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Metro Is Still Baffled by Sunday's Deer Incident

AFTER A DEER APPEARED in the Red Line tunnels and on the platform at the Wheaton station on Sunday, causing big delays, one big question remains: How exactly did it make its way into a section of tunnel that boasts Metrorail's deepest station (Forest Glen) and the longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere (Wheaton)?

Courtesy WMATAAs The Post's Lena H. Sun noted in Monday's Roads and Rails discussion on washingtonpost.com, there is still some mystery surrounding the deer, which Metro Transit Police officers had to shoot before service could get back to normal:

Metro officials aren't sure how the animal got there, but suspect it might have entered the system at one of the above-ground stations and then made its way to the Wheaton station.
This isn't the first time Metro has had intrusions from deer. Pictured here is a camera image of a deer bounding down the platform at the Addison Road-Seat Pleasant station on the Blue Line sometime in late 2003.

Metro officials only discovered that wayward deer after a routine review of security footage. The video shows the deer, dubbed "Rudolph the Blue Line Reindeer," making its way down a set of escalators at the station, which sits at surface level. If that's the case, does that mean that Sunday's deer at Wheaton could have entered through the station's notoriously long escalator bank? If so, that's impressive. Perhaps it's time to review security footage.

» "Roads and Rails" [Discussions/WaPo]
» EARLIER: "Metro Police Shoot Deer on Tracks at Wheaton" [Free Ride/Express]

Image courtesy WMATA

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