WILTON – People passing by a vacant store on Main Street stopped Tuesday to stare at a hole in the plate glass window where a deer had jumped through, ran across the room to jump out a back window and kept going.
The animal was not hurt.
“Oh my. Oh my goodness,” Jay Freeman of Wilton said Tuesday as she looked at the hole and the shattered glass laying on the carpet inside.
The deer was first seen at the intersection of School and Canal streets. It then traveled down to Main Street, decided it was going shopping and jumped through the window, Wilton police officer Kevin McCutcheon said Tuesday as he laughed.
“It probably saw its own reflection and went in that direction,” he said.
“There was no blood. The deer was not hurt. The deer will be fine,” McCutcheon said.
When it got to Main Street where there are only buildings, the animal must have panicked, he said.
The deer jumped out of the back double-hung window into a parking lot, crossed Wilson Stream and ran up into a neighborhood, which caused dogs to start barking, the officer said.
McCutcheon said he checked with state authorities and they told him what to check for.
If there had been blood that indicated the deer was injured, then it would have had to be put down, McCutcheon said. And deer cannot get rabies, he said.
McCutcheon did spot a small piece of fur on the floor near the shattered glass but there was no blood on it.
Sarah Tanguay, owner of The Waterfront Bakery & Cafe next to the storefront, said Tuesday that when Wilton resident Irv Faunce came in to tell her that a deer had jumped through the window, she didn’t believe him.
“He was so calm. I thought he was kidding,” she said.
Faunce was going around the monument in downtown Wilton when he saw a deer sprinting across the street, he said.
Then it disappeared and he couldn’t see it any more.
“I thought it had gone into a hallway,” Faunce said.
That’s when he saw the damaged window.
“There was no blood. No dead animal. Amazing. It just flew. It was amazing. Amazing it didn’t get hurt,” Faunce said.
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