{"id":438986,"date":"2025-12-11T01:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T01:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/438986\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T01:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T01:08:12","slug":"cops-rescue-deer-that-went-buck-wild-in-christmas-store-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/438986\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops rescue deer that went buck wild in Christmas store: video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rein in that deer!<\/p>\n<p>A screaming deer broke into a Christmas store in Tennessee and ran buck wild before it got its head stuck in a chair and had to be rescued by local police, chaotic video shows.<\/p>\n<p>The burglar burst into Gabriel\u2019s Christmas and More in Jonesborough early Friday morning and enjoyed a \u201cgrand tour\u201d of the holiday shop before it was escorted out by his hind legs, according to the Jonesborough Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The deer got stuck on a chair at Gabriel\u2019s Christmas and More in Jonesborough, Tenn. Facebook\/Jonesborough Police Department<\/p>\n<p>The deer was removed from the store by Jonesborough police officers, video shows. Facebook\/Jonesborough Police Department<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce inside, he took a grand tour: sniffed the ornaments, inspected the garland, side-eyed a nutcracker, and galloped around like he was trying to remember where he parked the sleigh,\u201d police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/4176941019300690\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quipped in a Facebook post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The department joked that the deer needed to \u201clay off the eggnog\u201d and was \u201cclearly three sips too deep into the Holiday Spirits and making terrible life choices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Video shows police officers responding to the festive store \u2014 about 60 miles north of Asheville, North Carolina \u2014  as the deer runs around them, struggling to get its footing on the hardwood floor.<\/p>\n<p>Police had hoped it would go out the front door, but instead, the critter got caught in a chair.<\/p>\n<p>The deer took off once it was freed from the chair outside the shop. Facebook\/Jonesborough Police Department<\/p>\n<p>The deer can be heard screaming as officers escorted it out of the store by its hind legs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just said I was going to grab it. What other choice do we got? Officer Adam Depew <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjhl.com\/news\/local\/jonesborough-police-recount-deers-unusual-holiday-break-in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told WJHL-TV<\/a>, \u201cYou know, so they goes in the chair and I was like, \u2018gotcha.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The deer ran off once it was freed from the furniture outside the store, cops said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rein in that deer! A screaming deer broke into a Christmas store in Tennessee and ran buck wild&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":438987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3425,44679,984,7207,159,1229,67,132,68,1154,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-438986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-christmas","10":"tag-deer","11":"tag-police","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-tennessee","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-us-news","18":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115698263865289898","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}