You have to see this! Deer crashes through restaurant window, runs through building
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OH DEER — A deer gave quite the scare to restaurant diners in Tennessee after the animal crashed through the restaurant’s window.
Security camera footage shared by 6abc Philadelphia on Nov. 16, 2023, shows six people sitting at a table near a window in a Martin, Tennessee, restaurant. Out of nowhere, a deer jumps through the giant window causing broken glass to fall all over the floor and on customers.
“It’s sliding on the glass, it can’t get its footing. It’s frantically trying to get up,” Alicia Owens, who was sitting near the window, told The Tennessean. “I couldn’t comprehend it was actually a deer. We’re in the middle of town, across the street from the University of Tennessee Martin. It’s like, what in the world?”
The viral video shows the unexpected guest then run through the restaurant and behind the bar as customers and servers quickly moved out of the deer’s way. Someone standing near the bar opened a side door and the deer ran out the building.
The Tennessean said the deer’s back hoof caught the shoulder of Ruby Hayes, 13, opening a deep gash that required 11 stitches to close. The girl’s parents took her home after she was treated at the hospital.
Although Hayes was in pain, she smiled and laughed with her family as she left the hospital, according to Owens.