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Bambi Goes Berserk
@ the Elberton Library

A small deer caused $1,000 damage when it crashed through a plate-glass window at the Elbert County (Ga.) Library in Elberton February 22, ran around inside, and broke another window on its way out.

While the deer was in the building, it leaped over a patron studying at a table, kicked around the library’s computers, and ran between the stacks in the back of the building. On its way back to the front, the deer kicked a woman in the leg, then crashed through another pane of glass as it left the building, the Elberton Star and Examiner reported February 28.

Library Director Paula Bullock said patrons just waited quietly until the deer exited. “You could have heard a pin drop,” she said.

The incident was a first, Bullock reported, although a person ran through the same window some 15 to 20 years ago.

Posted March 12, 2001.

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