Deer ‘drunk on egg-nog’ invades Christmas shop before getting stuck in chair

A police taskforce was sent to deal with the mad deer which had broken into a Christmas-themed Tennessee shop – the beast eventually got stuck in a wooden chair

A deer “drunk on egg-nog” burst into a Christmas-themed store and ran loose through the establishment. The mad beast – who clearly thought he was one of Santa’s reindeers – caused havoc before getting wedged in a chair and escorted outside.

The Jonesborough Police Department said on social media officers were called to Gabriel’s Christmas and More shop in Jonesborough, Tennessee, early Friday morning to deal with the four-legged burglar.

They force wrote on social media: “Once inside, he took a grand tour: sniffed the ornaments, inspected the garland, side-eyed a nutcracker, and galloped around like he was trying to remember where he parked the sleigh.”

The department joked the deer “needs to lay off the eggnog,” as it was “clearly three sips too deep into the Holiday Spirits and making terrible life choices.”

After writhing around the Christmas-lit store, the deer finally got caught in a chair. The undignified position the animal got caught in – with its rear-end protruding as emphatically as Rudolph’s shiny red nose – provided officers with the perfect method of transporting it out.

Officer Adam Depew told WJHL-TV: “We just kind of let the deer run back up front, hoping that it would go back out the front door.It didn’t happen. I just said I was going to grab it. What other choice do we got? You know, so they goes in the chair and I was like, ‘gotcha.’”

Gabriel’s merchandiser Lisa Melancon said the staff had a hard time believing the tale. She said: “Our sweet Christmas store got invaded by a deer. So it was pretty shocking, but nobody thought it was real. I mean, every employee thought we were joking.”

Melancon complimented the deer, saying it clearly had “great taste”, adding: “Well, I mean, that’s why she probably wanted to come and do some shopping and get some last-minute gifts, and she knew where to come.”

The deer invasion has capped off what has been a huge seven days for animals turning up where they shouldn’t be.

Last week a genuinely gattered raccoon feel through a ceiling tile in a West Virginia liquor store before setting about the whiskey selection and passing out in the toilet.

And over the weekend a seal turned up at a New Zealand bar and lollopped around before gesturing with a flipper for the barmaid to serve him a hazy IPA.

Punters chased the seal around the bar and eventually caught it before releasing the still-sober beast back into the wild.

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