Moose Droppings

How Wacky are the folks on the West Coast?

Jul 19, 2006 @ 12:16 am by Moose

The East Oregonian had a story about a couple of citizens performing CPR on a deer that was struck by a car and fell into a creek.

Wallowa County Detective Neil Rogers was called to a report of a deer that had been hit by a vehicle on July 2 in downtown Joseph. When Rogers arrived, a crowd of people had gathered in the street and were in the process of pulling the deer out from underneath a trailer, Rogers said.

The deer was badly mangled but managed to wake up and stumble past the crowd. It then fell into a nearby creek and started to drown.

Rogers went to re-park his car and when he returned, two men were pulling the deer out of the creek.

“One guy was giving compressions and the other guy was giving it mouth-to-mouth,” Rogers said. “I couldn’t really look over there because I was starting to laugh too hard. It had to be one of the funniest things I’ve seen in law enforcement.”

The detective didn’t know whether a person could contract any unusual diseases by giving CPR to a deer.

Well how did this deer make out?

The deer was too badly injured to survive, Rogers said. He took the deer behind a building and shot it.

So I guess they must of revived deer just in time for the Detective to put it down. Wonder where these Good Samaritans might come from?

The detective didn’t know whether the first aide responders were locals, but speculated they were “probably from Portland or somewhere.”

He added, “they haven’t been around here much.”

Judging by some of the tree huggers I met the last time I was in Portland it wouldn’t surprise me if it wasn’t some of the ones who took exception to my deer hunting hat.