Guardian... A deer apparently hit by a car brought itself to a New York hospital and walked into the emergency room.
Hospital officials say the deer walked through the automatic doors at the entrance to Strong Memorial hospital’s emergency room late on Monday afternoon in Rochester. Officials say the deer made it about 20ft down a corridor before staff members corralled it.
The deer was struck by a vehicle before it entered the hospital, said Lori Barrette, a hospital spokesperson. It arrived with at least one broken leg.
“This was a first-time incident,” Barrette wrote in an email to the Guardian.
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The Monroe County sheriff’s office said two deputies happened to be at the hospital when the deer wandered in. They and hospital public safety officers strapped the deer to a gurney and wheeled it out to the parking lot.
Deer are often injured by cars, said John Helfer, a spokesperson for Monroe County sheriff’s office.
“In the area we cover 800-900 accidents a year,” he said. “Deer being injured by vehicles and then subsequently put down after they’re injured is quite common.”
Helfer could not speak to the extent of the deer’s injuries.
“I had to listen a little hard to my radio today when I heard a call about a deer in the emergency department, but you know, it’s the time of year when they’re running a lot and this one was pretty obviously struck by a car,” public safety chief Mark Fischer told Time Warner Cable news.
A sheriff’s deputy shot and killed the deer because of its injuries, Helfer said.
Comments...
EpicHawk
The hospital would've received a lot of positive attention had they saved the deer.
BWillow Bronxite
It appears the animal associated humans with kindness. Perhaps thought people would help it. Poor thing. Humans are the cruelest of all the creatures in the animal kingdom.
ab202012
Why could they not have made an exception for this deer and called a vet? It had sought refuge after all! Fixed its leg and sent it over to the Cornell Vet facility, a State-funded college.
Why make killing the default solution? There is a very significant tale of a deer in a Jataka story, and deer hold a very different metric in a Buddhist mindset.
How many dollars were expended in the search for two escaped criminals in upstate NY quite recently? In comparison, how many dollars would it have taken to help the deer get well? There are many animal caretakers in Ithaca, and animal shelters nearby that would have happily taken charge of this animal. WHY KILL SO SUMMARILY? WHY NO THOUGHT OF REPRIEVE, Mr. POLICE CHIEF?
Poster Comment:
No one seems to have thought/asked why the deer entered ER. Was it from deer's observation of injured being brought there, a spirit of deceased human Guiding it, as Indian legend would have it? In any event, having it saved by a vet and placed in a zoo would have made an interesting tourist attraction, even if no one was interested in research into animal "thinking."