Deer romps inside Georgetown Twp home

GEORGETOWN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) - A deer caused quite the fuss and some damage inside an Ottawa County house after crashing through a glass door.

It happened Thursday morning near Cedar Lake in Georgetown Township.

One family watched the deer swim across the lake and scramble ashore into their yard. It disappeared. Steve Frody shot video on his cell phone as the deer darted across his back yard and disappeared as it headed across 24th Avenue.

"My wife had heard this big loud crash and another neighbor looked over and we noticed that the front door was broken, and I'm like, 'That deer is in the house,'" Frody recalled.

The deer spent about 20 minutes crashing around the home. The homeowners were out of town for Thanksgiving.

The neighbors knew the homeowners were not there at the time, so they went to get a closer look. Neighbor Tim Contreras took photos as the deer caused damage.

"There was some broken lamps," Contreras said. "He was just tearing up the place for a while."

Neighbors wondered how to get the deer out of the house. They tried going inside to try to open a door or window for the panicked animal to escape through.

"Every time we went in the house, it kind of started jumping around at us and we were like, 'We don't want that coming at us,'" said Contreras.

Eventually the deer calmed down and figured out by itself how to make a dramatic exit.

"He ended up going through the back window -- kind of forced his way though the window," said Frody. "Jumped off the deck -- pretty high deck -- and jumped in the yard and ran into the lake and he was off. Deer survived."

Neighbors said the deer swam across the other lake and they saw it run into a field on the other side. Ottawa County deputies were able to find the homeowners and got the front door boarded up.