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Rogue deer tackles innocent man in a parking lot

Impressive take down.
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Brian Koerber
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Out of all of the animals in the world, deers may be the biggest jerks of them all.

Sure, there are spiders, snakes, and bears ready and willing to harm humans in just about every corner of the world, but deers just hop around all willy nilly, dashing into traffic and windows without a care in the world.

Recently, a deer running through a hotel parking lot in British Columbia, Canada took out a grown 25-year-old man with almost no warning. Apparently, the deer was being chased by a dog, because even dogs know that deer are jerks.

“As I was turning, my brain couldn’t process what was coming at me and by the time I knew it, [I had] already had gotten hit by ‘Bambi’ that was being chased by a dog," Cary McCook told Global News.

Sadly, the incident occurred on April Fools' Day, and nobody believed McCook until he obtained the CCTV footage from the hotel.

McCook suffered minor injuries in the takedown, just a sore shoulder. As for the video, he thinks it's as funny as the rest of the internet.

“I find it more hilarious the more I watch it,” he said.

We agree with that statement, so here's a looping GIF, so you can watch it over and over again.

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Brian Koerber

Brian was the Culture Editor and has been working at Mashable on the web culture desk since 2014.

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