Tuesday, June 12, 2007

It obviously had been tracking her every move...

Terrorist deer? Revenge? or maybe the woman just has a hidden deer activation radar:
Brainerd, MN (AHN) - A 28-year-old woman from Pequot Lakes, Minnesota, who has a history of run-ins with deer, was surprised this weekend when a deer took his revenge and struck back at her while she participated in a race.

Kandi Hanson, who destroyed her first car and damaged two others in collisions with deer, was struck by a spooked deer that darted out of the woods as she approached the halfway mark of the 10-kilometer Sour Grapes Half and Half run Saturday.

The collision pushed Hanson into the air, sending her sprawling onto the grass before the deer disappeared into the woods. AP quotes her as saying, "There were two deer and the first one literally flew by right in front of us and brushed us."

No sooner did Hanson and her two other friends recovered from their encounter with the first deer that they saw another one running into them. "I was very surprised, my eyes were huge, I was part crying, part laughing. I didn't know what to do," she said.

However, Hanson did not lose courage and finished the race with only minor scrapes, bruises and soreness and finished in 31st place. The middle school teacher however also received a first-place plaque for being airborne the longest.

2 comments:

Steve Bates said...

Airborne? Hmph. High in some other way, perhaps...

ellroon said...

Ah, c'mon. The poor dear was stag..gering along. No wonder the beast ran her over and then hoofed it...