Crazy Deer

[REM]

June 22, 2004, Altoona - It was a scary situation for a metro homeowner when a a deer got inside his house. The situation became even scarier for the homeowner when he spoke with his insurance company.

All walls were covered with blood streaks. The pictures look like a horror set in Hollywood, but they were taken in Altoona.

"I thought (the) boy came home and hit house with the car - or someone hit the house with a car," said Mark Williams.

It wasn't the boy, it was the deer. A young doe that broke through two panes of glass before spending 15 minutes running back and forth between two bedrooms in Mark Williams home.

"I had baby crib in here, it was demolished," he said Luckily, the grandchild wasn't in it. A police officer finally got the deer back out the window, and shot it outside.

The DNR has been tracking the booming deer population in Iowa, now somewhere between 300,000 and 400 thousand, before hunting season cuts that number in half.

Mark Williams learned a hard lesson about homeowners insurance. No company covers wildlife damage to property. Or even offers it. State Farm will pay to replace the carpet and window, but not the dry cleaning, crib, or any other destroyed possessions.

Williams will pay about 3000 dollars out of his pocket., but it could have been worse

 

[alaskanwhtail]

Thats crazy, I hope it never happens to me. Hell I know I could spend 3 grand somewhere else on hunting

 

[5465]

you know i am starting to here of such occurences as this one more and more each day! but you know what would make an occurence like this even better, to see a deer break into a homemade treestand, prefably my treestand!

 

[katy]

Peter - where did you hear that from. I live in Altoona and know a mark williams. Have not heard a word about it. Was it in one of te papers?

 

[REM]

found it on the WHOTV.COM web site, you know the guy??