Oh deer, who ya gonna call? A dilemma of shattering proportions happened Friday at Madlock’s Shell on Third Street. It appears that a deer that weighed approximately 175 pounds decided to create a drive through window at the store.
Several people were in the store and in the parking lot at the time that the deer crashed through one of the plate glass windows on the store front.
“It sounded like a shotgun going off,” Margie Grant, an employee of the store, said.
“I thought it was a car crashing through the store,” Mechawana Pearson, another employee, said. “We all got scared and tried to run.”
J. C. Dooley and his longtime friend, Calvin Stovall, had just stepped out of his car when they heard it.
“We were just standing at the car and heard it crash through,” Stovall said. “We didn’t even see it come across the lot.”
“I thought it was a shotgun going off when it broke through that glass,” Dooley said.
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission was called, but according to a spokesman at the Perrytown office, an officer did not respond. The Hope Police Department was also called, but there was nothing they could do either. Some of the officers looked for the deer, but could not locate it after tracking it back across Third Street to Division, then across the parking lot of the Hope Star on Third Street, across the parking lot at McMullen Auto, and down South Hervey Street, where it disappeared into a wooded area.
The deer, according to witnesses, was severely injured in the incident.
“I was in the building, paying for lunch, and it sounded like a shotgun going off,” Darrell Terry said. “I thought somebody was shooting at us.”
The deer caused damage to the store front, a cold drink box, and knocked several items off shelves as it thrashed about inside the store before escaping back out the broken window. No humans were hurt in the incident.
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Oh deer, who ya gonna call? A dilemma of shattering proportions happened Friday at Madlock’s Shell on Third Street. It appears that a deer that weighed approximately 175 pounds decided to create a drive through window at the store.
Several people were in the store and in the parking lot at the time that the deer crashed through one of the plate glass windows on the store front.
“It sounded like a shotgun going off,” Margie Grant, an employee of the store, said.
“I thought it was a car crashing through the store,” Mechawana Pearson, another employee, said. “We all got scared and tried to run.”
J. C. Dooley and his longtime friend, Calvin Stovall, had just stepped out of his car when they heard it.
“We were just standing at the car and heard it crash through,” Stovall said. “We didn’t even see it come across the lot.”
“I thought it was a shotgun going off when it broke through that glass,” Dooley said.
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission was called, but according to a spokesman at the Perrytown office, an officer did not respond. The Hope Police Department was also called, but there was nothing they could do either. Some of the officers looked for the deer, but could not locate it after tracking it back across Third Street to Division, then across the parking lot of the Hope Star on Third Street, across the parking lot at McMullen Auto, and down South Hervey Street, where it disappeared into a wooded area.
The deer, according to witnesses, was severely injured in the incident.
“I was in the building, paying for lunch, and it sounded like a shotgun going off,” Darrell Terry said. “I thought somebody was shooting at us.”
The deer caused damage to the store front, a cold drink box, and knocked several items off shelves as it thrashed about inside the store before escaping back out the broken window. No humans were hurt in the incident.
