Officers responding to a burglary alarm at a Ridge bank were met with an unexpected intruder when a buck crashed through a window.
As the deer attempted to escape officers were able to safely lasso the animal and guide him to freedom.
Thanks to Seventh Precinct officers. pic.twitter.com/AQOr56nDF1
— Suffolk County Police Department (@SCPDHq) January 22, 2026
Notice how the reel of bodycam footage – which is a pretty funny and wacky chronicle of the buck trashing a bank branch in the rural MAGA part of eastern Long Island – ends before the deer is out of its sight, the cops’ definition of having “guided” him “to freedom” is letting him run into traffic on New York Route 25 – a pretty busy road that runs from Manhattan to Orient Point – rather than the large wooded preserve area out behind the bank from whence he came. Nice work fellas.