Strange

Deer loses head-butt with lawn ornament

by Spydermonkey | November 20, 2009 at 05:35 am

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A love-struck buck ran out of luck a week ago. The seven-point buck was killed when it rammed a 640-pound concrete statue of an elk in the backyard of Mark and Carol Brye's home in rural Viroqua. Mark Brye, who owns Brye Plumbing in Viroqua, was still laughing about the suicidal buck he found near his elk statue last week.

BOB LAMB

Well, They never said that deer were all that smart, but sometimes they can be just plain silly. Having a love dispute with a concrete statue is a good way for a deer to have a bad day, week, year....

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"I could tell the buck poked the statue a couple of times by the chipped paint on it," Brye said, adding that the buck eventually rammed it like a mountain goat. The buck apparently staggered about 20 feet and fell. Brye claimed the buck with a tag from the Vernon County conservation warden. He laughed at the warden's tag note: "lawn ornament fight - lost."

BOB LAMB