Crazy moment a wild deer smashes through a glass pool fence as it rampages through backyards in an exclusive suburb
- Deer broke a glass pool gate in East Kew
- Remained on the run on Friday night
Home security cameras have captured the extraordinary moment a wild deer jumped over fences to crash through a glass pool gate in one of Melbourne’s richest suburbs.
CCTV shows the deer jumping the fence of a home in East Kew, about 10km northeast of city’s CBD, before smashing into the glass panel on Friday morning.
Former Melbourne Football Club president Gabriel Szondy said the deer jumped his two metre fence and ran through his backyard before it leapt over his neighbour’s fence where it broke the gate.
Mr Szondy said the deer appeared to be around 1.7m tall and guessed it came from nearby Willsmere Park, on the Yarra River, where locals claim ‘hundreds’ of deer hide.
The deer ran through Gabriel Szondy’s glass pool fence on Friday morning
‘I was letting some tradies in and suddenly this shadow comes shooting past and the tradie said to me ‘that’s a bloody deer’,’ Mr Szondy told the Herald Sun.
‘We’ve got two dogs, a 1-year-old goldie (golden retriever) and a 10-year-old goldie and they were going berserk, they were inside, and obviously scared the deer even more.
‘He bolted the back fence into our back neighbour’s yard – that back fence from the ground is probably 2.5m high.’
‘It jumped over it and slightly damaged the fence, it’s leaning a bit.’
The deer was later spotted being chased by locals down Elm Grove, possibly on the way back to Willsmere Park.
The deer was still on the run on Friday night.
Stunned viewers online expressed concern for the deer.
A wild deer (above) jumped a fence in East Kew and broke a glass gate on Friday morning
‘Hope the deer is okay, poor thing,’ another person commented.
‘I didn’t even know we had deers in Australia,’ a third person wrote.
Others saw the funny side,
‘Deer might need some Panadol after that hit,’ one quipped.
‘Oh deer-y me,’ another said.
The deer was captured on CCTV jumping over a gate into the suburban backyard
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