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Back when I was on the staff of one or another weekly newspaper, there was a section of unusual items under some such banner.



Usually they showed up on the wire service teletype in the middle of the night, or on a holiday, or whenever REAL NEWS was scarce.



This, from someplace called Oxford, Ohio, would fit right in the middle of that pile....



While a man was attacking a woman – choking her with her purse straps and punching her in the forehead – a deer darted in the darkness, startling the attacker and scaring him away, police said Monday.

“The deer jumped up and ran…and so did he,” said police spokesman Sgt. Jon Varley.

He can’t recall a similar incident during his 17-year police career. ...





http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20120227/NEWS01/120227032/Deer-rescues-woman-from-attacker?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE
 
Oh, deer, what a great story!
 
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