenue in New Braunfels.
Technically, the perpetrator was a whitetail deer, and no confirmed sightings of Santa were reported.
Carole Moore was leaving her business, Alternative Copier Co. on Castell Avenue just off San Antonio Street, about 10 a.m. Monday to deliver a message to her husband, who was just outside in the company van.
The only reason she knows what happened next is because her husband and Brent Henley, one of their employees, saw it all.
“I just went outside to talk to them in the van. I turned and it was strange. It wasn’t like a slap or a punch,” Carole said. “I didn’t know what had happened.”
What it was like was getting hit in the back of the head by a deer’s hoof — as the buck was hoofing it over her. The buck’s right rear hoof struck her in the head.
“If you hadn’t been so tall, it would have cleared you,” Dan told Carole later. “The front of the deer got over you. It was the back of the deer that hit you. I think it was a right hoof. It was a nice one — good sized, about an eight-pointer.”
Whatever it was, it felt like a furred freight train.
Carole was spun around by the impact and started to go down — just as the deer was doing a step that would have qualified it for the reindeer Olympics.
Dan said the buck came down on the hood of Carole’s car and then bounded skyward again.
He never saw it after that.
“I don’t know where it went after that. I wasn’t interested — you were on the ground. I was scared to death,” Dan said. “But it’s become amusing, now.”
Someone called paramedics, the police and animal control. Carole was checked out, but she was not taken to the hospital.
“I was just kind of stunned,” she said later. “I’m just a little sore.”
For his part, knowing that his wife was fine, Dan was on another mission late Monday afternoon.
“What’s the chance of something like this ever happening — and in the middle of the city?” he asked. “I’m going to go buy a lottery ticket.”
Carole said she never expected to meet a deer at the front door — not in the 100 block of Castell Avenue.
She said she’s never been hit, and never been in a serious accident, although she and Dan did hit a deer with their car once on the highway.
Some might say there’s no such thing as flying deer, but as for Henley and Grandpa, they believe.
Well, it sure is the best confirmation yet; better than any "proofs" of transcedental beings I have ever heard
And a damn funny story!
- Jan
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