The way the whole scenario started (and ended), I can’t help but imagine those days we’re all so antsy for a surf that we run up the beach with a distinct “I’m gonna score” hop. It could be firing. It could be sloppy and onshore. But you’re so happy to get in, board under one arm, that there’s no need to play it cool and casually stroll into the water.
According to a man named Drew Inman, that’s more or less what a deer did in Asbury Park, New Jersey, sprinting across the beach and straight into the water Tuesday. Only once it got far enough away from shore the deer started taking waves on the head and struggled.
“Before we could process what was going on the deer had (swum) nearly 25 yards out,” Inman told the Asbury Park Press.
Eventually, a group of surfers swam over from a around a jetty and started corraling the deer back toward shore. It took them about 30 minutes before somebody finally picked it up and carried it the rest of the way to dry land, three blocks down the beach from where the deer had first run into the ocean.
The next part of the story is where you know the animal was frothing, because apparently it then turned around and tried to run right back into the ocean. Instead, the deer was chased off the beach in the correct direction.
