YMCA pool reopens after deer crashes through window
More and more I am hearing instances similiar to this. As we slowly creep into the deer’s habitat or maybe the other way around there will be instances like this. It is unavoidable and I can only hope that a deer found in this type of predicament is not injured. According to the story it was bleeding and I sincerely hope that the cuts were minor.
By: Rick Kratzke
BEAVERCREEK — The pool at the Beavercreek YMCA reopened Sunday afternoon, June 15, following an intense effort to clean up the “awful mess” left by a deer who’d made a surprising visit early Saturday evening.
The deer apparently had been spooked by something, causing him to leap through a pair of large windows adjacent to the Y’s pool area, said David Thompson, vice president for the YMCA of Greater Dayton “The momentum of the jump” probably propelled him across a five-foot-wide deck into the chlorinated water, Thompson said.
The incident occurred between 6:30 and 7 p.m., Thompson said, and the only person in the building was a member of the cleaning staff.
Responding to the sound of “a ruckus,” the employee found the frightened and bleeding animal already out of the water, running around the room and knocking into storage shelving and pool equipment.
Greene County Animal Control and Beavercreek Police eventually got the deer out a door, but it ran into a nearby wooded area.
The buck lost an antler, which was found at the bottom of the pool’s 15-foot deep end. Retrieval of the antler, as well as shards of glass that had settled on pool floor, required a team of scuba divers, Thompson said.
A cleaning crew also scrubbed down and sanitized the deck area, and vacuumed and rechlorinated the pool water.
By: Carol Simmons - Staff Writer - Dayton Daily News