Deer rescue - Canuck style

[phyllo]

When a deer and its offspring were trapped on an iced-over Nova Scotia harbour, a provincial helicopter pilot came up with an ingenious solution to saving them — by literally blowing them away.

In January, Nova Scotia’s Department of Natural Resources were contacted by local biologist Ian Waugh, who noticed the doe and its fawn struggling to stand on the ice of the Antigonish Harbour.

The ice was too thin for the rescuers to walk out and reach the deer, so helicopter Dave Farrell improvised a solution — using the downwash from his chopper’s rotors to push the deer along the ice to the safety of the shore.

After the deer neared the shore, two DNR employees pulled it to safety and sent it on its way. Waugh said he saw the mother with her fawn the next day, so they were reunited.

news.nationalpost.com/2013/03/01 … to-safety/
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_zXePyB2oQ[/youtube]

[James_S_Saint]

Looks like the kind of stunt I would have pulled.