RE: Much better than 160.
I saw this one posted elsewhere and I thought it was pretty funny and related to road kill . . . .
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Dying deer given CPR
By Corey Wicks
Staff reporter
When it comes to concern for wildlife, people in Joseph put their mouth where their concern is.
Literally.
Wallowa County Detective Neil Rogers was called to a report of a deer that had been hit by a vehicle Sunday, July 2, in downtown Joseph. When Rogers arrived a crowd of people had gathered in the street and were in the process of pulling the deer out from underneath a trailer, Rogers said.
The deer was badly mangled but managed to wake up and stumble past the crowd. It then fell into a nearby creek and started drowning.
Rogers went to re-park his car and when he returned, two men were pulling the deer out of the creek.
?One guy was giving compressions and the other guy was giving it mouth-to-mouth,? Rogers said. ?I couldn't really look over there because I was starting to laugh too hard. It had to be one of the funniest things I've seen in law enforcement.?
The detective didn't know whether a person could contract any unusual diseases by giving CPR to a deer.
?I don't even like touching those things without gloves. I couldn't even imagine going to that extreme,? Rogers said.
The deer was too badly injured to survive, he said. Rogers then took the deer behind a building and shot it.
The detective didn't know whether the first aid responders were locals, but speculated that they were ?probably from Portland or somewhere.? He added, ?they haven't been around here much.?
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