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10-15-2003, 11:08 PM
N.J. deer horns right in
N.Y. cops quell ruckus in store
October 14, 2003
By TAMER EL-GHOBASHY and MARTIN MBUGUA, NY Daily News
It's New Jersey's version of a bull in a china shop: a deer in a minimall clothing store.
A frightened, 180-pound deer wandered into a Linden kids' clothing store yesterday, toppling racks of clothes and leaving a trail of blood and bodily waste as it searched for a place to hide.
Employees described a surreal scene as the buck ran frantically around the Planet Kidz store - an Echo Wear T-shirt and infant snowsuit hanging from its five-point antlers.
Detectives with the NYPD Emergency Services Unit - called to help because the local animal control officer was off for the Columbus Day holiday - arrived and quickly tranquilized the beast.
"It was funny and scary at the same time," said cashier Aneesa Ali, 18, who called 911. "I was shocked. I thought, 'Where did it come from?'"
Employees said they ushered out the four customers who were in the store when the unlikely intruder trotted in just after 1 p.m.
Then they hid in a locked stock room and called cops - and their boss.
Walked right in
"It was pretty bizarre; there are no words to describe it," said storeowner Ezra Falack, 30, who was in Brooklyn when he got a telephone call about the break-in.
"I thought my people were kidding: A deer in the store?"
The animal had been walking around the parking lot at Aviation Plaza, along a well-traveled stretch of Route 1, when it ran through the open door, witnesses said.
NYPD Detectives Patty Duenzl, Tommy Whalen, Terence Brill and Marty Stalone, of ESU Truck 5, found the bleeding deer in the infants' section in the rear of the store and immobilized it with three tranquilizer darts, Duenzl said.
The animal was wrapped in a restraint cops normally use for emotionally disturbed people.
The deer, which apparently had cut its leg on a store shelf, was placed on a pickup truck.
It was later turned over to Linden cops, who held the animal until it awoke and then released it into the wild about 3:45 p.m., officials said.
Ron Vogel, 47, whose company, Emergi-Clean Inc., was called to clean up the store, said the animal appeared to have been fighting its image in a mirror inside the store. "He did a lot of damage; thousands of dollars' worth of damage was done to the clothing and shelving," Vogel said.
N.Y. cops quell ruckus in store
October 14, 2003
By TAMER EL-GHOBASHY and MARTIN MBUGUA, NY Daily News
It's New Jersey's version of a bull in a china shop: a deer in a minimall clothing store.
A frightened, 180-pound deer wandered into a Linden kids' clothing store yesterday, toppling racks of clothes and leaving a trail of blood and bodily waste as it searched for a place to hide.
Employees described a surreal scene as the buck ran frantically around the Planet Kidz store - an Echo Wear T-shirt and infant snowsuit hanging from its five-point antlers.
Detectives with the NYPD Emergency Services Unit - called to help because the local animal control officer was off for the Columbus Day holiday - arrived and quickly tranquilized the beast.
"It was funny and scary at the same time," said cashier Aneesa Ali, 18, who called 911. "I was shocked. I thought, 'Where did it come from?'"
Employees said they ushered out the four customers who were in the store when the unlikely intruder trotted in just after 1 p.m.
Then they hid in a locked stock room and called cops - and their boss.
Walked right in
"It was pretty bizarre; there are no words to describe it," said storeowner Ezra Falack, 30, who was in Brooklyn when he got a telephone call about the break-in.
"I thought my people were kidding: A deer in the store?"
The animal had been walking around the parking lot at Aviation Plaza, along a well-traveled stretch of Route 1, when it ran through the open door, witnesses said.
NYPD Detectives Patty Duenzl, Tommy Whalen, Terence Brill and Marty Stalone, of ESU Truck 5, found the bleeding deer in the infants' section in the rear of the store and immobilized it with three tranquilizer darts, Duenzl said.
The animal was wrapped in a restraint cops normally use for emotionally disturbed people.
The deer, which apparently had cut its leg on a store shelf, was placed on a pickup truck.
It was later turned over to Linden cops, who held the animal until it awoke and then released it into the wild about 3:45 p.m., officials said.
Ron Vogel, 47, whose company, Emergi-Clean Inc., was called to clean up the store, said the animal appeared to have been fighting its image in a mirror inside the store. "He did a lot of damage; thousands of dollars' worth of damage was done to the clothing and shelving," Vogel said.