• SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2017/05/18/unsuspecting-walmart-customer-takes-down-startled-deer/20859139007/

      Unsuspecting Walmart customer takes down startled deer 1 minute

      May 18, 2017, 2:16 p.m. ET

      WADENA, Minn. — A confused white-tailed deer that wandered into a Walmart store in Minnesota ran into a startled customer who tackled the animal to the ground.

      Shoppers at the store in Wadena, 150 miles northwest of Minneapolis, speculated that the young animal was searching for a snack Tuesday when it entered the store through the garden center doors.

      Tom Grasswick, who happens to live in Deer Creek, told WDAY-TV that he felt like someone had slugged him when the deer slammed into him. Grasswick says his first instinct was to tackle the animal, bringing it down on a pallet of dog food.

      Grasswick covered the deer’s eyes to calm it down, and he and others took the animal outside and set it free.

      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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        3 days ago

        yeah that’s way better than if he had actually put it in a choke-hold, because i’m pretty sure that’s really difficult to do right without hurting people (and, you know, no one trains for doing it on deer…) and even when you do it right i think it’s not very good for the person you do it to.

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      8 days ago

      What else could possibly be missing from the story? Unless bigfoot and the loch Ness monster was fighting in The gun aisle I think this story tells itself.