From The Metro:
Businesswoman Kay Davies was left battered and bruised after a rutting reindeer called Mr Frosty attacked her.
She was charged by the normally placid creature, knocked to the ground and trampled on. Colleagues at the farm where her wedding supply business is based ran to her aid and the reindeer had to be put down by a vet. Reindeers can become aggressive in the rutting season as males seek mates...
Ms Davies, 51, was treated in hospital for head, chest, groin and leg injuries. Farm manager Dominic Sewell said Tuesday's attack in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, was a 'freak accident'. 'I tried to help her but it just smashed me to the ground,' he said.
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Expect some pedant to point out that the plural of 'reindeer' is 'reindeer'.
Not me, of course. I don't do things like that... ;)
Since JuliaM has beaten me to teh pedantry, let me point out something else: male deer are bloody dangerous at the best of times; in the mating season you really don't want to get in their way (or smell like a pheromone, which might have been this woman's problem).
Poor Mr. Frosty - after all he probably saw her, liked what he saw and thought Oh Kay, fancy a rut?
It's escalating I tell you.
Next time she should use a reindeerette. Or are they deficient in the antler department?
JM, well spotted.
CI, "teh pedantry"?
Oh, teh sahme, teh sahme!
@dearieme
Reindeerette(s) are the only female cervidae that grow antlers. What they do with them I couldn't possibly say.
Defend their young when they've calved.
I'd like to know what she was up to with a reindeer in the first place.
Maybe Mr. Frosty mistook her for a moose.
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