"Deer" Me!!

**Update: Here are two website links to go see what the news crew had to say (http://cbs3.com/video/?id=71552@kyw.dayport.com and http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Oh-Deer-.html [video is at the bottom of this link]). We had 4 different news crews out today. The photos are even posted with the Associated Press now and may be going on to NBC nationally. You can also look on youtube.com and see raw footage of the deer. Just look up Our Deer Students.**

Have I got a story for you!!! It is one of those "Do what???" stories. This morning at our church's school (right next door to our house) 5 deer came walking down the driveway. Three of them bolted around the corner of the church and ran out the other driveway. Such 3 polite deer - keeping on the driveway (although they went in the out and out the in). The other 2 deer, however, were not so polite. They crashed through a window into a classroom where the special skills teacher had 3 students with her. The deer were running around the room while the teacher was trying to keep the 3 students calm until the deer went to the other side of the room so they could run out the door (she didn't want the deer loose in the hallways). She is a calm and brave teacher! Anyway, the school called the police and animal control. It is good to know I am not the only nosey person in the world - there were 7 police officers there and 4 animal control officers.

So now what do you do about 2 deer trapped in a now trashed classroom in a below ground level room?? Noose? No, Deer #1 is hurt from crashing through the window and Deer #2 is freaked out because Deer #1 jumped on a table and the table crashed down onto Deer #2. Tranquilizer? Sure, although animal control only carries a tranquilizer gun big enough for a 10 pound dog. So how about just shooting many tranquilizer darts into them. What happens when deer get shot with a couple tranquilizer darts? They go down for 2 or so minutes and then get right back up. Eventually (after I left since I had a crying kid and a dog locked up in his cage), another animal guy came with a bigger tranquilizer gun. Thankfully that worked because there was talk that they would have to bring in a gun to shoot them since, as one officer said, the hostage negotiations weren't working. For all you concerned about Bambi and Friend, the officers were told they must exhaust ALL other means before resorting to drastic measures.

Whew! Excitment! It threw everyone off since all the classrooms around the special skills room had to be evacuated and no one could be in the hallway. I felt especially bad for the principal because she had to call those 3 students parents and explain that "Yes, your children are fine but I just wanted to let you know they got quite a scare this morning when 2 deer crashed into their classroom. Yes, I did say deer. No, no, d-e-e-r." Ha! She also is writing a letter to the other parents to let them know so the rumors don't start flying! Now the maintenance guys get to clean up the room and get the deer blood off the walls.

Just another dull day around here!