Jan 6, 2010: Deadolph the green-eyed busdeer

[Tuba Loons]

There's no such thing as a 10-pointer in basketball, but the Rushford-Peterson boys team got one after their game Monday night. A school bus carrying the varsity team slammed into a 10-point buck on the drive home following Rushford-Peterson's victory over Spring Grove.

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Apparently there's no such thing as a decent camera either.

As [Coach] Vix examined the situation, he knew he couldn't leave the trophy deer on the roadside where it could be a danger to other motorists. Vix also knows his boys well. Some of them likely would have gone back on the icy roads later that night to get back to the deer, he said. Vix wanted his team safe, so he called the DNR for the necessary permits, which were given on the condition that the antlers would go to the school and not to any one person, and then loaded the buck through the emergency door and onto the bus.

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Now I know that you are thinking:



Alas, sadly,

Most of the meat on the deer was destroyed by the impact, but a local taxidermist has volunteer to work on the antlers so that they can be kept in school's natural resources room.

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Most of the meat. Country folk know best.