When I lived on the farm In Nowthen MN just east of Elk River, we had a neighbor that had a pet deer he raised from a fawn. He turned out to be a dam nice 8 point buck at 5 years old. Well one day his kids left the cage door open after feeding in the morning and it wandered off. The guy could not find it anywhere. Since it was just after MN shotgun season, he thought it would be safe until he could find it. Well one day he opens the newspaper to see an article about a buck treeing a Truck Driver at the weigh scale on hwy 10 in Ramsey. The trucker had truck problems and had 2 hours to kill so he went for a walk down the railroad tracks for a while, when he stumbled upon this big 8 point buck running towards him down the tracks. The trucker ran his ass off to the nearest tree and climbed up 10'. The buck would walk away for a while and the trucker tried to jump down and run back to the weigh station, but the buck would come running and the trucker would climb the tree again. This went on for several hours until someone heard the guy screaming for help. They called the cops. The cops and highway patrol showed up to see what the hell was going on. The deer then ran up to the cops.......to get petted, ..........because it was tame, but the cops didn't know that, so they made swiss cheese out of that deer with shotgun and pistol fire. It made the Front page of the local newspaper. Headline said "Crazed deer shot by cops after attacking Trucker".........Bahahahahahaha!
No one ever found out it was a pet deer my buddy Al raised, and Al never told anyone it was his. Because he never had any paperwork saying he could have the deer as a pet. LOL
