Police Respond To Report Of A Burglary, Find Deer Smashing Up The Gaff

Oh deer... Deery me... Deer god, etc etc etc.

Police in the US were called out to a suspected burglary only to find the home intruder was - you guessed it - a bloody deer.

Officers from Lufkin Police Department, Texas, were called to a property on Thursday morning to find a window had been smashed in and movement could be heard from inside the house (all the while the homeowner was hidden in a wardrobe).

Police subsequently called for back-up and a perimeter was formed around the house. Luckily, an officer's body-cam caught all of the exhilarating action from here on out.

In the footage, an officer can be heard shouting: "There's someone inside... We got the house surrounded, come on out!"

The home intruder does not come out though, so police move in, hollering: "Police! Let me see your hands!"

Lufkin Police Department

At this stage, the officers have no idea that it would be physically impossible for the suspected burglar to show its hands.

Police move further into the building, naturally pumped up, as they have no idea what kind of person they might be dealing with, or what sort of weaponry they may have on their person.

But then, officers realise the home intruder has nothing on their person - because it's not a person, it's a deer.

Upon making this staggering realisation, an officer shouts: "It's a deer! It's a deer! It's a deer!"

From here, everything goes absolutely bloody berserk.

The deer clearly has no intention to hand itself in, rather it starts sprinting around the place, smashing anything in its path. The animal also seems to live up to the stereotype of its species, panicking massively when hit with the officers' torch lights and jumping nonsensically into several walls.

Lufkin Police Department

This manic behaviour seems to startle officers too, with several of them choosing to devise makeshift riot shields from chairs.

After plenty of drama, the deer eventually scuttles out of the house and officers allow themselves a celebratory and very American whoop.

Fortunately, no officers were harmed in the commotion and the deer only sustained minor cuts.

A press release from the force said: "This morning (Thursday) around 6.10 a.m, we responded to the call of a burglary in progress in a subdivision off of FM 58. The homeowner (who has asked not to be identified) heard glass break and immediately hid in a closet.

"No animals or officers were seriously injured in the incident (except minor cuts from the glass)."

So it turns out it was much a-doe about nothing after all.

Topics: Police, Funny, US News, Animals

Jake Massey

Jake Massey is a journalist at LADbible. He graduated from Newcastle University, where he learnt a bit about media and a lot about living without heating. After spending a few years in Australia and New Zealand, Jake secured a role at an obscure radio station in Norwich, inadvertently becoming a real-life Alan Partridge in the process. From there, Jake became a reporter at the Eastern Daily Press. Jake enjoys playing football, listening to music and writing about himself in the third person.

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