Bad Deer

Perhaps the most frightening thing about being mauled by a deer is the ridicule you'll suffer from friends. But that's what happened at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale after four people were injured and others threatened last spring by what biologists believe were aggressive does protecting their fawns. Three more people were attacked this past May, as well as a campus police officer, who shot his assailant to death.

No more attacks occurred after the doe's death, leading officials to believe they may have been the work of one rogue deer.

By Doug Howlett, Outdoor Life, Dec2006