Deer in a strange place

[SpyderLady]

BGE (Baltimore Gas and Electric) received a call from a customer saying: "My power is out. When you come to fix it be sure to bring a truck with a tall enough bucket to remove the deer".

The customer service rep prudently trying to gather helpful information to help diagnose the problem asked, "What deer"? The customer replied " There is a deer on top of one of the electric poles on Wilkes Rd about 1/2 mile west of Perimeter Rd". The customer service rep tried desperately to pull herself together and not laugh in front of the customer and replied, "We will dispatch someone right away to investigate the power outage. Thank you for the call". Upon completion of the call, the customer service rep proceeded to share the funny story with her coworkers in the office and they all had a good laugh. Well, low and behold, the serviceman who repaired the problem stopped by the customer service office the following day with the attached pictures.

Sure enough, the poor deer had been hit by a train & landed on top of distribution feeder pole!

[frisky]

HOLY COW!

[joyce]

More like Holy Deer. I never heard anything like that before.

[mahjong]

Hope it wasn't the deer from your last post. Usually when a train hits anything,its not in 1 piece,unbelievable,you did it again Spydie.lol

[califgirl]

I have never seen anything like that in my life.
Wow

[SpyderLady]

Looks like it knocked its feet off tho.

[swamper46]

yes i was going to bring that up about the feet,your telling me that a train ran over a deer and lost both legs an then some how landed on top of a power pole,,,,,thats one hell of a train story....

[SpyderLady]

Hmmm, seems no one knows really what happened. I checked it out at snopes. It happened in January 2003. Read this...

www.snopes.com/photos/animals/poledeer.asp


And this was in the snopes article and seems a deer was found in a tree a few months before the one on a pole in November 2002.

click here...the url was too long so i had to do it this way...
Deer in a Tree