The deer ended up at Burdick Station and then Cherry Park Apartments where it had to be put down. Happy endings are remote for our hooved friends who crash into City Hall and swim for an hour. Someone called the police to report the deer and the youth with sticks, so you have to wonder. By the time the police arrived the pokers had taken their sticks and left, so no one was left to scold let alone consider for charges of animal cruelty. No one was able to discuss with them right and wrong or why humans are at the top of the food chain because of our brains, not our sticks.
Deer are big and stinky.
According to Game and Parks, their hooves can do plenty of damage. They are forever running into vehicles on highways and causing accidents. They have ticks. And obviously they are better off in the woods with hunters who shoot them, field dress them and head for the venison feed or a pack of wolves who find the swiftest way to bring them down and kill them. But when Bambi stumbles into what passes for civilization, we torture her.