Overview
- Ramapo Police in New York responded on Dec. 28 to reports of a masked person and found a deer with a plastic bag over its head.
- Bodycam-style footage posted by the department shows an officer removing the bag before the deer jumps up and runs into nearby woods.
- Authorities reported no injuries and captioned the post with puns including “deer-tective mode” and releasing the “suspect” on its “own hoof.”
- People’s coverage situates the episode within recent mistaken-animal calls, including a Sacramento report of a mountain lion that turned out to be a neglected French bulldog transferred to Bradshaw Animal Shelter.
- A separate case cited involved Colorado responders securing what callers thought was a real tiger that proved to be a stuffed toy, according to the local humane society.