STRANGE LOVE

Life is strange.  Thankfully no one was hurt badly, and no one evidently ended up pregnant.  Just what was he thinking? Or not? -- JohnOh--

OH DEER!!  MAN COPS WRATH OF AMOROUS STAG

( Reuters; reporting by Jonathan Standing, editing by Miral Fahmy)

SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian man was gored in the thigh on Friday by an amorous stag (I so wanted the reporter to use the phrase 'horny stag' !) after entering a deer paddock in the middle of the breeding season.

The 26-year-old worker at the tourist farm near Sydney ignored signs on the paddock gate warning people to keep out and was charged by the stag, the husband of the farm's owner told Reuters. "It was the middle of the rut (breeding season), that is why the animal was acting like it did," Barry Hibbard told Reuters.

The man, who was apparently trying to feed some grass cuttings to the deer, (Sure, that is what he told the EMTs!) was taken to hospital after the incident and is expected to be sent home later on Friday, Hibbard said.

"Not tonight BillyBob, I have a headache"

Hibbard said the animal was usually very docile, but did not take kindly to the intrusion of another male into its territory."He had six or seven girlfriends, you can imagine he would be protective in those circumstances," Hibbard said.

"I know I would be if I was that lucky."