Wild police video captures deer rampaging through NJ elementary school
Run, run, Rudolph!
Wild new video shows a deer rampaging through a New Jersey elementary school over the weekend, jumping on bookcases and desks while forcing a team of cops to try to corral it.
A man walking his dog reported seeing the deer careen through a glass window into Cedar Grove Elementary School in Toms River around 10 p.m. Saturday, a rep for theToms River Police Department told The Post.
Authorities then proceeded to chase the four-legged creature through the dark hallways and classrooms, according to edited body-cam video shared by the department showed.
At one point, an officer can be heard shouting “Oh, no!” when the deer nudges open the door to a classroom, jumps on a bookcase and runs across it and a desk and tables, where it knocks over several papers and decorations in an agile attempt to avoid its human interlopers.
The footage — which was appropriately set to an upbeat rendition of the Christmas tune “Run, Run Rudolph” — ends with the deer being let outside and running into the dark woods.
“Officers opened the rear door and guided their new furry friend to the exit. The deer was last seen headed North,” the TRPD wrote in a cheeky Facebook post about the incident, which they described as “one of [their] more interesting calls.”
“School security was notified to come board up the window and the school custodian came in to clean up [the mess],” the department representative added to The Post.
Toms River Regional Schools did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for a comment.
