Overview
- Officers responded to Gabriel’s Christmas and More in Jonesborough after a deer burst through the front door and ran through the store.
- Video from the Jonesborough Police Department shows the animal slipping on the floor before getting stuck in a wooden chair behind the counter.
- Officer Adam Depew said he decided to grab the deer by its hind legs to carry it outside after attempts to guide it to the door failed.
- Police joked in a Facebook post that the deer should "lay off the eggnog," a playful caption that helped the footage spread widely.
- Store staff said they initially thought reports of the intruder were a joke, and no injuries to people or the deer were reported.