OSLO, Norway (AP) -- After terrorizing a small Norwegian town for weeks, a buck deer went too far: he stole a chain saw from Olav Haereid's front yard.
The large stag had knocked over garbage cans at a child care center, threatened cars and had begun to frighten residents of Aardalstangen, the Aardal og Laerdal Avis newspaper reported Wednesday. The town is 220 miles north of Oslo, the capital.
Last weekend, the renegade herbivore spotted a chain saw in Haereid's yard, picked up the saw with its antlers and ran off with it.
The saw was so heavy that the deer only managed to carry it a few yards, but the theft was enough for local officials to impose the ultimate penalty. The buck was shot.
Sad, but we had no choice. People were becoming frightened of the big animal,forester Vidar Moen told the newspaper.
Fri Apr 10 01:23:30 CDT 1998
Well I don' know why I came here tonight.
I got a feelin' there's somethin' aint right!
I'm just scared in case I fall of my chair,
And I'm wonderin' how I'll get down the stairs.Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right,
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you!
And I don't know why I came here tonight. I got the feelin' that some things aint right. I'm a bit scared of getting decent grades, and I don't know how and when I'll graduate. Work promised this summer, financial aid that will come do. Here I am, sittin' here writin' to you.
The future.
Where will I be? Let's see. Working at EnterAct seems that thing that I am most confident in happening.
School? To graduate next semester I can do 15 credit hours, but since the department of Business & Technology Writing is in such disarray, two of my B&TW courses needed to graduate would be independent study.
Scary, but eerily suitable to me. Alpha-geek writing freak.
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