Working on a holiday will never be a fun task. Knowing that nearly everyone else is enjoying a day off, spending time with friends or family, while you’re at work missing out on the fun sucks. But we need people working on every day of the year, especially first responders, so we tip our hat to those hard workers.
When police in Rockland, Maine, responded to a 1 p.m. burglary at a local retailer, they were probably amping themselves up for the worse. When they arrived to find a large front glass window shattered and items scattered around knocked over inside, they probably expected to find at least one burglar hard at work destroying the inside of this shop. They probably weren’t expecting to find exactly what they found when they closed down all of the exits and began searching the entire store.
Rather than a thief or a crew of thieves, the Rockland police officers found a white-tailed deer, eager to beat the Black Friday traffic a day before the deals really began.
“Officers assisted store management with herding the animal outside. Fortunately, the animal was able to leave the building on its own and was not seriously injured.” – Rockland Maine Police Department
As glad as we are that the Rockland police didn’t have to deal with a serious break-in on thanksgiving day, the owners and employees of that retailer certainly had a rough Black Friday, if not a rough Thanksgiving. Imagine sitting down to enjoy your Thanksgiving dinner with friends and family only to receive a call that your shop was torn to pieces by a whitetail deer. Who are you supposed to get angry with in that situation? There’s almost certainly nothing anyone could have done to prevent it.
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Image Credit: Rockland Maine Police Department via Facebook