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A deer in Kentucky made a surprising escape after colliding with a police cruiser on Nov. 29.
Dashcam footage posted by the Kenton County Police Department shows a police cruiser hitting a large deer. The big buck was flipped up onto the windshield of the cruiser, then over to the side of the road, where he could be seen running off.
The department posted the video with a serious comment about how to survive such a collision and a less-than-serious comment about making sure the flying deer wasn’t one of Santa’s.
"Over the weekend, Officer Pittaluga encountered a large deer while driving on Decoursey Pike through Visalia. The encounter was less than cordial and ended as abruptly as it began. We think this video is a pretty good training video on how to react when a four-legged furry friend attempts to abruptly cross your path. Officer Pittaluga applied his brakes and steered away from the deer in a controlled manner. Although he didn't manage to avoid the collision, he did maintain control of his vehicle throughout the entire incident, even when the large (but apparently agile and acrobatically trained) deer was performing a Triple Axel over the hood of his cruiser. Our officer was unharmed but the cruiser did sustain some damage. As for the deer, he appeared to brush off the incident before quickly running away into the woods. We did place a call to Santa just to be sure this deer didn't belong to him (we would hate to end up on the naughty list). He was quick to point out that he employs reindeer and that, although this deer did appear to fly, it was not a reindeer (we still aren't clear whether we will be making the nice list or not)."
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