It's been a while since we've seen a good "deer in a building" video, but the security cameras in a South Carolina restaurant captured one earlier this week that we just had to share. It happened at the 521 Filling Station restaurant in Kershaw. It was early afternoon when the deer suddenly burst into the dining room through the front door. As we've seen many times in the past with deer hooves on hardwood floors, the creature immediately lost all traction and began to slip and slide all over the place. A nearby server watched the deer barrel over tables and chairs, desperately searching for a way out.
Eventually the deer ends up on a table in one of the booths and tries repeatedly to escape through the window, which doesn't want to break. Meanwhile, in the left-hand corner of the frame, a woman having lunch continues with her meal, only occasionally glancing back at the chaos happening behind her. Eventually, the server corners the deer, and some more help comes in from the kitchen to drag the deer back outside where it belongs.
To us, the most hilarious part of this video is the woman who keeps eating her meal while all this is going on around her. She looks back occasionally, but we've never seen someone so casual about wildlife in the building. According to Live 5 News, the deer shattered the front door when it broke through. Fortunately for the restaurant, that and some scratched up chairs and tables look to be the worst of the damage. The restaurant's co-owner, Kevin Sims, was as shocked as anyone would be at the unusual lunchtime guest.
"I'm in a meeting with the human resources officers and I start getting phone calls. So, I step out and call, and they're like 'There's a deer in the restaurant.' And I said, 'What?' And they said, 'There's a deer in the restaurant!' and I said, 'You're kidding me,'" Sims told the news station.
The server who sprang into action and helped calm the deer down enough to drag it outside was Beth Truesdale. She joked with the news station that she needed to get the deer out because she needed to get back to work.
"I was just trying to get him. I'm a country girl, it didn't bother me," she told the station.
We're sure that's one day of work that she probably won't soon forget!
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