The Deer of BYU

Despite being in the middle of a city (if you can call Provo a city...), there are deer all over the BYU campus. To me, this is whatever. I come from the Northwest, where there are deer everywhere all the time. But I guess to a lot of BYU students, this is a new and strange thing to be around. Almost annoyingly so. For the first weeks of school, whenever someone spotted a deer, literally everyone would stop to take a picture of the deer (or with the deer). 

Major pedestrian traffic-jams that drove me crazy. Its just a deer ladies and gentlemen. Luckily that chaos has died down for the most part. Doesn't mean the deer are gone though, you can still see them running all over campus. Today's story of crazy events that happen at BYU is about a deer.

I was talking with one of the guys in my classes a couple days ago, and looked at me and went "I have to tell you what happened to me yesterday!" and proceeded to tell me this story.

He was walking to class, and was kind of in his own zone, listening to music and minding his own business. All of a sudden, it feels like someone is tackling him from the side. He tries to brace himself, but just gets taken down, and the wind totally gets knocked out of him. He manages to look up to see who the heck just knocked him over, and he sees two deer run off. The deer had RUN INTO HIM and totally knocked him over.

Because it was in between classes, the area was full of people. He said everyone had completely frozen, gone silent, and they were all just staring at him. Literally no one could believe what they had just seen. Finally one guy broke the silence and called out "dude, you okay?" and all of a sudden it was like the trance was broken. People started moving again, my friend got up, and it was like nothing had even happened.

The best part of the story? He was looking at the BYU snapchat story later, and SOMEONE GOT IT ON CAMERA. They had been filming the deer (remember the obsession with deer?) and happened to get the whole thing on camera. He said it was one of the strangest and funniest things he'd ever seen.

Second best part? He went to the police station yesterday and asked if he could get the security camera footage from that day, time, and place. The officer looked at him weird, and asked why. He kinda of explained what happened, and said he was hoping he could have a copy of the film to keep. The officer started laughing, and said that he was about the 6th person to ask for it, but because he was the one who it actually happened to, they'd try to find it for him. Which means that 5 people who happened to see it happen had already gone and asked for the security footage of it happening, just so they could watch the poor kid get knocked over again!

I still haven't stopped laughing about all of this.