'Burglar' had 4 legs
Rocky Mountain News
Published January 17, 2007 at midnight
What sounded like a burglar breaking into a basement window at Rick Crandall's home in Aurora this morning turned out to be an errant mule deer buck that had simply stumbled into a window well.
Crandall told CBS 4 that he had just gotten up to go to work when he heard the commotion and discovered the deer.
"In 5 years, there hadn't been a deer around here before. I thought maybe it was a fox or some other animal that had got down there," he told the TV station. "As much noise as it was making, it was obvious it was big."
Aurora fire spokesman Capt. Mike Ackman said the 250 pound deer was too much for wildlife officers to handle alone, and it took the combined effort of the Aurora Animal Control, police and fire departments and the wildlife officer to tranquilize it and hoist it out to safety.
They put the animal on a truck and drove it to Cherry Creek State
Park, where it was released.
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